Now That's Funny!

Photo by The Associated Press
Participants in the Interfaith Walk for Climate Rescue, a group advocating environmental issues who are walking between Northampton, Mass., and Boston, trudge through a spring snowstorm on the first day of the walk in Northampton on Friday.


God will have the last laugh, so to speak. Global warming will not be the "end of this world." (Sorry Al, you lose again).
Now, while the end of the world is not a laughing matter, moments like the ones pictured above must surely bring a slight grin to the face of God, if not an all out belly laugh! LOL!!!!!!!!

Setting Your Tone

Ask any serious (or maybe a better word is possessed) guitar player and they will tell you that they are on a never-ending search for their perfect tone. You see, when your tone is not right, music is not as fun as it is meant to be. I, myself, am on such a sound quest.
To aid myself along on this lonely, torturous journey, I recently bought a new guitar amplifier. Up to this point, I have always played through a basic “solid state” amp, therefore, I am relatively comfortable with the workings and tone setting parameters of these amps. This new amp is a “tube” amp and I am quickly learning that it definitely has it’s own “personality.”
After spending countless hours trying to dial in my “tone” without much luck, might I add, I finally decided to check with the “experts” on a popular Internet discussion page. Most of the tone setting advice I received was simply the same old standard settings that I have been pre-conditioned to use. I was very near giving up on my quest for my “tone” when I received a valuable piece of wisdom from an unknown cyber space guitar guru. This lone voice crying out in the wilderness told me not to be fearful of trying rather unorthodox and unique tone settings with this amp. It seems that this particular amp responds very differently than most other amps. The problem was that I had been trying to make this amp respond in a way that was simply not part of its character and the results were sub par at best. I had to simply let this amp be what it was created to be. The results would be sweet tonal bliss!
As I allowed the depth of this mans words to sink into my soul, I realized that I should not have had to search the far reaches of the Internet to find this very simple yet profound bit of wisdom. It is a lesson I have learned and am continuing to learn in my walk with Jesus. For years I tried to adjust my “tone settings” to fit the normal status quo. I had been preconditioned to do things a certain way and the results were, well, sub par. Only when I began to find the courage to dial in my own unique God given “tone” did I begin to enjoy the music again.