Guitar

There's something about acoustic guitar that just gets me.

Perhaps it's the versatility of the instrument.

Or the multitude of sounds and styles.

Maybe it's all the memories associated with it.

Whatever it is, I'm a sucker for this music.

Weight of Glory

"And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at last that she has pleased Him whom she was created to please. There will be no room for vanity then. She will be free from the miserable illusion that it is her doing. With no taint of what we should now call self-approval she will most innocently rejoice in the thing that God has made her to be, and the moment which heals her old inferiority complex forever will also drown her pride… Perfect humility dispenses with modesty."

-C.S. Lewis (Weight of Glory)

Searching for God Knows What

"I think Jesus is saying, Look, you guys are running around like monkeys trying to get people to clap, but people are fallen, they are separated from God, so they have no idea what is good or bad, worthy to be judged or set free, beautiful or ugly to begin with. Why not get your glory from God? Why not accept your feelings of redemption because of His pleasure in you, not the fickle and empty favor of man? And only then will you know who you are, and only then will you have true, uninhibited relationships with others."

-Donald Miller (Searching for God Knows What)

Searching For God Knows What

"And I go back to Eden, in my mind, to imagine what it is going to be like for you and me in heaven. I suppose it will be a new and marvelous paradise, where love will exist in its purest form, where the beauty of diversity will be understood for the first time, where self-hatred will fade into an agreement with with God about the splendor of His creation, where physical beauty will no longer be used as a commodity, where you and I will feel free in our sincere love for others, ourselves, and God. And I suppose it will be in heaven that you and I actually understand each other, all the drama of the lifeboat a distant memory, all the arguments we had seeming so inconsequential, and the glory of God before us in all His majesty, shining like sunlight through our souls."

-Donald Miller (Searching for God Knows What)

Weight of Glory

"To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son- it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is."

-C.S. Lewis (Weight of Glory)

"God never withholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God’s refusals are always merciful - “severe mercies ” at times, but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better."

-Elizabeth Elliot

Takes my Breath Away

I absolutely love the Oregon Coast!

Sure, there’s rarely any warmth, and yeah, it does rain a lot and generally there’s a generous windchill…

…but how can there be anything more beautiful than a place where the forest plummets into the sea? It’s as if heaven for a moment touches earth, breaking through the clouds to put on a majestic spectacle over the powerful ocean.

How can there not be a God??

Left Unspoken

"One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter."

-James Earl Jones

"… the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express."

-Romans 8:26

"God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand, you have failed."

St. Augustine