twisted imaginations...love it. (not my stuff)

In our days we will live like our ghosts will live
pitching glass at the cornfield crows and folding clothes
like stubborn boys across the road, we’ll keep everything
Grandma’s gun and the black bear claw that took her dog
And when sister Lowery says “Amen,” we won’t hear anything
The ten-car train will take that word, that fledgling bird
and the fallen house across the way, it’ll keep everything
the baby’s breath, our bravery wasted and our shame
-Sam Beam - Iron and Wine - Resurrection Fern

Not sure what it means, but it sure is beautiful when he sings it.

If my private world is in order, it will be because I have chosen to press sabbath peace into the rush and routine of my daily life in order to find the rest God prescribed for Himself and all of humanity.
-Gordon MacDonald

preview of Black:Atlanta:Poor:Georgia (CSC in January)

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
Flannery O'Connor

I've been thinking long and hard about the things you said to me
Like a bitter stranger
Now I see the long and short the middle and what's in between
I could spit on a stranger
You're a bitter stranger
-nickel creek

preview of the upcoming CSC exhibit in Jan.

A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals. We have been trying to apply machine-age methods to our relations with God. We read our chapter, have our short devotions, and rush away, hoping to make up for our deep inward bankruptcy by attending another gospel meeting or listening to another thrilling story told by a religious adventurer lately returned from afar. The tragic results of this spirit are all about us. Shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies, the preponderance of the element of fun in gospel meetings, the glorification of men, trust in religious externalities, quasi-religious fellowships, salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit; these and such as these are the symptoms of an evil disease, a deep and serious malady of the soul.
-A.W. Tozer

Song in my head all day - Sun by Daphne Loves Derby

Busy day tomorrow...4 appointments plus bank and post office runs.

Ive been out of running for almost 2 weeks now with lower leg pain. not fun times for chris. i am getting to know the stationary bike pretty well.

Nickel Creek Concert

amazing, amazing, amazing show last night at the florida theater. chris, sarah, and sean continually impress me. i hope this is not the last time i get to see them. but if it is, id say it was a pretty darn good last concert.

three highlights
-sabra girl in the encore. sarah's voice was pretty close to perfect. ive never heard this live.
-a super creative take on the lighthouse's tale. i cant even describe it. you can tell they are gearing up for that to be the last song they ever play together in a week or so and man have they done a number on it.
-sarah and i made eye contact 3 times. one time i smiled at her and it made her smile, blush, and look away. o destiny.

early staff meeting this morning, working on unveiled stuff, and hanging pictures at coffee culture this afternoon...im tired.

a nice little treat for those of you nickel creek fans.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15731658

nothing compared to being there but its a start. ill be at the jax show monday night, engagement ring in tow for sara.

just kidding on the ring...but seriously

If you are a Christian, then this life is as close to hell as you will ever be. If you are not a Christian, then then this life is as close to heaven as you will ever be.
-Mark Driscoll

this is a nice little continuation of the thoughts expressed in my talk at CRU last week.

http://hillsong.com/brianbobbie/default.asp?pid=1296

this is a nice little continuation of the thoughts expressed in my talk at CRU last week.

http://hillsong.com/brianbobbie/default.asp?pid=1296

this is a nice little continuation of the thoughts expressed in my talk at CRU last week.

http://hillsong.com/brianbobbie/default.asp?pid=1296

pretty proud of this picture.

i wish people in my life would start making good decisions. its been a theme in my life since august that people close to me have returned to their own vomit and have and are making absolute fools of themselves. i love people, i just wish sometimes they would grow a backbone, keep their word, not try to make everyone happy, and have some sort of continuity in their lives from day to day. people need to stop letting life run their lives. they need to start making choices, and not ones that are obviously rediculous...sorry rant.

I can’t imagine all the things that haunt your head when you lay in bed
And you try to find a reason to stay here
Ever since the start of this I never knew the right thing to say to you
The right way to help you through
-Daphne Loves Derby

i can't believe i am missing this at home right now...landlocked in gainesville

ryan shay died today during the olympic marathon trials...just 5 miles in. sad stuff. 28 years old. was married in July. unbelievable shock to the running world.















made the front page of the Gainesville Sun today...what.what. check those white legs. thats what you get for training at night.

CRU tonight

I'm speaking tonight. 8:30. HPNP Auditorium. Come one, come all.