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“Fill me up with love…”

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Veselé Vánoce z Prahy! Merry Christmas from Prague!

There is much to be thankful for this year. God has done more than I can began to recount, in the midst of life, which sometimes feels amazing and others much less than amazing. God is God in the midst of it all. As I sit here and think about life today, I’m moved as I think about it all! I really that some 13 years ago, while I was a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, this God sought me out and captured my heart with His crazy, radical, upside-down love and changed the course, the path, the journey of my future. That school year of 1999-2000 he filled me with his love, and while somedays it’s obvious that I’ve been filled with this His crazy, radical, upside-down love, there are those other days where it’s less than obvious, and it’s those days that His love, grace and mercy are even more staggering to me.

This morning as I’m wrapping gifts for my “second families” here in Prague, I’ve been watching Christmas movies, listening to Christmas music and finding new Christmas songs, I stumbled upon this song from Dave Matthews – Christmas Song. I can’t believe I haven’t found it sooner. It’ beautiful. It is from Dave so there are going to be some head scratching lyrics, but the gist of it is awesomely beautiful. Check out the song below from a video and the lyrics below that. I pray that all of us, the “soul searchers”, would be showered and filled with His crazy, radical, upside-down, perfect love this Christmas season and everyday from here on! Merry Christmas! Veselé Vánoce!

She was his girl; he was her boyfriend
She be his wife; take him as her husband
A surprise on the way, any day, any day
One healthy little giggling dribbling baby boy
The wise men came three made their way
To shower him with love
While he lay in the hay
Shower him with love love love
Love love love
Love love is all around
Not very much of his childhood was known
Kept his mother Mary worried
Always out on his own
He met another Mary for a reasonable fee, less than
Reputable as known to be

His heart was full of love love love
Love love love
Love love is all around
When Jesus Christ was nailed to the his tree
Said “oh, Daddy-o I can see how it all soon will be
I came to she’d a little light on this darkening scene
Instead I fear I spill the blood of my children all around”

The blood of our children all around
The blood of our children all around
The blood of our children all around
So the story goes, so I’m told
The people he knew were
Less than golden hearted
Gamblers and robbers
Drinkers and jokers, all soul searchers
Like you and me

Rumors insisited he soon would be
For his deviations
Taken into custody by the authorities
Less informed than he.
Drinkers and jokers. all soul searchers
Searching for love love love
Love love love
Love love is all around

Preparations were made
For his celebration day
He said eat this bread and think of it as me
Drink this wine and dream it will be
The blood of our children all around
The blood of our children all around
The blood of our children all around

Father up above, why in all this anger have you fill
Me up with love
Fill me love love love
Love love love
Love love
And the blood of our children all around

new pics posted…

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I’ve mentioned before how I love to create, how I really valuing creating and how I love creatives in general (see here) and one of those expressions has been photography. This is even more true now that I have a real camera (Boom D90!), thanks Mom, Dad and a friend who helped out as well! I’ve loved learning and I’ll be the first to tell you that I’m a hack! But I love it nonetheless! I have some friends (Mark and Amber specifically) who really inspire me to learn what I’m doing a capture images that will move people in some way. With that said, I’ve posted a bunch of new pics over at flickr. It’s really hard for me no to post more pics, but I try to limit it to the ones I like the most. I thought I would share a few of those here on my blog. Each of the pics is in a set over at flickr, so if you like to see more click away!
Barcelona Set

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Riegl Wedding
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Flying with Adam
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Ernster Wedding
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Quick Trip to Seattle
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Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you enjoyed the pics… Now go create, in whatever way the Great Creator (that’s God) gave you the ability to create!

oh prague…

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I couldn’t resist sharing this.


As I was putting up the latest zhtv episode I stumbled upon it! Amazingly beautiful! I can’t believe I call this city home! Are you serious?!? It also made me want to grab my cameras and go create things similar to this! Oh that would be great! I hope you enjoy this vid as much as I did!

sometimes i wonder…

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…”what if? What if I were do this? What if I chose to do that? What if? What if? What if?” Welcome to my mind.

Saturday night after a gmail chat date with the lovely Rachel Baer (Yes she now has a blog! Click on her name and meet this amazing women via the blog world. We will see if she gets hooked now!;-)) I got bouncing around on the web. Which meant I went to bed way latter than desired, and I couldn’t sleep past 8 this morning! What’s the deal? Is this because I’m getting older? Anyway…..

