The “Back to the Roots” Tour last night was awesome! The set was probably the best one they’ve ever done, and every song they played brought back some kind of memory for me. So I don’t remember much because I was rummaging through all my emotions and yet I remember all of it at the same time. Pretty insane, actually. Having something attached to you like that is something special in itself, and then seeing the original artist play it live in front of you... so good. Can't wait to see them again!

Although I do remember Dylan and Matthew getting the mosh pit started :) it was awesome.

I’ll miss everyone so much when I go back to Flag. Our days are numbered… :(

“… What if the clouds are fragments of mistakes Fabricated by the factors of our foolishness? We’re composing our funeral songs note, note by note…”

Big Salty Road Block

I was meandering along the beach today because I was lost (not important to this story), and the significance of the beach really hit me. I think since I’ve lived in San Diego for so long, or for some other obscure reason, that I don’t ever think about the beach, and the fact that when you’re at the beach, you are looking at the end of your continent… It’s pretty stinkin cool when you really think about it. How many people get to go to the beach, and know that if they look one way they’re facing the world they’ve always been comfortable in, and then they look the other way and find they’re facing a world they’ve never known.
The more I thought about it, the more gripping it became. Just to think… across that water is something completely foreign to us. In this case it was probably Japan or southern China or something. And while I’m staring at the horizon, there’s someone just chilling there on the beach (depending on the time change in “Japan or southern China or something”) right across the way. And then, what if that person is the closest person to me in that direction and they don’t know Truth? The chances that they haven’t even heard about Jesus are so ridiculously high and they are right across that water…

Kinda sad that it doesn’t sound nearly as incredible reading it on a computer screen.

Yay Post Secret!

Redefining Hospitality

“Hospitality refers to an attitude that prevails in a person’s lifestyle, an attitude of extending grace to people, including the stranger, the person that is different. It certainly includes inviting people into your home, but if that is the extent of it, we have missed the core meaning. Hospitality is extending love to those we don’t know and who may be of a different ethnic or cultural history. It is the idea of being gracious to all people, welcoming them into your presence and making them feel valued. A true servant is characterized by hospitality - one who welcomes and embraces those who are unlike us - Jesus embraced us across our radical differences… As we welcome people just as they are and invite them to join us just as we are, it becomes a sacred event reflecting what Jesus did for us - providing us with a healing relationship.” - Duane Elmer

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So I just typed out that whole passage from the book I’m reading because I thought it was super cool! I came across the word hospitality and realized that, when I think of the traits of God, hospitality has never come to my mind before. It makes so much sense though doesn’t it? I love how Elmer says first that the character of the servant is characterized by this, and then that Jesus did this. He made this comparison twice! If we want to become more like Christ, we need to become more like the hospitable servant.

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I made this Blog last December and just found it!

The blog that I'll probably update more often is at [ http://spaceystacy.tumblr.com/ ] but I want to use this too so I can keep up with everyone else's blogging :)

But I'll still try to post the same things on here.. if I don't forget about it again..