Yes

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy,
the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."

~ C.S. Lewis

tribute to bryce avery

I vowed when I created this blog that it would become a place where I would talk about the happenings in my life... mostly about stuff I have learned, stuff God is showing me, etc...

But...

I went to The Rocket Summer show a few days ago and want to share it with you...
Basically, it was one of the best sets Ive ever seen. It was really tight technically, there were great transitions between songs, and Bryce did an amazing job switching instruments (he played piano, guitar, bass, and drums throughout the show). I am so happy that I got to see his talent with my own eyes and hear it with my own ears. He was quite the showman as well with his bleach blond hair flying. I love it when artists look like they are having fun on stage...

To top it off, he was so courteous taking pictures with people and signing things (not my things though). I just shared with him how important his music is to me. It is so great to see someone as solid in his faith play to a crowd who probably didn't know, but who just heard the love and message of God without really realizing it. God is good.

The picture of him on drums is not the best but I wanted you to see for yourself.

Happy sailing!

Ahhh

It's finals week....


But when there is rain on the brick streets late at night in Athens, that suddenly doesn't matter at that moment.

Thank you Lord for these nights.

Prayers

All of you cyber people out there in the internet world, please pray with me.

Lord, please help me to see the Joy in everything. Please help me to look at myself with your eyes; help me to see myself as no less then a child of yours, lovingly made with care. Please help me to always know that I am being used for your purposes and please help me to remember that because you made me, I have importance, that my life means more just going from day to day.
Thank you for knitting me together in my mothers womb. Thank you for giving me this life and please help me to use it to prepare me for my life eternal. I am yours Lord, please use me.
~Amen

"So in this hour
Everything I do
Will be all for this moment
Everything's for you
My heart is open
And willing
So take it...

...So please take my life
And use it
I'm ready..."
~The Rocket Summer, "So, In This Hour..."

hello.

Reflection

This is how I responded after reading Luke 15 and the parable of the lost sheep... I know it's a familiar bit of scripture and I even learned a song about it when I was really young, but the more I read Jesus' teachings in parables, the more I find I can apply them to my life... it's not the best writing, but it just came out.

As my young and inexperienced lags lead me away from the pack, away from the beaten road easy on my tender feet, open and safe; as my own judgement, my own decision leads me away, down a path which at one point, seemed the better way, seemed attractive, but as the thorns tear at my pink skin, as the land becomes rocky, jagged and steep, as I slip on the rocks in the dark, I am having second and third thoughts about this.
Right as i am at the steepest place, where I cannot find my footing, as my week legs can not bear to hold my weight, I cry out.
The paint of the rocks and thorns, the fear of what I cannot see, my self pity and embarrassment, and my need for safety, well up in my throat and I let out a cry so pitiful that even the hardest of hearts would turn soft. As I begin to wonder if my cries were in vain, I feel a strong yet oh so gentle grip lift me off my frail wobbly legs. I feel secure as I am lifted on His back; too high for the thorns and rocks, gently and carefuly I am carried back to safety, back to the right path.
As we near, I hear a voice so filled with love and rejocing say "you were lost, but now you are found," and I am home, I am safe. For all the while that I was on the wrong path, He was still loving me and rejoiced when I cried out to Him.

So cry out to Him.
If you can feel the thorns,
cry out because He is there,
waiting to lift you onto His back.
He rejoices when you do because He is your father.

Please and Thank you

"There's a love that transcends all that we've known of ourselves
and Ill wait for it to come
I'll wait for it to come

Well it's got to be strong to touch my heart through it's shell
and I'll wait for it to come
I'll wait for it to come."

-Copeland, "Coffee"