Jesus Walks

with Mayer, Kanye, and T. I.

Or He'd like to, at least. When Mayer released "Heavier Things" a few years back, I thought for sure that man was looking for Jesus. I still do. I mean, could anyone listen to "Something's Missing" and deny that what's missing is a higher purpose for his life? Really?

And take Kanye. He loses his mom - tragically, suddenly - and releases "808s and Heartbreaks," a tremendously stripped down, heart-on-his-sleeve, Ecclesiastes-esque cry from his soul, wherein the only veil between his audience and his heart is the machine that alters his voice.

And T. I. I hadn't paid a bit of attention to T. I. until recently, when he actually started to make some sense in saying that he was looking forward to serving his jail time, putting it behind him, and moving on. When I caught the end of his Grammy night performance with J. Timberlake, I was literally breath-taken by the images of the jail bars on the screen behind him as he sang, "the old me is dead and gone, dead and gone."

Call me silly and sentimental, folks. Even say I'm reaching for meaning that probably isn't there. But I really believe that God has created each of us for worship of Him. Not ourselves. Not our careers. Not skanky, um, you knows. Not a lifestyle we see in a rap video. He's created us for something more. Blessed are we who have a relationship with our one Creator. Everybody else is still looking for that missing something...