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  I have spent most of my life in religious circles. Months after I was born, a Catholic priest held me up during mass and baptized me into the universal faith. I spent 13 years in Catholic schools. Several of those years I attended mass three times a week. Then, in high school I began hanging out with those pesky Protestants and some Sundays I would fulfill my catholic duties by attending 6 a.m. mass and then head over to the protestant church a few hours later. I volunteered as a Christian mentor, worked at several different churches, and immersed myself into the “Christian” hip-hop world. Oddly enough, I never felt all that content with “Christianity.”
  
  But, there I was feeling a bit reluctant at every turn. I did read about Jesus and sincerely decided that it would be wise for me to follow His teachings and sayings. But, the problem was how? It seemed like everywhere I turned someone was telling me the correct way to follow Jesus. You have to act like him. You have to believe in him by saying the “sinners prayer.” You have to be baptized. You have to be baptized in this particular way. You have to believe in the literal interpretation of scripture. You have to have the Holy Spirit. And on and on the list went. It was rather unsettling.
  
  So, I left most of it behind and ventured off into an intentional community in a very poor neighborhood in Cincinnati. It was refreshing. No one told me the correct way to think or believe, but everyone showed me how they lived. Vulnerability abounded. I got to see people on a human level. I thoroughly enjoyed it and found great meaning there. I found that I did not have to know everything. I never will and that’s okay. I found that I could relax and let people be exactly who they are. They did not have to believe, think, or act like me. They could be free. And so could I. It was liberating. The crazy part about it is that I felt like I was actually following Jesus in a real tangible way. It was meaningful.
  
  Then, stuff went down. My wife and I were watching a movie one Friday night when we noticed a tiny little bug. Then, we noticed another one. And another one. Then we turned our mattress over and ______ (insert your favorite profanity here) we had bedbugs! Strike one. We got out of that house fast. A few houses later in the same community we realized that the kind old lady living in the apartment unit underneath us was an avid weed smoker. My wife is darn near allergic to even the smell of weed. We confronted our neighbor and it did seem to get better. But, then we noticed all kinds of traffic going in and out of her house. Turns out one of her relatives was in the pharmaceutical business, just not the legal kind. Strike Two.
  
  Finally, my wife got cancer. That was the final straw. We were just feeling way too much tension. We needed a fresh space: a new start. So, we moved.
  
  With a new place to live came a new job too. I applied and landed my current job as the youth program director at the Presbyterian Church of Wyoming. Did I just come full circle? - From institutional church world to crazy intentional-living world back to institutional church world? Yeah, sort of. And to be perfectly honest, it’s not too bad this time around.
  
  You see, this time around I have a different perspective on faith and the divine. I no longer see faith as a very narrow suspension of logic. I see it more as the unknown glue holding sanity together. I do not view the idea of God as a final, done deal. Honestly, I find it hard to even say I see God. It is more of an experience now: an experience that I will fail to describe if I try. So, I won’t. But, I do. The divine is that which I can experience. When I write songs about struggle or triumph in a sense I am describing a Godly experience.
  
  • “Village” finds an immigrant searching for meaning in a world that values some and neglects others. Could God be in there somewhere?
  • “Bird” reflects human desire to soar, to go behind feelings of comfort and find something better. But, can we? Could God help?
  • “Bang” gives voice to a relationship gone stale. Is God alive in the midst of a deadening relationship?
  • “Tree” questions the simplistic idea of human knowledge. Is God the author of our beliefs or are we? And is beauty inherited? Or do we become it?
  • “Man” highlights a disproved stereotype. If God is the creator of all creation why do we value some more than others?
  
  These songs reflect an ongoing journey as this album, “Vague…” is a discussion with myself. It is me looking into the mirror and describing what I see through storytelling, metaphor, and beats. It is my way of responding to God.
  
  You might not believe in God. However, I am sure you believe that each of us has the capacity to love, forgive, hate, and hold a grudge. Regardless of what we call this realm I am working to understand it better or at least experience it fuller. I want to write music that reflects this profound space within all of us. I am working on a vague sense of things. Join me.
  
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