Gym and Dylan.

I went to the gym tonight for first time in about a month of doing nothing (nothing includes eating wonderful sweet and greasy food) and I can feel I am going to be sore tomorrow, then really sore the following day, because, for some silly reason, thats the way it works.

On the way home I was listening to an interview from 1981 with Bob Dylan (because I am a geek and I love public radio) and he said something that got me thinking. Here's a little piece from the interview:

Dylan: Not to say though, that art is valueless. I think art can lead you to God.

Herman: It's that it's purpose?

Dylan: I think so. I think that's everything's purpose. I mean if it's not doing that it's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere. It's bringing you somewhere. It's bringing you that way or this way.

I think Dylan has a good perspective on life that I miss many times. The idea that everything that we do leads us either closer to God or further from God. To love or away from love. I love the line "It's certainly not leading you nowhere.".

This is something I need to be reminded of because its easy for me to wrapped up in my little life that I miss the bigger picture of life. But, while I don't always feel the decisions I make are moving me one way or the other I suppose it does. I can always choose to be more loving or kind or helpful or giving or forgiving or thankful etc... or I can choose to be more stingy with my money or rude or short tempered or hateful or selfish etc... And if I look at these choices that we can make, I see its easy to pick out which of these can move me closer to be Godly and which push me further away. The thing that gets me is that I so many times have associated with the second list out of some belief that this makes me a stronger man or a stronger leader. While the whole time its probably just some insecurity inside of me thats showing its head while I should just be loving people like Jesus did. That would move me to where I want to be in life and to the person that I want to be.

Anyways this is just something I found interesting and wanted to pass it on. You can find a transcript of that Dylan interview here, its pretty interesting. Dylan goes on to speak about God and beauty and thats pretty cool too. Cheers.

Chris