tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30180148066953088332024-03-14T03:12:32.737-07:00drink thy wine!“Too much and too little wine: Do not give him any, he cannot find the truth. Give him too much, the same thing.” —Blaise PascalAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09440732821457022499noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018014806695308833.post-67441479197213096262007-08-13T15:28:00.000-07:002007-08-13T21:11:22.618-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwSKZGFH15fLGYh-Q0pv2QcJthAtykVzJoLPxo3hyphenhyphenaeTbW9_36bI4Hu3rMBglWigdifIak0dfqmyK9LG492I_dElkMVupiggQxlFxgGPvpLmmXbwM7Pq1If0W_SEXwAvm18kSAY1gmbRs/s1600-h/boys2.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwSKZGFH15fLGYh-Q0pv2QcJthAtykVzJoLPxo3hyphenhyphenaeTbW9_36bI4Hu3rMBglWigdifIak0dfqmyK9LG492I_dElkMVupiggQxlFxgGPvpLmmXbwM7Pq1If0W_SEXwAvm18kSAY1gmbRs/s400/boys2.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098381052078290706" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br />monday: august 13</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I needed a couple cool-off weeks after an exhausting summer. But as soon as I migrated home to the old Asheville manor a week ago, my mind migrated back to the kids. I spent almost every day of the summer with inner-city kids in Chattanooga. I can't get em out of my head.</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><embed src="http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/7/15/1268850/Fellow%20Soldiers%20in%20the%20Lord%2C%20Stand%20Strong.m4a" autostart="false" loop="false" controls="console" height="62" width="144"></embed><br />(written, recorded, and performed by my boys)<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">the future of america:</span></span><br /><br />They have names like: Amilcar, Tristian, Asia, Marlaysia, Elmonte, and the one and only, Precious Loveberry.<br /><br />They wear shirts that say things like: "Jesus is my <span style="font-style: italic;">homeboy</span>" and "Jesus Christ: that's WASSUP!"<br /><br />They ask me questions like: "Who created God?" and "Why did God put the forbidden tree in the garden if he didn't want Adam and Eve to eat its fruit?" (These are 10 year olds.)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLACdI4xb1OBdLMPQnCvoSu2P11DaNj8HlNCG19FuAxC1x0o5q2Bjnsl_uPW7TpU_3ne_koM0MAoYkemuLxvce8YlStIbn-vrN42Bm5SeQgRKamG7AIEDWDYuTRG-pxdryFqFl3GYkFS4/s1600-h/IMG_0561.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 274px; height: 365px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLACdI4xb1OBdLMPQnCvoSu2P11DaNj8HlNCG19FuAxC1x0o5q2Bjnsl_uPW7TpU_3ne_koM0MAoYkemuLxvce8YlStIbn-vrN42Bm5SeQgRKamG7AIEDWDYuTRG-pxdryFqFl3GYkFS4/s400/IMG_0561.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098378724206016242" border="0" /></a><br /><br />When I ask them what they did over the weekend, they might say: "I rode my bike."<br /><br />They steal each other's tater tots.<br /><br />They don't like jumping jacks at eight in the morning.<br /><br />Some had never seen a lake before this summer.<br /><br />They run from thunder.<br /><br />They all want a champion. They elect unspoken leaders of <span style="font-style: italic;">the cool</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">uncool. </span>They need heroes. Once playing kickball I hit a grand slam and was swarmed by forty little buzz-headed munchkins like we'd just won the World Series.<br /><br />And the truth behind their lives is that they are all from broken families. They live in low-income housing. They live with their grandparents if they're lucky. They switch from school to school. They have no firm ground on which to stand. They don't know their fathers. Their mothers struggle with addictions, with unemployment, with new boyfriends.<br /><br />One speaker this summer looked my boys in the eyes and told them squarely: "If the numbers hold true, 90% of you will have been in jail by the time you are 19." The world expects them to<br />be gangsters and potheads. What more can we expect? Look at their environment! Look at their background! It's inescapable!<br /><br />Yet these kids are the future of America. They are talented and clever, and the seeds of faith have been planted in their hearts this summer. They heard the gospel, clearly, over and over again. It's with a surge of hope that I look out over the hundreds of them and think how they could change the world:<br /><br />"A short period of the short life of one man is, when well and wisely directed, sufficient to remedy the misery of millions for ages."