Someone Worth Dying For

I don't really have anything to say, so check out the lyrics to the legit new song by Mike's Chair, and have a great day:)

You might be the wife, waiting up at night
You might be the man, struggling
to provide
Feeling like it's hopeless
Maybe you're the son who chose a
broken road
Maybe you're the girl thinking you'll end up alone
Praying
God can you hear me?
Oh God are you listening?

Am I more than flesh
and bone? Am I really something beautiful?
Yeah I wanna believe, I wanna
believe that
I'm not just some wandering soul
That you don't see and you
don't know
And I wanna believe, Jesus help me believe that I
Am someone
worth dying for

I know you've heard the truth that God has set you free
But you think you're the one that grace could never reach
So you just
keep asking, oh what everybody's asking

Am I more than flesh and bone?
Am I really something beautiful?
Yeah I wanna believe, I wanna believe that
I'm not just some wandering soul
That you don't see and you don't know
Yeah I wanna believe, Jesus help me believe that I
Am someone worth
dying for
You're worth it, you can't earn it
Yeah the cross has proven
that you're sacred and blameless
Your life has purpose

And you are
more than flesh and bone,
Can't you see you're something beautiful
Yes
you gotta believe, you gotta believe
He wants you to see, He wants you to
see
That you're not just some wandering soul
That can't be seen and
can't be known
Yeah you gotta believe, you gotta believe that you are
Someone worth dying for, oho
You're someone worth dying for, oho
You're someone worth dying for.

Church Camp High

This last week we went to church camp. I wasn't just not posting like usual :P. It was a good but extremely hot week, and I got to see many old friends and make a few new ones, but it felt like something was weird. It seemed kind of...blah.

I did not get the "church camp high." You know, where you go to camp and come home all "yay Jesus" and stuff for a few weeks. I didn't have any revelations of life changing decisions.

Why? It's definitely not because I'm just so absolutely perfect that I don't need to change a thing. Maybe it was just the fact that I was sick 76% of the time due to the extreme temperatures. Maybe it was the fact that compared to last month's trip to South Dakota, this week was rather tame and predictable. Maybe it was all those times my campus pastor talked about falling in love with the "everyday life Jesus" instead of "Super Summer Jesus." Maybe they just didn't touch on anything I really struggle with. Maybe it's because I was concerned with trying to fix a few other people instead of myself. Maybe it was the fact that I learned so much more in one year of college than I've learned in ten years of church camp.

I don't know why. I really don't. All I know is that I thought I was going to die all week and for the first time was really glad when Friday finally made an appearance. I definitely had, in the words of Ethan, the "camp hangover."

I had fun, and I miss everyone, I really do. I just didn't feel it this year.

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Serve in the small

There was a monk in the 17th century named Brother Lawrence. From the little I know of him, he was an amazing man who came to an awesome realization about serving the Lord.

"It is enough for me to but pick up a straw from the ground for the love of God."


He grasped a concept that many of us don't.

We don't have to do huge things in order to serve God.


So many times we (...I) feel like if we aren't somewhere in Africa, living in a hut, slaving away in the heat everyday, that we aren't really serving God. We can't possibly do anything that He would approve over. Thankfully, this is so incorrect. It doesn't take turning the world upside-down 24/7 in hyper mode to serve the Lord. We can do it each and everyday. Correction: we SHOULD. In all the small things. In washing the dishes. In driving to work. In scubbing floors or painting walls for a neighbor. In giving someone a hug.


Our God is a personal God, and He loves hearing you whistle as you work just as much as He loves hearing you sing in church on Sunday.

Serve and worship Him in the small things. Because there are WAY more small things in life than there are big. Work it.