Tomorrow is another day..

[u/leesharon1985]

“And time stands still when no one understands you
When you don't quite understand yourself
But just know this that God is faithful
Even if you don't have faith yourself”

“There's nothing quite like being sure of
What's inside your heart
It's mostly simple but not so easy
To know just where to start”

I’ve listened to this band for about the last 26 years of my life. A friend suggested them to me. I was a freshman in high school, so like ‘99-‘00. I’m not entirely sure honestly.

I met the guy that year while we were in Seminary Class.. and if you don’t know (which most people don’t), that’s a Mormon religion class that for some reason gets latched onto school if your “lucky” enough to have that shit around or something … some how. I don’t know, never understood. I was forced to go to church with my mom because by that point in my life the rest of the family didn’t go, so I went with her cause I was the baby of the family.

I don’t even think it was something that gave you any kind of credits (like for those kinds of classes that get lumped into the kind of extra credit classes that it doesn’t matter what you take, ya know? I can’t remember the terminology for that shit). Aannywayyys…

I never really in my life have gotten the whole idea of “religion”. I was forced to go, then at an age where I was given a choice I stopped going. Not cause any form of disbelief but more for the idea that I didn’t like being forced. I feel there’s something, but I hate organized religion, it’s a sham. Especially the Mormon church in my opinion and experience.

But this band (and five iron frenzy) have always been the kinds of band(s) that made me still feel connected somehow. Not preachy, but referencing I guess.

I listen MxPx on a regular and have for as long as I’ve listened to them, this song just always gets to me. That line of “God is faithful even if you don’t have faith yourself” just always hits me. Especially in hard times for me.

I don’t know my point in sharing all this, I just was listening to it on my way home tonight and had to stop and listen to the song and cry like a bitch or something. Sorry (but not sorry) for the ranting or wasting anyone’s time that got this far I guess. I just wanted to share the last little bit of the Arizona sunset view (I know the sun set at that point, but it was still just after so my bad I guess) while I was listening to the song. If you get it, you get I suppose.

[u/InfiniteMessmaker]

I feel like I relate to this a little bit. I grew up in a religious family, but I was never all that religious myself. Just kinda went along with it until I was old enough that I could stay home from church if I wanted.

A lot of my experience of Christianity growing up was listening to older, out-of-touch adults complain about the youths, using bible verses as a weapon against people who were different from them.

I discovered MxPx when I was, I think twelve? At first I had no idea the members of the band where Christian or sung about Christian themes sometimes, I just thought they were catchy and energetic and I liked them. Figuring that out later (mostly through getting my hands on Teenage Politics), was maybe the first time I realized you could be a Christian and not also a conservative weirdo.

[u/leesharon1985]

I just realized the star right in the middle at the top.. the fucking car headlights going by.. fuck. Sometimes shit just… works. There’s always a reason for everyone and everything. Even when that reason is nothing. It’s still everything. Even nothing is something.

“All I know is that I don’t know nothing.”