*<br /><br />If one of these kids is on fire for Jesus in five years, my work this summer will be fulfilled. For now, the seeds of the future have been sown.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven<br />and do not return there but water the earth,<br />making it bring forth and sprout,<br />giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,<br />so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;<br />it shall not return to me empty,<br />but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,<br />and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it." -Isaiah 55:10-11<br /></div><br /><br /><object height="350" width="425"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DCEAnh2xgjI"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DCEAnh2xgjI" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="350" width="425"></embed> </object><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyB8hMkFN2ZPwtYZ5GbmMLN8r9kd8SyKjxbsjghyEFjF-Nd-_gslJbF7TbyIWKkf3J2og6c5d7B4qU8t7nfSy9TaiihyyPUlegriQFwnDAGNUTeDEuG_5T7UrRduiRjm5VguCLQOQ9Qzg/s1600-h/IMG_0555.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyB8hMkFN2ZPwtYZ5GbmMLN8r9kd8SyKjxbsjghyEFjF-Nd-_gslJbF7TbyIWKkf3J2og6c5d7B4qU8t7nfSy9TaiihyyPUlegriQFwnDAGNUTeDEuG_5T7UrRduiRjm5VguCLQOQ9Qzg/s400/IMG_0555.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098378110025692898" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_EjniggczfcfLBu4xbkwTcK3iQ4RUiaHCIrIlmUc_9UgvppKekf6p5rz_krDmhW43SzCCSC2n50zV1CWG8vWvG0PVxbiZKVPyCSUKYkX0Z8OGrYcm2oR29tBlJCskwQQ6oQNxJ41jWE4/s1600-h/IMG_0553.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 278px; height: 369px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_EjniggczfcfLBu4xbkwTcK3iQ4RUiaHCIrIlmUc_9UgvppKekf6p5rz_krDmhW43SzCCSC2n50zV1CWG8vWvG0PVxbiZKVPyCSUKYkX0Z8OGrYcm2oR29tBlJCskwQQ6oQNxJ41jWE4/s400/IMG_0553.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098377817967916754" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-AF3ePPEXCEF4i346foiTzr6K_7A62v36DlecTNGf7sFGWXYCSk9jPWSOuiTzJUTxIAPDhtnTksvzfmjE2gHrPFo-guj3gnYRNJaBgNPa7EaqCm6YUbm4hyNQS_b5TvMwYMkM8LR3A5Y/s1600-h/IMG_0562.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-AF3ePPEXCEF4i346foiTzr6K_7A62v36DlecTNGf7sFGWXYCSk9jPWSOuiTzJUTxIAPDhtnTksvzfmjE2gHrPFo-guj3gnYRNJaBgNPa7EaqCm6YUbm4hyNQS_b5TvMwYMkM8LR3A5Y/s400/IMG_0562.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098379346976274178" border="0" /></a><br />*from an autobiography on William Wilberforce...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09440732821457022499noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018014806695308833.post-14492698541751819152007-07-15T15:01:00.000-07:002007-08-13T19:51:00.128-07:00<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">sunday: july 15.<br />"I am not interested in fighting, only in victory."<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzPWvFIF7q9feZBhbV1HTdyclHtaOn_6BiEn1alk5AbgdN7gDBt2E0OgAe0doQ9yMBupM8FgUIlCTVjpj4PBvQssFqZF7sbV1qf_rYrfsghkgoWEwH-Y6ZrayRVRIzisE0ZWBPYOzGPKE/s1600-h/victory.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzPWvFIF7q9feZBhbV1HTdyclHtaOn_6BiEn1alk5AbgdN7gDBt2E0OgAe0doQ9yMBupM8FgUIlCTVjpj4PBvQssFqZF7sbV1qf_rYrfsghkgoWEwH-Y6ZrayRVRIzisE0ZWBPYOzGPKE/s400/victory.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5087551572509120578" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The War is on. Find forty minutes to listen to <a href="http://www.newcityfellowship.com/mp3files/sermon070807.mp3">this</a>, from Pastor Nabors at New City Fellowship:</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09440732821457022499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018014806695308833.post-44746359328157093502007-07-12T22:36:00.000-07:002007-07-15T15:44:04.367-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhvgCI6M3CHYTIi_lkNra-cDrfHjLe7en2XGkxmAcZJbJnsoX4-uy8IVUfHDQvjI0a-3eorWbfytGNxxSqzsyTpJecoU72zd4U4f1HosHDlo4TubI8LrZLLs_SvcIl_qg_NWjNmzmbARg/s1600-h/dumbledore.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhvgCI6M3CHYTIi_lkNra-cDrfHjLe7en2XGkxmAcZJbJnsoX4-uy8IVUfHDQvjI0a-3eorWbfytGNxxSqzsyTpJecoU72zd4U4f1HosHDlo4TubI8LrZLLs_SvcIl_qg_NWjNmzmbARg/s400/dumbledore.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086797393431812034" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">friday: july 13<br /><br />Such Great Heights!</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">This is the stuff of my mind as I sat tingling in the spine through the latest and greatest-- </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix</span><span style="font-size:100%;">:<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">~Dumbledore is the Platonic ideal grandfather. Every great story needs one. Shivers every time he showed up.