Friday, May 13, 2011

"I've been to Boston. It was my senior year of high school."
"Do you remember it?"
"I don't remember much about the city. I had my first real boyfriend during that trip, and I left him at home. I remember the feeling of really missing him. That's what I remember."



"This song is about running away with my girlfriend. We were 18, and we were in love. My parents didn't understand. They didn't believe that we were truly in love. They thought she wasn't good enough for me. But they were wrong, because now she's my wife."

Craving Powerlessness

I want to be there when the world ends
To be trapped on the boat of humanity
Falling slowly prey to the ocean’s jaws

I want to feel powerless, to feel
Pushed from behind by some inevitable force
That I have no possible way of stopping

I want to look to my left and to my right
And see all of humanity,
Sardined and trapped along with me

It seems that would be the least kind of lonely
To be served the same fate as absolutely everyone
And knowing no one is out there better off than you

I long for responsibility to be taken from my hands
To be handed decisions instead of left to figure out how
To make wise decisions, or to forsake wisdom 

Adulthood is overwhelmingly lonely
You are no one longer attached to anyone,
Parents, friends


I just feel so alone
So responsible
So scared

Thursday, May 12, 2011

What Matters


I want to be there when the world ends
To feel powerless as the boat of humanity
Falls slowly prey to the vacuum of the sea

I want to watch their expressions;
All of humanity, simultaneously losing everything
Into the depths of destruction

I want to see
the panic
the regret
the tears
the ones who laugh
the peaceful
the fearful

I want to know if they see it now;
What’s important, what they missed
What they wished their lives had been

I want to create a fake end
To shock people into caring about
What it is that really matters

The world lives in “me” mode
It’s not until “me” is taken out of the picture
That we see it was never really about us

Monday, May 9, 2011

T. Swift

You're beautiful, every little piece love.
Don't you know, you're really gonna be someone,
Ask anyone.
And when you find everything you looked for,
I hope your life leads you back to my door,
Oh, but if it don't,
Stay beautiful.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Friday, May 6, 2011

God:

2 Corinthians 6:14
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

James 4:1-5
1What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passionsa are at war within you?b 2You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. 3You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. 4You adulterous people!c Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?

Proverbs 5
1My son, pay attention to my wisdom,
listen well to my words of insight,
2that you may maintain discretion
and your lips may preserve knowledge.
3For the lips of an adulteress drip honey,
and her speech is smoother than oil;
4but in the end she is bitter as gall,
sharp as a double-edged sword.
5Her feet go down to death;
her steps lead straight to the grave.a
6She gives no thought to the way of life;
her paths are crooked, but she knows it not.
7Now then, my sons, listen to me;
do not turn aside from what I say.
8Keep to a path far from her,
do not go near the door of her house,
9lest you give your best strength to others
and your years to one who is cruel,
10lest strangers feast on your wealth
and your toil enrich another man’s house.
11At the end of your life you will groan,
when your flesh and body are spent.
12You will say, “How I hated discipline!
How my heart spurned correction!
13I would not obey my teachers
or listen to my instructors.
14I have come to the brink of utter ruin
in the midst of the whole assembly.”

Monday, April 25, 2011

One Thing

As soon as I stop looking to God to be fed, and I'm not consistently spending time being filled up by Him, things change. I start feeling lonely and empty, longing for contact and not being satisfied by anyone's. There's this space, void, hole, compartment inside that needs filling , and I started filling it with other things. It's tough to deny such tempting offers, but those things are gone now and the space hurts. And when I relied on You to fill the void, I didn't need anything, anyone. I was full. I was strong. But without you, I am a wandering, unsatisfied and hurting soul. I miss You. I need You.

Friday, April 22, 2011

Hey you! -
With the long hair and the hat. And the beard. And the heart.
I want you.