don’t forget
don’t forget
hmhmm
that I believe in you
should you forget
should you forget
let me remind you
that I am behind you  ~Brett Dennen
Change is difficult, but I believe that it is what is for the best.  “Life is loving and letting go.”  Sweet change, blow winds, blow.  Sometimes I feel too weak to write, but it can’t be suppressed perhaps.  Sometimes the pen is the only weapon I have against the un-gnarly desire to go to bed really early.  I was reminded by a friend that God believes in me, tonight as I …

Wew, the sights and sounds and experiences over the past several weeks have been almost overwhelming, but exciting and uplifting all the same.  I’m sitting in my new home for now, Miller Hall at Messiah College.  I can’t believe that I am finally here.  Last night I could barely sleep in anticipation for the upcoming semester.  I am a full time student again at last.
I haven’t yet met my new roommate, but he is on his was as I type.  There is also a little orientation dinner tonight I’ll go …

Today the first sign of winter came in a big fluffy flakes of snow blanketing the ground.  Tonight I am really tired after eight hours of work plus two hours of driving in less than favorable conditions.  The roads turned out to be fine even with the snow however.  I was so tired that I got a $4.00 coffee to wake me up for the ride home, a bit extravagant for me, but it was good.  The four dollar coffee made me think of going to the Urbana student missions …

I just got back from a concert by Derek Webb and Sandra McCracken.  It was really nice to spend a Saturday night out.  I thought it was really good.  Seeing something live just brings a whole new dimension to music.

Sandra opened the night with some acoustic guitar songs followed by some songs from her album Red Balloon.  She played a Beetle’s song and it was beautiful.  She is just such a talented solo guitarist.  All of the musicians were really great.  The keyboardist who did all the electronic …

A couple days ago I went up and visited my potential college, Messiah College.  It is a small school of only about 2,800 undergrad students.  I had a very pleasant visit.  It is so peaceful there.  It is surrounded by beautiful land complete with a river and wooded trails, it would be a great place to delve into academia. 
When Henri Nouwen left Harvard University from a professorship there, he was in search of home and of community.  Nouwen found this lacking from the driven institutional life style of Harvard.  My question is:  Can …

for me today finding a rhythm isn’t easy. I have to take it slow and practice it slowly, over and over again. Sometimes making mistakes having to start over. Each day making progress somehow in how I would like it to sound.
I would like to have it all in life. But Jesus, my God, teaches that I must give up my life in order to gain it. What a different perspective this is, how it turns me upside down! blessed are the poor in …

For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature –have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made….  Romans 1: 20
Today I sit in my room reading this and wandering how much I’ve simply missed in life, wandering how deep my perception of the world around me actually is.  My computer pulls at me like a magnate throughout the entire day.  I am lured into believing in my own successes, my own strength, instead of the strength that is pulsing through a …