Colours are Brighter

If I was a kid, I'd definitely be listening to this CD: Colours are Brighter

Do you really think that you're in control?

I've decided to not really venture out today because of the traffic from the game. This has led to much computer surfing (which I try to stay away from at home because, well... I end up buying music) and movie watching.

I saw Little Miss Sunshine last night, the more I think about it today the more I realize how much I liked it. I'm not sure if I would recommend it.. I'm not sure who I know that would like it. Jaron would probably like it, Lafe would probably like it... I don't know who else.

I bought Ray LaMontagne's new CD, Till the Sun Turns Black, I'm grooving to it now. It's great so far... I'm on the second song. His voice instantly calms me. Only two other voices do that for me: Damien Rice and Sam Beam. Their voices remind me of the weather we've had lately. Rainy, slightly chilly, and soothing.

I watched The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Annie Hall today. I'd never seen either. They were both hilarious.

Go here to listen to Ray LaMontagne's cover of Crazy by Gnarls Barkley.

deep thinking

"I began to realize why so many saints voluntarily submit to the discipline of poverty. Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort. There may be other ways to God but, oh, they are hard--as hard as a camel squeezing through the eye of a needle. In the Great Reversal of God's kingdom, prosperous saints are very rare." - Philip Yancey

Comfort. That's something that has been weighing on me recently. I feel like we, or really... I... I am so comfortable that I'm almost numb to the world's suffering. I mean, really... when I hear the things that are happening in the world I just say, "Oh, that's horrible," and go on. I don't think about how these are actual people that are starving and hungry and don't have clean water or a place to live that they feel safe in. What if I didn't just go on? What if I sat down and cried, prayed, decided to help. What if we all did?
When I think about if the situation was reversed. If it was me and my family and my friends who couldn't get enough to eat, who would go 2 or 3 days without food, be scared for our very lives every day... if that was me and I knew that there were people out there that knew what kind of situation I was in, what kind of situation my whole country was in... if I knew that there were Christians out there who knew and could change things, had the resources to pull together and change things, but instead they just said, "Oh, that's horrible," and then went on with their lives.

It kind of makes me sick, at myself most of all, but it does.