JanuaryJan 22 Thursday 09
...and paper takes the gold over technology.
so it's been a bit since i've written anything on here.
in all honesty my Moleskine has been robbing this blog of my creativity... and i suppose everything else i write about.
but for the few that do read and periodically check-- i do indeed care about you, so i will …
DecemberDec 27 Saturday 08
"we were made to live creative lives."
off brand cereal with cheap milk
in a plastic bowl that matches our translucent
red and blue plates.
they were given to us because we had no dishes.
(but we don't mind. they go well with our broken table
and magazine artwork on the walls.)
and if you think about it, we're …
NovemberNov 3 Monday 08
shake the dust
yesterday i watched a nearly immobile woman who is coming to the very end of her life story be helped to the front of the sanctuary and lead everyone (without any prior worning or preparation) in the song "running for my life." I've never seen someone so elated because …
OctoberOct 27 Monday 08
the frantic construction of a palisade between God and my own selfishness
SeptemberSep 5 Friday 08
chapter 6: chicago or "let's see what happens"
moved into my new house,
and begun my next task for the son of david.
i'll meet new people
make new friends
who need him as much as i do
and i will love them
and love them
and love them.
when he shows up, i won't be surprised.
AugustAug 26 Tuesday 08
faith?
it will be much more enjoyable with the correct music playing.
AugustAug 23 Saturday 08
the winner is... devotchka
so we've got to go to do what we have to.
but you need to know that i try daily
to love you as much as you have loved me.
i am the most blessed... though i don't deserve it.
AugustAug 16 Saturday 08
the trickle effect of power and a literal take on the whole "mustard seed" thing.
our heroes are idols standing on thousand foot towers with power, influence, merchandise and witty catch phrases. They promise us solution, fashion, and thirty second prayers to save us from Hell. We flash pictures of their faces hugging poor black children and elderly …
AugustAug 5 Tuesday 08
from eyes gazing up at our shining city.
every single time i hear exhausted chord progressions
with tired, stereotypical lyrics sung in your identical voices
and watch you smile at all the people you've gotten to sing along,
my toes curl and my eyes tend to role.
however, when you shout through your cross-shaped …
JulyJul 14 Monday 08
it's not actually what i want
with the urge to be somewhere else. even if i am the first to preach against it, i sometimes rationalize that just a day or one hundred miles would fix everything that seems to be …
JuneJun 20 Friday 08
and my heart is broken before work
with liberty and justice for all.
JuneJun 3 Tuesday 08
the breath of frigid air after the exhale of smoke.
but as he expected (and hoped)
he had come to the inevitable place …
MayMay 24 Saturday 08
sparrows
i came across some letters that a convict wrote back in the day. He laid out these sixteen points that have inspired me to love the sparrows
like a brother loves his brother,
or a mother her son,
or a lover his wife.
I don't really know how yet,
or why, really.
but i have an …
MayMay 8 Thursday 08
an epiphany.
AprilApr 26 Saturday 08
so when all else fails..
"For it is a fire that, kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a
private bosom, caught from a wandering spark out of another private heart, glows
and enlarges until it warms and beams upon multitudes of men and women, upon the
universal heart of all, and so lights …
AprilApr 1 Tuesday 08
in hopes to destroy the wall created by those who help.
MarchMar 5 Wednesday 08
tears from the saints
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[My friend, if you cannot see over or much less tear down your wall, perhaps you aren't meant to do it alone.]
We are a family of a gargantuan number. We have our brothers and sisters dying from a lack of hope while we sit and proclaim that we are God's faithful …
FebruaryFeb 20 Wednesday 08
love like smoke
FebruaryFeb 17 Sunday 08
dislocated hips and scalded lips.
How do we go about worshiping God when we can never begin to paint an accurate picture of who he is? How can we as people possibly give Him something that's fit? How can we take our tainted, blemished, and faithfully screw-up lives and present …
JanuaryJan 25 Friday 08
A quick 4am proverb.
When our futures are certain (and when I say this, I mean however broad), the segment of time between now and our futures becomes far more precious... And I've realized that this is so because I've never had to prepare for something so epic and beautiful.
How much can …