Never the Same

When you have spent time in the presence of God, there should be a different demeanor about you.

So different that when you let people into the depths of who you are, they are changed.

The Holy Spirit is in the business of changing.

Be confident enough in God to walk out what he has ordained for you and only you.

Be secure enough to let people into the depths of who you are.

When we are more and more like Jesus, people should not walk away the same after meeting us,
yet not in any way because of US, yet the BRIGHT LIGHT, the sparkle and display of God's
glory that even Moses had to cover his face when speaking with others.

May we spend so much time in the presence of our Father that we glimmer and shine.
Those who look to Him are radiant. Psalm 34:5

May God's glory be so heavy on us that it inspires others to seek God more deeply,
(the presence of God inspires)
to repent,
to ask harder questions,
to desire and seek after the joy and peace that He has offered to us.

May we always point to our Savior.

And may we be such bold light insomuch that we evade the darkness.

Bixby Canyon Bridge

I descended a dusty gravel ridge
Beneath the Bixby Canyon Bridge
Until I eventually arrived
At the place where your soul had died

Barefoot in the shallow creek
I grab some stones from underneath
And waited for you to speak to me

In the silence it became so very clear
That you had long ago disappeared
And I cursed myself for being surprised
That this didn't play like it did in my mind

All the way from San Francisco
As I chased the end of your rope
'Cause I've still got miles to go

And I want to know my fate
If I keep up this way
And it's hard to want to stay
Awake

When everyone you meet
They all seem to be asleep
And you wonder if you're missing your dream
You can't see your dream
You can't see your dream
You just can't see your dream

A dream

And then it started getting dark
And I trudged back to where the car was parked
No closer to any kind of truth
As I must assume was the case with you

_DCFC


This song is art.

My Wish for You

I tell all my guy friends:

Find a girl who is beautiful not only on the outside, but more importantly on the inside. Find a girl who is deep. Find a girl who has taken time to develop who she is. Find a girl who has an understanding of how big God is.



Find a girl who will offer to get up and get you a glass of water while you stay, or turn off the lights (but don't let her, or go with her).

Find a girl who will love you in every dimension of life.



& The only way you will get a girl like that is, if you are all these things to her.

This kind of girl realizes who she is. She won't let herself be easily snatched.

When you find her, cherish her, hang on to her, make her yours,

because she is rare.

Free Spirit?

"It refers to a human being who feels unconstrained by convention; rather, the spirit of liberty is paramount to that person."

"Free spirits are inclined to explore life and taste new experiences that hold true to the deepest parts of themselves vs. being influenced by what the masses around them are doing. They are often people who think freely and have the courage to hear their own voice and follow their own integrity."


Funny how other people see things in you before you realize it yourself.


Here's to rediscovering.

To Love;

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.

- C.S. Lewis

You Are a Tourist

And if you feel just like a tourist in the city you were born
Then it's time to go
And define your destination
There's so many different places to call home
Because when you find yourself the villain in the story you have written
It's plain to see
That sometimes the best intentions are in need of redemptions
Would you agree?
If so please show me

This fire grows higher
When there's a burning in your heart

_Chris Walla, DCFC

The Heart

"Life is a journey of the heart that requires the mind—not the other way around. The church sometimes gets this backward and makes knowing the right things the center of life. It's not;
the heart is the center of life. Desire is always where the action is.
The key is to bring the TRUTH into our hearts to guard and guide our desire."

_Eldredge, The Journey of Desire



I was reminded and amazed when I reread what God says in Ezekiel 36:

25"I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols.
26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you;
I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
28 Then you will live in the land I gave your ancestors; you will be my people, and I will be your God..."

God is giving them a new heart and moving them
to follow his decrees by
a softened heart AND implanted truth. WOW.




God is seeking worshipers who worship in spirit and in truth.

"The informed mind through the revealed Word of God and the Spirit's presence in our lives
inflames the heart,
and the heart creates the energy for the growing mind."

_Matt Chandler, Gospel Centered Worship, Village Identity Part 4
(current favorite sermon)

God is seeking worshipers with informed minds and inflamed hearts.




What is your heart set on? Your mind may be set on doing God's will but your heart may be desiring and longing for completely different things. I was convicted of this recently.


The heart is kind of a big deal. It truly guides ones life more than one realizes.
For example, one can believe that jealousy is wrong intellectually and tell oneself not to be jealous, but the moment ones coworker is granted a promotion, which leads?--ones mind (that believes jealousy is wrong and tells itself not to be jealous) or ones heart?

Your heart for sure. All things harbored in the heart are revealed .

It is a man's heart that reflects the man, not his mind.




Have the right thing in your mind intellectually,
and in your heart affectionately. _Chambers


Let us
"Love the Lord our God with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our mind." _Matthew 22:37