the stranger

hardcore is beauty.
i sometimes forget how good it sounds: the distortion, the metalic grinding, hard hits and kicks, and of course the screaming. there is just so much energy and emotion; everyone is just letting it fly.
project 86 was excellent, with the tight pants and dancing and rock fists. they are [...]

O Lamb of God,
tell us the perfect design.
This one:
All hearts hurt,
Your heart hurt;
All hearts whole.
Tell us whom to be
in a world broken and uncertain.
Give us the strength to choose
the crumbs of Your table.
listening to: “sleeping bear, sault saint marie” by sufjan stevens.

what are you passionate about?
it is a very good question, isn’t it? don’t answer it too hastily. if you answer too quickly you could reveal too much about yourself. or not enough.
i would like to say that i am passionate about jesus. but i don’t give him enough time. basically, [...]

please join (if you will) the “i wish i could hang out with jessie right now” club.
eliz and i formed it.
fin.

last night at matt’s we had a good long discussion about prayer. so long in fact, that we spent two hours talking about it that we normally reserve for other things.
prayer as a discipline has always been a difficult thing for me. sometimes i feel like i need to pray kind of like [...]