Was God lonely?

In Nashville, going north from the Capitol is the Bicentennial mall. On that mall is a timeline of the history of Tennessee.

The first entry on the timeline is a great error.

And God stepped out on space,
and He looked around and said:
I'm lonely--
I'll make me a world.

Honestly, it made me a little pissed off. This is not the type thing you want to engrave on granite as your belief about the God who runs the universe.

God was never lonely.

As Paul taught the Athenians in Acts 17, He is:

The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.

Another reason I know he was never lonely, is because the Father had the Son. And the Son is awesome. He's a whole lot cooler than the entire creation.

Men in Nashville

Nashville was just selected as the most manly city in America by a snack chip company. That's interesting, because I look around and ask "where are the men?" What I mean by "men": males who have matured, accepted the responsibilities of work, marriage, and becoming servant-leaders in their communities to the end that others might benefit.

What is much more common than men are boys, playing with toys, tools, and ESPN who enjoy the benefits of manhood (sex, leadership) without the responsibilities (marriage, fatherhood, honest labor).

From that article (Nashville is the most manly city...):

That's the conclusion of a study released Thursday that ranks "America's Manliest Cities" on criteria such as the number of professional major league sports teams, popularity of tools and frequency of monster truck rallies.

What makes a city "unmanly"? Seemingly fatherhood:

Cities lost ranking points for "emasculating" characteristics like the abundance of home furnishing stores, high minivan sales and subscription rates to beauty magazines.

Although I agree with the "beauty magazines" being criteria for emasculating.

Later the article mentions that Nashville did well because of hunting/fishing, home improvement and NASCAR. Those are manly and good things. I don't want to redefine hunting out of man-ness. But I would love to see a new generation of real men; husbands, fathers, workers; become hunters and not stay 30-year-0ld hunter-boys.