My name is Jeremy Erickson. I exist. I do well existing, and have yet, in the twenty-some years of my existence, to have failed existing for any given moment of time. I believe this is due largely to the fact that I have been created. And I believe I have been created to display something of the eternal - just like any and everybody else who exists. 

Aside from that (for a moment), what I do for a living is music. I've been writing songs since I was fifteen, and I write my songs about two things: being human, and being loved by God. These are two things I think I know something about. For as long as I've existed, I've been human, and as long as I've been human, I believe I've been loved by God. 

I grew up on a small farm in northern Minnesota. My family was dysfunctional only inasmuch as my little brother was a comedian and I was an artist (and my sister put up with us both). I was raised on books by C.S. Lewis and Bible stories before bedtime. I thought of God as my nearest and bestest friend. Then when I was ten, my cousin and his dad were killed in a car accident that seemed orchestrated to a finer degree than most Hollywood stunt scenes. I was immediately shoved into a world of questions and doubts - where I wrestled with God then, and wrestle with Him still. Only now it's not just physical events. It's psychological, social, and philosophical issues, as well as basic behavior problems.

But I don't believe Christianity was meant to be a self-help program or some sort of social agenda. Rather, I believe I was created (made, thought up - a divine idea) by a creator with the purpose of knowing intimately the mind and heart from which I came (and reflecting that, in turn). A God who seems sometimes distant (often distant), sometimes silent (often silent), but nonetheless good (and believable), and somehow aware of my deepest wonderings and sorrows. Christ came (and lives) to bring me near that God - in such a way that I won't burn up in his presence or be found less than what he made me to be. And in that way, I am made more like him - and, in turn, more like the original me. 

I put my life (a small portion of it really - all things considered) on display with my music and the writings on this website not because I'm deeply convinced I'm profound or entertaining. It's not because I think it'll make me famous either. I simply have this hunch (or maybe it's more of a hope) that it might be an avenue for God to reach into somebody's life (maybe yours) with an invitation of eternal implications. Maybe in a moment. Maybe one little bit at a time.

Life isn't pretty. Yours isn't. God knows mine isn't. But that didn't stop him from stepping in 2,000 years ago, and it doesn't stop him today. So with that I guess (by way of introduction) I've said enough. Keep reading, if you will, and if He wills, you may see Him.