I clicked on the link from a friend’s gmail status (Andy Wojtowski) and watched this…


As I watched this several times, I had a “What If” moment! Now don’t get me wrong I LOVE WHAT I DO! LOVE IT! But there are moments where I have inclinations to pursue things like shooting films, dropping rhymes, snapping pics, designing, writing and a ton of other creative things for a living. I do love that my job allows me to do some of these things, well not dropping rhymes or being part of that, but a boy can dream right?

So I thought I would share that thought and video with you, because I loved it…

I do have question for you – WHAT GIG (job) DO YOU WONDER ABOUT DOING IF YOU DIDN’T DO WHAT YOU DO?

DISCLAIMER: Just because I post a video, link, or etc. does not mean I endorse everything the person thinks, sings about or etc. I just thought I would add that. I would hope that those of us that read my blog, that say we are “Christ followers” would look for “God sightings” all around us – in nature, in people and in pop-culture and, thus, look for ways to point that out and work for redemption! I saw a spark of God’s creative impulse as I watched Nyle‘s vid. Thanks for stopping by!

a little more web procrastination

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So I wanted to get a real post up today, but it didn’t happen. Wah, wah… BUT Check out my flickr site, because I put some pics up from a coworkers’/friends’ hockey game from a few weeks ago, and pics from the half marathon today. I love the new camera my parent’s and a friend hooked me up with back in at Christmas. (Thanks again guys!)Enjoy the pics and these two videos, one that is just beautifully creative and the other that is outrageously/very cool creative.


pics from our conference

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While we were up in the Krkonoše mountains for our Novy Zivot Conference, I snapped a few pics from the few days on my new camera, and Christmas present, and I wanted to share them with you! Click HERE for the set or click HERE to view all my pics. I don’t know if you know this, but at the bottom of my site is something that looks like this…


…if you click on it, it will take you to my flickr page, where my pics live. So, if you feel inclined, check that from time to time. Here are some of my favorites from the week.
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As you can see, there was a fog laying over the mountains most of the time we were there, which definitely led to some haunting pics of the mountains, the nearby church and anything outside. I was intrigued by the church that was near the hotel we stayed in – read the history of the Protestant church in Upper Herlíkovice here. The history was interesting and as my director’s director, Jim Hynds, sat in the church steeple, prayed, and just shared thoughts, I couldn’t get past the paradox this country and the long history! Here we were in what was orginally a German church, that was taken by Czechs and much more. I sat there thinking about my German dissent and my love for this country – which at times makes me scratch my head, but I’m thankful for it either way! Moreover, it led me to pray with a yearning and anticipation for this country and the whole of Europe like never before. Thanks for stopping by today!
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not creative?

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In the midst, of all of my talk about “creating” and “creativity,” this morning I stopped by Seth Godin’s blog and enjoyed his thoughts about being creative or not creative in a post, entitled, Creativity and stretching the sweatshirt. Good stuff. But let’s be honest, when Seth blogs, it’s usually good! Here is a portion of the short post, read the rest if you feel so inclined too!

1. If you want to be creative, understand that you’ll need to get to the edges, even if the edges have moved. Being creative means immediately going to the place the last person left off.

2. If you are “not creative,” if you are the sort of person that gets uncomfortable being creative or has been persuaded you’re not capable, don’t worry about it. Just stretch the sweatshirt in your spare time, watch the creative things other people have done, keep up with the state of the art. Then, when you do your “not creative” thing, most people will think it’s pretty creative indeed.

It would seem the question is either, “Do you need to get to the edges?” or “Do you need to stretch that shirt your wearing?” Hmmmm…

inspiration…

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I have a deadline! Don’t we love deadlines? Maybe we (I) don’t but they are very real! So you can see below that I’ve been doing some creating! It’s been fun, but I wish I had not procrastinated on the front end, so I could enjoy it all a bit more! But seriously I really have enjoyed this. I LOVE CREATING! STAY TUNED FOR THE FULL PROMO VIDEO! I think I will upload it in the morning because it’s exporting now, and it’s at 40% and had two hours left. Anyway, in the midst of trying to keep the HD format and figure what how it works with vimeo, I stumbled (that’s the word I like to use) upon some videos that make me want to create more! Here you go! Enjoy 4 videos, that I loved, I hope you love them too!


London (harder, better, faster, stronger) from David Hubert on Vimeo.




Landfill from TimmY on Vimeo.


A Thousand Words from Ted Chung on Vimeo.

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