Schindler's List

Well, I just got done watching Schindler's list. Wow, what a beautiful movie. It is shot so wonderfully, the music is incredible. How can a story that is so hard be so beautiful? Have of the time you want to cry and the other half you are in awe of the beauty.

How can people be so cruel? So heartless. What is the cure? Love.

Right now in the Sudan, a genocide is going on that is killing more people that the holocaust killed. Just something to think about.

Feelings

Still my heart and hold my tongue
I feel my time
My time has come
Let me in
Unlock the door
I never felt this way before

And the wheels just keep on turning
The drummer begins to drum
I don’t know which way I’m going
I don’t know which way I’ve come

Hold my head inside your hands
I need someone who understands
I need someone, someone who hears
For you I’ve waited all these years
For you I’d wait till kingdom come
Until my day, my day is done
And say you'll come and set me free
Just say you'll wait, you'll wait for me

In your tears and in your blood
In your fire and in your flood
I hear you laugh, I heard you sing
I wouldn’t change a single thing
And the wheels just keep on turning
The drummers begin to drum
I don’t know which way I’m going
I don’t know what I’ve become

For you I’d wait till kingdom come
Until my days, my days are done
And say you'll come and set me free
Just say you'll wait, you'll wait for me
Just say you'll wait, you'll wait for me
Just say you'll wait, you'll wait for me
-Coldplay

Thoughts

If you could love me as a wife
And for my wedding gift, your life
Should that be all I’d ever need?
Or is there more I’m looking for

And should I read between the lines
And look for blessings in disguise
To make me handsome, rich, and wise
Is that really what you want?

‘Cause I am a whore I do confess
But I put you on just like a wedding dress
And I run down the aisle, I run down the aisle
I’m a prodigal with no way home
But I put you on just like a ring of gold
And I run down the aisle
I run down the aisle to you

So could you love this bastard child?
Though I don’t trust you to provide
With one hand in a pot of gold
And with the other in your side
‘Cause I am so easily satisfied
By the call of lovers so less wild
That I would take a little cash
Over your very flesh and blood

Because money cannot buy
A husband’s jealous eye
When you have knowingly deceived his wife
-Derek Webb

Things that make me smile

I have found that there are things that make me go 'Ah' but not externally, internally. Things like biting into a Chic-Fil-A chicken sandwich, or listening to incredibly gifted musicians play live jazz. Talking to those people that you know care for you and watching them get excited about the things that excite you. Non-humid weather. Going to a baseball game on a beautiful evening and relaxing.

Those things are just good for me and make me more deeply happier than some things. Now that I think about it, a Chic-Fil-A sandwich is good, but I don't think that it should be on this list. It made me smile, but not that much. For some it would be on this list, but not me.

Anyway, what does this for you. Simple things, people, music, what is it for you?

Ahh

Jazz. How I love jazz. I had the privilege of watching a quartet play tonight and they were very good. I haven't seen live music in a while and it was a pleasure to see this. Tim Warfield and Papa John DeFrancesco starred this night. What an enjoyable time of chilling and hearing some fantastic musicians. Wow, I hope to hear more before I head back to Europe.

evila llits m'I

Yup, here I am after all this time. What to talk about? Changes. Everything is changing. I came back to the states and 3 families I know are moving into new houses. There are 4 weddings of good friends of mine. Babies are being born everywhere. Life goes on and wonderful things keep happening to wonderful people.

Also, bad things happen. Some people have died over the year. Others have lost jobs and had conflicts of a less that happy time.

All this to say that life goes on. It is hard and it is good. We just got to be there for each other as much as we can and realize that God is there for us. Peace all.