<br />~Rowling's story ripens like a good peach at this stage in the series.<br />~I am proud to have grown up</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;">with</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" > the boy who lived</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">.<br />~I will meet Hermione Granger before I die. Fact.<br />~Bellatrix Lestrange=Helena Bonham Carter. Brilliant.<br />~If my life is less thrilling than this film, I'll be pissed.<br />~This story is really one great reflection of the great story in which we live. Shivers, shivers.<br />~Hogwarts is more like Covenant than I thought.<br />~You know where I'll be midnight, July 21.</span><br /><br /></span></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTaLVpvO_P1MlHSpETonsPYP83bW3xshTLxSInsgIWvh368_OwDrriPeCvj0LJfw134lnpez__Vcy2oOpF1kLjM-xoVUqHhhxl9tDtNveo4s7SrTNAwouIA10OPhgFSVudC1s7uYUDFB8/s1600-h/voldemort.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTaLVpvO_P1MlHSpETonsPYP83bW3xshTLxSInsgIWvh368_OwDrriPeCvj0LJfw134lnpez__Vcy2oOpF1kLjM-xoVUqHhhxl9tDtNveo4s7SrTNAwouIA10OPhgFSVudC1s7uYUDFB8/s400/voldemort.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086798321144747986" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1_JB0j4X81Um430LGaZbYx0iwFqUBnDOMAlFDMuvdg7CkkUhb9nJtjdYLfzsYQHft8oLEMDtgSAIFqgMsA9atgelB_sYtPMzeVzamfw_uZkMb8n_9gu9o9KThty6-Ry3ptsXHlU41o4c/s1600-h/da.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlaK_OwjQ5SzEoXCSGvHaNRCrfBNtTmfsVb_TXuVWCZ926wRmAXiiScN1tNiFLmULTqQdUf556-_L3ZmMcGppsGOxdSo23ME3enknBQ9oaLxuxZe9xuPaWFmtkICC7-T5-Pcoc0H9It7s/s320/DSC01120.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086099822576519266" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;">So, the Northernness got me. I yielded to elf horns.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Indepen</span><span style="font-size:100%;">dence Day I spent with my whole family (a rare, golden experie</span><span style="font-size:100%;">nce) on the Mall in Washington. The party was raucous, preempted by four hours of wiffleball.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Then I got on a plane to Maine (in the rain.) My boys Will</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> Kendall and Dave Barr are summering there as coast pirates. They pretty much board treasure ships and tote blunderbusses and daggers in their teeth and stuff.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">In the spirit of this, we set off the very evenin</span><span style="font-size:100%;">g I arrived to conquer KATAHDIN, the grand finale </span><span style="font-size:100%;">of the Appalachian We were introduced to the mountain at five the next morning. It's brisk air and northern breezes and walls of mist, sheer cliffs and rocky cairns all the way up to where a green heather cloaks the top. It's the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_mythology"><span style="font-style: italic;">Alfeim</span></a> of Maine, or the land of <span style="font-style: italic;">sorns </span>if you recall your Perelandrian mythology.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">THE splendour falls on castle walls <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN_otNopmLYf50h-aJflgyUHeAMDyv8tB7ickACesgXFkeO2EU9tqZI6J0IAizhysEUIsLJYRXe_gsZs4_wZBdIr6Wiu7nEkNZ5Nwz6bfwoXLPfKKONWRZtIXyFSR3jEZN8Z8HR8J0OXs/s1600-h/DSC01127.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN_otNopmLYf50h-aJflgyUHeAMDyv8tB7ickACesgXFkeO2EU9tqZI6J0IAizhysEUIsLJYRXe_gsZs4_wZBdIr6Wiu7nEkNZ5Nwz6bfwoXLPfKKONWRZtIXyFSR3jEZN8Z8HR8J0OXs/s320/DSC01127.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086100290727954562" border="0" /></a><br />And snowy summits old in story:<br />The long light shakes across the lakes,<br />And the wild cataract leaps in glory.<br />Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,<br />Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.<br /><br />O hark, O hear! how thin and clear,<br />And thinner, clearer, farther going!<br />O sweet and far from cliff and scar<br />The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!<br />Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying:<br />Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.<br /><br />O love, they die in yon rich sky,<br />They faint on hill or field or river:<br />Our echoes roll from soul to soul,<br />And grow for ever and for ever.