by Lon on September 29, 2006
One of the 8 papers I wrote in the past 2 weeks was a reflection exercise for my “Youth at Risk” course on the movie “Kids“. If you haven’t seen this, it’s as close to child pornography as it gets.
People actually wrote letters to our seminary president to not allow our prof. to show it in class. It was shown anyways. It’s shocking to me that they people could act this out for a movie, what’s more shocking is it’s a vivid picture of reality.
Below’s my write up. OR, I just attempted to do my first ever podcast on it. It’s not quite like speaking to a crowd, felt a bit lame speaking to myself. Not sure how other podcasters do it. Anyhow check it out here if you’d like to listen. It’s a bit confessional.
The movie “Kids” exposed me to the wonder and the horror of my own humanity. The youth captured in the film were foul, offensive, jaded, destructive, and all too much like me underneath it all. While their outward practices, language, and behavior I must admit are mostly foreign to me today, there is something within their culture that is more like me than I care to admit.
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by Lon on September 17, 2006
I’m heading to Montreal monday night after class for a regional meeting with the IMN team. Last call if anyone from Toronto wants to head down there with me. You can register to here and shave $20 bucks off the at-the-door tuition costs.
Finished 3 papers this week. Plenty more ahead. The weekend’s been just grand. Too bad it’s already over. Peace.
by Lon on September 15, 2006
So things didn’t work out this week.
Last week I was reading a book, and it was talking about how “success in God’s eyes is defined by faithfulness”.
I shared this with my wife, and half-jokingly said, only ‘losers’ say this.
The truth is, I do take some solace in this. God looks to the heart and knows our best of intentions. He doesn’t expect us to be able to be able to control every outcome.
Still. I can’t help but feel like this is the motto of those who give up before the battle’s really started.
I’ve got to work on somethings in terms of clarity and execution. And one thing I’ve learned from following Jesus, is that even the things that aren’t your fault, you take ownership of. That’s what He did. That’s what I plan on doing as I continue to stumble forward.
I’m too young right now, to not be failing like crazy.
Grace & Peace to all my fellow leaders who live in the fringes of failure.
by Lon on September 10, 2006
A while back, I was corresponding with Jack Popjes (With Wycliffe Canada, who spent a bulk of his life as a missionary in Brazil), and discussing my future. He asked me a fantastic question that I ask myself every year.
Where would you honestly put yourself right now on a scale from 1 to 10. With one being the lowest risk and the most comfort, and ten being maximum risk, pain and possible reward. And why?
by Lon on September 7, 2006
If you’ve been using skype for free long distance this year, check out Hullo. It’s much like the Avaya, which I use to use at work. You type the number via the client, it calls you locally, then calls your other party locally, and the conferences you together, phone to phone, for free!
For those of you who followed me into the land of zooomr, a bulk uploading tool just got released for it. Check out juploadr here.
Calgoo lets you take your google calendar offline.
For those of you who are wondering how to keep site stats on voxtropolis. You can paste html code from different stat providers into the ‘text’ sidebar widget when you hit ‘look and feel’. I just started using statcounter.
And to top it all of, it looks like Jesus is back and living in Miami.
*Update. I just made my first ‘portal’ on Zooomr. It’s a neat little new feature that allows you in a sense to place a picture within a picture. Click below to see one of me getting slapped and a portal into the split second reaction afterwards.
by Lon on September 5, 2006
