Of Broken Arms

I broke my arm. It's taking me dang long to write this post with one hand. For this reason my posts this summer are probably going to happen hardly at all. Sorry. I know you are all greatly disappointed.

Here's a picture of the injury in the hospital, before it was set:

Of New Beginnings to Old Ventures

Today I leave for camp. I am a new man of sorts, I hope. Last summer was a horribly unproductive affair due to my divided attention between plenty of petty idols with a little sliver of care for God.

A friend recently told quoted to me a mantra: "If you don't think of something in your power as a possibility, then it will never happen." In this specific context, I do not want to keep living in my current state of unproductive Christianity, and I even more specifically do not want to have another summer like I did last year.

So now, I am ruling it out as a possibility. Your prayers are desperately desired.

I am going to try and update this once a week, we only have free time on the weekends for the most part, so we'll see how that goes.

If you would like to write me mail, then let me know.

Of "Two Hands"

A while ago I did a post based around Jars of Clay's song "Two Hands." Well, here is their explanation of the song:

Jars of Clay: Stories Behind the Songs (2 of 7) from Jars of Clay on Vimeo.

Of Materialism

"Our minds, which are even now only just awakening after years of materialism, are infected with the despair of unbelief. The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul in its grasp."
--Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Materialism can be applied to an over desire for pleasure and other sins, yes?