He is our home.

The real problem of evil is not simply that evil and suffering exists, but rather its ability to separate suffering human beings from the only true source of healing and hope: knowledge of the love of God and a sense of providential meaning and hope. Evil is that which destroys hope in and love for God. Events within the world that bring about suffering are not inherently evil; they can, however, become evil if they are given the power to separate the sufferer from the hope and meaning that emerges from faith and a providential understanding of and relationship with God. - John Swinton from Raging with Compassion

shake the dust

I love when Churches do Art well.

comfort

Yesterday something happened that two years ago would have been the worst possible thing to happen. Today it seems like a distant dream of sorts. Yesterday, a girl I would have given anything to be with got married. It is a funny thing because it is truly the death of a particular dream. No going back.

I’m always thinking about my future self and future situation, I wonder who I will be and what I will be doing. Sometimes I think about my past self and wonder what that self would think about current self. (You tracking?) If my past self would have known what was going to happen yesterday it would have been slightly devastating for him but today its just slightly annoying. Mostly annoying because I’m still single. You can only find so much fulfillment in school, friends, and bikes. Today I am asking my self if I am okay with current self. The truth is that I really am. Sure I wish I had a wife, a fulltime job, a dog, and a sailboat but I know I am where I am supposed to be. In a world where it seems nothing is the way it’s supposed to be, it’s actually quite amazing to know you are in the right place in life. However, it doesn’t mean it is easy to be where you are supposed to be.

Today, I’m in Knoxville, TN for the week visiting my parents over spring break. Its good to be back in Tennessee. I’m sitting in a little coffee shop I like in downtown (coffee and chocolate) listening to Deb Talan (of the weepies) while it snows. It’s good for me soul. A week of Sabbath and rest. She has a song Comfort and it has been one of those songs in my life that restores my sanity and heart when they are faltering. Today my heart is weak and I could listen to this song over and over all day long. There are certain songs in life that connect to you and wont let go. Today those songs are inside of me.

The video is lame but it was the only way to get the song on here that I knew of.

Great song. One of the best videos I have seen in a long while!

I really love this song. But more importantly he is shaving while holding a kitten. Why?

I know that this is not okay. This is not what God intended for his creation. Dominion never meant this.

"The heart wants what it wants." -Woody Allen

But why doesn't the heart want God, trust God, look childlike to God for life's joys and securities? Why doesn't the heart seek final good where it can actually be found? Why turn again and again, in small maters and large, to satisfactions that are mutable, damaging, and imperiled? - Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.

Fact.

There is always a cat within five feet of you. Watching you sleep and doing what you do.

isaac and the ghost

I am in a new band called Isaac and the ghost. We played our first show last week at a Haiti benefit concert and it went really well. We are recording an ep but go and hear a new song, your walk of shame that Isaac wrote and recorded yesterday. www.myspace.com/isaacnathanael