December 2009
13 posts
I like nuts.
Hannah surprised me the night before graduation. I finally met my nephew, Duncan. We were at the awakening service, where I convinced Chris to get baptized. What a funny guy. It was wonderful to see Rachel and Chris again, and to hang out with them before they left after lunch the next day. I was hardly as emotional as the rest of the interns when we graduated.
We spent the next two days at a...
Well, I dreamed of Mattley again last night. Twice I’ve told him my dreams, and they’ve had a spiritual impact on him. Thank God for the gift of prophecy. With the little impressions, you really can’t go wrong, I mean, it’s all encouragement.
If I grow in this gift, it’ll be a different story. You need wisdom and integrity to handle that kind of revelation.
I’m collecting information for...
I did parking duty for the first half of our last awakening meeting on Saturday from 5:00-8:00 pm. I’m relatively certain they made me do it for z-club, since they forgot to assign anything on my day off. It was great, though, because I got to wrap myself up in winter clothes, carry a walkie-talkie and an orange light saber, and drink free hot chocolate. Honestly, when I was down watching the...
Our last Core class was three hours of reflection on the last five months. Of course, Ron recalled the evening they all went to Topica, “and left Josiah”.
Afterwards, I grabbed Izzy and offered to buy him coffee. I had to meet with him, to relieve that familiar weight from my person. To not seem awkward, I bought a drink for myself (a decaf almond vanilla black tea), bought his, and got us a...
“The thing that haunts you, that never seems satisfied, the cravings in your soul...”
– Erwin McManus, Soul Cravings (via whomshallifear) (via itiswellwithmysoul)
Imagine the story of the universe; a story with billions of characters- humans, demons and angels, each with feelings, desires and destinies… a story of the dynamic struggle between darkness and light. The shifting of two realms, and their glorious reconcile. This is my God; He is the Great Writer.
Monica called me this afternoon to tell me the plan she worked out with Mr. Keller and asked for my approval. Apparently dad has been searching for a place for me, and when she told him of the opening at a house right next to IHOP, he offered to pay my first month’s rent to live there ($210-$275, plus utilities). He also decided to go car shopping with me the week I get back. That’s in two weeks.
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When I was a child, I loved to take pictures. More specifically, pictures of cats. I remember right before my 11th birthday, I saved up and bought a disposable camera. Then I grabbed my best friend and searched the ghetto neighborhood for cats. There were many of them, at least two dozen. Eventually, I got the pictures developed and, on my birthday, I put them together in a scrapbook with plenty...
If Tumblr were a river, and my dashboard a personal stream, then why would I follow people who polute it? I’ve had to unfollow many a creative, inspiring person because I value purity.
When I lived in Guatemala, there were days when our running water dried up. Though we had a water tank, we often took buckets to the river about a mile away, because there was no telling when it would come back. The path to the river used to cut through a pine forest, before they all died away. Now it just wound over a field of overgrown weeds, until it came under the green lush of the jungle...
freckles & blue eyes she smiles, then she laughs & her cheeks turn red. Every Tuesday we’d meet in Drama. I was a Jew boy, and she, a Christian; talking of rivers and of hunting geese… always about food. I’d throw chocolate under people’s shoes, while she stole grapes from Peter’s vineyard.
Saturday night was a difficult one for me. I felt like a failure at the start of the evening, and during the meeting I refused to stand up and receive prayer because of my pride. Then, feeling even dirtier than usual, I went to put on an usher’s vest.
Earlier that night I’d watched this guy worship. A few minutes later, he was keeled over, groaning, with fluids dripping from his mouth to...