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Charles

It's all too much for me to take, the love that's shining all around here

About Me

I stand on the mountain of blessing at last, No cloud in the heavens a shadow to cast, His smile is upon me; the valley is past, For He is so precious to me.I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace) "I can say I hope it will be worth what I give up If I could stand up mean for all the things that I believe"Oh yeah, it's worth it.

My Interests

reading, hanging out with my best friend, wallowing in the comedic insanity of my family, staring in awe at self-sacrificial love, synthesizing disparate ideas, taking long walks

Music:

Yeah, I like music...I like oxygen, too. And water. Water’s good. Music is my time machine. Particulars include The All-Saved Freak Band, the innocence mission, John Mark McMillan, the Restoration Project, (early)John Michael Talbot, Aaron Strumpel, Keith Green, Honeytree, Fernando Ortega, Sheree Plett, Regina Spektor, The Waverly Consort, Glenn Gould, Trace Bundy, Peter Paul and Mary, Natalie MacMaster, Newcomers Home, Januar, Hem, Songs of Water, The Bulgarian State Radio and TV Women’s Choir, pretty much anything written by: Aaron Copeland, Bach, Michael Praetorius, Vivaldi (esp. his concierto in D major, esp. esp. the second movement — yikes!), Beethoven; pretty much all hymnody

Movies:

I haven’t been inside a movie theater since 1985. The last movie I saw in one was The Color Purple. Movies I’ve seen since on video/dvd: Becket, the Incredibles, the Lord of the Rings movies, Remember the Titans, Fantasia 2000. I also have to add Jesus of Nazareth, even though technically it’s a mini-series, but when it’s on VHS what difference does it make?

Television:

Huh? What’s that?

Books:

The Last Western, Masks of Satan: The Demonic in History, Peace, Prosperity, and the Coming Holocaust; 1984, Animal Farm, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, Physicist and Christian: a Dialogue between the Communities, History of the Church (by Eusebius of Cesarea), Independent Birth of Organisms, Lincoln: Speeches and Writings; Dark Night of the Soul, Practice of the Presence of God, Imitation of Christ, Crisis of the House Divided, the Real Jesus, The State of the Art (by Charles Hockett), Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (by Andrew Sihler) and pretty much anything else in historical linguistics, the Encyclopedia Britannica

My Blog

Victory!!!

I'm over the moon, taller than clouds.I'm sailing along, smiling out loud.Windows, doorways, you can't hold me,branches never hold me, no.I'm over the moon.Can this be the same day of all rainwhen I w...
Posted by Charles on Thu, 08 May 2008 08:19:00 PST

we interrupt this myspace for this really important message

Dialogue this morning at home:Anthony: Why is no one ready but I?me: Okay then, go get in the car, Mr. I.Anthony: Okay, Mr. You.Carla: That's Mr. Usted to you, Butthead!I just had to share that. Thank...
Posted by Charles on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:48:00 PST

oh, I dont know; Im just thinking out loud

"Busy" is not the word so much as "heavy". So many lives I'm given to be a part of (many by my standards anyway), such intense trouble and it's given to me not so much to supply the answers as to upho...
Posted by Charles on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:14:00 PST

(not) giving up

I don't know if this has ever happened to you, but I'm finding this a consistent part of my experience and it happened again about a month ago. I run up against a brick wall. I've reached a dead end. ...
Posted by Charles on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:41:00 PST

Merry Happy Merry

Happy Christmas, everyone! As I was listening to one of my Christmas presents I thought of each and every friend I have on myspace, individually, distinctly. And so here's wishing each of you a very w...
Posted by Charles on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:38:00 PST

where Jesus is, ’tis heaven there

Wait for me I'll wait for you All the things that we have lost In the dark a coat of Armour does nothing to keep Us from A Beating heart Can't stop and start Oh! I wish you a heavenly place Oh! I wi...
Posted by Charles on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:07:00 PST

Born to Hum

Are you born to hum? Sure you are! Have you heard this song? "Born to Hum" by Erin McKeown? You need to find it. Not because I'm in love with this song, but because it's good for you. If it helps, it'...
Posted by Charles on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:37:00 PST

smiling time(s)

Ever go through one of those phases when whenever you smile you stop and say, "Hey! Look at that. I'm smiling. Neat!" Those times are cool.
Posted by Charles on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:06:00 PST

mourning has broken

The time came to end my sorrow and start being happy again. I have more new happiness than old worries now. I'm still conscious of the challenges I face; "cautiously optimistic" is my byword right now...
Posted by Charles on Fri, 18 May 2007 08:03:00 PST

what makes me a freak

In the last couple of months I've been thinking off and on about two items on my long list of misfit qualities. These are significant because I think they trump all the others.I don't have myself as t...
Posted by Charles on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:29:00 PST