Pneumanaut

Well i have been thinking a lot about the Elpida Society…. Something about this time of year… maybe it’s the Spring, the leaves, the tree’s all beginning to wake up… grafted branches… Just has me thinking…

So I haven’t heard much of the album, but I will say what I have heard I really like ++How I wish you could see the potential, the potential of you and me It’s like a book elegantly bound, but in a language that you can’t read – just yet You gotta spend some time–love, [...]

++how fortunate i am lord, that you put people before me who understand your ways and what your about, who understand your spirit and who have steadfastly followed you, and bring the wisdom of years in your yearning. i love you, and

“friends stab each other in the front” i wanted to share a learning moment i had on weds night because i think it is an awesome reflection to community as god intened. this is a depressing truth, but it captures the ongoing stuggles of living. we were at soccer practice and we were having a [...]

++give me some more patience, help me to learn allow me to be a better communicator, teach me to see things many ways, help me to see the other side of the story help me at showing, and allowing rather than doing++

i heard this this morning when i was praying but i sensed it was for more than just me to read, actually i felt it was for the eMerging church crowd, so i am posting it.  i think it will take more modeling than we can comprehend   +you are so beautiful they ways you [...]

the boomer’s time is not over. their realm has not reached it’s threshold, they will be used in the most powerful of ways.  The wants and vision they started some 40 years ago are just now coming to a fruition they originally lacked the humility and understanding to fathom.  Fruition in themselves and fruition in [...]

send us +++send us out as soldiers send us clothed with praise and armed for battle send us out as servants send us ready and humble send us out as children knowing full well who our father is send us out as faceless so the glory is all yours if you will move-move upon us [...]

i recently watched the movie Sam i Am it was a story about a “differently-abeled” father whose cognative impairments were alleged to get in the way of fathering. it was very comforting to see, and further more proved the point that love goes a lot farther than intelligunce. i had the greatest father in the [...]

++lord give us wisdom about rembrandts keep us from doing any thing wasteful i love you lord and need you, i need you to continually ground me wake me up everymorning focused and centered on you++

i knew that generationally and statistically speaking that the inevitability of guys coming through the ranks with single parents or fatherless parenting was increasing so i really i wanted to understand it. fortunatly a man who had dedicated his whole life to understanding fathering, was my “pastor” at the time. ed piorek a great man [...]

while i was in sunvalley which is a resort town, i saw something i haven’t seen in a while. you kind of have to understand sunvalley located in the town of ketchum. it is a very wealthy area, yet the people there are very down to earth. infused in their culture is a sense of [...]

more about pacisfism, i grew up company guy, never question authority, follow orders obey your parents.. .pacifism was not an option unless our gov’t was practicing it. about fighting back, mommas rule was that after you asked em nicley to stop it 3 times, you could knock them out, and typically it was a quick [...]

jesus i love your ways, help me to understand you better in all the things that your spirit points to on earth. i am overwhelmed by your graciousness and capacity to be unending in you love for me and i want to spread that to my friends. help my buddies to learn more of you [...]

i think it is a sweetism that as leaders today we need to be more spiritual guides than didactic orators, whatever the language i am more conviced than ever that we need to point out the spirit at work. prophetic perhaps is just as good a language, basically signposts. what really bugs me is watching [...]

++May your strength give us strength May your faith give us faith May your hope give us hope May your love bring us love++

++thankyou that i get to be married, please allow me to speak your truth into my friends lives. let them be introduced to you through this. please meet them++

++help me to notice people around me let our home take care of people let me make the most of my time++

“quit your worship charades i can’t stand your trivial religeious games: monthyl conferences, weekly sabbaths, special meetings- more meetings, meetings , meetings-i can’t stand one more! you’ve worn me out i’m sick or your religeioin, religion, while you go right on sinning when you put on your next prayer performance i’ll be looking the ohter [...]

+++i can’t stand for theoretical practices, practictioner is the only life style for being christianity. its as if the word has been reduced to an on or off switch, i am tired of the dualism, and were all guilty of it. conferences on the how to’s and what to do’s, emails, newsletters, ezines. help us [...]