life, and a little more

I created a killer playlist for my run this morning, selecting some of my favorite bands covering their favorite songs. There’s nothing like listening to Dream Theater sing Iron Maiden’s “To Tame A Land”, or Killswitch Engage play Dio’s “Holy Diver” or The Showdown jam to Kansas’ “Carry On My Wayward Son”!

As I hit mile 2 on my run, Tesla’s cover of the classic Temptation song “A Ball of Confusion” started playing and really caught my attention.

(<--click to play) Tesla's cover of 'A Ball Of Confusion'I started listening to the lyrics and was moved by how relevant the song is today.  It was originally written in 1970!  Listen to the song and read the lyrics below:

“Fear in the air, tension everywhere” – what an accurate description of our society today!  As I pondered the words, I was actually comforted to know that today’s problems were basically the same 35 years ago, which were basically the same problems as 100 years ago, and on and on.  There truly is nothing new under the sun.  God was there for past generations and is here for me today.