Wheat – Don’t I Hold You

For all my unmarried, soon to be married, and now married students…

A profound meditation on the beautiful existential “profound mystery” (Ephesians 5:32) that is marraige.

don’t i hold you like you want to be held
and don’t i treat you like you want
and don’t i love you like you want to be loved
and you’re running away
and what’s your name
like i’m in the way
don’t i hold you like you want to be held
don’t i please you like you want
and don’t i love you like you want to be loved
and you’re running away
and what’s your name
like i’m in the way
and wasting too much time
don’t i
don’t i hold you like you want

P.S.

Buy the itunes version from the “Per Second, Per Second, Per Second … Every Second” record – listen to it once you’re wed (& many years before you are) and love your spouse the way you promised you would love them

Skip the youtube video – it’s a lesser version

The villain from Karate Kid makes an Oscar-nominated short film

From relevantmagazine.com:

“Here’s a cool story about Karate Kid star Billy Zabka and his quest to make a movie based on a story that parallels the Gospel. With no cash, script or location, Zabka and his friends ended up earning an Academy Award nomination for Most, a story about a drawbridge operator who sacrifices his son’s life to save hundreds of people …”

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Quote of the Day

It is finished.” It is hard for us to know the intonation with which these words of the dying Christ were spoken. If they came as the sufferer’s sigh of relief, they must also have been the worker’s glad cry of achievement. Everything had been done that could be, man had been offered a sight of God as He really was. For those of us who believe that, in seeing Jesus, we see God, the Cross is not a coarse framework of blood-stained wood, but the most precious emblem of man’s dearest hopes; it is the great pledge which we sorely need, that love is stronger than hate, grace than sin, life than death.
… H. R. L. Sheppard, Two Days Before