<br />Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,<br />And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying. -Tennyson<br /><br /><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb0ocC0J7Z8aRCfVaIgq3xoz3q1t24jRTtYOPKq0FrhJAutkgtdCdJBHdHztNpG8yZFZ5sBQMNj2y_QIaduUha1K1RkEcXtFNw9acsCgH_R0G1Z5bLCn_FetQ0bDap9jcmc9dWiNX5gAg/s1600-h/DSC01141.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; 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EVERYBODIES SET YO WATCHES BACK AND SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE!</span><br /></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09440732821457022499noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018014806695308833.post-10651671934074416672007-06-08T16:50:00.000-07:002007-06-08T18:56:24.048-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlBVZpiZx4-7-bTj5ks9pbsM73_Y4_By_QbK6mn3L2VZpUoBwGyyvNYmbxU3woCqcuNyznAZF46h4mh6X92-4fQGC_PRWUGAZHTore2mYqUeR09GqvQFgtBeLRv9oaE1LmUzUH05sQlUk/s1600-h/DSCN5621.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 387px; height: 177px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlBVZpiZx4-7-bTj5ks9pbsM73_Y4_By_QbK6mn3L2VZpUoBwGyyvNYmbxU3woCqcuNyznAZF46h4mh6X92-4fQGC_PRWUGAZHTore2mYqUeR09GqvQFgtBeLRv9oaE1LmUzUH05sQlUk/s320/DSCN5621.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073865321652015090" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Monday: May 21. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">an entry</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> en route to Nairobi</span></span><br /><br />A red sun sets over Sudan to the west. An hour ago it was an orange squeezed over the horizon; suddenly the orange burst into flame at the sky's edge, scattering flames that flickered, then turned to blood.<br /><br />And to think of all the blood shed in the Sudan--the thousands, the millions who fell under the shadow of Cush and Meroë, the dark and cursed empire whose wars will not end. I just finished <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Emmas-War-Warlord-Politics-Oil/dp/0375403973"><span style="font-style: italic;">Emma's War</span></a>, a reporter's memoirs from Sudan and the story of the southern Sudanese oppression, rebellion, division, famine, and genocide. At least two million have died in the warfare that has torn the country in two since the late eighties. It has been a war of religions, tribes, factions, ideologies, and oil. But all of this is shrouded in the confusion of death. <br /><br />To think that a year before I was born into a loving home in North Carolina, thousands upon thousands died in the Kinka massacres at Ed-Daien. Thousands more lost their families to the cruel slave trade, left home with no money and few possessions, and wandered the drying plains of Darfur. In the year of my birth, a great famine swept through this land again, drying skin off the bones of the orphan boys who returned to the haunt of Ed-Daien to find their families. Others caught malaria, tuberculosis, meningitis, diarrhea. Again, thousands died, terribly, stranded, alone.<br /><br />Constellations bloom out the window of this two-prop 20-seater from Lokichoggio. We spent four days in the northern corner of Kenya at the compound of the Middle East Reformed Fellowship. Six months ago, MERF sent a plane into southern Sudan to pick up church leaders who wanted to be trained in the Scripture. Some villages sent the local pastor on the plane. Others grabbed whatever twenty-something, daring kid that wanted to go. It was a once-in-a-lifetime chance, for many.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpityF4k06h4EOjyh15hjc13NXKg4eIXCNmcWQmMbF4tFmiluw0ldwIt9hHeOiZesnUzJ1_rh5ZP5wiPJjmeRrdMIDXkL-lIrA4XqAGTAMQxxtDqeT2wYkrYzT02bro6PWaxOGLJC_b3o/s1600-h/DSCN5723.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 176px; height: 236px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpityF4k06h4EOjyh15hjc13NXKg4eIXCNmcWQmMbF4tFmiluw0ldwIt9hHeOiZesnUzJ1_rh5ZP5wiPJjmeRrdMIDXkL-lIrA4XqAGTAMQxxtDqeT2wYkrYzT02bro6PWaxOGLJC_b3o/s320/DSCN5723.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073868401143566386" border="0" /></a>Nearly all 45 men fought in the civil war. They all have stories. One guy lifted up his shirt for us and began to show us his 27<br />gun wounds. More importantly, though, they all have hope. They're at the end of six months of training; they are eager to<br />get home. After half a year of intense study in the Bible, they have a wisdom and unity about them now that could rally the confused southern churches. This is early church stuff.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSK9XbBXWkv7cEhvY5nkcQU9ahr1198S5f8BHQxCs4tTUk9bq2IqgJ1-7PkXJKLNG-gK8of4vXjoYmZ4h66_WbeEUF71kCTAiT9e4lmpPwGvCMlEjVFd9sMGWoCYIzQkLmS6LIIImz8PU/s1600-h/DSCN5711.