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r-series. freakin slick!

i need to take this to heart

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and if not that guy… i’ll be purchasing this guy instead…

http://thecordialchurchman.bigcartel.com/product/366-bow-ties-in-2012-day-94

may be purchasing this bowtie very soon. reversible blue and cream silk/blue cotton gingham. getchu some!

http://thecordialchurchman.bigcartel.com/product/366-bow-ties-in-2012-day-157

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…there has been a lot of huge changes in my life.

1.) the most recent and for all intensive purposes, the biggest change, has been the end of an almost 2 year relationship with a girl that i really cared about and arguably loved. i think it’s one thing to love someone and a completely thing to LOVE someone. i’m not going to delve into it here but the idea is to know why you’re in a relationship and figure out whether that person really matters to you or if you’re just in love with the idea of that person being your significant other. you can say you care/love but actions will always speak louder than words.

2.) i turned 25. i’ve realized i’m not getting any younger (my body informs me daily like im some old man) and there are things i want to do. its like there is this weird biological clock that i hear ticking every day. im not much of a world traveler per say but i do want to be out in God’s creation a lot more than i have been. video games, tv, movies, and music are cool and all but i feel like there is so much im missing out on by being inside all the time. if anyone wants to join me in that adventure just say so. not sure where, not sure when. we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.

3.) spirituality. from a real honest position, i’ve really dropped the ball over the past couple years on being a believer. my sins have definitely gotten the best of me at some points and on most days my biggest struggle is simply making time for God. i’ve also realized that i can’t let others dictate what i think/feel about my own personal relationship with God. i have my convictions for a reason, it doesn’t matter what others think about those convictions. God help me daily to walk in Your ways and not my own.

…so anyways, there’s my life as of recent in a nutshell. of course im still in school, ill finish up in may and be off into the ministry field, at least thats the plan. who knows where God will take me! also, the lilies and sparrows is getting ready to take another tonal shift. we’ll be writing a lot of new stuff over the summer and hopefully be going back into the studio soon. i want to tour and write and be Christ to people. thats all.

gah. so much truth.

recently a friend of mine has been really interested in how God changes peoples names in the Bible after they have encounters with Him. he said that we are called by our earthly names but God has a heavenly name for us as well that speaks directly into our insecurities and fears and whatever holds us back from fully pursuing our walk with God the way it was intended to be.

i have found my heavenly name, or so i believe, and knowing that it means “pure and clean” i can find myself rebuking all the spiritual warfare that keeps me down about how i percieve myself as a dirty, filthy individual that isn’t worthy of being used by God.

some of this may seem crazy but it really doesn’t matter what people call you. its only what you answer to that does matter. answer to your heavenly name and live free of the chains that bind you.

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Zooey Deschanel is the same person in real life as she is on New Girl or in that new iPhone commercial.