As we sit on the eve of the New Year, 2009, I stand in awe of America. Awe? Not the good kind. It is not longer shocking to me that women dance almost naked on TV 30+ years after the first brassiere commercials hit the air. Nor is it shocking to me that right now Ms. Perry stands in Time Square, singing her break out hit about adultery in the form of homosexuality. She tells that she liked it; that it felt wrong and right. This awe I feel should be disgust and maybe it is, but I’ve no room to talk about another’s sin, much less their adulterous sin. I suppose that I am too desensitized to be entirely disgusted. I am awed, amazed, that we have come this far.
I find the song horribly catchy. I find myself wishing a man sang it so I wouldn’t feel guilty as her tune rolls along in the back of brain. I’ve also come to find it horribly interesting: “…it felt so wrong, it felt so right…” One might ask what is so interesting about that.
Well, for starters, felt. She had a feeling, whether it may be subconscious or psychical, she felt. What did she feel? Apparently, she first felt that something was wrong. The first thing she tells us that she felt was that what she was doing was wrong. But she kept doing it, because it also felt so right physically. Or we assume it was physically, as the part she enjoyed was the sensation of touch between her and another woman.
While her mind screamed no, her body screamed yes. Ms. Perry subliminally tells us something about all of us, and our nation.
This is America. This song, this that parades itself on the TV screen right now across our nation, this is America. Mentally, with all our might, we are screaming for justice, for purity, for the peace and righteousness humanity knows that itself is capable of. Physically, we’re hedonistic, seeking pleasure at the expense of our self. And we wonder where we went wrong.
Merry Christmas, sorry for the long delay. I promise to come back now, I promise to do a lot of things.
Happy New Year, 2009!
I will not fail.
Philippians 4:13
I can do all things through Him [Christ] who strengthens me.