fare thee well, summer

There’s just one week left in one of the more memorable summers I’ve ever had. Next week it’s back to the world of classes, fantasy football, less sleep, routines, and a busier life, which ironically means more blogging. As much as I’m going to miss the excitement of this summer, I’m always thankful when life leads us back to what it sometimes called mundane. It makes me feel much more guided and purposeful. I’m going to miss you, Summer of 2008. What great times we had.

Stay thirsty my friends.

i need words

Of all the things I’ve wished for in my life, the one I always fall for is being a songwriter. I’m frequently naive enough to think that just maybe with enough time and dedication I too could compose a beautiful ballad. Alas, it appears I have not been given such a gift. While I find it relatively easy to express myself in a lengthy blog, I have yet to discover how to cram all that meaning into so few words. It seems songwriters can use just a few simple words to say everything, while it takes me hundreds of words to say very little.

I came to realize all of this just now listening to my ipod, which has confessed to me that it has a significant crush on David Crowder. This is why 4-5 consecutive DCB songs can be heard with the ipod set to shuffle.¹

So hear² are some lyrics that I have stumbled across recently that simply take my breath away.

“I need words as wide as sky. I need language large as this longing inside. I need a voice bigger than mine. I need a song to sing you that I’ve yet to find. I need you.” -David Crowder Band, I Need Words

“Raise me up from this grave, touch my tongue and then I’ll sing heal my limbs and joyfully I’ll run to you.” -David Crowder Band, You’re Everything

“Take my fret, take my fear. All I have, I’m leaving here. Be all my hopes. Be all my dreams. Be all my delights. Be my everything.” - David Crowder Band, Only You

“Without You I’m so alone, I am weak but You are strong, You pick me up when I’m falling down, and I am crying out to You inside of my heart. I need You, Lord, oh so, for the part. I want You to have my life, Jesus” - Shawn McDonald, Take My Hand

“If you choose to love, to know that the call is to give all you are, to give love away, rise, rise, people of love, rise.” -Robbie Seay Band, Rise

“What was said to the rose to make it unfold was said to me here in my chest.” -David Crowder Band, Here is Our King

“The only thing I need is to be captured and surrounded by your love.” -Consume Me (not sure who wrote this)

That’s all I can think of right now, but until I poke my head out into the blogging world again,

Stay thirsty my friends.

¹Some say that this occurs as a simple function of probability due to the vast amount of DCB currently occupying my itunes. I say mathematics be damned, the machine simply has developed a man-crush.

²Originally this was a typo and not a brilliantly lame pun, but I decided to leave it, so that dads across the world can erupt in a glorious, unmerited chuckle.

list of longings for legitimate live lookings-at

I thought I would try my hand at the alliteration thing… I think I’ll leave that to Jimbo. This is a list I’ve had in my head for awhile, and a major one was crossed off on Monday night. The following are things that I need to see or experience at a baseball game that I attend.

secrets from beyond the grave

Last week at work I waited on a guest who was eating lunch on his own. If memory serves me, he ordered at grilled steak salad, medium well, no mushrooms, no egg, with blue cheese dressing on the side and a sweet tea to drink.

But hey, what do I know?

10 things i love about the summer of 2008

As many in my blogroll have already established, it seems blogging has become less of a priority over the summer. As for me, it’s been just over 3 weeks since I published a post. I have written two drafts, one of which I finished, but I didn’t feel like either of them were worthy of publication. I offer no apologies or excuses for my lack of blogging, nor do I promise to change this. Instead I just offer a humble top ten list to explain why this has been one of the most memorable summers of my life.

delving further

Now that I’ve had some time to rest up from mission trip, here are some of my thoughts about my week in Siloam Springs, Arkansas.

mission trip over, back in texas

I had a pretty amazing time in Arkansas this week. Got to spend time with some good friends and make some new ones. Here are just a few pictures for your edification.

A group of great young people and 3 okay adults built Andrea Stiner a new deck and a 25 foot wheelchair ramp to get to it. She is a cancer survivor and a widow, and has trouble walking up steps.

This is my team and Ben’s team, who built Andrea a deck on the back of her house.

A picture of the closing worship service, which was awful.

That’s all I’ve got right now. I didn’t bring a camera, so I’m relying on facebook tags to give me some pictures. Maybe I’ll put some more up, but let’s be honest, I probably won’t.

Stay thirsty my friends.

mission trip

I am leaving for mission trip in like half an hour. I will be updating via Twitter, on the top left corner of this blog. I heart you.

That is all.

a great noun and a terrible adjective

Just a few thoughts from an otherwise thoughtless mind. (That would make a good blog subtitle.)

stagnant

I have very little to write about these days, and way too much living to do.

I heart you all.

Stay thirsty my friends.