I am gaining an even greater appreciation for home in days of late.
sorry I have’nt been around…I started playing guitar full swing again, after about 2 months of not doing much and a seasonal mall retail job. We started doing the winter camps up at Hume Lake. I will be up there every weekend until early march. this is my second year in a row there…it is an interesting experience.
…ohh the insanities of playing music in church.
but I am home now for a few days. just long enough to fight off this killer cold that Im sure could kill a small house pet.
We playe at our home church today which was nice. Carlos treated us well and gave us a canvas for what I think turned out to be a couple decent performances. I know he made a video from the morning…I will try to post it here when i see it.
hope to get back to drinking coffee and blogging soon.
love and peace.
-daley

Ryan Posted This Today. Here it is in case you are too lazy to follow the link.

Knowledge ≠Power

Man that is disheartening to write. But after much deliberating, I think it is a universal truth. Take that postmoderns!

Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set ye free.

Al Gore, in his film, An Inconvenient Truth, makes the statement that people generally move from ignorance to despair whence informed, feeling that they can make no difference given the new information. I get that.

It’s not that knowledge cannot lead to change or empowerment, but it has become an end of the line for a great many of us. Being “aware” is kind of a last stop before the train ride gets terribly scary, racing around corners in the dark. So it seems that most of us opt there. Well at least I’m informed. I’m not sure that’s enough.

I watch the cigarette TRUTH ads and read the emails from ONE or Sojourners…but still people are not changing in really “significant” ways…or it at least appears that way. Sure people are changing their minds about the war by the dozens, but are they changing their own lives?

I wonder if this is why the message of Jesus has been so domesticated and weak in our modern world (or perhaps for all time?). I wonder if we have attempted to disseminate information instead of embodying a new Way of Life. Now don’t get me wrong, I believe that paradigm shifts can help people understand things in new lights, but I wonder if information, even if leading to a paradigm shift, is still less potent, life-changing, and integrative than embodying an alternative Way.

Anyone?

Someone actually used some of my design work:

I think i like designing blog graphics.