With vacant eyes staring off into the distance You stare at nothing in particular As another drop of blood silently drips to the floor Screaming out your loneliness and rejection Though no-one is around to hear The darkness pulls itself a little closer Embracing you as you welcome it You are alone As I was Surrounded by people and none of them understood, the pain the depth of my isolation Yet I too embraced it [...]
Ah, there you are I sense you, reaching for me again Not because you need me Just because you need to make sure I'm there I am your preciouss "A convenience" was my way in "A necessity" is what I've become But you don't even notice As I continue to slowly, subtly infiltrate your life You smile as you convince yourself that you are in charge And back it up by reminding the world that [...]
[to the tune of 'I am Spartacus' and yes it's okay that most of you don't know who that is but let google be your friend - ignorance away!] so this last week tbV and mself had been invited to speak at the national Scripture Union staff conference held at Rocklands campsite in Simonstown. as we interacted with them on the first night and during the next day this one lady stood far out from [...]
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cold, haunting wind blows effortlessly against the backdrop of the eerie silence composing illusions of an ominous chill creeping ever closer corrupting everything in its path silhouetted shadows cast their gaze upon the still, small body that lies unmoving on the table edge cold and lifeless, you lie there tiny shrivelled body unwanted, unclaimed just a pathetic testimony to your own immense waste of an existence of space. black and squishy mercilessly discarded stepped on [...]
I WANTED TO BE LOVED I WANTED TO JOIN IN YOUR CLUB YOU TOLD ME, "COME BACK WHEN YOU ARE NO LONGER GAY!" I WANTED TO TAKE PART TO BE A MEMBER OF THE FAMILY YOU STATED, "WHEN YOU'VE STOPPED LIVING TOGETHER, WE'LL LET YOU PRAY!" I HEARD OF THIS MAN CALLED JESUS AND HOW YOU SAY HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN SAVE BUT IT SEEMED THAT TO BELONG, YOU WANTED [...]
so i met a cool metallic (as in bits of metal protruding froma variety of face places) german last nite who surprised me by saying he is second year bible college in durban (not your average bible college look, it was great) and proceeded to show me this music video by michael gunga i think it is on his phone - it is very cool (and yes the bit about the flying hamster/guinea pig does [...]
so my friend simon is in a band (well about twenty seven bands last time i counted, altho i was just counting, not counting bands he is in per say, but it was fun) and if you have never heard or seen anything Brothers Streep then you should mosey on down to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOHTavjfYxY and check out the promo ad for the storytellers they are going to be holding soon... you should be there... it might [...]
so the other nite we were hanging with some mates from church at our place and the giant of the group (aptly named klein (small) frans) came up with this saying “the God i believe in is not the God you don’t believe in” which i think is brilliant and which i blog posted and made my status line on facebook and twitter (some might say ‘overkill’ – i might say ‘collective ramifications’ but just [...]
"The God i believe in, is not the God you don't believe in." [kleinfrans van eeden] "i know that you believe you understand what you think i said. but im not sure you realise that what you heard is not what i meant." [Ashton Gardner] and that sums up a huge percentage of the frustration Jesus followers have to non believers i would imagine...