we'll be fine


"we sometimes encounter people, even strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken."







In dreams for a while...







Disturb us, Lord, when
We are too pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true
Because we dreamed too little,
When we arrived safely
Because we sailed too close to the shore.

Disturb us, Lord, when
with the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our thirst
For the waters of life;
Having fallen in love with life,
We have ceased to dream of eternity
And in our efforts to build a new earth,
We have allowed our vision
Of the new Heaven to dim.

Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,
To venture on wilder seas
Where storms will show Your mastery;
Where losing sight of land,
We shall find the stars.

We ask you to push back
The horizons of our hopes;
And to push back the future
In strength, courage, hope, and love.

This we ask in the name of our Captain,
Who is Jesus Christ.

rise so high



"What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? -it's the too huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”



rebel sheep



when we were in portland our friend showed us this rad video. it makes me really happy - well done, red fang


on our way home from tour this weekend we hit a bunch of traffic bringing the van to a slow roll in the countryside. what we assumed was a car crash ended up being a ton of sheep on the loose that had escaped & had taken over the freeway. i imagine it just took one bad lamb to lead them on a mission to destroy the world. you know, the one your mom always warned you about hanging out w/ in high school.

they would have gotten away with it too had it not been for the highway patrol. when we passed i was almost proud of them for escaping...little rebel sheep. there's really nothing like freedom :)




nothing to doubt


having conversations with my parents these days, i can see how the whole dynamic has changed since i was a kid. I spoke as if i was coming from a place where i thought i had the world pretty much figured out. funny thing that as i'm getting older...i think about what wisdom actually is. It seems like it's, instead, the process of realization that I really don't i know much about things at all. after all this time, I'm finally beginning to see that real wisdom is finding out you have so much more to learn.