November 2011
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Time is a bullet train speeding away
When you clock in at nine and clock out at five
You work and you work to purchase the world
But neglect everything money can’t buy
August 2011
2 posts
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About Romance (Part Three)
Life in my post-decision world had been good. I now, more than ever, felt like the life I was living was purposeful and planned. I felt as though I had some newly formed, solid connection to God — almost as if from high on His throne in heaven, His presence resonated deep within me, following me everywhere I’d go, partaking with me in the experiences of my life.
It was now about...
A Song of Faith
Rest my heart
Come back to your senses, my mind
And act as one
Stop trying to find
Reasons to doubt or to blame
When there are none
And know that today
Is all you can face
Tomorrow will come in time
Calm yourself
Don’t try to scale mountains
That may never rise
For He has chosen you
For He has chosen you
Oh my soul, He’s chosen you
So His love may live through you
Learn...
July 2011
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About Romance (Part Two)
I’ve had a tumultuous series of failures set before me in the way of romance examples. I think I can easily count on one hand the relationships of close friends and family that actually stayed together until death did they part. Being surrounded by such negative examples and heartbreaking stories does not enhance your view of relationships, to tell you the truth.
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About Romance (Part One)
You know, I couldn’t be dating a better woman. I really couldn’t.
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My girlfriend and I have been apart for a few weeks now, braving the separation of the summer months that divide college semesters. I can’t say it’s been an easy passing of days; in fact, quite the opposite.
And the honest to goodness truth of the matter is that I...
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About Old Age and Being Planted
I never had a grandfather.
Well, okay that’s a little bit of an overstatement because if I didn’t have grandfathers, I wouldn’t rightly be here to have typed this, would I?
What I really mean is, I never knew my grandfathers. Both of them passed away before I was even born, so I never got a chance to meet them, to hear stories about how...
Instead of being One who I fear may turn the life I know upon it’s head, may You become the One I run to with all recklessness, knowing that You alone know my true name, and You desperately want me to know it with You.
she dances like a flame
she’ll burn out your eyes and
you’ll never see the same way
June 2011
6 posts
If I got a dollar for all the times
That I beat myself up on the inside,
I’d probably be a millionaire —
But I purchased a front row seat
To the musical on tour within my heart.
And I’m in love
Cause you play every part.
Oh, those colorful words now seem to hide away.
So I beg return,
Return,
The voice I love to hear:
I beg return.
“I used to think that I could just sit and wait for the times, but I know...”
– “Halfway Home” - Jason Mraz
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About an Overly Analytical Mind
I had a conversation with myself a few minutes ago - it went something like this:
Understand this, Joe.
If you search long, hard, and deep enough, you’ll find what you’re looking for.
You know this to be true.
If you search for love - even in the cracks, in the darkest of places, in the abyss of the world - you’ll find it.
In the same way, if you search for rejection, you’ll find it - even in...
I’m up against the ropes, it might be this time
When everything I know come crashing down and I might not make it out alive.
But I would rather die than lose this fight.
And it’s all on the line,
But I would rather die than lose this fight.
I’m seeing stars tonight.
“I am so easily satisfied by the call of lovers less wild.”
– Derek Webb, “Wedding Dress”
May 2011
5 posts
“When she sings
I hear a symphony
And I’m swallowed in sound
As it echoes...”
– Death Cab for Cutie, “Stay Young, Go Dancing”
I don’t know why I’m such a pitiful believer;
I don’t know what I don’t have faith to match a mustard seed;
and
I don’t know why I’m obsessed with getting even;
I just know
That it’s me who should be bleeding.
I just know
That it’s me who should be bleeding.
“By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know was made strong....”
– Acts 3:16 (NIV)
There’s power in the name of Jesus Christ.
“…Life is sweet at the bottom of the sea.”
– A. A. Bondy, “American Hearts”
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About the Rapture
Well, it’s 1:07am and as of yet, still no rapture.
I say this as if I’m waiting in anticipation of it happening with the reserved belief that it won’t, in fact, come to pass based on Camping’s prediction but hey, you never know, right?
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I was talking to my mother on the phone yesterday and I jokingly...
April 2011
1 post
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About Image
As you likely know, upon opening up the book of Genesis and reading the first few lines, the reader is thrust headfirst into the God-breathed, ex nihilo creation of the world. There was the light and the darkness, the separation of the waters and the sky, the gathering of the waters to one place and the formation of dry land. Then there was vegetation, the stars, sun, and moon set in their...
March 2011
2 posts
Unforgiveness is the poison we drink, hoping others get sick.
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About Cynicism
Cynicism: an attitude adopted by “reasonable” and “rational” individuals to shroud their existent but often suppressed feelings of pessimism by maintaining a facade that is unreasonably irrational toward things they do not fully understand.
