So I’m home for the weekend. Oh halelujah a chance to spread my legs! I know I’ve been updating lately with things that don’t really serve much of a purpose… But this one, this one is chill. This one is good.

These are a few of my favorite things

Long, slow drives at night, just breathing and sharing life with whoever happens to be the passenger

Long, slow walks down the Brooklyn Bridge

IHOP with friends

Watching a long and slow movie at home (rather than at a movie theatre)

IHOP with Jim

Truth

Love

Beauty

Hope

Falling asleep to previously said movie

 

  

Faith is like a breath of fresh air.  I guess that’s all I have to say

For all the times that I went back
To my old home
Through my old tracks
You’re there

For all the times I said I give
Up the ghost and up the fight
You’re there

And there’s nothing I can do
To repay you
Now there’s nothing I can say
To offend you

I’ve depended on myself
But this world pulls and I have fallen down
I have tried a million things
But you are what my heart is dying for

And there’s nothing I can do
To repay you
Now there’s nothing I can say
To offend you

It’s all on you
It’s all on you
Bless the Lord

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Lift up your voice to the King
Realize your state and the state he has given for free
That it’s nothing you do
It’s all to do with the love that was given to us

Alive
We are alive and free to dive
Into the deepest love
Take heart
Put hope in the one who gives new start, after new start, after new start

I hearby renounce that last post… It works sometimes but yeah. It’s not exactly an axiom to live by. Read Psalm 32 and 34!!!

“If you love somethin’ give it away” – Bright Eyes

Dude.

SLEEP WELL MY FRIENDS

Oh man! Naps are good… Especially if there’s some Norah goin’ on in the background. Oh man. (POST NAP FACE… OH IT WAS A GOOD NAP!)

Tonight was the most movie-like experience I’ve ever had. Not like that, though. It was… It was like one of those good movies. You know the ones you feel like really teach you something? I was struck by how screwed up the whole world is. I’m not even talking about wars, bad presidents, nothing like that. It’s the minutia.

I found out yesterday that a very close friend of mine did something they were not supposed to. I hate to make it vague, for fear that it would take away from the validity of my story, but it was something major. It was big. Real big (insomuch as people measure things).

Today some of my friends got into a huge fight. They yelled at eachother, pounded their fists… Made eachother want to cry… or punch a hole in the wall, or punch eachothers faces… Maybe all of those things. The point is it was really bad… Pretty huge.

I was walking back to my dorm minutes after this, and saw a girl lying outside on the ground. A friend was with her and standing next to her, not quite sure what to do. Myself and some other random guys stopped to help. This girl was hugely drunk. She was kneeling and bowing, face all the way to the ground. Her face was a milimeter above her own vomit, but she couldn’t move away from it. NYU Security came out and said he was going to call her RA, then after a while said he’d call EMS. Her friend tried stop him because of,  well you know, the embarrasment of it all or something. I had been given her ID and purse to hold, and as it happened that they’re was nothign I could do, her friend took the things and said thanks. She’d take care it. I said goodbye, now come to think of it, maybe I should’ve stayed, tried to help, pray.

Now EMS is a few stories below my window. I’m praying the girl’s okay, and as the siren lights whirl or do whatever it is they do, I’m thinking about the conversations I’ve been having lately with my awesome roomates and new friend Hillary from down the hall. We’ve been talking about Christianity and its validity I suppose. Tonight it came to me. Christianity is, because  we never figured out how to live, and after 8,000 years or so, there’s still war, still death  and plagues, still debt in Africa. Is the earth making progress? Really? Where? Global warming. Abortion. Dysfunctional families. Progress?

Like I said, the validity of Christianity. Tonight I suppose it came to me. Is Christianity a crutch? yeah, I’d say it is. We all need crutches.
I know I do.

“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith, and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast.” Ephesians 2: 8-9

    Hello friends… I really should be working on my homework right now, but I wanted to tell you what God’s been doing my life… Things have been good here and I’m starting to feel really sentimental… It’s probably a combination of the caffeine and the mellow Jars of Clay tune (“Oh My God” from their new album) and the actual happenings of my life that are producing this emotion, but for whatever of it is unadulterated, I’d like to tell you how God is moving in my life.

    I’ve found a small but honest group of Christ followers up here. Absolutely disfunctional, but sincere. I’m finding that it was more like that in San Antonio than I realized. I often never offered to other Christians in San Antonio, the grace Jesus offers, the grace I allow for myself.

    Throughout the summer I was slowly making progress on a book called The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel. It’s a documentation of the Author’s investigation of the historical accuracy of the New Testament, more specifically, the claims of the gospels. I’ve been greatly encouraged, and at a time or two, moved by this book and feel that it has served a suitable introduction for a class I’m taking up here called. “Jesus and the Origins of Christianity.”

    The class is an attempt to discover the purely historical truth of Jesus and the origins of Christianity. Some of the readings document the attempts of historians/theologians to separate a Christ Jesus from a naturalistic one. The difficulty arises in that there are no purely naturalistic gospels, so it is (in my opinion) impossible to give more or less authority to certain parts of the gospels. I’m super excited about this class, if not to discover more about Jesus (though I probably will), then to discover the psychology of those who disbelieve portions of the gospel and those who do believe the gospel accounts.

If you are interested in any of the material I’m studying for this class, I set up an email account at yahoo so that you can access the files I’m using for my classes. It’s davesclassdocs@yahoo.com and the password
is documents. Just go to the inbox. Since this is a fairly unsecure method of sharing files, you should know that I will never send any emails from this account. So if you get one from there, it is not from me. If you get a mean email or anything, I didn’t do it. But yeah, just got the inbox and there will be an email with my class files attached!

Much love! God bless! – Dave

Also, I would like to add that I was glad to have an update from Danny and Chelsea when I looked at my subscriptions… Thanks you guys, I appreciate it… ;O)
   
Oh, and one more thing… New song on my myspace! I’m excited about it! Check it out!

I hate language barriers!!! I have a South Korean rommate who’s English is on the poor side of fair and I hate having trouble talking to him… Some times are better than others. How is everyone??!!??!????!!??!????!!