February 2012
2 posts
My Life: The Story
I feel like the last few months I’ve been captivated by the idea of a story. I’m beginning to believe it’s one of the most powerful tools in life for an innumerable quantity of situations. Donald Miller discovered this long ago, and I’ve been greatly influenced through his capacity for both teaching about stories and telling them. I don’t know about anyone else, but I’d love to live one of...
Presidents, Policies, Politics and the Kingdom of...
Welcome to the Internet. The vast land of every complaint and opinion on the face of the earth. The land of the quick to speak and slow to listen. In the wake of Proposition 8, what a “Good” Christian Presidential candidate looks like, and other morality based political topics, it leads me to ask the following: What does God really expect of Christians in America?
We fight hard...
November 2011
1 post
I Think I'll Stay, Thank You Very Much.
As someone who has grown up hearing the words and ideas of the Bible, there’s one that seems to stick out more than the rest: Heaven. Its on the tongue of every aching man or woman. ”What? My suffering will cease, my hurting gone? No loss, no rejection, no prejudice?” Sounds like the place to be- and it is. However, we get so wrapped up in the grandeur of perfection, and...
July 2011
4 posts
With a trembling hand I reach and speak your name
With a whisper so soft the word resounds
Your beautiful name
But will this whisper be enough
If I hum it to myself
Through the window, tired eyes will come to pass
Still I hum it to myself, alone.
Is it enough to get by, enough to survive in here?
Bottle it all up, keep my mouth shut in here?
Cause its so hard to love and its so hard to trust how...
Still
Just as the sun covers all
And as the moon waits to shine in full
My eyes awake abundant in restless sleep
This morn
The dew, still collecting in droplets
Further reflecting all that’s come to pass
There was a day where our skin kissed the rain
And then found each other
Still I wait
Still I wait
In all living and passed
Of all good and glorious
There’s one I long for still
So in...
Chasing Mirrors
We dreamed of our lives
and how different they’d be
Waking up by your side
And never walking away
Never feel the sting of pain
That day I chose to leave
Oh how our hearts would be safe and sound
If our knees never had to fall
But it all comes around to
The way you’ve loved me with my back turned
How could it be that simple?
How could it be that simple?
That this love is mine
Time...
“If love is a mere emotion, then our love for a spouse, children, even God, is dependent on how we feel about them at a given moment, but feelings are fickle and can be as up or down based on factors as simple and mundane as the amount of sleep we’ve had or whether or not we exercised today.
No wonder people fall in and out of love so much. They are treating love as an emotion or...
June 2011
1 post
What an amazing picture of Christ’s love for us. Thanks Future of Forestry.
This chest is full of memories
Of gold and silver tears
I’ll give you more to own than
All of this
And I’ll give you more than years
For you were once a child of innocence
And I see you just the same
Your burdens couldn’t win or
Lose a thing
Oh, I’d tell you once again
But you’re always on the run
Slow your...
August 2010
6 posts
Wrote a short song today:
Just read the Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis, and it presents the idea that hell can be escaped, and those in captivity are really the one’s holding the key to their own escape, should they choose to endure the transition. Trouble is, most are so wrapped in their pride and apathy that they refuse to release themselves and become free. Sort of tried to show a version of that in the two verses....
May 2010
2 posts
5/12: Blanket of Ghosts
Dustin Kensrue
I’ve got a feeling, it’s hard to explain Feels like the devil rents a room in my brain The things im ashamed of, feel like dear old Saint Paul The things that I want to do, I don’t do at all So bury me deep, cover me with snow Wrap me in sleep, blanket of ghosts The spirit is willing, but the flesh is so weak I want to kiss your lips, but I kiss your cheek Just...
Listen
April 2010
4 posts
“If God is fathering us, He is helping us discover what is good, right, pure, and...”
– Donald Miller
Things I've learned in the past few days
The last month or so I’ve been dealing with a lot uncertainty in where my future is headed for the rest of the year and for the rest of my life, too. Change is generally a frightening thing, especially when the following transition isn’t even remotely in focus. I am frequently finding myself daydreaming about different outcomes and options and directions that will come in the near...
Imagine how much a man's life would be changed if...
He could interact with the poor and not show partiality, he could love his wife easily and not expect her to redeem him, he would be slow to anger because redemption was no longer at stake, he could be wise and giving with his money because money no longer represented points, he could give up on formulaic religion, knowing that checking stuff off a spiritual to-do list was a worthless pursuit, he...
I decided to start recording some acoustic worship...
March 2010
5 posts
3/24/10: Deas Vail
This is the most intelligent statement in a song I’ve seen in a while. Well done, Deas Vail.