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 281px; height: 227px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSK9XbBXWkv7cEhvY5nkcQU9ahr1198S5f8BHQxCs4tTUk9bq2IqgJ1-7PkXJKLNG-gK8of4vXjoYmZ4h66_WbeEUF71kCTAiT9e4lmpPwGvCMlEjVFd9sMGWoCYIzQkLmS6LIIImz8PU/s320/DSCN5711.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073868276589514786" border="0" /></a> Sudan has peace now. It was signed in 2004, but a referendum in 2010 will likely lead to conflict again, say the men here. The south plans to split from the north to create the "New Sudan." Their current leader is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salva_Kiir">Salva Kiir</a>, a Dinka tribesman, like his predecessor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Garang">John</a> <a href="http://www.worldmag.com/articles/5186">Garang.</a> Salva is strong, the people say; but he's not John Garang<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Garang"></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq08GdfWlBOHVHNWC6QfQLCE386zOmfPT3Ci4XVyBvEIAPqq5kiLQEk9BYHFJAG3h4NK78fzh4kg7gQsReZUcpI45W0cRUVIJuXPKYmtGNqb2VHloHzEC_kn6csTbV-GFWKgAIwgPAswk/s1600-h/DSCN5709.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 175px; height: 234px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq08GdfWlBOHVHNWC6QfQLCE386zOmfPT3Ci4XVyBvEIAPqq5kiLQEk9BYHFJAG3h4NK78fzh4kg7gQsReZUcpI45W0cRUVIJuXPKYmtGNqb2VHloHzEC_kn6csTbV-GFWKgAIwgPAswk/s320/DSCN5709.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073868134855594002" border="0" /></a>Now is the time that Sudan needs strong leaders. 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Francis. Collins. Masee. Joseph. Fiona. </span></span><br /><br />These are the children of Kibera. We like to say we "love" them, and we do, but Pastor Imbumi and his wife Martha <span style="font-style: italic;">really</span> love them. They've spent over twenty years caring for the children of Kibera, and if that's not testimony enough, <span style="font-style: italic;">they've adopted 22 of them. </span>The kids live at the Shunam shelter, a compound outside downtown Nairobi, where they live in a rare community of faith. The pastor leads them in Saturday prayer for the Sunday service; there is abundant food on their table; they live harmoniously. It's beautiful to watch. Their family is big enough to play a full game of soccer at the field behind the compound, where monkeys cheer from the sideline trees.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_3E2npCfUqvaw86x1_PiSVZipcSSreS6YSmh74q5tARzLvHdmSf6JqSq0Ex0Q68ohs9kl4IalvKj5QrcNtMbri5D8AGk6XQGmXGbyNUpAH1ChR1BcXHt21Mhx_i_jNk9oruLycgcl6w0/s1600-h/DSCN5394.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_3E2npCfUqvaw86x1_PiSVZipcSSreS6YSmh74q5tARzLvHdmSf6JqSq0Ex0Q68ohs9kl4IalvKj5QrcNtMbri5D8AGk6XQGmXGbyNUpAH1ChR1BcXHt21Mhx_i_jNk9oruLycgcl6w0/s320/DSCN5394.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073578739959189442" border="0" /></a>The pastor and his wife plan to buy 53 acres of land to relocate the Shunam shelter. They hope to build a school and establish their work of redeeming kids from the slum. They pray for money (an immense sum; think of starting a large school), and for growth. Imbumi believes the money will come in one year's time. "Now," he says with a twinkle in his eye, "it is like the fist of the thunderstorm that Elijah's messenger saw on the horizon; soon, it will rain." (I can think of no one else in the world to whom I would more gladly give money, if I had it...)<br /><br />The thing is that these people <span style="font-style: italic;">get</span> this place. They live in the working cogs of Kibera. Martha had been working with World Vision for eight years when Imbumi asked for her hand. Three months later, they both got married, quit their jobs, and have been working in the slums ever since. In his first two years, says Imbumi, he buried over 70 people.<br /><br />We've learned loads from these people in our short time here. Here's the sum of some thoughts floating through our group:<br /><br />>The testimony of believers is essential to worship. Talk about what the Lord is doing in your life! Fo real! Confess your sins publicly. Let it go. Speak of your <span style="font-style: italic;">redemption</span> every day.<br /><br />>Teaching and preaching the Word of God--alone--brings hope and joy. Stick to the book; don't be afraid to talk about it because "it may not be relevant." Screw "relevance" as we know it. The Bible is the living word.