quicky
this week will stack up quickly for me. I have got to write a sermon and a wedding ceremony, plus a whole lot of other details that will free me up to actually enjoy going to spain in a week. Tania and Hannah leave Saturday...Kaleb and I are off on June 9th.

we'll see how things go. I am enjoying using ULead video editing software to put together a piece for a concert intermission on Saturday night. My version will expire sometime next month - I have got to find another one or buy one..we'll see...until then I will make as many short films as I can! out!
- posted by Jacob B. @ 8:07 AM (0) comments

 
jumpkickstart...
it's been really difficult to get this weeks blog posts off the ground...

I've lost my edge. Or atleast whatever looked like the edge that people thought and I convinced myself I once had. But this is what I wanted right? This is what you wanted right? To lose it. To let go. To...yes drift a bit.

as things are winding up here at the church, I am winding down, or rather unwiding at the core...things i just don't know...things I just can't do...my most pressing thought is - "I want out...now!"

How long...how long will we sing this song?
- posted by Jacob B. @ 3:45 PM (0) comments

 
I have been really busy this past weekend. We had a leadership training event that I was primarily in charge of. That soaked up much thought and energy of the past week. Not too mention I have been totally distracted with digital video and movie making tech stuff. I download a couple of free trial digital editing programs and have been spending endless hours messing with videos, images and audio tracks...

I took a cue from Andrew Jones and found archive.org which a whole lot of old videos free there. But I realize that I am totally lacking in DV resources. If anyone out there has any good sites where I can download digital video clips let me know...I think I am going to borrow Giac's digital video camera.

I am low...other than that...the sun came out today...that a good thing...too many people to deal with...

I'd rather be wandering in the woods....
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hear my friend Jordan here. He spoke a solid message on sunday at our church - made me proud. He is alive and kickin' refusing to live behind walls and choosing instead to live aloud - the real thing. He is truly a blessing in my life, a gift of God's mercy, I experience regularly.

Enjoying switchfoot thanks to discount prices at Uncle Sams favorite place to consume. If they only knew what they were really selling and what that'll do the empire they've create....
- posted by Jacob B. @ 11:17 AM (0) comments

 
Ps 88:11-13

Can those in the grave declare your unfailing love?
In the place of destruction, can they proclaim your faithfulness?
Can the darkness speak of your miracles?
Can anyone in the land of forgetfulness talk about your righteousness?

O LORD, I cry out to you.
I will keep on pleading day by day.

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our world spins into exploitation of people, the environment, and grave injustices...where is hope of Jesus...where is the church...where is the kingdom found...will cyber church cut it?
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why i love used book stores...
"He who hopes in God trust God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possesion of things that are beyond imagination."

"The only thing faith and hope do not give us is the clear vision of Him Whom we posess. We are united to Him in darkness, because we have to hope."

"...united to Him in darkness..."

"We can either love God because we hope for something from him, or we can hope in him knowing that he loves us."

- Thomas Merton, No Man Is An Island

When Tania and I were up in Port Townsend we discovered this huge used book store...I could have bought so much more. I limited myself to one book. We also bought gifts for our two little ones. My son loves books - that's cool.
- posted by Jacob B. @ 10:39 AM (0) comments

 
when the soul is dead or sleeping...
Someone, something call to my hollow places
Awake the child of faith that slumbers silently
Cause me to move and more arise to see you
Stir what latent water dwells darkly still
Softly, gently you are near, a large being looms
Oh Wisper of Ages, Breath of Heaven, and Voice Deep
Shake your son from sleeping here, rise up and
Spring forth faith from times and days ago
Know suddenly your Maker, remember creation's Mother
Transcendance to untie my trouble with it's haunting grace



- posted by Jacob B. @ 3:45 PM (0) comments

 
off to the port
Tania and I are off to Port Townsend to enjoy our 5 year aniversary together. The kids will be well taken care of by our friend Erin, at home. Sorry won't miss em much, not just for an over nighter. Maybe if it were two nights I would - no I know I would.

Should be fun...I have some fun surprises for my babe! She loves surprises...that's cool. Anyway I will try not to think too much .... I think that's my biggest problem in life ... the brain just won't mellow out. Turn it off, turn if off....

David Grey in BABYLON "...let go of your head...let go of your heart..."
- posted by Jacob B. @ 2:42 PM (0) comments

 
it's that time of the day. But the guilt level's fairly high because I haven't accomplished much today. I know. I am skewed, but it's likely that in some other area so are you. So that makes two of us.

Got alot to say/spill here but...it'll have to wait or give way, maybe another day.
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