Feist and money. :)......:(

Attention everyone awesome:

Feist will be at Stubb's BBQ on April 15th.

We should go.

Also:

Money is stinky.

(Literally, have you smelled it lately?)

I don't like it one bit.

I think we should start a new country,

where everyone is just nice enough to share.

And no one needs money.

Nobody would have money problems if there was no money.

Or, I guess you could say that everyone would have money problems..

But it wouldn't matter!

Here are some Feist lyrics for your enjoyment.

"How My Heart Behaves"

What grew

What grew

What grew and inside who

First so simple was the vow

Then the chorus sang about

Your shoulder

The mooring for me

Like water lost in the sea

The cold heart will burs

tIf mistrusted first

And a calm heart will break

When given a shake

I'm a stem now

Pushing the drought aside

Opening up

Fanning my yellow eye

On the ferry

That's making the waves wave

Illumination

This is how my heart behaves

The cold heart will burst

If mistrusted first

And a calm heart will break

When given a shake

(How her heart behaves)

The rain rain making me cry

(How her heart behaves)

Then the wind comes

Fanning my yellow eye

(How her heart behaves)

The waves wave the waves wave

This is how my heart behaves

A cold heart will burst

If mistrusted first

And a calm heart will break

When given a shake

The cold heart will burst

If mistrusted first

And a calm heart will break

When given a shake

What grew

What grew

What grew and inside who

Quotes from Jim Elliot

Thanks to Rita I'm reading Jim Elliot's Journals and I'm loving them!
They're so insightful yet simple, convicting yet encouraging, and beautiful.
It's such a bessing to have people like him to look to as examples and it's a real blessing to have their actual journals to go to in order to find out what they were really like. I'm thankful that I can read his journal but I'm embarressed to think of someone reading mine.
He was by no means a perfect person but he was an example of trying to be where God wanted him, doing what God wanted him to be doing. That's as much as any of us can do. It's just encouraging to see how it has happened in someone elses life before you.
Another thing that I've been convicted of while reading is that he strove so hard to be in the word constantly. And not only that but to really understand it and love it. He didn't always understand it or love it judging by his journals but he continually reminded himself to try.
I frequently forget how closely related people are to eachother in their thoughts and feelings. I don't forget that other people suffer or struggle but I forget that they do it in much the same way I do. I foolishly and selfishly start thinking that these thoughts or feelings are new ones. I'm completely wrong. By reading his journals I've already discovered many things he says that I've thought about myself.
He was a young man writing these things in 1948 and I shouldn't have anything in common with him, right? And yet I do. I'm not trying to compare myself to him or belittle what he did or who he was but sometimes, I think, we forget how simular we all are to one another in or innermost areas of our minds and hearts.
Anyway enough ramblings. I've only just begun to read the book and have a long way to go. I know I'll have lots more thoughts and quotes from it later on but I leave you with some quotes that I've come accross already.

"God, I pray, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life but a full one like Your's, Lord Jesus."

"O God, save me from a life of barrenness, following a formal pattern of ethics called Theism and give instead that vital contact of the soul with Thy divine life that fruit may be produced and Life-abudant living may be known again as the final proof for Christ's message and work!"

"Yes, send persecution to me, Lord, that my life might bring forth much fruit."

"As the bush burned and was not consumed, so God enters a man and peforms a miracle. God is an eternal burning and when He makes His abode with a man, He allows that man to become a witness to His power without being consumed by His person."

"Mark my ear, Lord, that it might respond only to Thy voice."