Friday, April 30, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Damage
Sin in life has damaged us all. So now what? What is productive about comparing our damage? If this is a given, what cliff are we looking over?
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Like Pouring Light into Your Soul
Can't really say enough about the redemption that drips from a recent letter from Linford Detweiler of the band Over the Rhine. If something could drip with redemption, I would say this is pretty darn close!
Spring has come.... The grass is green, the silver maples have their leaves, our part of the earth has tilted back toward the sun, which seems to take pleasure now in drenching the house in morning light. If you stand on the porch, close your eyes, turn your face toward the sun and let it shine on your eyelids, if you breathe deeply, it feels like someone is pouring a pitcher of light directly into your soul.
The birds are drunk on spring, flirting, nesting, singing. Our lone tupelo tree has new eager buds that make it look like a candelabra full of tiny green candles. My mother says if you pay attention it’s like watching the world being created all over again right in front of your eyes.
Yes, we are feeling adventurous. (Maybe adventure is simply paying attention to the part of you that wants to be created all over again.)
We believe making music has something to do with what we were put on this earth to do. If we leave our songs alone, they call to us until we come back to where we belong. When we live in the sweet spot of that calling, it gives others (you?) permission to discover the sweet spot of your own calling and live there.
Karin and I have been writing our new songs for a good while now. I suppose many of them are understated glimpses into the people we are (so far) and the people we long to be and the difference that lies between.
-- Linford Detweiler
Let's make a record!
Spring has come.... The grass is green, the silver maples have their leaves, our part of the earth has tilted back toward the sun, which seems to take pleasure now in drenching the house in morning light. If you stand on the porch, close your eyes, turn your face toward the sun and let it shine on your eyelids, if you breathe deeply, it feels like someone is pouring a pitcher of light directly into your soul.
The birds are drunk on spring, flirting, nesting, singing. Our lone tupelo tree has new eager buds that make it look like a candelabra full of tiny green candles. My mother says if you pay attention it’s like watching the world being created all over again right in front of your eyes.
Yes, we are feeling adventurous. (Maybe adventure is simply paying attention to the part of you that wants to be created all over again.)
We believe making music has something to do with what we were put on this earth to do. If we leave our songs alone, they call to us until we come back to where we belong. When we live in the sweet spot of that calling, it gives others (you?) permission to discover the sweet spot of your own calling and live there.
Karin and I have been writing our new songs for a good while now. I suppose many of them are understated glimpses into the people we are (so far) and the people we long to be and the difference that lies between.
-- Linford Detweiler
Let's make a record!
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Weight
Good outweighs bad...by a long shot. But bad's weight will still kill you...and only good can lift you back to life.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Beloved, I Urge You
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.
-- 1 Peter 2:11
-- 1 Peter 2:11
Monday, April 12, 2010
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Forfeit Grace?
Those who cling to worthless idols
forfeit the grace that could be theirs.
-- Jonah 2:8
forfeit the grace that could be theirs.
-- Jonah 2:8
Monday, April 05, 2010
Since We Are Free...
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
-- Galatians 5:1
The work has been done...that is a huge relief, that things don't hang in the balance because of something we must still do. So what does it look like to 'not let ourselves be burdened again'? What is the yoke of slavery? Where does the metaphor apply specifically in my life, in your life?
-- Galatians 5:1
The work has been done...that is a huge relief, that things don't hang in the balance because of something we must still do. So what does it look like to 'not let ourselves be burdened again'? What is the yoke of slavery? Where does the metaphor apply specifically in my life, in your life?
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