Tuesday, November 2, 2010

To dance without God...

Due to my latest sprained ankle, I was forced to observe Modern IV today at Hosanna Dance. To settle the squirms and fidgets building up inside me, I pulled out a pencil and notebook and scribbled down the thoughts I received from observing. Here is a small excerpt of my thoughts:


To dance without God would be wasted movement. Meaningless forms that would take up time and space given for the worship of our Creator. A body made to bring praise to the Perfect One, rather, praising an imperfect selfish beast. Precious music meant to rain notes and rests of love onto the audience, thrashed onto the floor to make way for a monster. Beauty, gifted for His glorification turned inside out for the self-glory and pride of an animal. Stressed breathing, precise lines and shapes, momentary defiance of gravity, unchained drops of sweat, muscular control, natural beauty, unlimited flexibility, everlasting movement, yet the heart lies still...


To dance without God is an artist's suicide.


Thursday, October 28, 2010

It's all good?

So. I feel like when I say "it's all good" I'm lying. Things aren't the best but God will take care of it. He's yet to prove to be unfaithful. I basically just say it cause I don't want to believe things are bad and saying it's all good makes me feel better. I don't really remember when things were last all good. So maybe they're always good and I'm not content with good.
*sigh* Oh life. You trouble me so.:/

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

My thoughts...run...

I find it kind of interesting that last year I went to a school with Kindergarteners and this year I attend school with students who discuss how much money they wasted over the summer on booze.
Just a thought I had today. I laughed when it came to mind actually.

Monday, September 6, 2010

A Dare

I want to write. An outlet to the dynamite eager to explode within. Perhaps dancing would be better though. A more physical release. Or possibly simply listen to music. A personal favorite nonetheless, however, it would seem I've chosen to write. I could quite possibly be listening to music right now as well; but you'll never know that will you? Muahaha! Now I feel as though I have some power over you, my reader. Probably just sleep deprivation. It happens to the best of us.

Let's talk about God now. He's so freakin' cool. Man. When I grow up I want to be just like him. He's taught me so much this past summer. A lot about beauty, humility, love, fear, and how to be in awe of Him. It's been such a ride. Basically, beauty has been the theme. Not my beauty though, His beauty. It's so much better. It's all because He loves us too. So good. Amazing. Wonderful. *sigh* That is why I want to write, dance, and listen to music. Probably scream too. I feel like using an exclamation point in this paragraph would deprive Him of His epicness. I want to punch something, He's that cool.

There's one lyric in a song I love, that creates such a beautiful picture of His love for us. It says, "Like a lonely lover, waiting by the ocean, I'll never give up on you".

Imagine that. God, The Almighty, standing by the ocean, He's bigger than the ocean but He still stands there waiting for us to re-navigate our direction towards Him. I am kind of giving up on the words because He's too great for them. I am at a loss I guess. It's bittersweet.

I'm tired. I am going to post this at the risk of many errors and probably a hunk of it not making any sense but I am ok with that. For now. I'll fix it later.

To end this blog, I have a challenge. Look at everything, EVERYTHING, in the world, that was made by God Himself, and ask God to reveal to you it's beauty. Everything He's made has beauty beyond us and only He can uncover that to us. So. That's all. Do it. I dare you.

KJ signing out.
Peace. Loves. Ya know.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Wednesday Night

I am sort of not surprised but this, cause naturally, it would happen to me. Yesterday, I got my license, drove three friends to and from Cold Stone for youth group, and got grounded. All in the same day. Yes. Only me. Ha. Not funny life. But anyways, the reason for the groundation was because I was late picking up my mom, Kyle and Kelcie. The church was closed by the time I got there. Yeah, lame. So in the words of Morganne Roy (I'm pretty sure I'm spelling her first name wrong. Sorry.), that was a boss (hehe, dunno how to spell that either.) loss.