Wishing We'd All Be Ready

I just learned today that Larry Norman passed away this last Sunday at 2:45am. He was 60 years old.

Larry Norman was an early hero of mine. As a high school aged Jesus person his revolutionary music encouraged me with the counter culture nature of the gospel. We appreciated how he asked "why should the devil have all the good music?". He encouraged us to pick up those guitars and keep playing those drums.

Probably his most famous song was "I wish we'd all been ready." The theology was probably not spot on but the sentiment was.

He dictated these last words to a friend several hours before he breathed his last...

(from his brother Charles website)

I feel like a prize in a box of cracker jacks with God's hand reaching down to pick me up. I have been under medical care for months. My wounds are getting bigger. I have trouble breathing. I am ready to fly home.

My brother Charles is right, I won't be here much longer. I can't do anything about it. My heart is too weak. I want to say goodbye to everyone. In the past you have generously supported me with prayer and finance and we will probably still need financial help.

My plan is to be buried in a simple pine box with some flowers inside. But still it will be costly because of funeral arrangement, transportation to the gravesite, entombment, coordination, legal papers etc. However money is not really what I need, I want to say I love you.

I'd like to push back the darkness with my bravest effort. There will be a funeral posted here on the website, in case some of you want to attend. We are not sure of the date when I will die. Goodbye, farewell, we will meet again.

Goodbye, farewell, we'll meet again
Somewhere beyond the sky.
I pray that you will stay with God
Goodbye, my friends, goodbye.

Larry

Tell me more...

I'm learning something here. I mean right here - through this blog page.

I was hesitant to write about my mundane weekend thinking no one would be interested and yet it generated 6 comments. Plus several people that commented personally in normal day to day contact so my "feedback" on that post was the most I've had so far. Not that I live for the feedback - but I like it - I like that "connected" feeling.

Now here's what I'm learning but I got to be a little more transparent to make my point. I always thought my "philosophiocal" stuff was a little more interesting, more substantial, more "earth moving", more revelational than my sharing about my weekend. But maybe people connect more with stories than with ideologies or philosophies. Hmmm...

Maybe I need to change the title of my page (and the focus) - I really don't like the it anyway. Who wants to here someone "raving" anyway.

Any suggestions? For a name I mean.