hunkered down in the corner (put down the mufffin in review)
the church does not have dibs on being the only place to find jesus and community. we know this. you can find jesus and community anywhere that people are fully alive.
at one point during the put down the muffin show last thursday, i turned to aaron ankrum and justin law saying "i think i meet jesus here more than i do at church. does that mean i shouldn't work for a church?" to which aaron replied "well, you do need beer money...". i guess he has a point.
as bruce, zach, charlie and matt concocted new and slightly-more-feverish melodies, and as the scent wafted thru the air of the familiar PDtM tunes that keep us all coming back for more, i couldn't help but look around and smile. we are the funny, the lovely, and the holy. and we hold the presence of Jesus inside of us because He is all around us.
there He was, hunkered down in the corner, smiling at us, thrashing his head to the beat (which, at the time, was 11/8, and i'm pretty sure that Jesus is the only person who could find a way to thrash his head to 11/8). maybe He was smiling back at all of us because when we are the most alive, we are the ontological proof of his existence.
i've heard it said that the glory of God is man fully alive. i've had a major beef with this overly-used catch phrase for some time now. i see no direct corrolation to scripture on this, and often times i feel that being fully alive is drawing attention to the thing that is alive, not the Thing that gave it life. but i'm starting to believe that maybe, just maybe, it might be true... more than a thousand pipe organs, and a trillion blazen sunsets, the best witness to the glory of God IS man fully alive. and the best place i know to experience this is when i get to witness my amazing friends create music ex nihilo.
there are so many moments that can take your breath away with their beauty, hope, and love if you just let them. stop. look around. catch a breath. remember how rare these moments are. i believe this to be the most reliable evidence we have of an active Creator Redeemer. He's right over there, hunkered down in the corner, pouring the Good on every moment.
at one point during the put down the muffin show last thursday, i turned to aaron ankrum and justin law saying "i think i meet jesus here more than i do at church. does that mean i shouldn't work for a church?" to which aaron replied "well, you do need beer money...". i guess he has a point.
as bruce, zach, charlie and matt concocted new and slightly-more-feverish melodies, and as the scent wafted thru the air of the familiar PDtM tunes that keep us all coming back for more, i couldn't help but look around and smile. we are the funny, the lovely, and the holy. and we hold the presence of Jesus inside of us because He is all around us.
there He was, hunkered down in the corner, smiling at us, thrashing his head to the beat (which, at the time, was 11/8, and i'm pretty sure that Jesus is the only person who could find a way to thrash his head to 11/8). maybe He was smiling back at all of us because when we are the most alive, we are the ontological proof of his existence.
i've heard it said that the glory of God is man fully alive. i've had a major beef with this overly-used catch phrase for some time now. i see no direct corrolation to scripture on this, and often times i feel that being fully alive is drawing attention to the thing that is alive, not the Thing that gave it life. but i'm starting to believe that maybe, just maybe, it might be true... more than a thousand pipe organs, and a trillion blazen sunsets, the best witness to the glory of God IS man fully alive. and the best place i know to experience this is when i get to witness my amazing friends create music ex nihilo.
there are so many moments that can take your breath away with their beauty, hope, and love if you just let them. stop. look around. catch a breath. remember how rare these moments are. i believe this to be the most reliable evidence we have of an active Creator Redeemer. He's right over there, hunkered down in the corner, pouring the Good on every moment.
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ashley, i'm so, so glad you've come back to blog world. i love your words.
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