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhceY9_5BVuydIQHiQybAB_NuPE0MKB5AeMlTquijfW0k-BLTWlVqDXqLC-38yed2xRcx0i0uamtQMoJA86ljZJ6fB9bbfv-cjBxA_I6IegieBRjY6WNPV7orXiu4yAaMP73n_PqpeG7r8/s1600-h/DSCN5495.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhceY9_5BVuydIQHiQybAB_NuPE0MKB5AeMlTquijfW0k-BLTWlVqDXqLC-38yed2xRcx0i0uamtQMoJA86ljZJ6fB9bbfv-cjBxA_I6IegieBRjY6WNPV7orXiu4yAaMP73n_PqpeG7r8/s320/DSCN5495.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5072443661707235250" border="0" /></a>>Travel gives light to the eyes. Seeing the weird and paradoxical nature of the slums--the joy and misery, the sin and worship, the clean scrubbed babes and dirty sewage--sheds light on our own culture. Where do we disconnect? Where is our sewage? Here in Kibera, it flows in the streets. We sweep ours under the rug.<br /><br />>God's saints at work are like a million pinpricks of light around the globe.<br /><br />>The women of Kibera are powerful warriors of the Word. They don't dwell on emotions, as the Western world has been taught to do; they read their Bibles.<br /><br />At the core of all these thoughts is a central one. We are with saints who trust in God for every speck of strength. They love and worship him passionately—earnestly—like they knew the time was short. They fall into worship at staff meetings, in the kitchen, before class: everywhere. It is their source of life. 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0OPPKqCCaJRivNgAl2BJsyGqQK7PUrF2h5dfREq-w0hEHauh9zlnEeCY2ppO1PjRah8h-PbV2ZeZAtmuW0gOco-FXqbRNM5Tk_chqoUsb7pSmEER3Cs7bGr-XBvqcSrqVacolSHjdCf0/s400/IMGA0177.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5072039118580827906" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">tuesday: may 15.</span><br /><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >thought.</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> (a quote worth your thoughts) </span><span class="g">"Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long."</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> -Luther<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >word.</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> (from the </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://wordsmith.org/">wordsmith</a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">)<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">tatterdemalion</span> (tat-uhr-di-MAYL-yuhn, -MALEE-uhn) noun<br /><br />A person in ragged clothes.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">[From Middle English tater, from Old Norse toturr (rag).</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The origin of demalion is uncertain.]</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">deed.</span> <span style="font-size:100%;">(give it a shot) find a pond. find a boat. read first john. slowly.</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1mCUG49yT479wmFT3K5hHWq1VrXaZ4QvvOGtzfKzCXxkqt1uCwSAuSIt4VybvQb0Cq4_3OtptnDHo-m2Yhkl8Bu-_8p-wyiNVb9S6ziz_udqQuZp3h4WFt2FHNNHiLmuXKjHhv743EDY/s1600-h/IMGA0192.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 288px; height: 351px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1mCUG49yT479wmFT3K5hHWq1VrXaZ4QvvOGtzfKzCXxkqt1uCwSAuSIt4VybvQb0Cq4_3OtptnDHo-m2Yhkl8Bu-_8p-wyiNVb9S6ziz_udqQuZp3h4WFt2FHNNHiLmuXKjHhv743EDY/s320/IMGA0192.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071632230559074034" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >slu</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >m stories</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">"The people of Kibera are tired of being looked upon as objects." That's what Pastor Imbumi Makuku told us today after we took our lunch of rice and green beans in chick pea soup. We've been in Nairobi a week </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">now. We spend our days in Kibera, the second largest slum in Africa; a million people live in a square mile of sewage and tin roofs. Bill</span> and Melissa Gates have visited the slum, along with Kofi Anan, Bill Clinton, American Idol, and o</span><span style="font-size:100%;">thers.<br /><br />Who could tell? What has changed? Except for the slum tours, which have now popped up all over Kibera to feed tourists' need to feel e</span><span style="font-size:100%;">mpathy, except that the white people continue to flock here to see "how the other half lives," it's hard to say. It's hard to see anything worth calling </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >transformation.