Oh My God - Jars of Clay video free download

Quote from Dan Haseltine's Blog:

"...Some questions, when they are found, will never go away. They are like scabs covering deep wounds, once scratched off the skin, they bleed slowly for a lifetime, but they remind us that we are alive and that we feel and think and embrace, and inhale and exhale.

Oh My God was a point of convergence. The depth of my hearts depravity, the pain I had walked through in the world, and the pain I observed through the stories and images and places I saw in Africa came together in this song.

It is a song in three parts.

Part one, simply setting the stage:

This verse really describes the human condition... we are fatally wounded people, tainted by sin, and plagued by shallow faith that sometimes doesn't hold us as we search for a clear answer to the question of Jesus' death and resurrection. Doubting the existence of God is part of our human story.

Part two of the song:

This is actually where the song began... Matt brought the question to the band, "Why do so many people use the phrase, "Oh My God?" And we began to think about the various people who use the phrase, and wondered if we could describe this in a song.

It is amazing to me that a person can use the same phrase to be both a curse and an affirmation. These three letters can be used in part of our deepest contentment and our deepest longing. So whores and angels and all of the above use it. People who believe in God and people who don't still find need for this phrase.

Part three:

This is the rant. This is why I, in that season, spoke those words. I did not deliberate over these lyrics. The song was only sung once in the studio. These words were only written within seconds of singing. This is a gut level grouping of words. And it was a way of bringing the questions I had been storing up and forgetting about and remembering and fighting, to amplification. And so it ends with questions, just as it started.

We performed this song two times. We didn't edit it for the record, or add very much to it. It still is one of my favorite songs to sing."