October 2011
1 post
Liberty in North Korea [LiNK] Help people escape. →
August 2011
9 posts
Maintaining Messy Relationships →
Why friendships—even difficult ones—are vitally important.
SHOWA KING! Sending me, joyfully laughing.
Walking up my street this evening from the bus stop, I looked up and was met with the lovely sight of the doming night sky. Stars scattered across in three dimensions as I listened to Kim Walker sing her heart out, and forgot about pretty much anything else. I quickened my pace as I neared my house, in anticipation of something that I thought would happen: it was the anticipation of meeting with...
I can't
make you happy all the time.
I can’t
make me happy half the time.
I can’t let go, all my memories,
my heart-notes
of demands that gloat over me,
pressures of the work, the study, the thoughts
that
(I automatically presume)
So blackishly fume
from the others (though it’s me demanding most of the time).
I’m incapable of maintaining my own brand of perfection,
...
MAKAHA I MISS YOUR FACE!
But more than that, I miss Your face, God, in the unity of your children, gathered in the middle of nowhere, strictly to spend time with you.
Every day is a fresh page:
never stop writing!
1 tag
Be wary of what you worship.
Be wary of what those around you worship. Tear down empty idols, before you become like them.
July 2011
7 posts
heart stammer
love has grown cold
it went too deep
i fracture fall
faults run deep
the cold ran too deep
oh my dear, i wish you could hear
my heart stammer
i don’t know how else to explain
this mess i made
listen close
heart stammers are to blame.
i swear and shout,
writhe in rejection moments,
lying in bed with Memories, she cries and pouts,
with me, in stupid closeness and clout,
stopping...
Finding God's Will for Your Career →
How can we figure out what God wants us to do?
Westboro Baptist and You →
The notorious church has picketed funerals and praised natural disasters. But such hostility wasn’t born in a vacuum.
You can make a killing, (popularity, money)
simply on gossip. But don’t do it: a handful of loving words at the right time are a trillion times more powerful than a tsunami of the worst words at the worst of times.
Sometimes,
you just got to vomit out the mistakes. Not on everyone, though! You’ll get them sick!
Please,
don’t give up.
Please, keep trying again and again and again and again forever.
Please, understand you’ll make mistakes, you’re not the mistake.
Please, be patient.
Please, give it your all.
Please, don’t be disappointed.
Please, keep hoping, keep believing, keep loving, because these will never disappoint.
Please, be painfully honest, with yourself, with God, and...
June 2011
4 posts
“Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our...”
– Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel
“A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. ...”
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
12 posts
ma!
MAN: The internet is such a lovely place, my boy, only four gold coins to enter!
BOY: It sounds so lovely! But so expensive…
MAN: Well, my boy, it’s such a lovely place to go!
MOTHER: Child! Get to your room, who is that at the door?
BOY: A salesman, ma! He’s talking about the internet!
MOTHER: Oh my, well enough of that, you get ready for bed.
MAN: Hello, ma’am, I...
official blog of mood swings and backaches: fun... →
youdsay:
when I was little we would get this toy catalog in the mail all the time and I would spend hours circling everything I wanted
whenever I added up the total, it always came out to thousands of dollars
at this point it is probably worth mentioning that my family basically survived off child…
a strange kind, we Web-ed ones are:
rhetoric running rampant
from the keyboards of us online kings,
experts of every field of nothing,
worshipped in territories of boredom.
sleepless ignorance lace senseless words
joined by senseless pictures:
a stupid splash on the rocks,
like that wave inbetween Waves,
trying to be what it isn’t to be an is.
virtual platforms froth with pleas for attention:
we foam everything up to...
March 2011
3 posts
4o'clock thoughts
posts dripping
with attention.
pictures stripping
the posters’
of their shame:
devoid of any likeness to reality,
shameless expression
of ME MEMEME
MEM EMMEMEME
ME ME ME
ME memes
leads to a hidden door
opening to a wave of a lowest-frequency cry
for connection.
selflessness and good intentions all of a sudden adopt an online audience…
will they entertain to their new...
January 2011
2 posts
John3:16 love>1,000,000,000 Facebook likes
Allowing virtual things to define the “who” will render the soul hollow.
Connect with Christ.
Disconnect with the world.
Do you know Jesus loves you?
The Internet tries so hard to fill the God-sized gap in your heart. Truth is, no amount of great photography, interesting information, amazing stories, beautiful inspirational sayings, enticing pornography, etc. compares with a heart-to-heart talk with the Creator God.
Earlier today, I was thinking about suicide. I forgot what led to me...
December 2010
6 posts
happy bday, Jesus!
merry christmas, hawaii. merry christmas, internet world peeps!
my mind mash is
a thought clash,
a thought crash,
a baffling bash of thoughts
advancing against
defense of an altervnative kind,
the kind that’s an internalized
defensive de-frying of the brain:
before it goes haywire…
before it gets too tired,
like now:
my head’s got a gospel choir of ideas
idea after
idea after
idea,
i feel like tyler perry’s madea
reproduced,
again and...
pause-point: [Am I reflecting God's love...or...
grantiswrite-deactivated2011012 asked: What other way to celebrate the holidays than by watching a movie about family, greed, religion, and oil? lol. I never gave Narnia a chance, perhaps someday one day. I've been just watching horror movies, that somehow wires my brain to get into the festive season.
Image.over-attentive
coming off like something vs. honestly be-ing the sum total of your influences
letting the “it” speak vs. wrestling to find how to speak for the “it”
dressing for the part vs. dressing to get noticed
work vs. performance
effort aimed towards accomplishment vs. effort aimed towards affirmation
Don’t you think we place too much emphasis on the HOW(presentation)...
(((Children of Light)))
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.”
-Jesus, from his “Sermon on the Mount.” (MT....
October 2010
3 posts
da
electricity!
connectivity.
passivity. positivity.
stagnant negativity.
elementary. exemplary.
eccentric eclectic intensity.
click. click. enter.
load. forward, paste. edit. save.
train. train.ed.
tame. tame.ed…
ingrown. membranes.
insane. in the brain.
the target is control. the object is total ease and efficient manipulation of the algorithms and equations that back up the...
“Positive vibes start by defusing the strife”
Sailing the Sky: Chapter 1 "The Mariner"
*NOTE: I spontaneously started this note last night, after looking up at the night sky, and I was inspired by the patterns of the clouds posted against the moon, and it reminded me of this anime called “Castle in the Sky.” I thought about what it would be like to sail in the sky.
What resulted was a decision to make a fan-fic about a Lord of the Rings character called Earendill....
September 2010
4 posts
destined dreamers
i believe in destiny. and i do believe that people’s dreams, their idealized vision of the future, can be realized. maybe not necessarily the exact way they may first see it, but in some way, shape or form.
i believe this is true for every single person born on this planet.
i believe that this desire for meaning, significance, and greatness is implanted in the deepest part of human being...
WatchShe is just amazing. AMAZING!