hiatus.

More or less after I learned of my acceptance to Cornell, my brain took a break from academics through the rest of grade 12.....and through four years of college. Consequently, and regrettably, I wasted a lot of my mom's money and I was a poor project/lab partner. But since taking this actuary job, my studying chops are up and running again, and I'm itching to go back to school. Hopefully, this time I'll be a better steward of everything that I've been given.

a movie.

watch this movie for free online (only April 20-21....so today):
http://www.christiancinema.com/lordsaveus/?src=ecard20100420b

i don't think the movie fully draws it out, but it's a place to start..

i remember my roots.

punk.

a different, non-self-destructive kind of punk:
"Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind." (Romans 12:2)

"I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them [crap], that I may gain Christ and be found in him..." (Philippians 3:8-9)

"Fight the good fight of the faith." (1 Timothy 6:12)

sola fide

So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.’ (Luke 17:10)

The young man said to him, “All these I have kept. What do I still lack?” Jesus said to him, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” (Matthew 19:20-21)

“Your attachment to your possessions needs to be replaced by an attachment to [Jesus].”

- From John Piper. full manuscript here.

countdowns

How's about I start a countdown. Let's say..."7 more months!!" (Hopefully.?)

new summer project

chalking around the city with some brothers and sisters

in Christ.

Streams in the Desert

"There is a perfect passivity that is not laziness. It is a living stillness born of trust. Quiet tension is not trust but simply compressed anxiety."

Not as an athlete wrestling for a crown,

Not taking Heaven by violence of will;

But with your Father as a child sit down,

And know the bliss that follows His "Be Still!"

Mary Rowles Jarvis

Isaiah 25:6-9

You will remove the veil that is cast over the nations and wipe away every tear ever teared (teared is not a real word) caused by man's, our sins.

- Anxiously waiting for that day when I can say "Behold, this is our God, whom we have waited for!!!"