Honesty

Wilco - You and I

You and I
We might be strangers
However close we get sometimes
It's like we never met

But you and I
I think we can take it
All the good with the bad
Make something no one else has but

You and I
You and I

Me and you
What can we do?
When the words we use sometimes
Are misconstrued?

I won't guess
What's coming next
I can't ever tell

You're the deepest well I've ever fallen into

Oh I don't wanna know
Oh I don't wanna know
Oh I don't need to know
Everything about you

Oh I don't wanna know
And you don't need to know
That much about me

You and I
We might be strangers
However close we get sometimes
It's like we never met

But you and I
I think we can take it
All the good with the bad
And make something no one else has but

You and I

Alexander Solzhenitsyn said: “The line between good and evil is not drawn between nations and parties, but through every human heart.”

Prayer and repetition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya46wfeWqJk&feature=related
Listen carefully from 1:10 - 1:50.
Were the Greeks and Derrida on to something? Are we like Echo in our worship, stringing together the glimpses we have of God into some small response of love for Him?

Blogs

Blogs are not the most effective way of building community. They disembody us, make us ghosts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CZaXwdj7u4
I am a man, in a body, and embodied language is my primary method of communication.

Beach

I'm at Huron Feathers now, a Presbyterian Church Centre & Day Camp in Sauble Beach, Ontario.
It's really good. But I miss everything.
I'm reading "A Secular Age" by Charles Taylor.
If anyone loves beaches and visiting, shoot me an email before you leave for Sauble and we'll hang, deal?
This isn't normal for me.

Crammin'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMrPjl-927Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htwkRYa0gOk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_S-Mijm9gQ&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJNCqkKJbBc
If you've got the time, watch a few of these.

Dunking has become such a huge status symbol. Ask any grade 10 basketball player and they will tell you how much they want to dunk. It's quite the feeling. Success in sports is euphoria - you've beaten the game, you've not cheated but you've completely dominated your opponent (if you really have time, look up some David Beckham free kicks). Sometimes, basketball seems like such a timewaster, but your whole self flourishes - has shalom - and sings praises - when you dunk. I've been doing a lot of leg presses lately.

Ballin'

I really dig coaching basketball. Tonight, and tomorrow night, and the night after that we have games. If we lose any of them, we are out of the playoffs.

Understanding sports is tough - it's such a passionate cultural phenomenon, and thus has plenty of potential to be used for Gods glory, but an equal amount of potential to be abused. If you think about it, basketball is just two groups of guys each trying to throw a ball through a hoop more times than the other group can throw the ball through the hoop. And that's fun. That's a game. But as soon as you decide that you want to get the ball through the hoop more than other teams on a consistent basis, against very good competition, basketball becomes a whole lot more than that. I don't know if that is what makes it a sport or not. Maybe someday I'll understand. In the interim, I'll coach as best as I know how.

People say that it's not about whether you win or lose, it's about having fun. Well, I have more fun when I win.