This is a picture that I took while in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. It has become the backdrop for the quote, "The Place God calls you is The Place your Deep Gladness and the World's Deep Hunger Meet" as well as "Fonts and Pints".
I wish that I had kept a journal from our trips to Cabo. This one image helps me connect many of the dots of my life and a vision for it. The sad part is the concept of "digital dimension"! Capturing images can isolate you from capturing "being present" and capturing the experience.
Creation and creativity are the visible and invisible forces that move us and the world.
My first video production gigs also included wedding videography. In meeting with a bride and usually her mom, I would show them finished "video albums" set to music. These really brought out the emotion and usually the booking for the future nuptials. I appreciated the opportunity to showcase my creativity and skill but a skill does not a business make! I now see weddings in a different light and I'll save those thoughts for another time. The short version is that weddings have become more about the contract than a covenant. The idea of family is clearly undermined by the chaos of our current time. I'm living it. The Place connects me back to the path and a point in time where I felt order to my vocation.
The Place for me has evolved. It started with trying to understand vocation, and asking the right questions. The book "Wild at Heart" started me down the road of introspection. The author argues that modern society has domesticated men, suppressing their innate wildness and adventurous spirit. He suggests that men are inherently designed by God to live a life of adventure, battle, and romance. It has been easy to build quite a library of content on any particular subject but making it all come together takes a lifetime. Separating the weeds from the wheat needs the supernatural power of silence.
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior. - Marshall McLuhan
It's easy to sometimes get verbose when trying bring it all together and generate a little understanding. I love the often used TLDR (To long didn't read) on some posts.
So here's a bumper sticker version:
HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER and BE ONE!
Here's a couple of songs from my playlist to yours. In music, as a reminder, to "one of those days"!
