Let's also be about our Father's business.

Sufjan's BQE project

Billy sent me this link for the Brooklyn Academy of Music's commission of Sufjan Stevens to compose music about the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. There is a video of the orchestra performing in the studio, but what I recommend is the interview with Sufjan (including some instrumentals)- just click "Listen to the whole show" below the video.

In other news, I taught myself how to crochet this past Saturday. It is the only thing I did the entire day until 5pm. Later at about 11 I joined a friend and we arrived very late at the salon of The Free Press. There was time enough for interesting discussion to commence, however.

Now I do not have class, in order to honor the veterans. Most of the vets I know live outside. If Drifter was still in town I would bake him something--not that baked goods are enough. God bless the veterans, God heal the veterans.



I've been thinking lately that one of the biggest deceptions manipulating the Kingdom family is indifference. Combine indifference with fear, and what have we? Not action, that's for sure. I count myself into this trickery, and plea for freedom from it. Jesus saw injustices and acted on them, turning tables upside down and causing a ruckus. We see injustices (do we?), and then pray about them (do we?), without utilizing the freedoms and wealth that have been bestowed upon us to act.

Can we pray for Father to reverse injustices, and not take any action ourselves, all the while "doing justice, loving mercy, and walking humbly with our God" (micah 6:8)? I love prayer, its power is matched by none, but what is the true fast we are called to (Isaiah 58: "Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter-- when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?")? And does this not entail active pursuit? Indeed, the zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this (Is 37:32), but this does not give us liberty to sit on our couches. What is there to be scared of in turning over tables? In peaceful and creative protest and demonstration? Isn't it true that if followers of Jesus actually started living then more of them would be dying?

We are the Pharisees!

What injustices can you identify? How are you making known the voice of truth and justice? Someone is suffering, how you are sacrificing for them?

I can only see it as following in the footsteps of Truth incarnate.


sweet Lord, take away our laziness and apathy. replace it your zealous passion! motivate us to greater heights, to fulfill your purposes! we are oh so in need of you to transform us. it is your direction we desire. we surrender our fear for the sake of your kingdom, in the name of your son.