Throw Down Your Heart

Bela Fleck is a internationally known banjo player. His music is brilliantly fantastic! This past year he finished working on a project that took the banjo back to Africa. In the project, he played with famous musicians of traditional African instruments. Paired with Sascha Paladino, they created a film sharing the history of the banjo and its African roots. Here is a fun site that has the trailer, screening, and music clips from the project:
http://www.throwdownyourheart.com/

Psalm 46

This is an old myspace background I made in photoshop. I found it today while cleaning stuff out of my computer...hope you enjoy!

Delicacy of Life

As I passed through my room today, I paused to look at the board of pictures and writings that I have acquired through the years. A small green sheet caught my eye today. That slip of paper contains a poem that my cousin Ben wrote some years ago.

Life is as delicate as a flower.
It blossoms in the daylight
And spreads love as it opens its petals.
Love is as beautiful as a butterfly.
It is a cocoon that is only opened by the love
God gives us,
And it spreads its wings to share with the world.
The butterfly will meet the flower
And the world's life is filled with love.

This poem always strikes me with its simplicity. There is also a bit of irony in the words. Ben died when a car struck him. His life was as delicate as a flower. He was a fun kid, who always had simple wisdom hidden beneath a sarcastic comment.
I vividly remember going to devil's log slide in the UP and being too scared to go down with everyone. He simply told me that I would never really want to go down because it wasn't really that neat. I got upset and decided I had to see for myself. With all my fear, I went down...and surprise, I had fun. He smiled and just chuckled. Yeah...that was my cousin Ben.

Climbing wall dorm in Netherlands

Whoever came up with this had a brilliant idea! You should check this out...
http://lolanewyork.com/articles/climbing-wall-dorm--may-13-2009

Think Spring!

Yesterday I took my camera for a walk through our yard. I just wanted to play with some of the settings on the camera and enjoy the beautiful glory of God in his nature.

Deep thoughts

"All things are possible to him who believes, they are less difficult to him who hopes, they are more easy to him who loves and still more easy to him who perseveres in the practice of these three virtues." Brother Lawrence

RIIINNNGGG!!!

This is the way I feel about my parents phone somedays...and they wonder why I never answer when I am home :)