quotes, prayers and thoughts from my 2008 journals

*A bird doesn't sing b/c it has an answer.  It sings because it has a song*Help me to look up and to see*Thank you Jesus for Chad*Give us a greater vision for Denver.  Use us uniquely*I think there is a part of me that really likes to feel needed and important so I try to take on too much*Help me to see through a lens of redemption*Do I really love Jesus?*How can I regularly be interacting with the poor?*Forgive me for sowing bad seeds in my heart*I feel a little like I have been walking around all year with hindrances on*insecurity*We are convinced that Jesus came not to prepare us to die but to teach us how to live*When you pray, learn to move your feet-African proverb*Thank you Jesus for Chad*learning to live with unresolve and ambiguity*I'm amazed that there are so many places where I am looking for worth from others approval*Jesus, transform and heal my heart*Help me to not run back to who I was but to come into who you are forming me to be*Sometimes I want to look like someone I'm not. Forgive me Lord for worshiping some image*Violence is for a world that has lost it's imagination -manager of a bagdad hospital*Anxiousness*The cultural mandate Genesis 2:15*I think I am over being affirmed for what I do. I want to be affirmed for who I am*There is enough for everyone's need, but not for everyone's greed-Ghandi*I feel a temptation to harden and I don't want to*Umbuntu:I am because we are*Lord, help my friend get pregnant*Knowledge does not necessarily carry itself over in behavior*I voted for a democrat*Truth can be used as a club or as a medicine to heal-J.L*Why do I have this sneaking suspicion that I have been reading from a theological script someone else wrote?-Chasing Francis*Thank you Jesus for Chad*Idol of reputation & respect*The kingdom always comes as an interruption*Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions upon millions- Soren Kiekegaard*Jesus be real to me*Jesus give me meaning*I feel like my paradigms and frameworks keep getting reworked and I'm just trying to keep up*I want to grow*