Markita Roberson rockin Class Chapel, bringing a word on craving God.

Josh

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Cell phones...

from Bits & Pieces

my entertainment for the past week.

heres whats taken up my time the past few days.

You Begin (I love this)

You begin this way:
this is your hand,
this is your eye,
that is a fish, blue and flat
on the paper, almost
the shape of an eye.
This is your mouth, this is an O
or a moon, whichever
you like. This is yellow.

Outside the window
is the rain, green
because it is summer, and beyond that
the trees and then the world,
which is round and has only
the colors of these nine crayons.

This is the world, which is fuller
and more difficult to learn than I have said.
You are right to smudge it that way
with the red and then
the orange: the world burns.

Once you have learned these words
you will learn that there are more
words than you can ever learn.
The word hand floats above your hand
like a small cloud over a lake.
The word hand anchors
your hand to this table,
your hand is a warm stone
I hold between two words.

This is your hand, these are my hands, this is the world,
which is round but not flat and has more colors
than we can see.

It begins, it has an end,
this is what you will
come back to, this is your hand.

wow...

DUMB- when the Whitehouse press sec. was asked if it was appropriate for the Coastguard to hold excercises on 9/11, he said "I tend not to question law enforcement trying to keep the nation safe." ...can i just say, the minute we stop questioning law enforcement is the minute we hand our lives to other people without regard. and thats just dumb.

click here to read the report

a conversation with a friend.

We wer talking about being encouraged, and i started to share with her a passage i just read, that turned into a revelation to me...
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Josh
i was reading through mark 6 tonight, and i caught a verse that i had never seen before... mark 6:31

[Her]
im lookin in the message

Josh
after the twelve went out and cast out demons and healed people, they come back and it says that because the people were coming and going so much, they didnt even have a chance to eat. and jesus says "come with me by yourselves and get some rest"

[Her]
sounds like my life
resting is one of the ten commandments!
honor the sabbath
we dont do it

Josh
but even in the midst of the "restful place" there was a HUGE crowd of people... and the desciples start to freak and jesus basically says "ill take care of it... you dont get it... you work and work and work... but here- look... im the rest, im the secret place, im the bread to fead them, im the boat that holds you... I AM.

i LOVE that about JEsus

[Her]
i know

Josh
we keep trying to be this anjd be that and go and go and go... and jesus is simply standing there, saying "whatever you need- im it. food? here i am. rest? here i am. help for others? here i am. health? im here. im the very boat that carries you to the rest you need.

isnt that cool!


[Her]
yeah it is
hes everything

Josh
but its scary to think that Jesus could be everything.

[Her]
i think its comforting

Josh
yeah...idk... for me, it comes down to the question "if Jesus is everything, what am i?"

[Her]
nothing but he makes me something

Josh
i need to learn to be comfortable in that place. the place of significant insignificance. We're nothing... completely unneccisary to do anything good or worthwhile in and of ourselves (even though we sure do try)... but jesus is standing there, right next to us, watching us fret and toil about all the while saying "hello!? im over here... im what you're looking for... yoohoo... you dont need to work, you dont need to worry, you simply need to know in the very core and pit of your soul and being who i am. if you know that... you wont feel oppressed a day again in your life...

i just keep thinking that if Jesus really is IT, is EVERYTHING... then i sure do waste a lot of time trying to find whats right in front of me

wow- the US Postal Service has Done it again! VIRTUAL BOXES!

Go to the USPS Virtual Box Simulator print out the paper with the logo, and have TONS OF FUN!!

The Spirit lead me to mark 6 tonight, and I'm stuck on verse 56. Can we still touch Jesus and be healed?

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spreading the wealth...

I worked with a guy named Tyler at Hume two summers ago. he was one of the first people i met, and showed me where the bathroom was... so he stuck out in my mind.

I ran across his blog a few months ago, and i REALLY like the way this guy thinks- take a look at one of his posts:

THE MERRY-GO-ROUND CONUNDRUM

Here is the question I pose to you:

Let’s say your wife is pregnant and you convince her to go onto a merry go round. She hops aboard and lies down perfectly in the middle. You grab hold of the edge and start to spin the merry go round faster and faster until the whole image is a blur. INSTANTLY, you stop the merry go round.

Now.

Would the baby continue to spin inside of her?

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See more of his stuff HERE

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At the Getty, taking in the Illuminated Manuscripts from the 13th C. To think the artist started with a blank page.

Josh
 
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