We are of good courage

2 Corinthians 5:9 So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.

Dang. Good refresher course, I guess. Not really a course, but it got my memory jogging. And I think about so many things once my head gets going like that. Ideas and creativity, thoughts of different ways to reach people for Jesus. Dreams of things to do to express my creativity and glorify God. And I one day want to make a substantial amount of money, to be greatly generous to people: providing for my family (immediate/wife&kids, Church, friends), affluent for the gospel, and influential by means of serving others.

That will come with hard work and my degree. A portfolio and big dreams, stuck to a plan and schedule!


I like that verse ↑↑↑ because Paul seems to be on a kick about relentless pursuit of adoration in our lives; glorifying God in literally every circumstance. Even the mundane ones, driving somewhere, doing laundry, keeping a clean house, writing. For me, I think that's obvious in music, design and writing. I write a lot of obscure thoughts in poetic form; austere in nature, yet fiction as much as my heart lets it become. At work, I've taken to listen to sermon upon sermon by Whitney, Young, Croswhite, MacArthur, Sproul, Driscoll, and Piper. I try to make the most of my time while getting things done. Learning and working, it's great. Then school is almost over. I get to gear a few projects into personal beliefs, which inevitably get around to me talking about Jesus with someone. That's pretty neat. I think my professors have a certain respect for that, even if they disagree with what I say.

I do feel like I look through several areas of my life, as if looking through different window panes. As to say, I can't look at design the way I look at work, but music and design are similar in my perspectives. That probably makes zero sense, but it's the only way I can explain that right now. Anyway, I made an image that kinda matches my brain right now....

  Treefight For Sunlight - What Became of You and I by Bella Union

so...I guess that's it for now? I hope something comes of "Blackmatchstick", I'm really trying with it...