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Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:36:29 -0700

Since She Left: You deserve to be loved— unconditionally and faithfully loved. The...

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:29:19 -0800

Since She Left: You deserve to be loved— unconditionally and faithfully loved. The...:

You deserve to be loved— unconditionally and faithfully loved. The tears you cry should be from the bouts of uncontrollable laughter or the little romantical things he does for you; you deserve only those tears. You should always be in the front seat right next to him, never tossed in the back…

Since She Left: You deserve to be loved— unconditionally and faithfully loved. The...

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:29:18 -0800

Since She Left: You deserve to be loved— unconditionally and faithfully loved. The...:

sincesheleft:

You deserve to be loved— unconditionally and faithfully loved. The tears you cry should be from the bouts of uncontrollable laughter or the little romantical things he does for you; you deserve only those tears. You should always be in the front seat right next to him, never tossed in the back…

"I’m an introvert. You are a wonderful person and I like you. But now please shush."

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:02:53 -0800

““I’m an introvert. You are a wonderful person and I like you. But now please shush.””

- - Jonathan Rauch
(This is how I often feel.)

A Few Things I Miss

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:44:17 -0800

Matt
Mountains
Ocean
Weather above 0
Interacting with multiple people on a daily basis other than those that you live with
Green grass
Income

"Escape can’t be the only way to escape."

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:36:32 -0800

“Escape can’t be the only way to escape.”

- Dan Mangan

Things have been crazy busy and intense. Sorry for the lack of...

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:00:11 -0800

Things have been crazy busy and intense. Sorry for the lack of updates!.

Here is something I’ve been up to the last weekend.

I very inspiring woman who goes to my church here in MTL. I just...

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 18:14:10 -0800

I very inspiring woman who goes to my church here in MTL. I just love her voice and her version of this song.

calebyap: Slam poet/teacher Taylor Mali responds to a lawyer...

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 10:38:07 -0800

calebyap:

Slam poet/teacher Taylor Mali responds to a lawyer who asks, “what do teachers make?” and OWNS.

If I could make this into a t-shirt, it would solve all the...

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 06:47:27 -0800

If I could make this into a t-shirt, it would solve all the problems in my life.

A mini moleskin I bought the other day. The thoughts in this...

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:12:25 -0800

A mini moleskin I bought the other day. The thoughts in this thing will save the world!

Current state of packing. Suitcase isn’t even open!

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:10:45 -0800

Current state of packing. Suitcase isn’t even open!

On Traveling Home

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:06:09 -0800

We are having a teaching week on Incarnation and it is blowing my mind. I am so ready for this break, my mind is so full. I believe my issue is that I am trying to solve the church’s problems inside my head - its hard!

Today and tomorrow a prof from l’ETEM (the menno school out here) is teaching us. He’s a good (converted) menno, who like most converted mennos, knows more about my history than I do. He spent a good chunk reference Abbotsford - because how can you talk about the Mennonite movement and not talk about our little bible belt? In honesty, I didn’t get most of what he was saying, I hope tomorrow he ties up the lose ends.

I have mixed feels about returning home, pretty much all of them are good but there are just complications with family and wedding and all that planning stuff that I ain’t looking forward to. But to get away from this snow, and speak English 24/7, yes please! I’m avoid packing right now, I fly home in less than 24 hours. It is not that I don’t want to go home, I do in the worst way. I guess I just don’t like packing. Here goes nothing.

yelyahwilliams: fueledbyramen: Paramore: Playing God After...

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:37:34 -0800

yelyahwilliams:

fueledbyramen:

Paramore: Playing God

After premiering yesterday exclusively on paramore.net, the new video for ‘Playing God’ is now available on YouTube! Watch it above and click HERE to leave a comment for it!

YES!!!

I’ve realized lately that by nature it seems I am a cynical person. This is mainly true about my attitude towards the church. Don’t get me wrong, the flaws I see in the Church is only pushing me toward helping, but it seems to be one big mess.

We have been talking lately about what is church, what should be church, and how to be the incarnation. While I still love my church back home, I have a lot of issues with it and what the Evangelical church really stands for. I believe this is the song I would sing to my church.

http://mtljourney.tumblr.com

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:23:21 -0800

http://mtljourney.tumblr.com:

I’d just like to remind you that I have another blog. This is where most of my postings take place. I’m living in Montreal right now trying to figure out what is the church and how should we relate to the post-modern culture. Thanks for reading!

One thirty am tossing in my bed due to a caffine high, but mainly rage/anger. Some major prayer is...

