God in The Free Mind

What is reality but an opportunity to dream. What is a Dream but a fruit of the expansive mind. Imagination that cannot be quenched, nonexistent boundaries,belonging to a shattered framework as infinite ideas form, fantasies are created, and dreams nurtured.

God exists as a being outside of time this is truth. It is because God exists as part of our minds, a being representing the conscious potential of freedom. Freedom to unite and choose our own opportunities. Freedom to do what each individual would only do for him or her self.

 Human beings only grow to understand God as they grow to understand themselves. In the essence of searching for God humans search their own lives inadvertently for the ultimate reason that God has placed them on the earth. humans grow in freedom and in turn are trapped by it at the same time through the idea that God gave us life and that as Gods children they can only do what he desires of them.

Slowly humans lose their freedom to choose what kind of life that they want to live simply because  they grow attached to the search for God in their own personal lives and seek to better the understanding of God for themselves and those around them whom they believe need to follow the same ideas. They lose to the power of time as they become trapped in a new framework built by following each other in a religion. A religion that can ultimately break the flow of a free mind.

Imagination is powerful, God is powerful, and a mind without restriction created by settling for the beliefs of others is the most powerful. Reality is an opportunity to dream, and a dream is an opportunity to become the greatest that a person can be. God belongs the world and the world belongs to God the link between the two is a free mind.

Pardon Me but I Need to Vent.

wisdom coupled with arrogance is nothing more than intelligence that can't be used.

I have become disappointed with the previous generation of people. I have come to believe that many think the younger generation won't understand the situations that the older generation has been through. I am going to say right here THAT IS BULLSHIT. Much  of the older generation whom I have met have become bitter and arrogant. I repeat arrogant because there is no better word that I can think of to portray the attitude of the people whom I have met recently. Now this does not include the whole of the generation before my own but this is simply a reminder to those who read this and are willing to listen that humility is one of the largest keys to wisdom you can find. I will not pretend to be an expert on this matter or any matter in fact. i am a firm believer that anything worth learning about has no limit to the knowledge that can come from it. This is nothing more than a reminder that people to treat each other as equals without taking into account age or life experience. treat others with an open heart that has no expectations and you shall more often than not receive similar treatment.

Two Really Good Friends

These are two really good friends of mine, Josh Doneff is the picture on top and Matt Akin is the picture on the bottom.

If I had to use one verse that would describe their individual mindsets best those verses would be.

Hebrews 10:24- And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.
is for Josh Doneff

Colossians 3:15- Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as member of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.
is for Matt Akin

new photography blog

so i started a new plant photography blog. i wanted to let those that read this blog know, but anyways i probably won't post a whole lot to begin with. and most of it will be plants but i hope that anyone and everyone still enjoys it.

http://photogenicplants.blogspot.com/

i am sorry that i have not been posting more lately but for a while now there has not been anything coming to mind that i would put on paper this is the best that i have at the moment but please bare with it.

There is Nothing Better Than the Life I Live

In the waning moments

In the dreams

In the rain, the sun,

I smile in earnest, because I can

I look at the powder blue sky

Stained by cotton like clouds

Thinking it’s another day to chalk into a good life

Just as the lightest of breezes starts to flow

As my mind floats through its own space

As I fall from great heights to land in my bed

I grin whole heartedly

Since the dreams I experience on the comfort of my pillow

Can be the greatest peace of mind that I can receive

While I stand on the clouds

Watching the stars pass over the candy cane stripe lighthouse

Waiting for the day to come that the light shines on me

Only to open my eyes realizing the time hasn’t come yet

I just need to wait a while longer

Then I go to my window

Listening to the pitter patter of rain

The deep drum like bass of the thunder coming forth from the heavens

To finally cease as the clouds start to part

The rays of light coming from the sun show through tears in grey masses

Gold coming down softly as though to reveal what I am missing

And I smile content to live as I should

Ready to seek out the route the future has set

My unique and individual hike to live in grace

To see powder blue skies

To lightly float through the dimension of my brain

To wait for my chance to show the world I can be great

And to listen to the music that comes naturally through my windows screen

All to bring me happiness in all that I do

Serenity

working hard on a drawing of this photo that i took earlier today.

The Two Great Sins

            I am not sure why, I am not sure about Gods reasoning; but tonight I want to talk about what God has said to me over the course of today. God told me that as we struggle to know God our struggle in sin grows, even as our efforts and conviction to know and do what’s best for ourselves grows stronger. You may notice that something is missing, where is God’s effort, God’s conviction? That’s the problem, at some point and in some aspect of our lives we have traded Gods knowledge and conviction for what our own. We have turned to our own ideas and designs of desire and strength.

            Our greatest sin of desire has been stated in the bible as lust or adultery; this is true beyond all comparisons I can possibly make. The bible says this “the body is for the lord and the lord is for the body…” (1 Corinthians Ch. 6) I don’t really know how others might interpret this but I have to say this verse is to be paired with the fact that we are made in God’s image. Though this is a pairing that none of us would normally come up with on our own because we focus too much on our own will; I even admit that without the pastor of my church this connection never would have occurred. Our will and desire to have pleasure and to be in love. When this desire is paired with God there is no problem; but when we take these desires with ourselves in mind we fall prey to our own demons as Satan proceeds to worsen our situation. Our bodies are for the lord and without the lord we are doomed to sin and corrupt the temple that are bodies are made to be for the lord our God.

            Our greatest sin of strength is greed; and greed’s worst form is deception. Who has seen that one person on the street corner who is trying to imitate a homeless person and just doesn’t look the part; that one person who just has no clue what he is doing but is too lazy to take the opportunities that he could have if he simply worked and lived an honest life. Satan is always looking for weaknesses in our hearts hoping to create sin. Greed is a one of the greatest weaknesses and one of the easiest for Satan to exploit. In this weakness we forget God and his desire for us to know and do what is right. In the end we sometimes use deceit to gain what we want. To consider however that this is a constant happening in every person’s life cannot be said but it is true to say that at some point or another every person who has ever lived and does live has and will deceive and have greed in their hearts.

            But despite all of our selfishness and shortcomings God has given us a second chance through Jesus. All Christians know that Jesus died on the cross for our sins but this is just the gift basket it’s what is inside which matters most, eternal life; the opportunity to stand in God’s presence, a god who is willing to help his children overcome their inability to live outside of sin. God loves us but we blind ourselves to that love with desire and thoughts of how to gain our own strength.

Such is the Way of a Quiet World

For beauty we smile
for small moments we are grateful
in the times we can forget our troubles and pains
we are relieved
in the end peaceful times are small
but give the world meaning

(photo done by me)

dreams and realization

So just a disclaimer I specifically wrote this piece for an open at Red Rocks Community college. I think that it turned out great. there is no hidden meaning to it and in no way should it be taken seriously.

Dreams and realization

Cars pass by the window

Sighing I slowly close my eyes

Drifting off to fantasies

Dreams that only I can have

Jumping off a cliff

That feeling of falling into the seat

Jerking awake as another vehicle goes whizzing the other direction

And sighing I slowly close my eyes

Drifting off to fantasies

Dreams that only I can have

Running into an immense battle

An unknown land that I now call home

Waking up to the clang of metal

Cracking my neck in haste to raise my head

Just the bells of a train track warning us to stop

Sighing I slowly close my eyes

Drifting off to fantasies

Dreams that only I can have

Sitting in a park

Playing a guitar I never learn to play

So absorbed in the music

I forget to wake up

Suddenly the trees are in flames around me

The sirens are all over

Where am I?

What are these scraps of metal everywhere?

Why am I on the gurney?

The train shouldn’t it be moving?

The train…