child/God nature

I work with kids, so this hit home. I have prayed forgiveness over my forgetfulness of this kind of beautiful truth:

"We believe that the child, more than any other, has need of love because the child ... is rich in love. The child's need to be loved depends not so much on a lack that requires filling, but on a richness that seeks something that corresponds to it....The child needs an infinite, global love, such as no human being is able to give...in the contact with God the child finds the nourishment his (or her) being requires....God-who is Love-and the child, who asks for love more than for mother's milk, thus meet one another in a particular correspondence of nature..." -Sofia Cavalletti

When Jesus said to have faith like a child, I'm thinking he meant many things. I think he meant what is said above. I think he meant to come FULL ON to him. I think he meant we can come sad, say "sorry," be forgiven and go play again. And, overall, I think he meant that we will grow daily in faith, every minute new growth, expanding & exploding like the wild synapses in a budding child's brain.

-s.o

fitting

it poured today. I mean, it really rained down this morning. In many ways it was peaceful.
but i've been reflecting (or trying to) more this holy week. so, today, I couldn't help but sense just how fitting this water from the heavens was - just after Good Friday/just before Easter morning.
I think every child can see rain and perhaps think, "is this how God cries?" - that's nothing new.
i just thought it was fitting today.
-s.o

do what you "will"

crowned hold
Originally uploaded by thoseawake.

a good friend and I were discussing thinkers and their thinker-thinkings on life. he was teaching me that one guy (and many along with) have really focused on the "will." he said that "to will" is the ultimate reality, ultimate truth, the end. within the thinking is no good/bad, beautiful/disgraceful, right/wrong, just a will. and, everyone should exercise their will - that is all they can & should do. (see Nietzsche's Beyond Good & Evil)
the interesting thing is that my friend found the thinker's thinkings intriguing and maybe right, but as we talked we were both drawn to something else too. that is another (prob. long) story, but i can just say that I'm glad I was with friend who I know can see the beauty around and within. in that, he's a seer, and maybe that keeps him (like it does me) from believing there is no beauty and no good.
but, back to the "will." one thing I really like is just a focus on that word. talking of the will has escaped what it deserves with me. I don't talk about it enough. I somehow easily utter the phrase "I will go to a Good Friday service tonight" and don't recognize the WILL that 1.is part of that sentence and 2. is ALL (not just a part) of the meaning of the sentence. See? we talk of willing everyday. we -will- in everything we do. we do what we will.
I plan to think on this more. for now, I WILL stay awake and trust a crowned hold comes when we WILL be confused. today, good friday, is a reminder of what one man WILL do for each of us. what will we do with that?
-s.o

home cooked poetry

a la -relevant- mag, I found http://www.thebradley.net/
this guy seems super cool. right now he's traveling doing shows in people's homes across the U.S.

the little poetry I've heard from him is excellent.
get it.

happy saint patty's day!

-s.o

Stanley Grenz passes

A uniquely awakened voice died this past weekend. Stanley Grenz has been revered MUCH by thinkers about post-modern church and mission living. I can't say anything close to meaningful about him, so check out Brian Mclaren's words under the blogroll.

an incredible thinker who played music and lived in vancouver ... ideal.

-s.o

rain/corner bakery/tonight's message

a friend emailed me tonight and was answering a casual request I had made.
his response was "it is done." well, we all use that phrase all the time ... absolutely no big deal. but, when I read it off the pwrbk screen, i heard the "it is done; it is finished" of jesus. (i know this could easily turn cheesy).

but, it just woke me up for quick second. i am stunned at those 3 words of christ on the cross. it is done.

hear it?

it's kind of freeing me tonight. i'm sitting at corner bakery, rain outside the window, and those words ringing over me. man, that tastes good!!! that message is complete, COMPLETE - freedom! i don't think i've ever imagined it quite like i am tonight.

that phrase is NOT done in me.

-s.o