I like the band Switchfoot. They seem to address the issues that the generation coming up and even the generation now are facing. As I can relate a lot to the songs that they write. It does seem like they talk about American culture in their albums...

From the Album "The Beautiful Letdown"

Meant to Live
By Switchfoot

Fumbling his confidence and wondering why the world has passed him by...
Hoping that he bent for more than arguments and failed attempts to fly...fly

We were meant to live for so much more, we lost ourselves
Somewhere we live inside
Somewhere we live inside
We were meant to live for so much more, we lost ourselves
Somewhere we live inside


Dreaming about providence and whether mice and men have second tries
Maybe we've been living with our eyes half open
Maybe we're bent and broken...broken

(Chorus)

We want more than this world's got to offer
We want more than this world's got to offer
We want more than the wars of our fathers
Everything inside screams for second life

We were meant to live for so much more...we lost ourselves
We were meant to live for so much more...we lost ourselves
We were meant to live for so much more...we lost ourselves

We were meant to live
We were meant to live...


One thing that I've seen and know about is that this world is fallen and so everyone is fallen too. There's nothing that we can do to make ourselves unfallen, except with one choice. Anyway, I'd say that that's something that you have decide everyday, and not just once. As Paul said, "I die to myself daily..."

For me, I know that I haven't been doing that. I haven't been living for God everyday...I've been choosing my own path that leads to destruction. I guess I have to decide now and everyday, "who will I live for?" Me? Or God? So often have I chosen me. Not saying that living for God means doing nothing for yourself, but when it comes to doing what's right, I'm not successful all the time. It's going to take more than me writing words down. We'll see...I think what might be helpful is trying to start out the day reading the Bible and thinking about it during the day...I'll try to work on this step...

I guess when I start living for God again, then I'll experience what life is about. And in other people's lives, I've seen that it is good, clean, and helpful for people's lives. That was quote from some famous person that I forgot who said that...it was on one of my other friend's blogs, but I don't remember who was the author of that quote...anyway...enough babbling