“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
This is a powerful thought. It could transform the way you live your life. Personally, I agree with it. I think that first and foremost, we ARE souls and our bodies are the temporary home for that soul. The physical world we live in gets in our way a lot, keeping us from seeing and understanding our true identity and grasping the extent of our true potential.
Within the last couple years I’ve determined the whole human experience to be an unfolding romance with an extravagantly loving, eternally generous, creator. "Author of Life" is a simple song acknowledging two things: 1) where this whole idea for Shakes The Wilderness and writing and recording songs came from and 2) that I still battle against my flesh and my fears in my struggle to buy into the idea I just proposed! Deep down I’m just trying to know the worth of my life like everyone else, right? So, I sometimes turn to worthless or unhealthy things for comfort, affirmation, validation, or significance. Even though I have found the only truly satisfying spiritual sustenance to be Christ Himself—the Creator God, I struggle to surrender my will to that daily. Even in my reckless abandonment to that belief, which frees me to follow a lifelong dream, my flesh pulls me in the other direction, telling me either I can do it on my own strength or I’m not good enough to do it; I don’t have what it takes. So, I decided to solidify my belief through song and simply say that I believe God is the author of my life in its totality—the biological “alive” ness and the spiritual “alive” ness which includes a purpose to discover and fulfill. I know He created me, He gave me a gift to receive and open and a dream to live. I believe He has the same plan, with a different expression of that plan, for everyone.