check this out - hilarious!
watch it all the way through to the end.
link
3.19.2007
empty
space.
sometimes i want it. sometimes i long for the quiet. the peace.
now they're gone, and i'm alone.
"it's lonely coming home to an empty house," i said.
"tell me about it," he replied with a forlorn grin.
too easily i take for granted the ones i love most in the press of every day.
in the empty i remember.
remember the love.
he ran away to a lonely desert, depressed and alone.
God stopped by. burning coals.
he ran to a lonesome mountain.
God stopped by. still small voice.
he wandered in the hunger and thirst.
devil stopped by. temptation.
things seem to happen in the empty spaces.
will i listen?
3.06.2007
beware of moat
here i am in the middle of my skin
no way out
no way in
rain can blow while roadsigns quiver
their silent fingers pointing
directions to empty minds
hearty words find home in my soul
digging a ditch
beware of moat
...surround and protect
no way out.
no way in.
when last did music satisfy this hunger?
platters of spicy goodness dancing in my ears
tomorrow
yesterday
life. it's everywhere
to be found
to be tasted
to be heard
rose petals in a tasty cake
soft
no way out?
no way in?
good.
3.02.2007
a quote to ponder
in a continuation of the thoughts in my last post, i submit this quote given to me by a friend. i think it is amazing and captures the essence at the heart of the violence of jesus.
What is the task of the church today?
Shall I answer: "Faith, hope and love"?
That sounds beautiful.
But I would say Courage.
No, even that is not challenging enough to be the whole truth.
Our task today is recklessness.
For what we Christians lack is not psychology or literature,
We lack a holy rage.
The recklessness that comes from the knowledge of God and humanity.
The ability to rage when justice lies prostrate on the streets . .
and when the lie rages across the face of the earth -
a holy anger about things that are wrong in the world.
To rage against the ravaging of God's earth,
and the destruction of God's world.
To rage when little children must die of hunger,
when the tables of the rich are sagging with food.
To rage at senseless killing of so many,
and against the madness of the militaries.
To rage at the lie that calls the threat of death
and the strategy of destruction peace.
To rage against complacency.
To restlessly seek that recklessness that will challenge and seek to change
human history until it conforms with the norms of the kingdom of God.
And remember the signs of the Christian church have always been -
the Lion, the Lamb, the Dove and the Fish -
but never the chameleon.
Kaj Munk
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