away from ....

Away from the party,
away from the music,
away from the crowd,
it's where i found You,
You are right here,
You never left,
except to look for me.

This world and its desires,
try to lure me away from you,
but Your love and truth pulls me in,
no matter what Kanye says,
i'm only stronger in You,
no matter what 50 says,
there's no club compare to Your dwellings,
i want to be grateful like LeCrae,
like the Rejects who hopes for light over darkness
this will end tonight,
my reliance on myself and my feelings,
whether it's moving along with the crowd,
or dreaming with a broken heart,
they all have to go because i'm new in You,
and there's hope and freedom in You,
and You stretch out your arms and pull me back,
and You've paved the way,
You are the way.

Awakening

i need an awakening,
to the reality around me,
to the wounds around me.

i need an awakening,
to the people around me,
to the struggles in me.

i need an awakening,
from the mundaneness of life,
from the selfishness of my own flesh.

i need an awakening,
to the fullness of Your kingdom,
to the glory of Your throne.

i need an awakening,
to the forgiveness of Your grace,
to the mercy of Your love.

i need an awakening,
to wake up from this slumber,
to wake up from this misery.

i need an awakening,
to live for Christ,
to live to the fullest as it should.

i need an awakening,
because i'm alive,
i'm alive!



(from www.relevantmagazine.com)

Stucked

the weather started to cool down today,
somewhere in the middle of Texas,
where the haziness transform a country town into an eclectic square,
i'm stuck in the land of have vs have-not,
i want to be content at life,
giving thanks every opportunity i get,
but i found myself frustrated - mad at circumstances of life,
wondering why it wasn't like couple ideals that i thought of,
maybe the mellow-ness had gotten to me,
maybe i just need to snap out of the funk ...

knowing who i am in Christ,
knowing who i should be,
and knowing that someone actually cares ...

sometimes i just feel helpless,
with the situations i faced,
though they are not mountains,
they are more like hills,
but still they required faith,
to overcome ...

here comes the season of fall,
where leaves will turn red,
and hearts filled with warmth,
anticipating the works of His hand,
i should get up,
and walk on.

Facebook clone in Chinese ?

here's an interesting site that i ran across today ...
Facebook clone in Chinese ?

http://www.xiaonei.com/


The URL "Xiao Nei" literally means within campus, or within the school - which was how Facebook was started as - a network for people within a campus and now being extended to regions and work places ... and the design looks similar too -

or maybe this is a Facebook product (i don't think so ... ) ?

here's a screen shot :



and here's a screen shot from Facebook



what are your thoughts ?

tech.

What are you fighting for / living for?

just an odd question that floated around my mind today -
what am i living for / fighting for?

i mean really and seriously - not cliche-ish - but really from the bottom of our hearts (my heart)
are we seeking stability?
are we seeking peace?
but at what cost of others?

are we living for the dream?
are we living for the kingdom that is far beyond this world?
but are we really living it - or just another mantra that we put on like our baseball cap like something to rally upon or a team to cheer on.

what are you living for?
what are you fighting for?

what am i asking for.

my ideal morning

i was thinking about this today ... what will be my ideal morning ?
it'll be a good morning of coffee alongside with a passage of scripture with journal and a newspaper (pref. USA Today ... or any city paper in my case Alburquerque Journal will work) -
even better - if it's at a coffee shop or on the subway.

have a good one.

daniel

Dances

Standing still in the moving crowd,
where lights reflected from the disco ball,
blinked and dazed the dance floor,
i ponder life as it goes by,
maybe this is the last dance,
maybe it's the only dance,
there's the girl with the gown,
and the guy with the fancy tie,
dancing the night away.
i stopped and i walked,
back to the dance floor,
ready to dance the night away again,
like living with art,
or breathing with rhythm,
dancing the night away

Polls Open

it's nice that Blogger gets that new polling feature ...
and now i'm putting it to use ...

let me know what you think after you vote :-)

Polar bear

big turtle!

the cranes ...

Alright ... rescuing my princess !

here comes the dragon !!

Port of Albuquerque
or
The Aquarium ....

jelly fish .... glow in the dark

Day out ....

sting rays !

How to save a life.

Let him know that you know best
Cause after all you do know best
Try to slip past his defense
Without granting innocence
Lay down a list of what is wrong
The things you've told him all along
And pray to God he hears you

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
- The Fray (thefray.net)

i just bought this The Fray's CD couple days ago,
thinking about this song,
and thinking about wounded friends,
even myself (wounded meaning wounded in life),
and how we needed to be heal,
we needed to be heal spiritually,
be heal from heart breaks,
be heal from our own mistakes and such.

maybe i've failed to listen and someone had fallen -
maybe i've now learn how to save a life,
to listen,
from the heart,
listen to the cries of one's soul,
i think i know how to save a life.

this might be how ...
2 Cor 5:
18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
(NIV from ebible.com)

Everlasting?

here's a good quote to think on ...

fear not death, but an un-lived life or another quote that is equally compelling, every man dies, but not everyman truly lives.

those two quotes are really thought provoking ...

so is this one,

Jesus said : The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. (John 10:10 , NIV from ebible.com)

see the connection?

peace out.

Eagle nest lake, NM

night sky ...