Open up our eyes, so blind
That we might find
The Mercy for the need...




It is not too far a cry
To much to try
To help the least of these
Politics will not decide
If we should rise
And be your hands and feet

still be my vision...
o ruler of all.

me too...

oy

i miss deepness in friendships

if that makes any sense

prayer is a new medicine

I am reading a book called "Healing Prayer" written by a doctor who dives into the idea of medicine and prayer and the effect that prayer has had on people's health.... its amazing.

"The most persuasive reason to believe that prayer works is the indisputable fact that everyone uses it, pagans and orthodox believers alike. If prayer is not efficacious, why would it be universal? A good question. If prayer didn't work, why wasn't is abandoned long ago?"

"Spiritual practices clearly are a complement to traditional medicine, and we should make every effort to incorporate our patients' spirituality to promote healing."

"Prayer has a supernatural component as God's healing anointing and power overcaome disease in the body, but it can also offer an individual a specific direction to take in the natural world that leads to healing."

thats some good stuff.

What I love is that nearly 50% of our medications are derived from plants... things like Digoxin and Morphine and many many others that are used daily in hundreds of patients... from a plant. A plant that God created.

I am encouraged at the fact that although we have diseases that seem endless in this world... God has provided... he has provided from the start, and is still providing now.

blessed.

I'm a mess inside my own head...

I think I just woke up to something... and I don't know where I have been for so long.

When did church become a show? Like when did it become so fake? It felt like a joke this morning and I felt like I was the only one who laughed. I was hoping others realized the joke.

All I know is that I need to reevaluate what I want in a church... in doing so, I have come to the sad realization that I don't know of a single one like it. Nor have I even heard one. NOR do I know how to start one.

When did people start dressing up for church? All I know about that is my homeless friends have said many a times they don't want picked up for church because they "can't go looking like this... and well this is all they got." Or they can't go because "they have not showered in weeks and people don't want them."

Is there a church that people don't dress up to go to? Where homeless people wouldn't stick out like a sore thumb? Where they would feel wanted? Where they will KNOW they are wanted? Where people don't even think twice if they have not showered in weeks? Where the confused and broken will not just find a message but help and healing and real solutions? Where hungry wanders can call home?

I'm sick of the kahkis and ties and whatever else. I want something real. I want to go where the homeless can go.I
t's discontentment in my spirit and I don't know what to do with it.

Jesus, we need a revival... and we need some restoration.

I'm sick of the apology campaigns... lets do something about it.

Can I just say that?

I honestly feel like being on the streets with "the least of these" is the best church I have ever had.

Worse than I thought...

Check out this article...

The U.S. Census Bureau released today statistics concerning the results of the 2006 American Community Survey, including income, poverty, and earnings data for states and metropolitan areas, counties, cities, and American Indian/Alaska Native areas and all congressional districts. One thing that this year's survey included that wasn't in the past was populations in group quarters, such as prisons, college dorms, military barracks, and nursing homes.



Topping this year's list as the nation's poorest big city is our neighbor to the north, Detroit, Michigan. Cleveland can breathe a sign of relief as they have now dropped out from the number one spot down to just the fourth poorest big city. It's still nothing to write home about, but hey, at least we're not the worst. However, Ohio as a whole didn't fare to well, with two of its largest cities ranking amongst the top five poorest cities.



For large cities with populations of 250,000 or more, the highest poverty rates were seen in Detroit, MI; Buffalo, NY; Cincinnati, OH; Cleveland, OH; Miami, FL; and St. Louis, MO. The lowest poverty rate was found in Plano, TX.
Cleveland and Ohio's high poverty rates are matched by equally low levels of income. For large cities, Cleveland had the lowest median household income. Following Cleveland on the list were Miami, Buffalo, and Detroit. The highest median household incomes were seen in Plano, TX and San Jose, CA.



For smaller cities (65,000 to 249,000), Ohio also found one of its cities on the top of the lowest income list. The lowest median household incomes in smaller cities were found in Youngstown, OH; Muncie, IN; Camden, NJ; Brownsville, TX; Syracuse, NY; College Station, TX; and Lawrence, MA. Yorba Linda, CA had the highest median household income.

Don't lose the saltiness...

For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks...



"You are the salt of the earth.



But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again?"


(Matthew 5:13)



Heavy. And so very true.

The Curse of both...

"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat."
Mother Teresa





what about my beautiful friends downtown columbus who lack both of the above? how do you even begin to tap into a solution to this?




i guess prayer is a good place to start.