i found beauty in Haiti. through the people, through the church, and through creation. theres so much around you that can hinder you or blind you, but when you open your eyes to the hope that lives in these people. that is when you open your heart to the beauty God is trying to show you. the kind of beauty that moves you to serve.

spider man. i dont know his real name, but thats what i called him. he always wore a spider man hat, and one day he even wore a shirt. he was always around us. he helped us work, he was always there. i miss this little guy.

I Miss Haiti

this kid. man he was so cool. what he has is a butterfly tied to a string. i dont know how he did it, but he was just throwing it up in the air, letting it fly, then catching it again. it amazed me.

reflection on UNITE 9/26/11

wow. so i had this thing called unite. and i got to learn what it really is, and this fired me up. but what the most exciting part is, is that this idea was put into action by guys like me. they thought of it and have spent so much time getting a hold of pastors and planning it all out, praying for it. and it is so awesome to see how excited they were to actually be starting it. i got to pray with 2 people. i got to see students lead worship. speak with, pray, move, with God and serve. i have the same heart as these leaders. and even though i am a part of Unite, i want to become a bigger part. i miss the leadership ANTHEM needed from me. I'm ready.

Quotes from the night:
disagreement does not equal disunity
God has created unity, we are just going to celebrate it
being who we are here when we leave here
-Kyle Power

there is no designated time for prayer
-Matt Roberts

John 17:20-23
My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

let loose the passions inside you
-Travis Osborne

i will wait for you

my heart

http://youtu.be/igCj3jsbcqs

September 25 2011

man the body of Christ is so cool. its like its so easy for one christian to encourage another, so why dont we do it more often. i think we underestimate the power of Joy, or just the level of relating we get from eachother. us as a body would be alot more alive and thriving, ready to do work if we just broke away from our insecurities, selfishness and comforts and encouraged eachother.

a translation of Shakespeare.

Poor soul, right at the centre of your sinful body, slave to its rebellious worldliness, ever attacking you. Why do you dwindle away inside, suffering starvation, while decorating your outside walls with such expensive paint? Why such expenditure when the lease on your crumbling mansion is so short? Are you doing it so that worms can inherit this excess and eat up what you've spent? Is that the purpose of your body? Instead, live on by starving your body and let it dwindle away while you enrich yourself. Gain spiritual wealth by discarding worthless worldly things. Feed the inner self and allow your body to be poor. In that way you'll eat up death, that feeds on men, and once death is dead there will be no more dying.

Timothy Keller 'the girl nobody wanted'

"until we look to HIM, we can never deal with all the imperfection around us."

"i wont add anything to JESUS Christ as a requirement to be happy"

"the only eyes that count are ravished by you, thats the only comfort that cant be quenched."

"God works with very weak people"

God is ALWAYS good

I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me. (Psalm 57:2 ESV)