Free Bird Fly

June 19, 2011 2:53 am

An entire afternoon to myself.

I took my camera and my flip flops on a walk through the nearby city of Alviso. I found just as much peace in the quiet walk as I did in the photographing. But I sensed the consistent presence of God the Creator. As if He were whispering, like Father, like daughter. Co-creators.

I have also been fully enjoying my free trial of Aperture 3. I find that I like photo editing JUST as much as shooting. They’re my photos - I can do what I want! Bluer skies, brighter suns, deeper contrasts… fun!

Enjoy.

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May 22, 2011 10:57 pm

Show me a Spirit-led, God-filled, anointed servant of the Lord, and I’ll show you one who is chased, chastened, often baffled, and familiar to deep waters and fiery furnaces.

David Wikerson

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April 28, 2011 3:08 am

The Cross and the Switchblade, written by Rev. David Wilkerson, changed me.

I’ll never forget the dialogue on this page or my reaction the first time I read it. Sitting in a Texas airport, I bawled as my eyes scanned the words, written from the truest place of love. A place in the heart that only God can get to, where He dulls all natural senses and fills you with compassion for a room full of teenage murderers.

I remember thinking, ” I want to be like that. I want to see people, like that.”

I want to love who He loves.

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April 26, 2011 1:25 pm

‘Cause I heard Jesus, He drank wine
I bet we’d get along just fine
He could calm a storm and heal the blind
and I bet He’d understand a heart like mine

Miranda Lambert - Heart Like Mine

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April 25, 2011 4:09 pm

Even though you can’t see them,
or hear them at all, a person’s a person.
No matter how small.

Horton in Horton Hears a Who

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just an idea…

April 23, 2011 2:49 pm

Spend your greatest amount of energy loving God and pursuing His nature, likeness and presence.

Whatever you have left over use it loving others with a supernatural affection. Seek to see what God sees in them.

Mind your own business. Everything else is garbage. If you still need something to do… watch TiVo… or read a book.

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April 9, 2011 9:55 pm

pure worship and an honest heart cry “set a fire down in my soul, that I can’t contain and I can’t control, because I want more of you God…”

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March 30, 2011 12:01 am

… choose life

God

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the first of many…

March 19, 2011 5:23 am

On a Wednesday night, late in the month of January, the year 2004, I “asked Jesus into my heart” as the young preacher put it. It was a youth service in the main sanctuary of a church that I was attending for the first time.

Months later I would secretly dream of one day teaching young people the way this man did (not that I ever actually would). Battling insecurities and feelings of unworthiness to be any sort of “called”, I attended and graduated from Bible College.

Today, March 18, 2011, I sat in my office, with my Bible, and studied. I prepared the first of many messages that I will share with this AMAZING group of young people. Thinking to myself, all the while… this is my job?

Overwhelmingly honored. Slightly scared. Incredibly excited.

Lord, I remember dreaming and hoping; I don’t remember asking… but, THANK YOU, for just knowing and answering.

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{change}

February 11, 2011 4:05 pm

Its a six letter word that feels more like four most of the time. I am a creature of habit. I have a specific meal that I order at every restaurant. McDonalds, number 7 plain with a diet coke and BBQ sauce. Pasta Pomodoro, tortellini soup and a side Caesar salad. Starbucks, tall vanilla latte. I control what I can.

Unfortunately change happens. Or, not unfortunately. Sometimes I think the fear of change is worse than the actual occurrence.

The greatest change I ever experienced happened in youth ministry. A youth pastor gave me the chance to make a decision that would affect every other decision I would ever make.

How can we fear change when our greatest hope is to affect change? Embracing and believing that the change coming to my life will have eternal impact on the lives of a coming generation.

“Don’t listen to them when they say, your just a fool, just a fool to believe you can change the world” - Carrie Underwood

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