My Current Reads

the Divine Hours - Phyllis Tickle
God's Gravity (the upside-down life of selfless faith) - Craig Borlase
Christianity 101 - Gilbert Bilezikian
Thoughts In Solitude - Thomas Merton - a little before i go to sleep
the Benedictine Handbook - a little before i go to sleep
the Spirit of the Disciplines - Dallas Willard

Ephesians
Acts
Romans

from the book "Simple Ways Towards the Sacred"

A Meditation:
Realization is a process of recognizing the real. It means repeated experiences of knowing. It means integration of those experiences.
Thatched roofs, mud-daubed roofs, tar paper roofs, asphalt and shingle roofs- roofs are so ubiquitous, who even notices them? The ones who have no roofs do!
To feel the roof over our heads every day is to realize the privilege of being sheltered. Any sense of gratitude for such shelter is only real if we act on it. To step under the roof would then become an act of thanks, as well as a deep awareness of the despair that homelessness of any kind must be.
Could we find ways to be part of the answer?

So if you haven't heard yet by now, check this out...
Jon Foreman of Switchfoot and Sean Watkins of Nickel Creek have combined in a side band to make the goodness known as "Fiction Family"

Some good tunes they together make.

The Show

The show tonight went really well. I really had alot of fun. I didn't think as many people would come as last time when I played there last month. Last month it was packed and this time there was like 20 more people...it was crazy the amount of people in that size of a room. Good stuff tonight good stuff

Show Tonight

So I've got a show tonight in the Gelato shop @ Macri's. I'm excited cause it's always amazing to me the amount of friends that show up to support me. The past few have been packed, and i'm humbled. Tonight Jeffrey Myers is joining me to keep the beats, it will be sweet, he adds alot and I love him. So tonight if your free, you should come! It's @ 8pm.
peace

So I got asked last minute a few days ago to join in on the weekend festivities here @ GCC and the song they asked me to sing is one I'm quite excited about. It's really funny how everytime the song I get asked to sing that it's one that is something I'm learning about right then, or something I'm going through or need to learn or whatever. It's really cool how in the process of learning the song, it becomes my own, it becomes apart of me and makes my heart beat fast, I grow because of it.
This specific song is from God's point of view and is an inspiring reminder that just fills me with humbleness, joy, excitement, and greater sense of His perfect love for me. It's a good portrayal of the God who is endlessly pursuing us. Oh how it just makes me love Him more.
The song is by a band called "Tenth Avenue North" and it's called "By Your Side"
Downlode it, buy it, borrow it, do what needs to be done to listen to it and let it move you. Seriously, it will move you.
Here are the lyrics:

Why are you striving these days
Why are you trying to earn grace
Why are you crying
Let me lift up your face
Just don't turn away

Why are you looking for love
Why are you still searching as if I'm not enough
To where will you go child
Tell me where will you run
To where will you run

And I'll be by your side
Wherever you fall
In the dead of night
Whenever you call
And please don't fight
These hands that are holding you
My hands are holding you

Look at these hands and my side
They swallowed the grave on that night
When I drank the world's sin
So I could carry you in
And give you life
I want to give you life

Cause I, I love you
I want you to know
That I, I love you
I'll never let you go

New Song

You've heard it said that practice does make perfect
Well not quite but it is true that lifes a race
Practice gives the currently impossible a bright shining light
You can't lift it now but train and months later you might

So don't hold so tight onto who you thought you were

I become what I previously was not thinking of, now I give more love
Capable now of things usually beyond what I've got, and what I'm not

Pieces of me I give with hopes of changing
A little here a little there I give as much as I can
Over time I see the shine take off the blind and let it glisten
Take chances here advances there speak O Lord and I will listen

I won't hold on so tight onto who I thought i was

I become what I previously was not thinking of, now I give more love
Capable now of things usually beyond what I've got, and what I'm not

You can't sit here and wait for the train to come by
When all of the people on the side
Are waiting for you to learn to fly
It means realizing that not a thing that is good
And worth giving everything is instantaneously achieved
So take a bit of time and wait for the people talkin "find"
And work on the thing you got in mind
You know its the way to live alive
Now we're makin progress and takin steps within the race
Every day we're gonna make it
Closer to the prize

I become what I previously was not thinking of, now I give more love
Capable now of things usually beyond what I've got, and what I'm not