the backyard is nothing but dirt and ginormous holes.

everything can be made scientific.
everything can be made artistic.
order can be found in everything,
and in those same things,
awful confusion.


i find this
simultaneously
beautiful and frightening.



-CH

sooo today i pruned my finger really bad at work.
so bad, in fact, that i got 3 stitches.


but it's still been a glorious day!


-CH.

now i can get on with it.

"But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus."
- Romans 2: 21-24



i finally believe this, right down to the very core of my being.
it feels amazing.



- CH

*squeals*

i just found out that i'm going to camp next week. YAY!

RIP MJ.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iPWeu33s34

this song really makes me tear up - and no, not because Free Willy was such a touching film.
i've always wondered if this song was a cry from Michael Jackson - the real, confused and damaged person that was hidden beneath the superstar facade.
that's what i hear. a sincere call for something real and stable. i don't know what he believed about God, but i would have to say that this song is a clear indication that he needed and wanted Him whether he acknowledged it or not.

try to get past the initial weirdness of some parts of this video and see if you hear the same cry. maybe it's just me.



-CH

carousels...

and if i didn't have You as my guide, i'd still be wandering, lost in Sinai
or down by the tracks watching trains go by to remind me: there are places that aren't here.
i had a well but all the water left,
so i'll ask Your forgiveness with every breath.
if there was no way into God,
oh i would never have laid in this grave of a body for so long.








now go listen to mewithoutYou.

thanks, God, for unconditional love.

tears stream down your face,
when you lose something you cannot replace.
oh and the tears stream down your face,
and I...


tears stream down your face,
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
oh when the tears stream down your face
and I...




lights will guide you home
and ignite your bones,
and I will try


to fix you.




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