July 2006

so i’m starting this twentysomethingish group that i call “alethia.” we had our first attempted meeting last tuesday, and 3 people came. if you count me and allison, i guess you’ve got 5, which is better than 3.

you think i’d know by now that something that is worth anything rarely comes easily. and i guess i do, but every once in a while, it’d be nice to have something work right out of the gates. a number one with a bullet. a hole-in-one.

“batman’s life was pretty shitty, though,” i tell myself.

he’s a superhero, gets to kick all sorts of criminal ass and all that, has all this intelligence and ninja skills and money and cool bat-toys, but his life pre-bat was really a big flush in the toilet.

and that helps a little, to know that maybe i’ll be batman in a couple years.

i don’t want any nipples on my suit, though.

it seems to me that there’s a stark disconnect between what people call “church” in most places and the twentysomethingish age group.

there’s a twentys-shaped-hole.

and nobody seems to notice.

well, not many people notice, anyway. damn hyperbole.

don’t get me wrong, i understand that at this point in time most people that are employed by churches are just trying their best to keep their own heads above water, to keep food on their own family’s table. i get that, i really do. but if what we believe is what we do and not what we say, then who is really caring? who really cares?

well, i do, i guess. and i suppose that’s the best place to start…

tomorrow night i’m starting a twentysomethingish existential support group.

i call it “alethia,” which in greek means “truth.”

we’ll search for truth and we’ll talk about what it means to be a human, and we’ll try to provide a place for twentysomethingish people to “fit.”

hopefully i won’t be the only person there.

why does travel sound so good?

behold alison krauss & union station, in “gravity”:

—–
And the people who love me still ask me
When are you coming back to town
And I answer quite frankly
When they stop building roads
And all God needs is gravity to hold me down
—–

ahh, that sounds pretty nice…

it’s quite nearly time for me to visit some other lands, see some other things.

here’s hoping i’m able to do it soon.