</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />Except in this concrete slab church, Kibera Presbyterian. The people here </span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >are</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> being transformed. Pa</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">stor Imbumi, his wife Martha, and the leaders of the school here are working c</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">hange that will last when the others have gone. They are training hundreds of children in the way they should go. They are t</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">eaching mothers the Scripture. They are teaching them to pray. Though the profligate fathers are notably absent, a generation of sons is growing up in the Word.</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBt9EhfdrTaQsgJnjCRptYN2xCZtFYUxQUwrqetzzcPCL3aJUBlvf2Ef_6728JlksmU57a9NCwwk51uyWnN38epiankjcGjra5vLDFjJqDPFrW06Y0Gp30NwhRvJE9D5q60VlJw98YpBo/s1600-h/DSCN5527.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 232px; height: 355px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBt9EhfdrTaQsgJnjCRptYN2xCZtFYUxQUwrqetzzcPCL3aJUBlvf2Ef_6728JlksmU57a9NCwwk51uyWnN38epiankjcGjra5vLDFjJqDPFrW06Y0Gp30NwhRvJE9D5q60VlJw98YpBo/s320/DSCN5527.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5072043465087731474" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Every Tuesday, an HIV positive</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> group meets at the church.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Martha's sister Mary leads the group, a</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">nd today she announces--for the first time--that she too is HIV pos</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">itive. Then she says, "Whether we have HIV or not, we all know that our goal is heaven." She begins her medicine today, which to the Africans is pu</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">blic admissio</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">n and a bow to the stigma of "looseness" attached to the virus.</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">A woman steps forwa</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">rd. "I am Rose." (They speak their kind English for us</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >mzunghos)</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> "I am HIV positive. And I live we</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ll." She tells us she wanted to commit suicide when she found herself HIV positive. But she was in the national hospital, and couldn't escape to do the thing. Instead, the church came to her there and prayed with her. She accepted Jesus. She had a baby in the hospital. The church gave her formula milk. The baby took two suspenseful tests. She feared the worst. B</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">oth tests came back negative. She holds the baby in her arms today: they</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> are both alive and praising God. They live with Job's words in mi</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">nd: "The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away; Blessed be the name of the Lord."<br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Such are the testimonies of the women of Kibera. And here in this church, the women hav</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">e AIDS medicine and formula milk, but more importantly, they trust in God. More than anyone I have ever seen. And the formula milk m</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">eans there will be no viral transfer. What redemption! Without it, the </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">tomb is sealed for both you and your children. 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float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 207px; height: 276px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU9YVyMXiZL_Zo0-pYGXfmsES312WYUVqtLtdzEbefvlD8Hh_yZh16ia286A-8JMySA8nEE44Y0eJ1KOelkbHwyajZxojkRwmfb2RZpgajxLvVuw3hmgBaxKSuZpbcqI6k76zlk8zgK6c/s320/DSCN6328.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065783628004236258" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">thursday: may 3.</span></span><br /></div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />thought.</span> (</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">a quote worth your thoughts) "Death in this music dwells, for in it I disappear in attentive, taut passivity." -an epithet from C</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">unningham</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">word.