snow patrol is on their way back... and i dont read the B-I-B-L-E...

so i missed them last time when they were here... amazing band... 'final straw' is a great album... my buddy kenny turned me onto them... listen?...

here are their tour dates... wanna come along?...

so, i've been kinda experimenting with my interaction with god... you see, as a youth i was taught three ways to meet with god... they are the sacred triangle of spiritual discipline... they are: read your bible, prayer, go to church.

now, i dont want to get into semantics here, like how you cannot 'go to church', you can only 'be the church'... cause i could ramble on that for hours... instead, i want to look at how empty limiting oneself to those three methods can be dangerous...

actually, i dont want to look at anything except what is going on in my own personal experiment right now...

so, i kinda stopped reading my bible a couple months ago... i pull it out for reference here and there... i even use it to teach... i've ready stuff that goes along with our topics and such, but for personal betterment or whatever, i have stopped... why?... okay, perhaps this is lame, but the reason is simple enough to me: it is so hard to get away from what i think i know about the bible to embrace a fresh perspective of the bible...

now, i have to be honest, christ's teaching still rattle me and remind me of the mystery of god and the love of creator to creation especially to those marginalized by society and the church... so when i turn anywhere for leisure, its almost always the gospels... my neighbor dusty tells me he loves to read the gospels... he's a swell guy who talks loud and uses spectacularly foul words... its an artform almost... he lives downstairs... that is but a sidenote...

okay, step back a sec... i need to embrace my whole journey... we all seem to want to throw away that which shaped us in ways that we don't appreciate... that's fair, but perhaps that's not seeing how we should (or could) see it... perhaps my whole journey is important... including my fundamentalist-jesus-was-a-republican understanding of scriptures... or perhaps it's all worthless and i really need to start anew...

no real answers right now... but there is a commentary coming out on the book of colossians this fall called, subverting the empire, which looks pretty fab... brian notes it is one of the first biblical interpretations given new ways of understanding... could be cool...

okay, its time for a shower and another cup a joe...