fractured raptured

fatally raptured rhyming

canticle of death

what started out as song now drive some bitter sweet and melencholy harmony

all my wonderings, pointeless wanderings,

make me wonder if I have gone tone deaf

stone deaf after all

i have intrest

in remaking myself into myself

but get lost in the endless and pointless excersise

everything is decaying versus the wonder of the fight being worth it

longer and longer and longer sentances describe what we wish to capture again as children

looking

for fatality

You May Fear Us...

Because we stick to darkness....

un even

trying without sucess not to talk to myself

i'm looking into a storm and seeing instead the land of promise

un even lanes ahead

searching my recent past in a move of desparation

trying to build it up

blow it up

smash it back down to peices

so inspired it all ends up on what scraps i can muster quickly

slowly realizing i don't even need my sunglasses

as two points of a line race divided against a continent

Choices Choices Choices

We live in a dualistic world. We can have two kinds of wisdom. Earthy and spiritual.

What we sow we reap. Sow in peace, reap righteousness, "right ness" with God, OR we can choose to sow discord and reap unrighteousness.

We have a choice. Some people might say its not fair to have the burden of it on us, but it is. It might seem daunting, or hard, but that is our responsibility to perform. And we can have help. Prayer and communication with God yield His help to do these things, but drawing close to God is always going to be our decision and our action that controls it.

And we have a descion about that too. Recently I have been listening to Charles Stanely and he talks a lot about the importance of time spent with God. You can check it out here. They are clips of the In Touch radio ministry he does. He makes some good points, nd I am sure he would tell you that he is not the first to say that time with God is important, but one thing that was simple and interesting was this: you become who you hang out with the most.

And i tought back to how we used to marvel as teenagers when we would suddenly say things or act in the same ways as our friends. Just tonight my wife said "Crabcakes" which made me giggle cause its something I say from Spongbob.

So if we want to be like God, make Godly choices and percieve life in a Godly way we have to commit to spending time with God. Stanley suggests that it not even have to be a lot of time. Even just 5 minutes, but as we grow and speak with God the discipline we learn will draw us in to more time, or what you might think of as the "best" amount of time which could change from day to day. Keeping in mind that the time doesn't have to be in structured prayer or Bible reading, though those certainly could be a part of it. The time could jsut be spent in simple conversation, questions, railing, argument... all the thigns we do with friends.

I already framed it once...

Really?

Is this the product of Public schooling?

Wall Nuts

There is something about the approval of our fathers we all crave. What ever enzym deeply rooted in our heritage takes root in us at the earliest of ages. In sad ways some people seek the approval that will never come, or for the wrong reasons, but I cannot explain why I still feel great about myself when my dad says, "well done."

We are our father's children after all.

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CT wonders how it is that rats know when it is time to leave the sinking ship?

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BRC at 12:45pm July 6

Hanging out down in the bilge, they get an early warning when the water starts to rise. Which applies to rats both literal and figurative.

CT at 12:56pm July 6

but if the ship is sinking can we really make the rats out to be bad guys? And if they aren't bad literally are they bad figuratively? Maybe we as a society need rats to be our early warning system.

BRC at 12:59pm July 6

If rats are bad guys, it's usually for some reason other than making the ship sink - it's the disease-carrying and thieving they are more guilty of. Ship sinking is usually more due to icebergs/sleeping watchmen. Or pirates.

CT at 1:02pm July 6

yes, but their merit as early warning systems for the sinking of the ship --- shouldn't that allow them some measure of forgiveness for all the desieasery and theivery?

BRC at 1:14pm July 6

it's only an "early warning" for the rest of us if they tell someone they are leaving.

SW at 1:17pm July 6

Ship sinking could also be caused from rice. Think about it. You put a ton of rice in the hull of a ship and it gets wet, expands, and then cracks the ship's frame. Very dangerous cargo to transport in the days of wooden ships. Of course, if they had rats to eat the rice, no problem, well, except for lack of merchandise.

EH at 1:49pm July 6

Y'all need to pick of a copy of William Hope Hodgson's "The Albatross"

CT at 1:51pm July 6

See there is ANOTHER thing that rats are good for. eating the rice that might other wise expand and sink the ship.
But... then of course we would have to discuss the quantum effect that rats saving and abandoning said ship. And the overall moral effect that eating/stealing/saving/abandoning the ship might have on both the crew and the rat populace.

CT at 1:54pm July 6

Plus, Hodgson falls into the same social trap as do we all. The rats in his story are "imprisoning" the woman and need to be battled. But isn't that an assumption on the part of the woman? Maybe the rats are filling in the cracks and her weeks worth of supplies would be worthless if the boat sank prematurely. Just as we all assume we know the identity of the figurative rats in society and how to best deal with them

EH at 2:12pm July 6

Okay, okay. Go read "The mystery of the Derelict" then or go get the exciting part in my note.

BRCat 2:21pm July 6

Or you could watch the bonus feature on the Ratatouille DVD that talks about the historical relationship between rats and humans and draw your own conclusions.

CTl at 2:23pm July 6

HA HA. I love the juxtaposition: Mystery of the Derelict, or Ratatouille bonus features. Surely we dwell in the information age.