taking a break

Just wanted to post an update that I will be taking a break from the ole blog for a week or so. We are heading down to our Work Crew week, as of Sunday. So, please be praying for the 5 leaders, and 20 some kids who will be giving up a week to serve.

If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:1-11 (NIV)

song 90 - life and death

If you know me, then you know how much I love the show LOST. I'm not always a huge instrumental music fan, but this song gets me every time I hear it. The song is named "Life and Death", composed by Michael Giacchino, and it normally plays when the show is centering around things of the life and death nature. Words can't describe how well a great song can play to your emotions when accompanied by the right images.

song 91 - scar tissue

For some reason I've always just connected with this band, the Red Hot Chili Peppers. We used to listen to them all the time driving to high school in the morning. My one friend, Steve, always was a big fan and I guess it just rubbed off. Scar Tissue is a song that I always just "liked", until I found out what exactly they were singing. The chorus says this...

"With the birds I'll share this lonely view..."

If you look at the rest of the lyrics, which I'll leave to you...you'll find that it's a song about longing to be someone else. Someone who can take themselves out of the poor situation they are in, and look at it from a "higher" perspective. Rising above the junk of this life and finding something more...something better...

song 92 - everything's right

This is one song (of a few) that doesn't really have any special meaning for me...I just really, really like it. However, because it doesn't have any special connection to a specific memory, it's lower than it should be. Sorry Matt Wertz....