thoughts on friday

it is 11:24pm on a friday night, and i just finished cleaning my room after working all evening. trying to remember what it's like to look forward to friday nights. when you work all weekend, friday is actually more like monday, and monday is the new friday.

[these are my thoughts as i try to figure out "a place" for everything in my room instead of just throwing it all in the bottom of my closet.]

love and grace

i've been thinking a lot about grace lately. it's so much BIGGER than i can understand. as i've been studying scripture, i've just been overwhelmed with the extent of the grace and love of God. Romans 5:8 says, "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." that's what grace means, i think. grace is giving unconditional love and acceptance to someone who does not deserve it. to someone who has wronged you. or someone you simply don't like. we were hostile towards God. we were against Him, and He chased us down just to show us how He loves. unconditionally.

we don't have the capacity to understand the full extent of God's unconditional grace and love. and that is ok. but we are called to live it out and to share it just as God has shared it with us.

i think it is time for the church to chase people down, to pursue people, just to show them how much we love them and more than that, how much they are loved by God.

do something crazy to show the world around you just how great the love of God is.

everything is amazing and nobody is happy

this guy has great perspective.


everything is amazing and nobody is happy

3 records i can't live without (this week)

i have had 3 albums on constant rotation this week on my ipod, and i figured that i should share them with all of you!

1. the killers- day and age. *one of the most creative rock albums i've heard in a while. quite funky.

2. kings of leon- only by the night. *they are effortlessly modern. and timeless. a seamless combination of indie and their southern roots. great vocals.

3. jon foreman- spring ep. *it reminds me that spring is coming. beautifully simple.

what are three albums that you are stuck on right now?

presidential inauguration

if you've ever wondered what a 1474 megapixel picture looks like, you should check this out. david bergman took this series of pictures of the presidential inauguration on tuesday using a robotic camera called a gigapan. check out the results here.

some confessions

i am addicted to caffeine, but i didn't know it until last tuesday.

i cut my hair off on a whim in mid-january while living in northern illinois. cold.

i have problems shaving regularly (i blame this on no shave november).

i love to write/write music more than almost anything but rarely find time to sit down and do it.

i have a hard time reading books on spiritual formation slowly enough to actually harness the wisdom therein.

i miss my creative writing classes from college.

i read the classics for fun.

i thrive when in real community.

i despise working retail.

i don't hate the cold as much as i thought i would.

i am scared that my writing will never be as good as it was at the back corner table at jittery joe's coffee shop @ five points in athens, ga.

i don't know where i'll be in 5 months. and that is ok.

new year's resolutions

so, this may be a little late, but here are the resolutions that i have landed on for 2009:

i want to read the bible all the way through this year. i think that i have probably read the entire thing. however, i have never used a method that ensures that i catch every word. i'm really excited about this one!

i want to make a great effort to observe a sabbath day each week. with my work schedules right now, this is no easy task, but it is already proving worthwhile!

i want to have 12 original songs that are ready for recording by the end of 2009. *this is going to be the hardest one, because i'm ridiculously critical of my own writing/music. so, it is really hard for me to get to the place where i'm ready for my art to be heard by others...

so, there they are. now, they're official. ha.

anyone else have any interesting resolutions that you're working towards or have already failed at???