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Forgiveness
But if there’s no forgiveness How’m I gonna get any rest With the ghosts in my head Winding me tight to shallow breath If the words that you said Didn’t have to be what you meant Maybe I could live with it
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November’s episode of Acoustic Blend is all about thanksgiving, forgiveness, and letting go; featuring local artist Cliff Ritchey, along with Bandcamp artists Brian Payne, Rylee Owens, and Chris Dupont.
This month’s show opens with a couple tracks from Zach Winter’s Monarch album, which is great for the fall/winter moods. Be sure to check out his latest release Love is a Garden!
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There are no "ifs" in God's kingdom. His timing is perfect. His will is our hiding place.
Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place
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Finding beauty
I'm never really ready for winter. It swoops in and cuts my beautiful fall short, choking out the bright colors and giving way to gray skies. The cold and blowing rain, in my opinion, is the worst part of fall into winter. But this is supposed to be about beauty, so I digress.
Finding beauty. It's there, even in the middle of winter. Even in the blistering, angry winds.
Recently I asked myself the question, "What is the beauty I'm missing?" What is the beauty that's right in front of me that I haven't yet seen, or fully enjoyed? For me this has been a life saver, a question I'll ask God when cold, gray and rainy is the only reality -- when on the surface there's no reason for hope.
What is the beauty I'm missing?
Bam. Immediately I see the lightly falling snow, or a new sunrise glistening on the frost. Or the powerful beauty of the wind. I need to be swept up into beauty, often. And the good news is that it's available, and abundant. I ask, and then let the answers feed a weary soul.
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Grow
Grandfather's farm, it's been here forever. Now that it's mine, I want to remember where he came from and who he became, what he passed on to me with his name.
Family history can be like a piece of land, passed down from generation to generation. Under the surface of the soil are the remnants of years gone by: nutrients left over from years of care and nurture, sediment from generations of neglect. Rocks and dead roots, stumps and tall oak trees.
For better or worse, the soil feeds the seeds that are sown in our lives, bearing all sorts of fruit. The soil of my life has been around for longer than I've been tending it, and the fruit that grows is often what I expect to see based on my history, based on what the land has given me to this point. But what if redemption was available? What if I could have good soil, if I could tend my soil well?
Grow explores the idea of tending the soil of our hearts well, and the beautiful promise of healing and restoration: the promise that who I have been doesn't have to define who I am now. It's embracing the truest part of me, my essence, that was there before I began believing lies about life and myself. The real truth was there even before I was planted.
All the weeds that were sown in my field, they don't have to choke my ground. All the pain that was planted in my heart, I'm gonna plow it down. The mystery of my history is that it doesn't have to lead me now. There's new land, and a steady hand that's making me good, good ground.
There's much, much more I could say about this song, and about my own journey over the years. But for now I'll let the song speak for itself. Press the pause button for a few minutes and let yourself get caught up in the story here, in Grow:
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Beauty is knocking
The woodpecker, I'm fairly sure, is knocking on your door
One of my favorite places in West Lafayette is Celery Bog. There's so much life there, it's a true sanctuary for deer, turtles, muskrats, birds; oh, so many birds. This past winter I was walking through the bog and heard the tat-tat-tat-tat-tat of a woodpecker.
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It seemed like he was calling to me, and it felt like he'd been calling for a long time. I was just finally in solitude and wandering down a trail, finally in a position to hear his call.
Maybe if it was your job to pay him mind, maybe you would leave your house, maybe you would get outside
What if I approached nature with the same level of importance as I approach my job? What if the refreshment and restoration of my soul was a higher priority than whatever project is on fire at work? My friends in the bog are calling to me, wanting to rescue me -- and I need only listen, let them in. Maybe their God-given mission is more crucial than I realize.
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The human soul does not want to be fixed, it wants simply to be seen and heard.
Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach
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I could not have known then that everybody, every person, has to leave, has to change like seasons; they have to or they die. The seasons remind me that I must keep changing, and I want to change because it is God's way.
Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts
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Letting Go
It's been about two years since I've posted anything here. I forgot I had a blog, to be honest. But reading my previous quotes has been a nice pause today.
I don't pause to consider the journey I'm on too often, and I would normally never dream of processing any of it in a public forum. But that's what I'm doing now, and it's part of my letting go. Letting go of what will others think, how will this be perceived, and who will care -- or better, will anyone care?
While I haven't been blogging lately, I have been writing songs that deal with some pretty deep stuff. And I'm reluctant to share them, but at the same time feel the need to let them go, let them touch someone else's life. One of the most amazing parts of releasing my first album was the impact, and how many people were touched by my journey. I want more of that, and I want to be willing to risk, to let go and just be.
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Hurry is an attitude which comes from an agreement with a lie that God is expecting more from you than you can do. Deal with it.
Hurry Up – Proverbs from the 2012 Intensive – Volume III | Become Good Soil
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My song "Stars" was featured recently on The Local Thunder, and also made an appearance back in March.
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Let me start this off by saying that I am in fact a Christian. I think that it is reasonable to believe in Jesus. If you are a non-Christian and you’re reading this, I appreciate you taking the time to read. If you don’t agree with anything I say that’s fine, I at least hope you’ll see my honesty...
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By allowing something to die when its time is due, we create the conditions under which new life can emerge.
Parker Palmer - Let Your Life Speak
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Beautiful Outlaw
The personality of Jesus is rarely discussed in churches today. He's good and loving, definitely religous. He came to show us how to live, right? What would Jesus do and all that.
But what if the person you thought was Jesus was fake?Or half-real? What if we haven't really seen Jesus' true personality?
Thus begins John Eldredge's Beautiful Outlaw (here's a sweet video trailer), an engaging and breathtaking exploration of Jesus' character as presented in scripture. Eldredge begins on a quest to uncover Christ's true image, his personality. And as I read I felt myself loving this Jesus who was so passionate, playful, fierce, crafty, and human.
I have never laughed out loud so much reading about Jesus. And I felt like I got to know him better, as you would a friend over a fireside chat. I came away loving, admiring, desiring to know this man even more. I was desperate to know him more, without realizing it.
After unpacking Jesus' personality and revealing (among other things) his playfulness, honesty and cunning, Eldredge then invites the reader to experience Jesus firsthand. He contends that an intimate encounter with Jesus is the most transforming experience of human existence, and I wholeheartedly agree.
This book will change the way you see Jesus, and it is an open door to an intimate encounter with him. Definitely worth the read.
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Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.
Julius Erving (via CrossFit)
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