BoSacra
34 years old
PA, USA
Male
About
I'm just trying to live out my life based on the Truth...and I find of late that I have been stumbling on and off the path.
I absolutely LOVE life even though it sometimes it gets me down. I am amazed at the beauty around me that I take for granted and trample on a daily basis. I love watching the sun come up and paint the sky every morning on my way to work...and I think that all our efforts to create art in any form pale in comparison to the Great Artist himself. I can't wait till this bleak, blank canvas of winter is covered with a new spring's brushstrokes...
I look forward to the time when God restores things to what they were supposed to be all along and takes us home to be with Him. We see but shadows and dust...
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Jun 3, 2007
Questions...
So, this question (Why is life so complicated?) keeps coming up. And I don't have the answer to it, except to say that we're complex and interacting with each other makes it exponentially more complex. And I confuse myself enough as it is.
For example, after the …
May 10, 2007
Forgiveness...
Forgiveness is a balm for the soul.
Forgiveness is only possible through humility.
Humility is only possible when we admit that we're just as capable as the next person of becoming a monster, of making the same mistakes, of getting mired in the same sh*t.
I've been …
Mar 24, 2007
So...
Here are a few things I'm learning as of late, for those of you who care to know:
1) Living to try to make someone happy sucks and never works. Inevitably you will fail at being who/what that person needs and that wasn't your job to begin with. Most of us aren't …
Movies
Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, The Matrix, A River Runs Through It, Legends of the Fall, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Star Wars, Dumb & Dumber, Cable Guy, Mystery Men, Meet the Parents, It's A Wonderful Life, Contact, Family Man, Donnie Darko, The Princess Bride, Ong Bak, Enter the Dragon, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, Gladiator, Troy, Babel
Music
Dream Theater, Blackfield, Porcupine Tree, Toby Mac, Skillet, P.O.D, Pillar, Fiona Apple, Norah Jones, Incubus, Slipknot, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Alice in Chains, Beautiful Orange Aquaduct, Sarah McLachlan, Sting, Claude DeBussy, Chopin, Beethoven, Bach, Jars of Clay, Jack Johnson, Switchfoot, Breaking Benjamin, John Mayer, RED, Andrew Peterson, Pillar, Thousand Foot Crutch, John Petrucci, Harry Connick Jr., Kings X, Muse, 3
Television
24, LOST, Glenn Beck
Books
The Bible, Lord of the Rings, Wheel of Time series, A Generous Orthodoxy, Blue Like Jazz, Mere Christianity
Activities
Church, Guitar, Kung Fu, Tai Chi, Teaching, Summer camp, Backpacking, Laughing as much as possible (!), watching lava lamps
Interests
Philosophy, Religion, Computers, Christian Apologetics, Macintosh, Music, Kung Fu, Psychology, Sunrises & Sunsets
742617r000027, Mar 20, 2007:
hey bro.. i know in your world.. it seems like you're in seattle and it won't stop raining.. but think about how much good music comes from that city.. your life is no different.. from all this rain.. you're becoming a stronger and wiser oak that i have and always will look up to. love ya man.
The Walla Recovery, Mar 5, 2007:
thanks for your kind words... keep in touch. blessings...
zack
Heather, Feb 27, 2007:
awww, im your only friend