http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/ An exercise in constructive navel-gazing. en Copyright 2008 Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:57:35 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I had not realized how long it has been since I felt joy until this morning. As I was driving home from work, I felt energized. Anticipating the day. When I got home I played with the boys for the first time in months, started (and won) a pun/jokefest, and basically had a normal day 'til going to bed at noon. It truly is the small things that make life worth living, but for me, today was a big thing. http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2008/03/i_was_happy_today.html http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2008/03/i_was_happy_today.html Depression Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:57:35 -0600 by Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream - and not make dreams your master, If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much, If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!]]> http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2007/11/if.html http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2007/11/if.html Poetry Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:31:20 -0600 "In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity." - attributed to St. Augustine http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2007/10/quote_of_the_day_8.html http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2007/10/quote_of_the_day_8.html Christianity Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:36:02 -0600 author unknown, quoted by Winston Churchill in the excellent biopic, The Gathering Storm. Who is in charge of the clattering train? The axles creak and the couplings strain, And the pace is hot, and the points are near, And Sleep has deadened the driver’s ear; And the signals flash through the night in vain, For Death is in charge of the clattering train.]]> http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2007/10/who_is_in_charge_of_the_clatte_1.html http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2007/10/who_is_in_charge_of_the_clatte_1.html Poetry Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:43:13 -0600 looong years and much financial pain to dig ourselves out of the financial hole that we created. May this small post stand as mute testimony to the folly of instant gratification. Six years ago, we decided it might be a good idea to know exactly what we owed in credit card debt, so we sat down and added it all up. What we found was staggering.]]> http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2007/09/free_at_last.html http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2007/09/free_at_last.html Personal Life Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:43:49 -0600 Confessions]]> http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2007/08/quote_of_the_day_70.html http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2007/08/quote_of_the_day_70.html Quotes of the Day Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:10:13 -0600 What's So Amazing About Grace?]]> http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2007/08/quote_of_the_day_6.html http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2007/08/quote_of_the_day_6.html Christianity Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:49:15 -0600 shoot straight.” - former Sen. Barry Goldwater, conservative icon]]> http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2007/08/quote_of_the_day_5.html http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2007/08/quote_of_the_day_5.html Quotes of the Day Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:38:48 -0600 by Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveller, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. I've long had a soft spot for this poem; I ran across it again recently, and it seems to apply to me more now than in the past.]]> http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2007/08/the_road_not_taken_by_robert_f.html http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2007/08/the_road_not_taken_by_robert_f.html Poetry Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:43:53 -0600 The thing that's cool about music is how unnecessary it is. Of all things, music is the most frivolous and the most useless. You can't eat it, you can't drive it, you can't live in it, you can't wear it. But your life wouldn't be worth much without it. - Rich Mullins http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2007/07/the_thing_thats_cool_about.html http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2007/07/the_thing_thats_cool_about.html Quotes of the Day Mon, 23 Jul 2007 04:16:22 -0600 . . . and one of the scribes came and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, "What commandment is the foremost of all?" Jesus answered, "The foremost is, 'Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' "The second is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these." - John13:34-35 . . .what does the LORD require of you? To do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with your God. -Micah 6:8 http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2007/07/_and_one.html http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2007/07/_and_one.html Christianity Mon, 23 Jul 2007 03:56:01 -0600 "We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them." -Charles Caleb Colton http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2007/07/quote_of_the_day_4.html http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2007/07/quote_of_the_day_4.html Quotes of the Day Sat, 21 Jul 2007 05:25:29 -0600 especially within the church, are doing a more-than-adequate job of that ourselves (rates of divorce, adultery, abortion and sex outside marriage are almost exactly the same among “christians” as the rest of the country). • We believe lies spread by “Christian leaders” in fund-raising letters, on TV and from the pulpit, saying that homosexuals are pedophiles, intent on recruiting our children, advancing some ominous, murky “gay agenda,” while studies show that the vast majority of pedophiles are not gay; and their only agenda as a group is the desire to be treated like anyone else. • We claim to “love the sinner and hate the sin,” yet stand by silently when a friend or co-worker (or pastor) makes cruel and hateful remarks about, or to, homosexuals, their families and friends. ]]> http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2007/07/to_my_brothers_and_sisters_in.html http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2007/07/to_my_brothers_and_sisters_in.html Christianity Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:23:45 -0600 passes understanding. Regardless, I have a substantially different perspective on certain issues, a renewed hunger for God's Word, and the assurance that no matter what happens or where this path may lead, He will never leave me or forsake me. Even if others do. Draw me, Lord
Oh, draw me, Lord
And I'll run after you . . .]]> http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2007/07/the_peace_that_passes_understa_1.html http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2007/07/the_peace_that_passes_understa_1.html Personal Life Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:13:09 -0600 Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life. http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2007/07/prayer_of_st_francis.html http://www.jesusphreaks.com/confessions/2007/07/prayer_of_st_francis.html Christianity Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:10:00 -0600