As I talk to Trop Rock people, as I read more about it, as I listen to the music of Trop Rock, I am drawn to it. It identifies with a part of myself that I had already labeled as the call of Eden. This call of Eden is not something exclusive to the church because people of many or no faiths also feel this call. It seems that Trop Rock to me at least is very similar to it.
Let me point out the similarities as I am currently understanding them. First there is the call to nature. Eden was Paradise. It was nature at its finest. It had beauties and wonders for all to discover and behold. The call of Eden is a call to the beauty and wonder of nature. Trop Rock does this with the lure of beaches, island paradises, underwater beauties.
Second, there is a call to a simpler lifestyle. We were to take care of a garden that didn't need anyone to take care of it. The perfect watering system, the right amount of sunlight along with there being no weeds to over take it, meant the care-taking was like telling someone that their responsibility would be to water a field that is on an automatic watering system. There is not anything for them to do in this regards. I am constantly hearing within the trop rock songs of enjoying more with less, with getting out of the rat race, to work but to not work your self out of health or relationships.
Third there is the call to "unmasked" relationships. The first two humans had nothing between them. They had no need to cover up the details about themselves. They accepted each other fully and completely. There was not any shame, embarrassment, or superiority/inferiority complexes. There was a full intimate relationship between them. The phase that I keep reading in Trop Rock says that we accept each other as they are. They have relationships that goes beyond normal relationships. Trop Rock seems to say, we accept you as you are because we know that the longer that you hang around us the more that you will be like us and that your differences are not a threat to us. It even goes beyond that by the way that people care and look after each other. It is a picture of what a lot of church groups claim that they do but fall short in actually carrying it out.
The one thing that is different as a believer being in this mix is the call of God as a companion. Jesus when He lived on Earth loved to hang out with people. They did not have to measure to His standards. (No one can ever measure up to that). Jesus would hang out with people and dine/drink/party with them. Jesus is the exact representation of The Father. To me that means when God walked with Adam and Eve in the cool of the Day, He was wanting to hang out with them. It would maybe be like the old TV show titled "The Courtships Of Eddie's Father".http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCF7Dnov8vA As that show would open and close, it would show the father and son walking along a beach or somewhere hanging out together enjoying each other's company and the father answering the son's questions. As a believer, I have the Holy Spirit with me always. So I can have that same type of intimate relationship with Him.
Until I can hang out with you again...
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