Amber
You can have it all
I don’t want it anymore
I’m tired of the pain
And the tension inside
Torqued on this plane
Peel another layer
Peel another layer
Leaving dust and blood
Water and blood
Tear the hole
Take it all
Tear the hole
And take it all
It’s all the same
Worn deep
Out of the amber
And into the fog
Out of the fog
And into the black
Then the black [...]

At what point do you wake up and realize that your blog has turned into boredom. Utterly stripped of anything that used to be funny, interesting, and wise. Its a sad realization when it hits you. Its essentially turned into what I’m reading and how many times a day I cut my fingernails and/or brush [...]

a thin place
a resonating interval

TENSION
[weel three]
The last two weeks we have discussed the issue of TENSION. We said that for many of us, including myself, we feel this constant TENSION between choosing right and choosing wrong. Between choosing God and choosing sin. For many of us, we find ourselves torn between these two extremes on almost every decision, every [...]

Reading: More Ready Than You Realize by Brian McLaren and Christ the Center by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Listening: The Streets, Iron & Wine, Carissa’s Weird, Johnny Cash, Foo Fighters, Ben Harper and the Blind Boys of Alabama
Viewing: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

TENSION
[week two]
Last week we talked about this idea of TENSION. That so many of us struggle with, on a daily basis, choosing God�s way over the way of sin. That we struggle with translating what is in our heart into our actions. We talked about how there is this battle that goes on in our [...]

And it was on that day that I was well
Some things are still as they are
But on their leave
On their way to faded grey
Begging for a flash of color
An explosion to draw near
But without the follow through
Never with the follow through
It leads away and is too torqued to make sense
The word divergent whispers to me [...]

divergent harmony

I don’t know if my friend Sharon wrote this or not, but its good. Its from her journal www.sharonbarbour.blogspot.com
She is my friend. And I her’s.
“Which one is it: politics or propaganda? I have always had a hard time finding a definitive difference between the two. I hear two great armies shouting their mantras and exalting [...]

Alaska - Juneau
Hawaii - Honolulu
Washington - Olympia
Oregon - Salem
California - Sacramento
Arizona - Phoenix
New Mexico - Santa Fe
Texas - Austin
Idaho - Boise
Montana - Helena
North Dakota - Bismark
South Dakota - Pierre
Nevada - Carson City
Utah - Salt Lake City
Colorado - Denver
Wyoming - Cheyenne
Oklahoma - Oklahoma City
Nebraska - Lincoln
Iowa - Des Moines
Kansas - Topeka
Arkansas - Little Rock
Minnesota - St. [...]