The Bible is a gritty book. Very raw. Very real. It deals with people just like us, just as needy and screwed up as we are, encountering a God who would rather die than spend eternity without them.
- Steven James
A Gritty Book?
March 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I Want My Oceans in a Spoon
January 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I said I would sail the roughest of seas to find some peace,
But I’m backing out again.
Cause I want my oceans in a spoon
Where they’re short and shallow;
Something that I can swallow- Weaver at the Loom, “You Can’t Escape Them”
Genius imagery in those lyrics describing how we can charge head-first into life’s battles, yet so easily lose heart in cowardice and lack of faith, when the going gets tough. Truth be told, we like the idea of being a warrior in life’s battles so long as those battles are safe, easy, and manageable. In other words, we want “our oceans in a spoon.”
The Jaded Optimist
January 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I’m an optimist, but only in a perfect world.
- Dangerous Summer, “Weathered”
I love that brutally honest line from the Dangerous Summer song “Weathered” which gets at the struggle we all have wanting to be optimistic, but feeling jaded by the world around us.
An Unwritten Life
January 9, 2012 By 1 Comment
“There’s no such thing as an unwritten life. Just a badly written one…We’re going to live like we’re telling the best story in the world. Are you ready?”
- The Brothers Bloom
