Earlier today I was eating brunch in the dining commons (DC) with some friends. It wasn’t the most satisfying food, I must say – raisin bran, tuna, broccoli soup, grilled cheese on sourdough, a green apple and water (I’ll admit, I felt sick afterwards). So why didn’t I make a ham or turkey sandwich, you [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Having Dominion over Creation
Posted in Uncategorized on October 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Letters to/from the Austins
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This was both the letter Austin Crowder wrote to me and my response:
I just brought this up in theology class and a question in response to my statement had me at a loss for words. In our conversation in the DC. you had mentioned, which seems to me to be appropriate, that it is not [...]
Just a kid told truth
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was once just a kid told some truth. I believed the truth and I was patted on the back for it, now I’m ridiculed, mocked and persecuted for holding onto it. What happened in 19 years, because I know the truth didn’t change?
She came bearing light
Posted in Uncategorized on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When once I was young, the gem shone through my eyes, smile and dance. Then they came with their swords and spears overthrowing the edifice of my mind with shouting, anger and corruption. I have been fighting under the cloud of this oppression. Then she came, carrying with her the light of O’Ryan in her [...]
Discernment
Posted in Uncategorized on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Even a fool is able to discern extreme circumstances. A wise person is one who can discern through the everyday.
Even a fool can speak today of slavery as injustice. A wise person can speak of hatred anywhere it exists as just as deep and profound an injustice as that of slavery, murder of the [...]
The Journey to the Mountain’s Peak
Posted in Uncategorized on October 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Four young men were led to the base of a cold, gray mountain and told to take on a journey to the mountain’s peak, which was hidden above the clouds.
The first man was named Peter. He looked up and could not see this alleged “mountain peak” and so stared at the highest visible end – [...]
For my Birthday
Posted in Uncategorized on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.mycharitywater.org/westmont
I’m turning 22. I’m asking for $22 to go towards building sustainable wells for clean drinking water.
