Pure Volume.

Hey everyone, does everyone really read this? Sometimes I wonder.

ANYWAYS! This week I was able to try something new, and that's record a song only using myself. Meaning, track (or record) all the instruments one by one. I had a lot of fun doing it. I may have said some bad words in the process, but God still loves me. You can check it out at purevolume.com/ataleof.

It's not the best recording ever, but for what I have, I'm pumped.

LOVE.

HaHaHappy.

There are certain times in ones life where everything appears to make sense; everything is right where God deliberately places it, and its prefect. I'm not going to lie; I haven't felt this is a great deal in my life, and up until this point in life I feel exactly, indisputably, like I'm right in line with what God desires for me. This is a feeling of strength and freedom; that at this very point, you're right where you belong, and God is the only logical explanation for it all.

Recently, I have felt like I need to move, due to that I've moved so much in the past. I was talking with my pastor about this feeling. But picture this, I've been in Cincinnati for almost a year now, which is crazy to think about, and with 4 big moves in the last 4 years, I'm due to move again. This feeling made me feel angry and poignant, because I feel very strongly about where God has directed me. I know this feeling about moving isn't a feeling from God, because He has made it undoubtedly clear that this is His will. God has opened so many doors that have allowed me to go to a Christian University, to be a part of a church that is making a difference on the atmosphere that consumes us and the people who breathes it in. Being a part of something that enormous, which the ministry of the church is that immense, is so fulfilling. Don't get me wrong, I know that doing ministry isn't for our pleasure, but God definitely places something inside of you that makes you feel. But back to my point, God has been working in my heart to feel peace about where I'm at and that although moving necessarily is bad or wrong, but that is not want He wants right now. That is where I am at, living in the imprint that God has made on my heart and I am so hahahappy (=]) to be here and to be able to identify the people God has placed in my life to make it so incredible and rich.

So with that said, I urge you to push into God's heart and find your place in the grand scheme of things.

Find it. Love it. Breathe it. Share It.

Success

What is this thing we call success?
How is one to judge whether they are successful or not?
Is it possible that everyone has their own level of successfulness that they are trying to achieve?
Or have we all been victims of society's view of success?
Have you been cheated of your comfort based on this cultures opinion?

Isn't it true that society tell us that we're not successful unless we have:
the nicest cars?
the largest houses?
the bodies of a god?
a bank account that I never have to worry about?
Isn't that spot on?

Will we ever consider to not looking out of these crooked and corrupted grasses of the worldly views?
Or will we become people that realize that success is not based what we have?
But it's truly based on who we are in Christ?

just a thought.

give me my change please!

It's strange to think that you can grow so vastly in one day. That, incredibly, something can change so quickly in you that you're not the same, in what seems to be a blink of an eye.

I think we underestimate our desires to change, to grow into intellectual persons, and break our molds of what we consider our limits to be. Have we become satisfied with who we are? The words we decide to say have a reverberation effect, our actions echo out for what seems to be an entirety. Have we become complacent? Maybe we have become comfortable with who we are, or are afraid to move forward to cultivate and develop ourselves.

May you become conscious that we do not evolve, as humans, because ....Darwin.... said so, but because God deliberately designed us to this way. And sometimes the need for change is hard, sometimes easy, a lot of times we don't want it, but it's a necessity for us to develop as people. So when change comes to you in forms of, academics, life circumstances, and even down to our emotions, may we lift our hands in praise God for these moments, because if our goal in life is to be more like Christ, we have a lot of changing to do.

So I encourage you to find God's heart, to long to be more like it and become more responsive and sensitive to ways God want you to change.

God has been changing me.

The day I found peace in heart is the day that You found me. To be consumed by the one who sees every mistake and blunder, every slip and fall, every wrong and immoral decision, and yet have all the love, which I cannot even fathom, for me.

God’s love will always be a mystery to me. For someone to love you so much, no matter what is done, what is said, that He will always have a love that’s fully flourish and rooted in the deepest compassion and empathy imaginable. The love I’m talking about is a love that knows no boundaries or limits, that is continuous forever and a day.

And yet, even though I have this endowment in my life, this precious, precious gift, it’s irregular for me to share and speak about it.

Do I even whisper or murmur of this?

I long and want everyone to know that this overwhelming joy, hope, and love, they have no cost. They are free for the taking. This hope for you and for me is right in front of our faces.

I do not have all the answers and I’m not going to pretend or act as if I do. I just know what His love has done in my life and is doing in my heart right now. God’s love is real and very much working in my heart more then ever and I want you to know that. So I completely release and let go of myself for the sake of God’s love and being a living example of not a religion, but of a relationship, with the Maker of everything.

GOD IS LOVE.

LOVE IS REAL.

LOVE WINS.