I’m Back!
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
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)
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
Casting Crowns Pictures
Some of my shots from the Casting Crowns gig last night are here on flickr now. Was really touched by the humility of the band… best Christian music gig I’ve been to in a long while. Check out Connors pictures from it too, he’s got some great shots.
Preparations
At Whitewell preparing for the Casting Crowns gig tonight. Taking some pictures and generally doing whatever I’m asked!
Favourite Things
Last night I took a wee trip up to the North Coast…
Favourite place… great company… beautiful evening… what more can a girl ask for?!?
Goal-Setting
I’ve been thinking about setting some goals again… I think it’s time to rejig and update my list. Mark has been talking about goal-setting quite a bit recently. It sent me off on a wee search for my 43 Things account, which I have used very little… it’s interesting to see what’s on the list, I haven’t really used it since I set it up about a year ago. I discovered that I’d achieved one of the goals since then – see e.s.t. live in concert – it’s good to recognise goals being achieved.
I’ve been slowly working my way through Eugene Petersons’ book, Christ Plays In Ten Thousand Places. He puts it well when he writes,
“Never, impatient with the limitations of time, did Jesus slip through some time-warp and bypass the waiting. Never, chafing under the limitations of place, did Jesus replace the local with some generalized and ethereal spiritual “presence”. Anything and everything in creation was an occasion for the glory, the entire creation manifesting the bright presence of God, even in, especially in, the most unlikely times and places; the line between supernaural and natural constantly was blurred.”
This reality that “anything and everything” is an opportunity to delve into God-revelation is part of the excitement for me of setting goals. Every goal I set is a way for me to get to know more of this beyond-my-comprehension God I serve.
Find my current goal list at 43 Things… I guess I will update it in the next few days and weeks as I get some clarity.
University Cloisters
The Cloisters
Originally uploaded by emmaboyd.
Finally got around to taking some pictures down at uni yesterday. It really is an incredibly beautiful place, I’m privilleged to be able to study and live here. There’s some more pictures on my flickr.
Packing
In the process of packing up all my stuff… I move out of university halls tomorrow. Still can’t quite believe thats me finished first year. It’s also pretty mind-boggling how much stuff you can acquire without realising it!! I sorta thought, because I’m a fairly organised/tidy person anyway, that it’d be quite straightforward and quick to pack… not so!
Tomorrow my parents are picking me up, and I head back to Northern Ireland for about 3 weeks, before I’m off again!
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