i tend not to try and treat this as a diary, maybe more as a reflection-driven journal. however, i believe the next few days should be pretty exciting.
1. booked my tickets for this.
2. headed to london tomorrow to see my great friends from htb and other nooks and crannies of the capital. halloween party, afterskool club, church, shisha, tea orient. its going to be glorious.
3. presidential election next tuesday. come on i said!
4. good art is coming out of my soul. good thought is coming out of my mind. good, good lovin' (the bob marley kind) is coming out of my heart.
thank you and good night.
29 October 2008
27 October 2008
question
when politicians talk about getting America 'back on track' economically, does that mean an economic hegemony on the rest of the world that holds materialism and consumerism as the nuts and bolts of a destructive machine?
26 October 2008
what in the world?
...taken from a letter written by Focus on the Family from the perspective of an American Christian in 2012 after the theoretical first term of Obama...
'Christians didn’t take time to find out who Barack Obama was when they voted for him.
Why did they risk our nation’s future on him? It was a mistake that changed the course of
history.'
The same could be said of Mr. Bush.
'Christians didn’t take time to find out who Barack Obama was when they voted for him.
Why did they risk our nation’s future on him? It was a mistake that changed the course of
history.'
The same could be said of Mr. Bush.
20 October 2008
mulling over the possibilities
'do you think we should change the way we live?'
i asked the question as i sat in the back seat of a car headed for a small village in Surrey, south of London. two of my good friends in the UK were silent for a second and then proceeded to explore, articulate and share their experiences in the issue raised. i am not sure we completely covered everything but its gotten me thinking.
what really is the way i should live?
what are the guiding concepts that have influenced me?
where is the intersection of faith and life in it?
how can i be faithful to jesus with the way i live?
essentially, what are the most important indications in my life that god has been a healing god, a transformative god, a grace-filled god, a god whose love is complete, holistic and transcendent?
after mulling over the possibilities, i came to a few conclusions. i need people. i need jesus. i need freedom. i need grace (more than i thought). i need to prophetically enact a vision of life that is consistent and coherent with the over-arching message of redemption and restoration that god has brought humanity on. as i told a friend today, i dream of 'little redemptive acts in making the crooked paths straight.'
another friend asked me yesterday what i envisioned church to be. before i envision what it could be, i'd like to explain what i think it isn't (or should be). i don't think church is a political party. i don't think church is social club. i don't think church is a self-help group (although sometimes that type of counseling is necessary). rather, i see church as a holistic community centered on the redeeming act of God in history through the man-spirit-god Jesus, an organic interweb of relationship, intellectual stimulation, fresh creative expression and genuine caring for one another. in this context, i see the church playing out differently in allowing freedom and relationship to trump rules, regulations, community manipulation and coercion, issues that have come up in the past and continue to plague it.
essentially, what i have come to a conclusion on is the idea that this revolving door of the way i live, how church is done, the kingdom of God hinges on the choice of selfishness versus selfishness. As I choose selfishly, the door shuts, locks itself and others aren't allowed in, both into my life or the kingdom of God. If I increasingly choose selflessly, the door swings wide, I am free and others join me on the redemptive path. And what a beautiful path that is.
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j.wiebe
i asked the question as i sat in the back seat of a car headed for a small village in Surrey, south of London. two of my good friends in the UK were silent for a second and then proceeded to explore, articulate and share their experiences in the issue raised. i am not sure we completely covered everything but its gotten me thinking.
what really is the way i should live?
what are the guiding concepts that have influenced me?
where is the intersection of faith and life in it?
how can i be faithful to jesus with the way i live?
essentially, what are the most important indications in my life that god has been a healing god, a transformative god, a grace-filled god, a god whose love is complete, holistic and transcendent?
after mulling over the possibilities, i came to a few conclusions. i need people. i need jesus. i need freedom. i need grace (more than i thought). i need to prophetically enact a vision of life that is consistent and coherent with the over-arching message of redemption and restoration that god has brought humanity on. as i told a friend today, i dream of 'little redemptive acts in making the crooked paths straight.'
another friend asked me yesterday what i envisioned church to be. before i envision what it could be, i'd like to explain what i think it isn't (or should be). i don't think church is a political party. i don't think church is social club. i don't think church is a self-help group (although sometimes that type of counseling is necessary). rather, i see church as a holistic community centered on the redeeming act of God in history through the man-spirit-god Jesus, an organic interweb of relationship, intellectual stimulation, fresh creative expression and genuine caring for one another. in this context, i see the church playing out differently in allowing freedom and relationship to trump rules, regulations, community manipulation and coercion, issues that have come up in the past and continue to plague it.
essentially, what i have come to a conclusion on is the idea that this revolving door of the way i live, how church is done, the kingdom of God hinges on the choice of selfishness versus selfishness. As I choose selfishly, the door shuts, locks itself and others aren't allowed in, both into my life or the kingdom of God. If I increasingly choose selflessly, the door swings wide, I am free and others join me on the redemptive path. And what a beautiful path that is.
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j.wiebe
15 October 2008
14 October 2008
end of the continental divide
j. kerouac
'on the road'
Dean's California-wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors...
who knew i would find my home halfway across the world?
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j.wiebe
'on the road'
Dean's California-wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors...
who knew i would find my home halfway across the world?
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j.wiebe
09 October 2008
02 October 2008
01 October 2008
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