Juxtapose

After much waiting due to the home-grown operation that is Reese and Amy Roper shipping all the albums themselves, Mark and I finally got our copy of Brave Saint Saturn's new album, Anti-Meridian, the third in their space trilogy. Our late shipment came with a lovely scrawled note in Sharpie by The Man himself, "Sorry we are so slow. - REESE"

It was worth the wait. Beautiful and building, all seventeen tracks take me all the way back to our pre-dating days, when I got their second album from Mark and devoured it within the day, over and over again. It sounded like Five Iron Frenzy, only a little more earnest and with simple but smoldering words that cut me, all the way to the end of the very last song, "Savior, Daylight, I am coming home! Home! Home! Home! Home!" I was taken and a loyalist ever since.

Since then, a lot has happened. And so here I sit at home the past two weeks or so, my hours cut back at work because of a large influx of new staff on my floor, my days spent trying to convince myself to get out bed, gag down Campbell's chicken noodle soup, and get something done for the day. I've never felt so tired in my life. Even mono, with my giant lumpy neck and headaches, had nothing on this little bugger who seems intent on leeching all my energies into it's grain-of-rice-sized body. For this reason, I've had some time to listen to Anti-Meridian while I'm doing all these important non-activities of my day that seem like such a huge chore at the moment, and I am enjoying it so very much.

I mostly wrote all this just so I could make a post with the words to one of my favorite of their newest songs, which has a line from one of my favorite verses in the entire Bible, Ephesians 5:14, "Wherefore he saith, Awake O sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light." The invocation says it all - Get up, meet the world in your new garment, live Christ and He will shine through you and make you new. It also speaks in the chapter about the exposing of sin by the light of Christ. I love it. I am a new woman, awake and alive amongst the living and baptized into a new family, guided by Christ into places I could not go alone.