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:26:44 -0800

One thirty am tossing in my bed due to a caffine high, but mainly rage/anger. Some major prayer is needed for myself, my housemates, and the future of this DTS. Jesus what have you gotten me into?

On German

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:17:29 -0800

Tomorrow is nothing day #2 so I will write up some stuff I have been thinking/writing.

But we had a German women show up on our doorstep last night. We were told a few hours before that she would be arriving, but other than that it was rather random. She came to our community meal tonight which despite my lack of social attitude was pretty fun. It reminded me of first coming here and what I loved: language. We started our dinner with a prayer in Portuguese and since there wasn’t a common language that everyone was fluent enough to speak it a combination of German, English, Dutch, and French were spoken. For fun some Spanish words were thrown in. A fun experience.

To Write Love Her Arms: Behind The Scenes: A Thanksgiving Blog (for people who suck at Thanksgiving).

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 10:38:16 -0800

To Write Love Her Arms: Behind The Scenes: A Thanksgiving Blog (for people who suck at Thanksgiving).:

twloha:

The idea of a day where we reflect on the things we’re thankful for sounds easy enough. If you’re reading this, you’re probably reading it on a computer, which means you probably have a lot to be thankful for.

i’m writing this on a computer and i know that i have a lot to be thankful for, but…

This is so so good. Community and home seem to be the two things that all my struggles/thoughts/goals circle around too.

I had no idea this was down and I just gained so much more...

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 17:26:22 -0800

I had no idea this was down and I just gained so much more respect for Jon Foreman. I feel like my whole teenage struggles are vindicated! I was a big Bad Religion fan and I think this was the first BR song I heard. It was written as an ironic song but Jon covers it and it sounds like a psalm. I also got in trouble for not listening to “Christian music” growing up. Thank you Jon Foreman for seeing Christ in everyone.

I’m feeling Coldplay tonight, here is The Scientist....

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 16:35:14 -0800

I’m feeling Coldplay tonight, here is The Scientist. Nobody said it was easy, nobody said it would be this hard, I’m going back to the back to the start.

I knew that this chill pace of life wouldn’t last - i’m still in North America and a major city no less. I wouldn’t have minded this fast pace, but it’s been a month of nothing and now things are starting to ramp up. I’m starting to slow down. I’m overloaded. Not even with homework and class but the emotional side of things. I’m down with emotions and feelings and just want shalom! There so many…conflicts between people right now and I feel like I am in the middle and there are no solutions. This is very much a lesson in community life and conflict resolution. But I need a place a refuge and I’m not finding one yet - probably because my only place of refuge is with Matt and distance kills that.

I think i’ve said this before, but networking takes everything out of me and that is what this school is based on. I’ve come to accept that. I know see that falling in love with the city takes more than reading books but getting out, meeting people, and hearing their stories. Today I made the first steps.

I’m not really sure why I am here. I don’t know what I want out of this, what God wants out of this, what the school wants out of me, or what my church back home wants out of all of this. I’m slowly discovering some of this but it really is all unclear. I think my objective here is to learn to love this city, these people. To understand their story and be able to passionately tell it back home. There are times when I feel like I am the worst person for this - I am Anglophone, Protestant, and Western Canadian, everything the Quebecois have been taught to hate. At other times, I feel like I am the perfect person for this. Today was one of those good days.

The conference this weekend was really rewarding. Stuart Murray from England gave us an overview of this transition from Christendom to Post-Christendom that most of the Western world is facing, and how we as church/Christians/followers of Jesus (there was a good debate on whether we should even use these terms anymore) can survive in this new time. His suggestion is that we should all become Mennonite! Not really, but the Anabaptist tradition is being looked at for inspiration. We have spent 500 years living on the margins and have been Christ outside of Christendom. Some time was also spent on the Emergent church movement and how we should deal/embrace that. (There is a church in England that targets the Goth sub-culture and is called The Gloriously Undead, how interesting). A lot of interesting ideas were brought up and not all of it related to Montreal, the whole Catholic heritage creates a lot more animosity than in England. It also isn’t so relevant to back home - but many foresee Vancouver following closes behind Montreal or England. We can learn a lot here.

But now to the most interesting parts of the conference! The people. I meet a pastor from Abbotsford (because the Mennonite world is so small!) and a guy I had previously meet at a MCC conference in Ottawa. There was about 40 people there today (Saturday) and all of them are wealth’s of resources. I got to talk to a few and got some contact info to further discuss. This in itself is a big deal for me - and so draining. But I feel good and have made some progress.

Tomorrow is church. I hope it is refreshing and not draining. Time to recharge.

Running in circles, coming in tails, heads on a science apart.