Enthusiasm. The "ology" of "ologies"

Three of my friends have started blogs that I really enjoy. All three are theology related (my type of thing) and I love reading the thoughts they have in trying to make sense of the God, the world and the world around them in their lives. Dave, Dusty and Rebekah all write in three very different ways but all in a very honest and open way. All three are now on my blog roll for easy viewing.

So what has this got to do with music? Everything and nothing. 

Nothing -  in the sense that it has nothing to do with anything musical.

Everything -  in the sense that without theology and asking the big questions for me there is little point in me making and engaging with music. Without it, it is just a collection of noise, a collection of words. That's not to say that everything I produce has a sacred, Godly or biblical context to it.It just means that I am driven by enthusiasm

God, and the study of all things God (i.e. Theology) is an influence for everything. The more enthusiastic I am, the better the music.

I love the origins of the word enthusiasm. Literally means a state of being "in God". The word was originally used to described a religious fervour of people and then it came to mean what it means today. It's something like that fervour, passion or whatever you want to call it that drove me to London and that drives me on this adventure. I'm not sure what you would call "it", but for me "it" comes from God, so in the old sense of the word my music is driven by my "enthusiasm".

enthusiasm (n.) 

c.1600, from Middle French enthousiasme (16c.) and directly from Late Latin enthusiasmus, from Greek enthousiasmos "divine inspiration," from enthousiazein "be inspired or possessed by a god, be rapt, be in ecstasy," from entheos "divinely inspired, possessed by a god," from en "in" (see en- (2)) + theos "god" (see Thea). Acquired a derogatory sense of "excessive religious emotion" (1650s) under the Puritans; generalized sense of "fervor, zeal" (the main modern sense) is first recorded 1716.

(from etymonline.com)

I recorded a song earlier today called "song of Ham", which if you have ever been a kid stuck indoors because of the weather, you may identify with. I'll get it on the blog just as soon as I get the technology sorted.

February is a big month, so there'll be more on here, the adventure goes on.