out of the silent planet

I could never divorce you

without a good reason

and though I may never have to

its good to have options.

-David Bazan

roommates

when you have three musicians living in the same house

you quickly find that you’re all pretentious jerks

but I love them anyway.

an episode of Firefly

and cry myself to sleep..

Being a Christian is sometimes awkward.

That awkward moment when all your coworkers are trashing Christians and you’re only angry because you agree with most of what their saying and that’s sad.

josh made me chai

(I think he drugged it)

92.9

some days I’m quite certain I have life figured out.

I’m sure that this routine I live in is solid and things will work out at the end of the day.  I think that the world I live in is not so big and I have a pretty good understanding of how things work around here.  I know my place and I know what to do in it.

Then I remember the Sun.

I remember that this little spec of a place I call home is on a giant rock flying through an infinite amount of space orbiting a constantly exploding ball of hydrogen at approximately 92.9 million miles, which is just enough to heat us from the bitter cold of outer space and yet not so close as to burn us up in the intense fire we’ve come to call the Sun, thus allowing our planet to sustain life so I can enjoy this banana that just happened to exist on some tree.

And lets not forget:  ”The distance of the Earth from the Sun, as well as its orbital eccentricity, rate of rotation, axial tilt, geological history, sustaining atmosphere and protective magnetic field all contribute to the current climatic conditions at the surface.”

which is what makes Earth a habitable planet, without such precise conditions, it could not sustain life.

I will always hold that childlike awe of the universe and space that kept me in wonder of whats out there.

all this.  all these numbers.  the sheer magnitude of life around us.  the ever present surrounding of our powerlessness.  the incomprehensible sciences that hold our tiny world in balance, and yet we doubt.

there is no God.

say what you will about science being the answer to all things,

sure science is great.  it helps us make sense and order to things so we might come to understand them.  But the more I learn of the universe, the more I am pointed to a divine creator.

and that’s just the planet we live on.  

don’t even get me started on the human body,

or reproduction and the miracle of life.

92.9

and I worry about what shirt I’m going to wear.

followers.

every time I stop to actually write something on tumblr

I wonder why some of these people follow me.

sometimes I even click on their pages and look at the kinds of things they post

and I wonder what on Earth it is we have in common.

maybe its the nerdy references, maybe its the spirituality.

I’m not quite certain.

maybe I’m being too light with my topics.

after all, isn’t a blog to speak your mind regardless of what others will think.

well,

I guess I’m just going to have to start offending more of you.

the world is a strange, strange place.