Interests:Jesus, my guitar, frisbee, music- in no order at all: Jimmy Eat World, Coheed and Cambria, Jake Holman, Shane and Shane, Matt Wertz, Anberlin, Mae, Forever Changed, Beatles, Jump Little Children, All American Rejects, Underoath, Jars of Clay, Terminal, Waking Ashland, Death Cab for Cutie, Acceptance, Jack Johnson, Matthew, Mute Math, Jack's Mannequin, Something Corporate, Story of the Year, The Postal Service, Delirious, Jason Mraz, Sleeping at Last, Lifehouse, Yellowcard, Straylight Run, Caedmons Call, John Mayer, Coldplay, Muse, The Killers, Kelly Clarkson(i dont care what you say, she's amazing.) Snow Patrol, The Used, Emery, Nova, Relient K, The Myriad, Cool Hand Luke, Fall Out Boy, Augustana, Copeland, Dave Barnes, Thrice, The Starting Line, Number One Gun, Further Seems Forever, Mashlin, Spoken, Panic! At The Disco, The Academy is..., Pagent, Mary's Eyes, and you get the idea... Expertise:Cooking, yes cooking. im no Emirel but i bet i could hold my own on Iron Chef. Occupation:Other
tripp posted this video on his facebook a few months back. i really like it, partly because the visualization, but also because of the point.
i know that it's true that there is more to life than just always striving for the next thing, but i don't really live like it... the "next thing" for me is graduating and getting a job. that's not really far away and it's been the main thing occupying my mind over the last couple weeks.
so even though i "know" it, it hit me last night that i haven't been thinking and acting like it. i realized that if i were to graduate tomorrow, i would probably be wondering "what's next?"
i don't want to be shocked when i get there.
so what does it look like for you?
plus, i was gonna say i was listening to ocean is theory....but they weren't an option, so this is what will have to work.
have you ever seen a musical artist in concert, and their songs really hit you? they sung them like they meant something, not just words on a page that are catchy? when was the last time you considered music as an art and not merely entertainment?
i saw copeland tonight. i was blown away. not by their stage presence or the songs themselves, but there was something else i couldn't really put my finger on. it was something powerful and almost tangible. it meant something.
i have a feeling i'll be listening to copeland non-stop for at least the next couple weeks.
on the subject of art vs. entertainment, film is often forgotten as well. watch most. it's a czech short film. powerful, moving, redeeming, a good start to looking at movies differently.
i was on my way home tonight... i was almost there when i realized i wasn't ready to be there yet. under the inspiration of my father and "why georgia?", i decided to be spontaneous- so i kept driving for a little over an hour. i felt like if i went home i would have wasted the beautiful night. i think i was right.
"Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." -Philippians 4:4-7
plus, i wrote this while i was driving: "I am driving down eagle drive in the kind of evening that lasts all through the night I just cannot seem to fight Two more turns into my neighborhood but I am tempted to keep the car in drive and leave it all behind"
"all of my life, in every season You are still God I have a reason to sing I have a reason to worship"
"But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. I will sing to the LORD, for he has been good to me." -Psalm 13:5-6
"...I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen." -Ephesians 3:17-21
