Bohemia?

I just saw Rent. Well, yesterday I saw Rent. I never have to see it again.

I always thought it would be a joyous experience: to watch a group of non-traditional, information age bohemians romp around NYC and generally stomp on the system. I was wrong. I have fancied that I am becoming a more open-minded, liberal Christian, but this movie brought me to my limit. To see a "live for the moment and the devil may care" lifestyle exalted as the most pure form of existence saddened me to the point of nausea. I love the music and alot of the songs out of context, but the context was maddening.

As Christians, how do we love in a way that will rip the heart out of the masses, tear it up, and reform it into one that is open to the gospel? I know that only Christ can do it but how do we turn ourselves into conduits for that kind of love?

Rent does get one thing right. Love is the only way to measure a life.

Maybe Bohemia has that one over the church.

Maybe we can be a new Bohemia.

Thank You

Today is Thanksgiving. I haven't posted on here in forever. I've been really busy. Today I get to be thankful. There is so much to be thankful for. I don't know where to begin.

God has given me so much. He's given me a house, food, an amazing school filled with awesome people, an amazing dad, mom, brother and sister, an incredible girlfriend, a car that runs, a guitar amp, a bed, a backyard full of dirt, a tree with no leaves on it so you can see the stars, a history, a present, a future, a nose, ears that can hear, fingers, skin, an imagination, music theory class, fullvolume, friends, vibrations, particles, waves, colors, mountains, lakes, lakes in the mountains, rivers, grace, mercy, hope, love, love, love.

Thank You. I don't tell You enough. I never will be able to, but in this moment, be praised by one who doesn't deserve You.

Gloria In Excelsis Deo

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I'm tired, so it's time for another...Guest Blogger!!!

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any--lifted from the no
of all nothing--human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)