random stuff about me:
only a boy, flawed and broken, who loves Christ.
sometimes i find myself overwhelmed by the beauty of God's creation and i cry.
sometimes i get lost, but i'm ok with that.
sometimes i feel alone and uncomfortable but i know that's only because i'm meant for heaven.
sometimes i feel like the harder i try, the more i fail. but more times i feel like God has me in the palm of his hand and i can do anything he sees fit.
sometimes i smile just to smile. sometimes my smile helps someone else smile and it makes me smile more.
sometimes i hurt.
most of the time i can't find the words to say what i want to say, even though i rehearse situations over and over in my head... i find i'm better at writing than talking.
my flesh betrays my mind, my mind betrays my heart and my heart betrays God - and this is my struggle.
my mind is haunted by old phrases, quotes from movies, lyrics... i tie whatever i am experiencing, whatever conversation i am having, to those words from my past. it's as though my mind is ever-weaving, ever-linking idea to idea to idea...
i'm not nearly as wise as i'd like to be or i let on to be; and even if you think me foolish, i am more foolish even still. wisdom is the obedience of God and i fail to obey every day of my life - but i am a fool who's stubborn enough to keep trying.
i cry. and sometimes i think tears are the only reminder i'm human, not a robot.
i know my passions: philanthropy and creative self expression.
i love missions. my heart is in Asia. God willing, i will some day be on the mission field. i wish sooner than later.
when it comes down to it, as an artist, i am only a magnifying glass. i frame off a certain space and call attention to the subject so others can see the beauty God created.
i'm an infj .
most of the time it takes me forever to finish my art projects, but i usually finish them eventually. i just have so many ideas it's hard for me to focus on just one.
i don't like loud noises unless it's a concert (in other words, i don't like to be yelled at)
i find that i am relaxed most all the time, but when other people get very tense i begin to feel the same.
i'm very shy, very quiet, until i get to know you.
honesty is very important to me.
my favorite word is hope. i define it as "hope is knowing there's something better."
my favorite song is "in the light" by charlie peacock . my favorite movies are fight club and garden state. my favorite painter is picasso. my favorite smell is vanilla. i don't have a favorite food.
i'm allergic to cats.
i smash ants and save geckos, unfortunately.
i am only pro certain lives, unfortunately.
every new day is the best day of my life. most of the time. honestly.
when i go into "thought mode" my hands gravitate toward my mouth and my feet/toes start moving... it's like for the little hampster in my head to work i acutally have to move my feet...
i love stories. fiction, nonfiction, i love to hear people's stories. if you have a story i'd love to hear it.
i am pococurante about politics.
my mom says "people have kids so they can play with toys" - except i don't have any kids... but i still play with toys.
if anything good comes out of me, it's by the grace of God.
i love you. really really.
some of my projects:
Philip Likens . com - one of my websites - consider it homebase for everything i do. the main page is a list of most of my projects.
the testimony of a porn addict (video with sound) this is part of my personal testimony - it is solely by the grace of God that my state has improved. if not for Him, i'd still be where i was a few years ago.
some people say it better than i'll ever be able to:
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee."
-John Donne
"To be yourself is all that you can do"
- Chris Cornell, Audioslave
"Trying to look good limits my life."
- Stefan Sagmeister
"Wisdom begins in wonder."
- Socrates
"What I believe about God is the most important thing about me."
- AW Tozer
"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."
- GK Chesterton
"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."
- GK Chesterton
"Not all who wander are lost."
- JRR Tolkien
"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go."
-Abraham Lincoln
"You see, at the center of all religions is the idea of Karma. You know, what you put out comes back to you: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, or in physicsin physical lawsevery action is met by an equal or an opposite one. Its clear to me that Karma is at the very heart of the Universe. Im absolutely sure of it. And yet, along comes this idea called Grace to upend all that 'as you reap, so will you sow' stuff. Grace defies reason and logic. Love interrupts, if you like, the consequences of your actions, which in my case is very good news indeed, because Ive done a lot of stupid stuff. Id be in big trouble if Karma was going to finally be my judge. Id be in deep shit. It doesnt excuse my mistakes, but Im holding out for Grace. Im holding out that Jesus took my sins onto the Cross, because I know who I am, and I hope I dont have to depend on my own religiosity."
-Bono
"Catching a glimpse of an emotion as it happens is part of what makes life so beautiful."
-Autumn
"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
- Andre Gide
