Tuesday, November 15, 2011

A lyrical genius

Now I know that most of my blogs so far have been about school and Ecola (Who am I kidding, they have all been about here), but today (Just now actually) I experienced one of my favorite things ever...A song made me cry. It's about a fathers pain, moving ahead, not looking back, taking responsibly and staying clean. It is not suitable for small children and has 11 swear words in it, at least five of which are the F word. It references drugs and alcohol and there abuse. In a word, it is about as far away from a Christian song as you can get.

Not Afraid, by Eminem.

So why does it lift me up and bring me closer to God?

It makes me feel closer to God because it shows that no matter how bad it gets there is always hope. If a man as crooked as this can straiten his life out and inspire others how much more hope do we have with God on our side? No matter how bad it gets God will still look down and see his little kids. Sure one of us might have just bashed the other over the head with a stick, or stole a cookie, or lied about this or that, or to bring this into real terms. Some one who has murdered, stolen not from the rich but from the poor, lied about where and who they spent there last night with. GOD STILL LOVES US! He's go'na have to give us one heck of a woopin', but he still loves us, and he does it because he loves us.

Beauty and truth can be found in many things. Gods creation, the cleanest hymn, or the dirtiest rap.
"You meant it for evil, but God meant it for good" Joseph

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Silance FOR the Lamb (If you look hard enough you might get it ;) )

As some of you might have heard it is Day of Prayer here at Ecola. Pretty much what that means is that you have one class in the morning and then you get pack lunches and then you go find yourself a nice spot and pray till dinner. Well to make this more fun I thought I would fast. ha...ha...ha...Me? Fast? From food? That might be a bad idea, and probably not healthy for me either. So I decided to do something both harder and safer. A word fast. No speaking for the entire day. I've gotten by with using my phone to text and to tell people why I am not talking to them but other then that I have hardly had any communication with anyone one today.

The first thing that I found was cool is that because I like talking so much and now I can't talk to any one I have a lot to say but no one to say it too, that is except God. It's amazing how much more you talk to God when you can't even say "Hello" to some one you are walking past.

The other thing that I have found to be cool is peoples responses. A person in the food line was some what puzzled but thought it was interesting. That gall that I got my coffee from didn't know what to think but kinda treated me like a Butist monk that had taken a vow of silance...that was delightfully awkward. :) The lady at the Ecola office just acted like nothing was different and the lady at the post office was very helpful. It is very interesting to see people respond to this but I have also found it very interesting how I have responded. Maybe I will try this again some time or maybe just try not to talk so much. ;)

"Be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to anger". It's pretty easy to be slow to speak when you can talk. ;)