Birds
This is our true alarm. This is reality. We will do what we can. We are just figurines with a theology that we don’t understand. We can’t forget the beginning, when He set our broken wings. God, how much does it take for us to be loved? For us to be saved? We all are birds stuck...
Miles
You’ve whispered for years of a...
February 2010
3 posts
January 2010
5 posts
1/19: Vessels
It turns out I was a little more sleepless than I thought. I finished writing this completely… hope you enjoy.
Vessels
Nick Green
We set sail long ago
Armed with fire and with sword
Exhale, a single breath
Send us on our way to find out why we left
I have wooden plank and rusted steel but nothing more
I was made for greater shores but for now this is my home
I know that I’ll...
Couldn’t sleep, so this is what I was able...
1/16: I've got to figure out why the world is so...
New Number One Gun record coming out in ten days or so… of course I’m excited.
Forest
Number One Gun
As you take off your bandage Ask yourself if you are alright now Take a break from the world And all the ones you love Let it out as you yell it Might as well ‘cause you’re all alone Name in vain while you’re at it, feels so good I’ve said a lot of things...
December 2009
2 posts
12/25: Merry Christmas
What a bummer that it's taken me a year to stumble on this song.
Dustin takes a new look at the real idea of what this celebration truly is:
A light sent to the world to end darkness forever, and an act of war upon
earthly sin and death. It marks the day of coming victory we all can now know
approaches rather than hope for... That God himself would come in flesh only to
die to save my life...
12/22: You are yourself the answer, the only...
I can’t begin to express the amount of wisdom pouring out from these lyrics. I’m sure you’ll discover shortly if you don’t already know the song or have read it. I’m starting to gather songs up in a small database and read back over them quickly… Truth like this needs to be consulted often. I get so caught up in all that I don’t understand that I...
November 2009
7 posts
11/28: If you're an ocean, then I want to jump...
I haven’t been too much of a fan of The Almost’s new record Monster, Monster… but this is my favorite so far of what I’ve heard. Aaron Gillespie does a really great job of capturing the true insecurities and childlike minds we all possess… though hate to show ‘cause we’re all “adults”, right?
Its okay to be vulnerable. I think we’re...
11/11: While they still sleep I slip out the door....
Just so you know I’m not crazy and I really do see many songs involving what I was talking about, here’s yet another beautifully written piece by Thrice.
The Whaler
Thrice
My lover’s arms
Well they beg me to stay,
But I know the stars
They will sweep me away
My daughter’s eyes
They are two tiny seas
Whose waters will rise
And run down her cheeks.
Father where...
Thanks to You
Copeland
11/11: It doesn't feel as far when I know you're...
I consistently discover songs discussing topics involving distant relationships- whether it be romantic or not. Since the writers are in fact musicians, I can’t help but think these are the feelings brought on by touring for months. Along with that, I can’t help but wonder what my life will be like once I leave in January to dedicate myself to a life on the road. Although its a...
11/9: It occurred to me at once that love could be...
Eat, Sleep, Repeat
Copeland
It truly does. According to Copeland(and I happen to think so too), even the most cunning and brilliant men find themselves stumbling for an intelligent word in the presence of a beautiful woman… suddenly transforming a full grown man into a five year old at a moments notice.
If its that difficult for them… us normal folk are screwed.
Solution?
There...
11/7: It's tough to be afraid after listening...
The Fire Dawn
Oh, Sleeper
Stand up, we’ll be more than kings.
Show no mercy when the gates swing.
I’ve said it before but without accepting that my body
Was the only thing keeping me from living.
I wouldn’t even let the surgeon touch me.
Though facing death, I dined on flesh.
But now I live to fight outnumbered
At the fire dawn to live in rebellious honor.
...
11/5: "But it all will be undone... nothing built...
Of Dust and Nations
Thrice
Such truth… I thought this tied in well with my other post of Wood and Wire
The world we live in is so temporary.
October 2009
5 posts
10/31: Don't you know son that I love you, and I...
Please Come Home
Dustin Kensrue
Need I say more?
Happy Halloween
Wood and Wire
Thrice
10/30: All my suffering's a light and momentary...
In the scheme of eternity, our lives become only a speck in time- making our problems and sufferings even smaller. We fail to understand that an eternity is not simply time stretching on forever… but a world not bound to the restrictions of time to any degree.
In comparison to an eternity with no suffering and only love, I’m down to do a bit of suffering here. After all, when...
Strange and Unprepared
Copeland
10/29: And you never feel good or bad-only strange...
Seemed like an appropriate response to their breakup announcement today. It’s always difficult to know how to feel when part of your life goes missing.