Monday, March 20, 2006

I'm like a junior high school student

It's pretty weird how something can inteste me. I am like a junior high schooler. A ton of things intrest me but nothing very much. That isn't entirely true but in the case of Johnny Cash maybe. I watched "Walk the Line" ya know and ever sence then I have needed to know the facts from the fiction. If you have seen the movie you may know what I mean. I was whatching it and thinking "He did THAT! How come I don't know about this?" The man had an amazing story. So I have been reading a bit about him and really find his faith intreging. I don't even own an album by him (though I had a roommate that claimed Johnny Cash as his best friend, so I listened to his music, whether it was a recording of Cash or Jacob singing a Cash song). Anyway, read this (unless you don't want to know about the movie at all): "His favorite verse, he often said, was Romans 8:13: 'For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.'A paradox? Not to Cash, who encountered death shortly before accepting an altar call. His brother Jack, two years his senior, fell on a table saw, cut from ribs to groin. 'Mama, don't cry over me,' he said, as Johnny and the rest of the family stood by. 'I was going down a river, and there was a fire on one side and heaven on the other. I was crying, 'God, I'm supposed to go to heaven. Don't you remember? Don't take me to the fire.' All of a sudden, I turned, and now, mama, can you hear the angels singing?'She said that she couldn't, and Jack squeezed her hand.'Oh, mama, I wish you could hear the angels singing,' he said, and died."I got that from http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/011/4.60.html so maybe read it if you are at all interested.

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