October 2010
23 posts
5.5 hour drive.
Wildlife report: 6 deer. 3 obliterated. 1 alive. 1 bobcat kit. Didn’t make it. 1 wild boar. He made it. 1 raccoon. 1 squirrel. 3 unidentifiable animals due to impact. Shouldn’t deceased wildlife be called wild-death?
No place for your self(ishness) here...
Luke 22:25Jesus said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those who exercise authority over them call themselves Benefactors. 26But you are not to be like that. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who rules like the one who serves. 27For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is at...
On the grass, next to Whitney. Watching flames dance all pretty.
- Good way to spend the evening. With friends. Even if I only got to see them for a moment (Kelly).
dielike-dogs asked: I enjoy everything you do, and you're one of my favorite people, ever.
Recent findings:
I see injustice everywhere: The other night, while washing dishes, I found myself meandering about my thoughts and running into corporate tyranny and trade federation horrors, knowing that big business and dirty money is more important to the economy than the lives of people disgusts me. I know of corporations that sell expensive seed to Indian farmers for more money than they ever had, and...
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?
The Gospel is foundational:
I’m reading a book about this. It is not talking about Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John. While they are important. It is about the broad-spectrum of utter misunderstanding of what it is that the Gospel is that has waylaid the Church and left a whole lot of theological invalids in its wake. People who claim to be Christians often don’t even have an idea of what it is that is the Good...
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“Don’t you know there’s a war on?”
– (via greatestgeneration)
I am still shocked at humanity. In so many capacities. People act out when they forget What they were made for. Or perhaps they never knew in the first place. People need something to define them, and it’s what defines them that can either fill them or kill them.
“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.” ...
The past few days have proven eventful. Sometimes I cannot believe my life, because it seemingly happens with such sporadic intensity. Sunday, I awoke to drive the last stretch of tour at 7 a.m. However, we were fed breakfast by some amazing friends in North Carolina, and left at 8:30. The boys fell asleep a half-hour into the drive and I was left to my thoughts for 4 hours. Most of that...
One time, I had a beard, and...
I’m in Arkansas. Justin from Deas Vail began a sentence last night with “One time, I had a beard…”. He also bought a scollar. (Huge smile appears on my face) I have my own little room in a gorgeous house owned by people with the biggest hearts ever. The are lovers of Jesus. I’ve eaten too much. I’ve slept too much. Knitted too much. Who can say such things...
Seeking:
I can’t help but say this is hard. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a relationship that makes you look at yourself and understand that you need someone else to love you beyond what you see. That you need to base your worth in what Love says about you. That you need to see your misery in all it’s vain-glorious terror, and then you have to watch love crush it. ...
I learned new songs today. I talked to Amanda. There are towels strung across my friends apartment on a makeshift clothesline. We are vagabonds.
Owned: self-righteousness
Luke 18: 9To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: 10“Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12I fast twice...
Yesterday, I received some information about a little old lady who ran an antique store in Evansville, IN. We bought vinyl and hats and brooches from her. They found her dead in her house. Someone had beaten her head in. I’ve never known someone who has been murdered. It made me sick.
I had a dream two nights past. I didn’t really understand it when it happened, but I will expound. There was a girl who was in a relationship with a boy. Evidently, it had been for a long time, and he acted toward her in a very devoted manner. He consistently lavished upon her the affections of his heart, or what she thought to be his real love. She believed him well, till she stumbled...
