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mikey

I gave in, and admitted that God was God. C S

About Me

“I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.” St Augustine.
i believe in hope, love and jesus christ.
i believe grace is enough.


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My Interests

guitar, drums, piano, singing, writing songs, the english language and the gratuitously verbose use thereof, music in general, reading, movies, beaching, fishing, swimming, trying to get fit in occasional bursts of ill-disciplined good intention

I'd like to meet:

the usual.....oh, and this guy.....

Music:

coldplay, u2, damien rice, switchfoot, tamas wells, further seems forever, blink 182, brooke fraser, decoder ring, denison witmer, johnny cash, able, lukas, phil wickham, evermore, amos lee, jose gonzalez, angels and airwaves, ray lamontagne, shaun k anderson, mat kearney, the frames, united, art of fighting, ....
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Movies:


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Books:

lewis, bevere, augustine, lucado, hayford, bell, hybels, miller. anything challenging is usually worth the fight.

Heroes:

jc, batman, c s lewis, anzacs, all my kids

My Blog

gardening

there's this story this guy told a while ago about a farmer who was out sowing seed. the farmer wasn't being too careful about where the seed went.....just focussing on getting the seed out there into...
Posted by mikey on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:31:00 PST

questions part 2

i don't think i'm normal. or at least, i think i'm unusual in one respect. some would say many - they're probably right too - but i think there's something that makes me different. here it is.....i ve...
Posted by mikey on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:12:00 PST

my greatest fear

my greatest fear is failure. though not in the sense most people would probably imagine it. i don't really fear failure of people's expectations....as painful as disappointing people can be, trying to...
Posted by mikey on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:51:00 PST

questions part 1

it's around the age of two we start asking questions...."why is the sky blue? where do babies come from? why are you doing that? are we there yet?" all questions we've asked and heard a million times ...
Posted by mikey on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 06:53:00 PST

the currency of love||

i've been reading a very interesting book of late called 'blue like jazz' by donald miller. i recommend it. not like i recommend velvet elvis or mere christianity, but i recommend it none the less. d...
Posted by mikey on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:07:00 PST

control

a couple of quick things before i get into it.....if you have U2 tickets available for november 7 you can have my firstborn for one ticket. when i have a firstborn. but seriously, don't sell on ebay -...
Posted by mikey on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 02:09:00 PST

motivation

i've given up apologising for this. i guess i'm not advertising these little monologues so i have nothing to apologise for. motives......why do we do the things we do? i was talking with a friend abou...
Posted by mikey on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 01:20:00 PST

i swear it's not a habit....the blogging i mean

i know....i apologise.....three in a row. just thinking about some lines from the song currently on my profile - from the wonderfully talented brooke fraser. a song called 'albertine'. i've been keepi...
Posted by mikey on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:16:00 PST

clarity from transparency

yeah i know - two blogs in two days.....pretty self-indulgent. occasionally i get the urge to stand in front of a large group of people (often at church) and simply yell 'my name is michael and i stru...
Posted by mikey on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:02:00 PST

myspace and social reconstruction.

ok, a quick word on myspace and social reconstruction. this whole top friends is a very hot topic right now. am i in your top friends? what position? why is this person ahead of me? why aren't i in th...
Posted by mikey on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 06:08:00 PST