Cory says I should use the spell check

I tried, but I wasn't patient enough to wait for the thing to work.

Comment about that, Cory!

cory is about to blog about my blog

Oh Crap. I must blog before Cory does to prepare my wonderful blog for the flood of magnificent, well thought, or humorous comments that will come, and blogger will email me about at my email address that I no longer check.

I drove to the south end of Fresno with Lamar and we pciked up a 14 ft U-Haul and drove it to the Pleasant Mattress Company where we picked up 104 camp mattresses, and yes it was pleasant. They brought out two towering palettes of blue mattresses and we all laughed, trying to imagine them fitting in the U-Haul. Our man loaded like a champ and Lamar and I had only one mattress crammed into the cab with us. I couldn't see Lamar all the way across our nice truck. Don't worry, we made it, everything is all done with the mattresses.

I would like to write something more thoughtful, to join in with all the wonderful conversations about our Jesus and how his kingdom works, but I never know what the right questions are to ask people. How do we involve Jesus in our lives daily as we live with open hands and hearts towards others, towards Christ? How?

blessings

unread response

in an unread response to Tertium quid...

God showed no fear when he chose to express his love to us. I once lived through a dark time, full of cynicism, weak belief and no fruit. THe word I received when I came out was this:

there is no fear in love.


Merry Christmas, Immanuel

Check out this one...

Hey guy. Guys. I know you all have been waiting for this one. So get ready to read. I blog about every three months or so. They are special.

I just finished reading "Catch-22"

I am currently reading "Fire on the Mountain: the true story of the South Canyon fire"

Other books I have started and not finished

"Prayer" Hans Urs VonBalthazar
"Orthodoxy" G.K. Chesterton
"Amazing Grace" Kathleen Norris
"The Pursuit of God" A.W. Tozer
"The Cost of Discipleship" Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"A Far Off Place" Laurens Vanderpost
"Letters to a Young Poet" Rainer Marie Rilke
"20 Love Poems" Pablo Neruda
"Writing Down the Bones"Natilie Goldberg
"Most of the books I was supposed to read in college, except the ones I liked"

this one's for all you guys

Hey thanks to you loyal supporters. You're really encouraging the blogging over here. Zack - man you really moved me to write this one. Thanks. I couldn't have done this without you.

Props to my brother's in Durango, as well as Santa Barbara, Boston, and Burbank. By brothers, I mean it like "brothers and sisters" slash people I know.

laters

Let me tell you why I find it hard to blog:

-I tend to get too personal for my own comfort...which means I start to speak in indefinite terms, not too much fun for others to read.
-I (clearly) let too much time slip between blogs and it feels a useless and flippant form of expression.
-I have no idea how to be creative with the format of my blog. This makes it boring, more for me than for the imagined you.
-My wife thinks its a bit silly.
-I work.

Jonathan Capp

I have recently done many things since I last wrote. I am writing now, primarily, because my friend James wrote to me and asked me to look at his site; I did; I enjoyed.

I write one poem that I like every so often. They are more rare than they should be, because...well too many reasons.

My life consists mostly of being with my wife and figuring out what our friendship is. This, strangely enough, can be a lonely thing, when one is used to having many different friends that one can talk to about different parts of life. It is a shock when there is now only one person to which you talk about all aspects. It will not always be so, but it is now.

And so I find myself in a strange position; one of not knowing how to invest in new relationships, feeling strangely uninterested and unable to pursue knowledge of other individuals. I am lost amidst my own self, and I cannot make my way out to learn about others. I am not sure what Jesus is doing through all this.

I read something incredible the other day.

"O Lord, God of our fathers, are you not the God who is in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. Power and might are in your hand, and no one can withstand you. O our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham you friend? They have lived in it and have built in it a sacutary for your Name, saying, 'If calamity comes upon us, whether the sword of judgement, or plague or famine, we will stand in your presence before this temple that bears your Name and will cry out to you in our distress, and you will hear us and save us.'
But now here are men from Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir, whose territory you would not allow Israel to invade when they came from Egypt; so they turned away from them and did not destroy them. See how they are repaying us by coming to drive us out of the possession you gave us as an inheritance. O our God, will you not judge them? For we have no power to face this vast army that is attacking us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon you."