I’m Back!

by | Jun 20, 2007 | Music

Well, for a while! My internet is now fixed. Here I go catching up on a weeks worth of emails/blogs/flickr.

Check out this amazing song, We Are Broken by Paramore (you can listen to it on youtube here). The lyrics are incredible…

I am outside
And I’ve been waiting for the sun
With my wide eyes
I’ve seen worlds that don’t belong
My mouth is dry with words I cannot verbalize
Tell me why we live like this

Keep me safe inside
Your arms like towers
Tower over me

Yeah
Cause we are broken
What must we do to restore
Our innocence
And oh, the promise we adored
Give us life again cause we just wanna be whole

Lock the doors
Cause I’d like to capture this voice
it came to me tonight
So everyone will have a choice
And under red lights
I’ll show myself it wasn’t forged
We’re at war
We live like this

Keep me safe inside
Your arms like towers
Tower over me

Cause we are broken
What must we do to restore
Our innocence
And oh, the promise we adored
Give us life again cause we just wanna be whole

Tower over me
Tower over me

And I’ll take the truth at any cost

Cause we are broken
What must we do to restore
Our innocence
And oh, the promise we adored
Give us life again cause we just wanna be whole

[We Are Broken – Paramore]

Click here for Paramore’s myspace.

Banjaxed

by | Jun 15, 2007 | Everything Else

My internet access at home is banjaxed, so I apologise if I don’t reply to emails or blog much for a while! In the process of trying to get it fixed, no idea whats wrong. Anywho. Just so you know!

Sex God :: Endless Connections (Pt 2)

by | Jun 10, 2007 | Books

Yesterday I read Rob Bells latest book, Sex God. Rob is speaking in Belfast on Tuesday night, as part of the Calling All Peacemakers tour, so I thought I’d take the chance to read this before then. I found it a really useful book in exploring sexuality and how it relates into everything we do.

Bell has always come in for critiscm, but until now, I’ve never really had any problem with him. However, as much as I appreciated this book… there was one thing he said that just doesn’t sit well with me. He is speaking about the Jewish context of marriage and sex, that in the Hebrew understanding you weren’t married until you’d had sex. He talks around this about ‘unmarried’ couples and suggets that maybe in God’s eyes they are already married… I dunno about this! I think you should read it and judge for yourself. I’m not going to throw out everything because of this, but it did kinda take me aback for a moment.

On a brighter note, here are some points I loved…

“Our sexuality is all the ways we strive to reconnect with our world, with each other,
and with God.”

“Sexy is when it feels good to be in your own skin. Your own body feels right, it feels comfortable. Sexy is when you love being you.”

“Sex becomes a search. A search for something they’re missing. A quest for the unconditional embrace. And so they go from relationship to relationship, looking for what they already have.”

“Is sex in its greatest, purest, most joyful and honest expression a glimpse of forever?
Are these brief moments of abandon and oneness and ecstasy just a couple of seconds or minutes of how things will be forever?
Is sex a picture of heaven?”

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Sex God :: Endless Connections

Preparations

by | Jun 7, 2007 | Music, Photography

At Whitewell preparing for the Casting Crowns gig tonight. Taking some pictures and generally doing whatever I’m asked!