Music: Doubting Thomas by Nickel Creek

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eFe3net82s&feature=related

What will be left when I've drawn my last breath,
Besides the folks I've met and the folks who know me,
Will I discover a soul saving love,
Or just the dirt above and below me,

I'm a doubting thomas,
I took a promise,
But I do not feel safe,
Oh me of little faith,

Sometimes I pray for a slap in the face,
Then I beg to be spared 'cause I'm a coward,
If there's a master of death I'll bet he's holding his breath,
As I show the blind and tell the deaf about his power,
I'm a doubting thomas,
I can't keep my promises,
'Cause i don't know what's safe,
oh me of little faith

Can I be used to help others find truth,
When I'm scared I'll find proof that its a lie,
Can I be lead down a trail dropping bread crumbs,
That prove I'm not ready to die,

Please give me time to decipher the signs,
Please forgive me for time that I've wasted,

I'm a doubting thomas,
I'll take your promise,
Though I know nothin's safe,
Oh me of little faith

Tea & Ink

Sundays, every other week, 2 - 4pm, starting Sep 27

Exploring the intersection of Faith and Creative Writing … Whether you’re a complete amateur or a semi-pro; a lover of fiction, non-fiction, stories, poems, or essays; you’re welcome to explore with us why we write and how God can be glorified in writing. We’ll be meeting at the Dickinson home every other Sunday afternoon, 2 - 4 pm, starting September 27, with essay & story discussions, free writing exercises, and workshopping of our own writing. Contact Markus Dickinson (md7@indiana.edu) for more information.

Music: Beautiful Things from Dr. Doolittle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD5vT7VT4II

The world is full of beautiful things
Butterfly wings, fairytale kings
And each new day undoubtedly brings
Still more beautiful things

The world abounds with many delights
Magical sights, fanciful flights
And those who dream on beautiful nights
Dream of beautiful things

Beautiful days for sunshine lazin'
Beautiful skies and shores
Beautiful days when I can gaze
In beautiful eyes - like yours

Our lives tick by like pendulum swings
Poor little things, puppets on strings
Life is full of beautiful things
Beautiful people too
Beautiful people
Like you.

Excerpt: The Magician's Nephew" by CS Lewis

"... In the story, a young boy named Digory has a mother that is sick. He finds himself in a land containing magical fruit with healing powers. Digory approaches the great lion Aslan, and asks...

'May I - please, will you give me some magic fruit of this country to make Mother well?'
He had been desperately hoping that the Lion would say 'Yes'; he had been horribly afraid it might say 'No.' But he was taken aback when it did neither.


Later in the story, Digory approaches Aslan again.

He thought of his Mother, and he thought of the great hopes he had, and how they were all dying away, and a lump came in his throat and tears in his eyes, and he blurted out:
'But please, please won't you - can't you give me something that will cure Mother?' Up till then he had been looking at the Lion's great feet and the huge claws on them; now, in despair, he looked up at its face. What he was surprised him as much as anything in his whole life.
For the tawny face was bent down near his own and (wonder of wonders) great shining tears stood in the Lion's eyes. They were such big, bright tears compared with Digory's own that for a moment he felt as if the Lion must really be sorrier about his Mother than he was himself.'

What a powerful picture of a Heavenly Father who hurts with us."

www.derryprenkert.com

Music: Change by Tracy Chapman

Listen, hear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drXwsVYrd20

If you knew that you would die today,
Saw the face of God and love,
Would you change?
Would you change?

If you knew that love can break your heart
When you're down so low you cannot fall
Would you change?
Would you change?

How bad, how good does it need to get?
How many losses? How much regret?
What chain reaction would cause an effect?
Makes you turn around,
Makes you try to explain,
Makes you forgive and forget,
Makes you change?
Makes you change?

If you knew that you would be alone,
Knowing right, being wrong,
Would you change?
Would you change?

If you knew that you would find a truth
That brings up pain that can't be soothed
Would you change?
Would you change?

How bad, how good does it need to get?
How many losses? How much regret?
What chain reaction would cause an effect?
Makes you turn around,
Makes you try to explain,
Makes you forgive and forget,
Makes you change?
Makes you change?

Are you so upright you can't be bent?
If it comes to blows are you so sure you won't be crawling?
If not for the good, why risk falling?
Why risk falling?

If everything you think you know,
Makes your life unbearable,
Would you change?
Would you change?

If you'd broken every rule and vow,
And hard times come to bring you down,
Would you change?
Would you change?

If you knew that you would die today,
If you saw the face of God and love,
Would you change?
Would you change?
Would you change?
Would you change?

If you saw the face of God and love
If you saw the face of God and love
Would you change?
Would you change?

Excerpt: The Peace of Wild Things

by Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least of sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Audrey Needs...

So I typed "Audrey needs" into Google. Here are the first 20 things to pop up.
Really funny how some match me really well, like about the photos models, wooden spoons and Celiac disease stuff.

1. Audrey needs..... models for her crazy photography ideas.
2. Audrey needs..... a home.
3. Audrey needs..... calm.
4. Audrey needs..... to make more effort regarding men.
5. Audrey needs..... your help.
6. Audrey needs..... a girl.
7. Audrey needs..... more wooden spoons.
8. Audrey needs..... phone number and address.
9. Audrey needs..... to show her bad side.
10. Audrey needs... HAPPY ENDING!!!!
11. Audrey needs... a new bed.
12. Audrey needs... a heart.
13. Audrey needs... some help finding ingredients to make a meal those suffering from Celiac disease or wheat allergies can enjoy.
14. Audrey needs... a family.
15. Audrey needs... room in Trondheim.
16. Audrey needs... to be awake for work in 3 hours.
17. Audrey needs... a flute.
18. Audrey needs... our prayers.
19. Audrey needs... you.
20. Audrey needs... to stop being so friggin gorgeous.

...great little game.