We should bring people to Jesus because the praise he receives from them is the reward fitting to his suffering. God absolutely blows my mind. He died for us so that we could freely worship. God is so unfathomably good, so loving, holy, righteous, and upright. Praise His name forever. Amen.

"In times of trouble, may the Lord answer your cry. May the name of the God of Jacob keep you safe from all harm. May he send you help from his sanctuary and strengthen you from Jerusalem. May he remember all your gifts and look favorably on your burnt offerings. May he grant your heart's desires and make all your plans succeed. May we shout for ( Read more... )

This is to inform Melissa:

To speak of espresso adventures mentioned earlier, the first and third shots that we had pulled were from a La MarzoccoThe shots had a really awesome dark chocolate covered cherry taste to them. More like 92% cocoa chocolate, where the only thing you taste is the cocoa and not sweetness. However, there was the added fact ( Read more... )

This is kind of odd, but I've been pondering falling off the balcony in my apartment lately. It would be purely an accident. By no means am I having suicidal tendencies. Although, it is quite coincidental, being that I am in Seattle ( Read more... )

In five days, I will be in Seattle.

It's a bit frightening, a bit exciting and a bit uplifting. I don't think I could stay in Colorado for much longer. Change is nice. I'm excited to attend Mars Hill, ride my bicycle more, have nobody to impress, drink good coffee and other things.

Last night, I had another rather trivial dream. I had to restring Alex's Les Paul and tune it. Restringing was a feat in itself. Shortly after finishing an unsure tuning job, the G and high E strings snapped.

Recently, I had a dream that my new rear tire had a small chunk of rubber taken out of it. This amounted to a flat that I had to change. My dreams that I wake up with recollection of are usually pretty mediocre like this. I looked over my bike, saw the piece taken out and was disappointed--that was it. It's pretty peculiar ( Read more... )

That's all.

I am glad to know that God loves me.

This one is an odd one, but I just have to share my adoration of this fraction of a second moment in this recording. It is a video of an in-store of My Brightest Diamond. Right around 11 min. and 32 sec. Shara's voice fluctuates a bit and, for some odd reason, it is the most incredible thing I've heard of late. The whole video is great, but this ( Read more... )