Everybody Knows You’d Break Your Neck To Keep Your Chin Up
If You tell me to put my hand in fire,
I will.
If You tell me to put myself in harm’s way,
I will
If You tell me to forsake everything, for Your sake,
I will.
The love and trust I desire, can only be found in You.
Be that Love for me.
Even if things don’t work out the way I want,
I trust You.
Purely.
Unadultered.
Unrestrained.
Your Love Inspires.
1.) Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
2.) Jon Foreman – Spring/Summer
3.) Copeland – You Are My Sunshine
4.) My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges
5.) Coldplay – Viva la Vida or Death And All His Friends
6.) Destroyer – Trouble in Dreams
7.) Mogwai – The Hawk Is Howling
8.) Beck – Odelay (Deluxe reissue)
9.) No Age – Nouns
10.) Beach House – Devotion
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Radiohead – In Rainbows (techincally the cd release date was Jan.1, altought it was released digitally Oct. 10th of last year)
Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts I-IV (not so much for the music, but in terms of how it was released. Much improved over the “In Rainbows” model before it and set the stage for Sigur Ros to do the same thing with their album)
Sigur Ros – Gobbledigook (yes, just the song. not the album)
Bon Iver – For Emma, For Ever: I just picked this album up a few weeks ago, and I haven’t been able to stop listening to it since. If I had gotten it a lot sooner, I’m sure it would’ve made the top 10.
OTHER TOP 10’s: Please visit these other sites for a few friends’ take on their top releases of 2008.
Deborah Adams @ Chasingghost.blogspot.com
Gabriel Adams @gabrieladams.wordpress.com
Matthew Civis @ theciv.wordpress.com
Thomas Green @ xanga.com/trogtom
The following is an article I submitted to Yobs conspiracy zine he’s working on. Feedback is appreciated.
We didn’t choose to exist, but none the less here we are living in a time called America. The stories of the past involving family, friends, authors, presidents, leaders, nations, militaries, poets, prophets, activists, the poor, the rich etc. have all seeped to in form our beings shaping our uniqueness. Like one of my favorite rappers manchild says, “all I am is collection of souls that God has used to touch me.” We live this mysterious life in some sort of connection to our surroundings figuring out how to relate to ourselves, to society, to nature, and to God. The journey of experiencing these relational dynamics is what I wish to humbly share with the rest of this paper space. Continue reading ‘Christarchy tickled’
“Sunday”
Day by Day
and in Every Way
Be My Strength
Seeing How I have none…
Taken while driving around with a friend in Port Orchards, WA.
One day I called up an old friend of mine just to catch up with him. I’m notorious in my dislike of conversing over the phone, but I decided to clear such a trite hurdle for the sake of my comrade. As we spoke he told me something that surprised me.
“I’m dropping out of Bible college.”
We had just spoke about the subject the week prior, and had discussed the importance of finishing what you’ve started and all that other stuff that sounds right to say. Startled, I asked him why he changed his mind so suddenly.
He went on to tell me that it wasn’t making him happy, and he wanted to do something that HE WANTED to do, not something he felt HE SHOULD do. And that statement floored me. So often I just end up in the Christian routine of doing things I should do because I feel like I’m supposed to and that’s what God wants. But He has put desires in our hearts for a reason, and it would be wrong of us to forsake those desires out of some misguided sense of religiousity. So if there is something in your heart that excites you, pursue that! It is the very seeds of something divine planted in your heart from before you were made.
“Give me the liberty to know, to utter & to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
-John Milton
Thought: I love this quote….too many cats–mostly fellow Christ-followers–shy away from voicing their opinions/perspectives….even those views that often times are can be influenced by the HOLY SPIRIT…fighting in iraq, abortion, pacifism, politics, sports, ecclesiology, the WORD, relationships, etc….”well i don’t think my opinions are right or that they mean much”, u might say….of course u think they’re right–that’s why u believe them…if they were wrong, u’d believe a different perspective than the one u have adopted…and if u think ur views don’t matter, wikipedia our Founding Fathers, or Martin Luther, or FDR, or Adolf Hitler, or Thomas Edison, or Lincoln, or MLK, or the Unabomber and see if their perspectives didn’t matter…or try asking your parents, who were of the opinion that having kids and starting a family was a good idea 
…speak out!…say what u think, and think before u say…another quote to end this ish: “speak your mind, even if your voice shakes” –Maggie Kuhn…amen to that!….thanks Maggie
You, in your hour of need:
brother,
friend.
As the words poured from my heart,
one sentence stopped them all!
“can you pray for me?”
Brother.
yes. I can.
I pray the richest blessing of all
a house full of love
and a heart full of encouragement
two halves of a whole
we are
apart
but not far.
Here are some photos from my recent voyage to the mythical magical land of Texas. I have more but my computer has a cold right now, or it’s just being lazy. Either way, I’ll try to add more photos later. Enjoy.
