February 2012
10 posts
2/9
Fed little fish to the big fish in our pastor’s fish tank. Cannibalism. Nice.
2/8
Woke today discouraged and exhausted. But this I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope. The Lord’s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. Like reminding myself there is a bright blue sky alive with the sunrise behind the clouds.
2/7
Apartment roof top.
2/6
You can’t really tell, but the Atlanta Braves were at this Academy Sports across from my bank. There’s a line of people that wraps around the building. Big bus and jumbo inflatable jersey.
2/5
Beautiful day. Played catch for the first time in probably 8 years. I still got it. As in I’m still as bad as I was in high school.
2/4
The World Cup. Soccer with Whites, Blacks, Latinos, and Asians. It’s been a long time since I’ve been around so many different races at one time. I guess I’d taken it for granted. I sat back in appreciation. So many colors, stories, and complicated lives together in one place for the purpose of playing soccer. What’s it going to be like when people of every nation, color,...
2/3
Came home to friends playing video games. FIFA. 3 Columbians, 2 Filipinos. Brown Town.
2/2
Golf and Bible study.
2/1
I forget why this happened. I guess learning to change the world from people crazy enough to change the world may expect days like this.
1/31
We awoke today, the dreaded day. We picked up our heads for a moment in time to see that the dreaded day held hope. As it played out, we went from dark valleys to mountain peaks back to valleys. Today alone I felt God’s hand one moment, then doubted His existence the next, then felt it, then felt doubt. But more than a feeling, I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able...
January 2012
28 posts
1/30
Two weeks of dishes. Day off. Let’s go.
1/29
Player soccer in this park yesterday. Sore today.
1/28
Youth all-nighter. My bed at church. 2:30am-7:30am. Surprisingly, one of the best sleeps I’ve ever had.
1/27
Youth all-nighter. Bonfire.
1/26
Dead lizard and its pool of blood. Pretty sure Hermione could make an extremely powerful potion out of this.
1/25
Greek class. Hm.
"Start oinking, because here come the pearls."
Ouch. Training.
1/24
On the way to class. Sunrise through the fading rains of yesterday.
1/23
Inca Kola. Sporadic poker night. Advice and laughs. “Brotherhood is more than skin and names.” You can thank me if you ever find out I quoted you.
1/22
Individuals in the church taking short term/long term trips to South Africa/Peru. The whole church got up and prayed for them.
1/21
If I could go back in time, I’d tell my elementary school self that, although it does’t say so on the Cup Noodle in front of you, sometime around 1/21/12, they would realize that microwaving one of my favorite lunches, is bad for you. And to stop doing it. Because I probably now have whatever disease they discovered comes from microwaving Cup Noodles.
1/20
Men’s Conference. Begging God to lead as we lead.
1/19
Story of my life. Not in a spiritual sense. In a, “It costs me $60 a week to fill up my car,” sense.
1/18
Today I studied the Bible with a friend of mine. The gospel. I’ve seen God’s hand again, today. It’s thrilling and addicting. I give my life for these moments. He gave me these sunglasses.
1/17
Kicked it at Beau’s house. He made peanut butter cookies. Worship jam session and old movie trailers. Chronicles of Narnia marathon and Guardians of Ga’hoole, here we come.
1/16
Thought I’d save a couple bucks and kick it old school. Type pen mechanical pencil.
What have we got? We're a lot more than 12, why...
People’s brokenness will be healed by your wholeness. Therefore, look at yourself, [Ed], and ask yourself, “Maybe the best thing I can possibly do for the misery of [the world] is to go back and sit down and say, ‘Where am I failing to live a godly and consistent life? I’ve got to start there, I go nowhere else.’” The great requirement of missions is holiness.
I think I’m going to do the picture a day thing like everyone else. But I’ll probably be using my phone to take pictures. I don’t have a good camera. So don’t judge me.
Devotions + Breakfast = Breakfast of Champions
Honey Nut Cheerios. Honey Bunches of Oats. Judges.
1. Hey man what up?
2. Nothing. Trying to get the schedule for church ready. What are you doing?
1. Sweet man and you know talking to them ladies lol :) jk playing ps3
As we stand and the wolf pack surround us, we stand in the authority in the name of Jesus. Our God mocks all the powers of earth and hell through fluffy little lambs because His lambs beat the wolf packs.
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Dine with the world.
Routine "Get ready for [insert holiday] dinner"...
December 2011
15 posts
He couldn’t see straight. He thought another loved him more. It’s benefits screamed out in temporary power. But, one night he couldn’t sleep. He curled up with a the good book and discovered something in the still of the night. His queen had saved his life. The benefits of her love sang softly off its pages. Dig through the temporary screams to find the everlasting truthful song....
He knew well enough to make her queen, but not enough to keep their love safe. So here she goes again, risking her life for him them you.
1: C’mon, let’s go to Mariah’s! Ugh. I’ll go by my…are you ok? You look REALLY tired!
2: …This is the best day of my life…
Merry Christmas. That little baby, that's my God....
Who is this child asleep in the manger? Tender and mild, this intimate Stranger? Recklessly, wildly loving a dangerous world Who is this light invading our darkness? Glorious might, the sun rising for us. Conquering night, He captures the hardest of hearts We sing
This is our God, living and breathing Call Him courageous, relentless, and brave This is our God, loving and reaching, Scandalous...
Oh, joyful judge. He grows stronger each day, yet use his power as fools. He bowed to another whom the his Loves would never. Now he is caught in a war, back turned to the ones who saved him, face down to the choices he makes.
As the story speeds on, reality crawls. They have not chosen yet their queen. She stood there in the spotlight. Her beauty made him uncomfortable. Does he see that his...
The new chosen queen opens the eyes of the joyful judge and cleans house. There were things that would have destroyed the judge, but because of the queen, he lives and grows stronger another day.
Imputation.
When God looks at me now, He sees Jesus. When God looks at my past, He sees Jesus.
You don’t know me. You don’t know what this means to me.
I know He knows what I’ve done and what I’ve thought. And the fact that He chose to transfer my filth, good and bad, onto Jesus, and transfer His perfection to me, speechless. I guess I hope my life speaks for my mouth.
Ed, He traded...
The winner is chosen. She is crowned, the new queen in town. Tears of joy flow as celebrating begins. Not by the new queen, but by the judge who found grace to choose her. The judge is the winner because Esther is queen.
I beg God that they’d crown Esther and win.
Perhaps a glimpse of life and death without a new queen has caused her to take a seat, shuffling in the judges chair. She’s heard Esther is the choice. She jumps to and needs the question and answer potion of the pageant. Who are you? Why do I need you? And how?
From the outside looking in, she is the obvious choice. Those other girls don’t stand a chance. However, from the inside, there’d be nothing special about her. But God has the same plan, she would be queen. So He draws them to her. Her beauty and worth begin to surface.
I want them to choose Esther, for her beauty and worth to surface. From the outside looking in, she is incomparable....
Definitely put a couch on our balcony. Definitely...
Their souls are holding this beauty pageant in the minds. They’ve each already got a queen, but something told them to look again. Esther stands present now. They just have to choose her.
How do I beg God to do something He is already doing and is controlling? I don’t really know. But, please.