Alas, I founded this site with the name "neongreenmealbracelet" in light of my Extreme Camps memorabelia year and a half ago. And summer camps have always had an impact on me with the majority of my discipleship coming through that avenue (just see the testimony on this site). But I'm taking a new alias. You'll find my new xanga site at: 

http://www.xanga.com/aliveBfore85

People fear what they don't understand; this is a pattern that I've found to be true. And it's a fear that I can understand because I've felt it too.

But, if "perfect love casts out all fear",

 then doesn't love demand that we reach a point of understanding?

So, we should not be content with fear,

       but we should seek to understand...

and in understanding,

we can further fulfill the mandate that we have to love.

The world drinks from septic tanks because its tasted nothing greater

So there're unjust laws to violate*

People to liberate

Idols to desecrate.

and I trust that one day He'll bring me a partner in crime.

*Acts 4:19-20

 "So I commended pleasure, for there is nothing good for a man under the sun except...

 to EAT and to DRINK and to BE MERRY

...and this will stand by him in his toils throughout the days of his life which God has given him under the sun."

-Ecclesiastes 8:15

Position Savvy vs. Truth Hungry?

“Ignorance is bliss”, for long the idiom has said

So bliss it was decided to fill the people’s head.

But I heard about a Man who said that more would satisfy

And with it He provided out of infinite supply…

He said that: “Truth will make you free”

This thought to be free clicked with the desire buried deep inside of me;

Truth was the very longing I found hidden within myself

But for long it’d been set aside, ignored upon the shelf;

The pursuit of Truth has a great cost--or so I’m told

The cost of Truth demands that everything be sold

And many settled for shards and glimpses but didn’t prize it

Many held just a portion of the truth and didn’t realize it

They set aside the Truth for esteemed position

For the reward they prized they found inside human recognition

But Truth beheld that liberates may cost you a promotion

You may lose things and friends and every pre-conceived notion

But the "bliss" you find from being ignorant and left aloof

Is but a shadow of the greatest pleasure: knowing Truth.