A Wheel Within A Wheel

The title of A Wheel Within A Wheel refers to the first chapter of the Book of Ezekiel where its author describes in cryptic and revelatory detail a vision of God as four living creatures each with four heads and four wings and each seemingly connected to a wheel within a wheel. The passage has made its influence felt – from the traditional folk song "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel" and to the writings of C.G. Jung – who interpreted the vision in relation to his theory of the wheel as an archetype or a symbol of God. The title may also refer to the Book of Isaiah, which is designed in the pattern of the wheel and is thought to be a microcosm or a symbol of all creation. It shares a unique distinction with the book of Revelation in that these two books alone contain the seven verses where God revealed his eternal nature as the first and the last.

But this album isn't a Biblical study or religious proselytizing. It's the struggle of one man to walk through life and come to terms with the things he sees and encounters and somehow resolve his faith in something greater and his own role in all of it. He doesn't treat it like a science problem, debating the quid pro quo of the seeming lack of divinity amidst the divine creation. He feels, he believes and yet he challenges God, he demands responses and makes assessments. He loves, he fears, he believes, he's angered, he sings and he searches for meaning. In the final line of 'Let It Be So,' he realizes his role is to do exactly what he's been doing, "to learn how to love you, that's the happiness I pursue."