I am fascinated by your meditations and the fact that they often include aspects of the violent power of God. I usually just skip over that part of who God is - but you connect to it in a way that is very real and beautiful.
I can't believe you wrote that at twenty-six.
Thanks.

you beautifully bring these truths about our God alive...this verse and your meditation on it were what i needed to hear at this moment in time. i wonder at a God who brings light out of the deep darkness, who creates a world out of formless space...and can raise up for himself an army from a desert of dry bones. how could we resist but abandoning ourselves to a "God that gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were." (Rom. 4:17)

i'm glad that's a rhetorical question, as i'd hate to have to expose myself by answering; it would be pretty shameful all the justifications/answers that i have come up with over the years for resisting the abandoning. thanks for stopping in, kelly.

thank you.

you're welcome

yes, i suppose the wonder is that we spend most of our time resisting...sometimes it is clearer and easier to abandon oneself though.

hello jeremy. remember when you put on those jeans without the legs and danced around my sleeping mat on the floor? that was weird.

Hey jeremy. I must confess I have almost not yet finished one of your posts, because I pay for each minute online here in Ceiba, but I like to read. I take it you're studying in Vancouver?

Back in the day, I was really encouraged by your ghetto monk story. will and kim honeycutt brought it from Stl.

wow. thanks, tom. where were you with will and kim?

so i live in spokane now, though i'm likely driving up to vancouver to visit the new l'abri branch in a few weeks. if you'll send me your e-mail address, i'd be glad to e-mail you some stuff if you have the ability to download and/or print out, saving valuable currency.

take care,
jeremy