West Coast Friendships

"Aloha, my happy West Coast friends...do you feel alive?"

Hey everyone! Sorry its been so long since my last post! I was finishing up my finals at school (which went very well, by the way) and I had a ton of responsibilities for my job as a CA in the dorms. But, I got to leave school and Wisconsin a little earlier than expected...I got to leave to go to California for the second summer in a row! I am out here now interning with Campus Crusade for Christ.

Now a couple question probably pop in your head when you hear this...I will try and answer them as best I can. I am out here for half the summer as a student-staff member training students from across the States to be able to lead a Bible Study on their campus, share their faith with their close friends and family and even strangers, and help make them into leaders. It is going to be such a fun summer working with all these other students and staff.

I will be the 'co-leader' of a group of 5 guys from all over the place! I got a chance to talk with them all on the phone and I am so excited about them. They all seem like they are pretty awesome guys, I cannot wait til they get here on Monday.

We have around 40 staff and student staff who have been here preparing things for the students to come and also preparing ourselves physically, emotionally, and spiritually before the students get here. We have shared our faith numerous times already just in a week and I have gotten in some really great conversations! On my plane ride out here I started talking to a man named Everet and we started talking about spiritual things. Turns out he is a Christian and is so excited that I am going to San Diego to do God's work. He said he would be praying for our summer. It was such an encouragement to hear him say he was excited about what I was doing and that he was going to pray for me personally. God is so good...

I already have a TON of stories to tell you all, but it is real late here and I gotta get up early tomorrow. I will do my best to post to this at least 2 times a week this summer to let everyone know what God is doing out here in San Diego.

I pray that God works in your life and you continue to pursue him!

Broken Mess

The Classic Crime (one of my favorite bands) jut came out with their new album "Vagabonds" and this one of its songs..."Broken Mess". It is a very powerful song about how we treat our Savior after all He has done for us. It really hit me hard so I thought I would share it with you!



He can't sleep, he can't eat
He keeps thinking about her behind the locked door of her bedroom
As she knowingly tortures the shell that is left of her bridegroom
And what did he do to deserve
This whore of a wife who parades her disgrace to his face now
When he loved her and gave up his life in more ways than she knows how
And all I can say is that

Love is a terrible art, it’s a hook in the heart
That can drag you on broken glass
And as you protest the shards in your flesh
The hook tears out your chest until you’re just a broken mess

Where is God in this rot?
Depraved she commits the most heinous of sins and breaks her vows
But he loves her despite all the crimes she devises in his house
Where is God? I’ve been taught
That He’s close to the broken, it's true I have spoken with Him some
When I look in my brother's eyes I can see where his love comes from
And all he can say is that

Love is a terrible art, it’s a hook in the heart
That can drag you on broken glass
And as you protest the shards in your flesh
The hook tears out your chest until you’re just a broken mess

But he has mercy on her love and does not bleed him dry
A credit to his self control if it were me that monster would probably die

Love is a beautiful thing, she can make your heart sing
When you’re walking on broken glass
She will open your eyes, make your heart feel alive
Point you toward the sunrise
Help you leave all this broken mess behind

Love is a beautiful thing
Will you leave this broken mess behind?




Paul calls us as the church, as believers, Christ's bride. The bride in this song is us. We are whores who parade our sins in front of his face. But still He loves us...no matter what we do Christ still loves us. God is love (1 John 4:16). I think if we replace the bride of this song with ourselves we can really see how impactful this song is and how we defile God's name every day.

I pray that we could become a people who hold God above all else and strive not to defile His name and spit in His face. I pray that we could become aware of our own actions and ask God to change them.