this is Luann writing on behalf of daniel, 'cause I love him and love him enough to make an update for him.

daniel is an amazing person. low and behold we all knew this in the first place.

he is my housemate. and we live in seattle. and you, reading this, should come out and visit us.

hmmkay? k. end of story. come. now.

I

am

in

Seattle

Washington

and

it

is

cold

and

beautiful

.

LIFE!

How can one speak when they are overwhelmed by contentment?  It is a mystery that such a liberation as happiness and peace can weigh so much.  That having your heart set free to life can send pressure through your body in such a manner that you just want to run and yell and rejoice!  LIFE!  You are a beautiful thing!  May I never lose sight of you.  May I never doubt your value or your power!  God you amaze me.  Waves and thunder and universal majesty pale when placed within a thousand miles of a drop of your love.  What power it is when a gentle brush of your being can so illuminate and empower and embolden this empty shell of my body!  What glory there is in your creation.  What perfection there is in your beauty.  Pour yourself out!  May I be a geyser of love and hope and peace and mercy.  That my life would shower upon those around me that they could taste of the goodness that you have flooded me with!  Teach me to cherish the unwanted and encourage the broken spirited.  Teach me to LOVE!  For you are love and I desire all of you.  In this I am selfish.  For I will not be satisfied with a portion.  I crave your entirety.  Give me laughter as I’ve never experienced it before.  Make me an unfathomably deep well which others may find you.  And may they draw deep from your goodness and from your life. Give them LIFE God!  Give me LIFE!  Engorge me to the point where my tongue is pressed down with the weight of your awe. And provide me with the strength to lift that weight and tell the world of all that you are and all that you do. Thank you!! Help me to never be bound by desire for anything other than you, give me the power to walk through darkness, to trudge through the filth of hate and despair and to lift people out of it and into your glory. To give them LIFE God!  The life that you have given me. The life that shoots from my fingers and gives rise to my head.  Let me be a comfort.  A bastion of security and truth.  God thank you for your kindness and your unfailingness.  For LIFE. For LOVE! Make it contagious!  For it is irresistible. And it is good. For you are good. For YOU are life and YOU are love and YOU are freedom.  Set us free!

i have posted this lots of times and lots of places but i'm posting it again k??

The Future

it is 3:27 pm, November 4th, 2009. I am 23 years old. where am I?

I
have
no
idea.





in a life of rashness and spontaneity. confusion. indecision. when tomorrows pass, when they stop coming. you are dead. you live. moment by moment the possibility of you living into the next moment is the same possibility of you not moving anywhere ever again. a vapor. grass in the field. here. gone. 70 years. 70 seconds. we plan, we change our mind, we decide, we are thwarted. we form values. we break them. we break ourselves. we break each other. we are all broken, wandering from moment to moment, wondering who will get it next. time. the time is now. now. the past 'then' is immaterial, the future 'then' is not promised. now. before it's too late. plans for the future are dreams for the future. and like so many dreams, they fail to play by the rules. the rules we make. the rules we break. despair. confusion. blindness. what will come next, only God knows. God knows. in that life, in this life, we live. WE LIVE. now. some say freedom comes in the ability to walk blindly through lifes moments. i say freedom is to walk through this 'now' with the eyes of He-who-knows. to walk without eyes takes nothing but legs, to walk with choice, you have to know what is ahead of you. I know. for i know the One-who-knows. i see the confusion, but unlike most, i have have the freedom to decide whether or not i want to enter into it. we all stumble by. moment. by moment. unsure. Christ is surety. i chose freedom in knowledge. His knowledge. i chose His direction. I have a path. i have a choice. do we want chaos, illusionary freedom of the blind, or true freedom. freedom to open your eyes. freedom to see. freedom to have peace. peace. i care not about tomorrow. for i know where I am in this moment. and i know where i will be at the end of this succession of nows. these moments. i know where i am to end up. i know. peace. freedom. choice. Christ. my choice. your choice. our choice. i chose this moment. let my life be a light, may i help to give eyes to the blind. i can not stop the madness, but we can be pulled up out of it. our moments are filled with it. madness need not fill us too. grief, indecision. where. why. when. how. the scales fell from his eyes. He rose, He lives. this is His moment. the 'now' we have we have because of Him who gave us time, life. I chose to see. I chose the ability to know what is right. i hope that i may always chose clarity. but i know. i know that however much mud i cake back into my eyes, no matter how long i trudge through these moments, i have the ability to stand up again, to see again. i long to see. now. now is the time. now is my moment. His moment. now. peace. clarity. freedom. now.
I
chose
now.
I
chose
the Prince
of everlasting Peace.

now!
life.

freedom.

NOW!

Is it just me or is the room warbley?