April 2010
2 posts
Twinkle twinkle
In this journal it asks, “When you look up at the stars, what do you think about?” Well?
The answer to this question is suppose to be inspiring and hopeful right? That’s the point of these questions afterall, to inspire and encourage. It goes on to quote, Isaiah 40.26
“Look up into the heavens. Who created the stars? He brings them out like an army, one after another,...
Creatively made →
I love art. I love creative expression. Almost all of us have a favorite song or two (or even twenty), and many of us can think of an artist or photographer who’s work we enjoy. We watch the occasional movie on the weekend and forward emails showing how inventive kids can get with their homework…
“In my life, I hope to see, not wealth, or fame but affection for others, a...”
– Tiffany Jenkins
(based on Galatians 5:22)
March 2009
15 posts
Creatively made
I love art. I love creative expression. Almost all of us have a favorite song or two (or even twenty), and many of us can think of an artist or photographer who’s work we enjoy. We watch the occasional movie on the weekend and forward emails showing how inventive kids can get with their homework answers. I think you’d be hard pressed to find someone who didn’t have an appreciation for creativity...
said
March 2006
I’ve said i know the answer
It’s been beating in my ears
Ive said ive lost the picture
Watched it fade, disappear
I’ve said i know the truth
It swims slowly in my mind
But all I’ve said and all i know
Speak of something i can’t find
There must be something more
Than busy days and tired hours
There must be something more
Than weekly church...
something new
19/12/08
2.00am
They say there’s nothing new under the sun.
Actually, those are Solomon’s words supposedly, or whoever wrote Ecclesiastes. That saying really feels true pretty often. Sure, there are ‘new’ things around us everyday and technology has advanced faster in our lifetimes than it did in centuries before us combined. But really, where it comes to ideas about...
“There is something about an eye. The openness of it. The fact that it represents...”
– Tiffany Jenkins 2007
It's in the silence
20 December 2008 Have you tried listening to the radio at this time of year?
Out of bored desperation today I tried while waiting in the car for someone as they ran an errand. No matter what station you switch to you will hear one of two things; advertisements trying to get you to run out and buy into Christmas specials, or Christmas Carols.
I’ll be honest. I’m not necessarily...
31.10.07
years are made of moments
and moments made of glass
broken before realized
lost before they’ve passed
moments that control me
that sieze my mind and heart
if captured i would destroy them
but theyre gone before i start
so instead i hang here helpless
tugging at my strings
pretending i can be different
denying this thing
Is this me or is this something
that can be detatched and...
Lord of War
May 2007
I love watching movies.
It’s one of my favourite past times and time wasters. Usually its just enjoyable escapism (which may or may not be a bad thing i suppose) but periodically i watch a movie which leaves me overwhelmed in many ways. Speechless in a sense but in an opposite sense overloaded with emotion and thought.
Movies like Hotel Rwanda, Blood Diamond, The Constant...
Humanity
August 2005.
Humanity – we are the inhumane
Money diamonds, fame and fortune - Its all a first world game
Some live in filthy fortune, but many more in filthy dust
We fill ourselves on fries and pies while they clamour for the crusts
We die from our obesity – excess is our demise
In other worlds – the third – they starve among the flies
In the comfort of our homes – we turn a blinded...
Creator, hi.
8th March 08
6.00pm
Here I am at church again.
Religion is such a funny thing.
Everyone thinks they are right, and some of us somewhere have to be wrong. This makes me seem skeptical, but right now I’m not. Right now I’m hopeful.
Here stands all this creation around me. A small island in the Caribbean — with sugar cane fields and swaying trees and a rugged east coast that makes...
Finding Treasures
2008
Sometimes it takes removing ourselves from our everyday environment to see life as it really is. This summer I visited rural Mexico with a group of 9 other people. We thought we were going there to help with the building of an orphanage but we may have received more from them than we had to give.
We visited an area called Dzan about a 4 hour drive from Cancun. There, many people live...