</span> (from the <a href="http://wordsmith.org/">wordsmith</a>) </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">selenography</span> (sel-uh-NOG-ruh-fee) noun<br /><br /></div> The branch of astronomy dealing with the physical features of the moon.<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">[From Greek seleno-, from Selene</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">(goddess of the moon in Greek mythology) + </span><span style="font-style: italic;">-graphy (writing).]</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">deed.</span> (give it a shot) take a hot bath. turn on cold water at the very end. immerse yoself. then come up through the cold cloak.</span><br /><br /><object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wjxef8AfVQg"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wjxef8AfVQg" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"></embed></object></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">meet win butler</span></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcShxJHh4f_T0yAk-xDKLbHtQrj72KvECH8Y07_9WyXfkHlDbJlHvvxlvJWRgx0j5qZYitrJ5BjEjbqpM-jPgjshCt3j8ac-TcdLkp_QtkYGmJEGCAi4HMrIJvH5bfEWOMFbjB-RBJCIs/s1600-h/DSCN6355.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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Never before have the horn-boys executed their lines so religiously. </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Never has Win pierced me so with his voice. Never has Régine wielded the hurdy-gurdy so lusciously. <o:p></o:p></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Heaven will be like this.</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /><o:p></o:p></span> <p style="text-align: left;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p>Arcade Fire played to</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> an earnest Asheville crowd last night. We were sitting obediently in our reserved seats when Win told the crowd to get on their feet and come up front. The panicking security guards stood by helplessly as the thron</span><span style="font-size:100%;">g advan</span><span style="font-size:100%;">ced.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWqKWhvkwSSEmgYM7Nq7x6VDKTN6R_YGin-8x_PzaYq5S3_1wx0qHdsRjZdsFS4S8MfN6_VOAt87Vpq1CNRfpS4QNd16LLv5DZKtQCHC5wUTVLAW8sKNmKimqTQcVBhUpcHQwKrDB7Y9E/s1600-h/DSCN6349.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 398px; height: 297px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWqKWhvkwSSEmgYM7Nq7x6VDKTN6R_YGin-8x_PzaYq5S3_1wx0qHdsRjZdsFS4S8MfN6_VOAt87Vpq1CNRfpS4QNd16LLv5DZKtQCHC5wUTVLAW8sKNmKimqTQcVBhUpcHQwKrDB7Y9E/s400/DSCN6349.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5072064325743888258" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">I say that Heaven will be like that show; I don’t say it lightly either.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">It was a</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> sacr</span><span style="font-size:100%;">ed sound. The sounds that</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> filled our temple last night shook, thrilled, captured, broke me. Won’t the sounds of Heaven do this much and more? The seraph’s voices in Isaiah shake t</span><span style="font-size:100%;">he threshold of the temple. The voice of the Lamb will be “like the roar of many waters.”<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">I can’t wait.</span></p><p style="text-align: left; font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p face="trebuchet ms" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Meanwhile go to a</span><span style="font-size:100%;">n Arcade show. Meet Win Butler if you can. He’s eagle-eyed and speaks from the heart. Last night he gave his word to come to a bonfire at my house next time the band is in Asheville. I told him we’d be waiting.</span></p><p face="trebuchet ms" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE4LUIBTgp76MmE3WuXWk6rx4vFq8gR8olGcLmye_UaGVTQwSbokzxe9UvuoAfh19GAnkR7pN6n7Vs8MdnjLru09-yzRr8Mq25eExcv2bzuE57GEt_iHmEcYt9b_-tFNdfCyQJGZ7zK8I/s1600-h/DSCN6353.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 145px; height: 192px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE4LUIBTgp76MmE3WuXWk6rx4vFq8gR8olGcLmye_UaGVTQwSbokzxe9UvuoAfh19GAnkR7pN6n7Vs8MdnjLru09-yzRr8Mq25eExcv2bzuE57GEt_iHmEcYt9b_-tFNdfCyQJGZ7zK8I/s320/DSCN6353.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5072062822505334626" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: left; font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" 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