"Still it is consistent to say, may the peace of Christ bless you and keep you. And today, may you hold those in your house close to your body and feel them breathe and take in their remarkable scent and give them your love."

- Jim in A Million Miles in a Thousand Years p. 225

a joel.witwer original

I had some friends get married down in North Carolina this weekend, which proved the perfect excuse for a roadtrip! We loaded up the car and headed down with a stop at my family home in Hershey, PA. Over the three days, we took 2841 pictures and turned them into this video.
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"I hate that it took pain to open the curtain revealing the man's heart, but it did and it does."

- Don Miller in A Million Miles in a Thousand Years p.223

Such an amazing song!

" ... the idea that Jesus will make everything better is a lie. It's basically biblical theology translated into the language of infomercials. Can you imagine an infomercial with Paul, testifying to the amazing product of Jesus, saying that he once had power and authority, and since he tried Jesus he's been moved from prison to prison, beaten, and routinely bitten by snakes? I don't think many people would be buying that product."

- Don Miller in A Million Miles in a Thousand Years p.103

I want to hike the Appalachian Trail eventually.

Surfing has been taken to the next level.

Chill

"You can call it God or a conscience, or you can dismiss as that intuitive knowing we all have as human being, as living storytellers; but there is a knowing I feel that guides me toward better stories, toward being a better character. I believe there is a writer outside ourselves, plotting a better story for us, interacting with us, even, and whispering a better story into our consciousness."

- Don Miller in A Million Miles in a Thousand Years p.86

Further timelapse inspiration
My favourite shot starts at 2.03

Deb's awesome dance.

"You stand there looking at a bare mantel and the house gets an eerie feel, as though it were haunted by a kind of nothingness, an absence of something that could have been, an absence of people who could have been living there, interacting with me, forcing me out of my day dreams. I stood for a while and heard the voices of children who didn't exist and felt the tender touch of a wife who wanted me to listen to her. I felt, at once, the absent glory of a life that could have been."

- Don Miller in A Million Miles in a Thousand Years p.76

I couldn't figure out how to embed this video in my site, so I'll just give you the link

http://player.viistories.com/index.php#entryId=43&showAds=true

This was sent to me by my bud Jesse H. and is incredibly sobering.

"When we watch the news, we grieve all of [the unjust tragedies] , but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the the potential greatness of the story we are in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master story teller."

- Don Miller in A Million Miles in a Thousand Years p.32

a joel.witwer original

Writer: Brendan L.
Producer: Sam C.
Director of Lighting: Sarah P.
Starring: Ryan N. and Brendan L.

The awesome tricycle I rode around this summer.

because everyone's got a lil' pyro in them.

My awesome friend Stefan isn't really worried.

I've got a threefer for you today.

A beautiful eposition of film, typography, language and travel.

Needless to say, I'm in love.

Someone please just hire me to make videos like this already!

An awesome splash with the awesome boots.

This speaks to me.

My awesome friend Emily and her awesome boots.

My awesome friend Cory.

We're on a music kick here. Deal with it.

If you haven't figured it out yet, my youtube channel is called jwitwer but I've decided to start a new one called.

Clips Of My Awesome Life

While most people shoot pictures on their cell phone cameras, I like to shoot little videos. I started doing it hardcore last spring and ended up editing the clips into a little video. That was fun, but I did it once and not all my clips really work together. This new channel is just a way for me to share little snippets of my life and embarrass my friends.

I'll be posting the clips on here as well and you'll know that they're from Clips Of My Awesome Life because:

1. They'll be low quality cell phone videos and
2. They'll mostly be absurdly short and
3. I'll completely overuse the word awesome in the caption I give them.

I hope you enjoy and here is my first one!

An awesome (& free) Ingrid Michaelson show I went to this summer.

"America is a 'save yourself' society if there ever was one. But does it really work? The underdeveloped societies suffer from one set of diseases: tuberculosis, malnutrition, pneumonia, parasites, typhoid, cholera, typhus, etc. Affluent America has virtually invented a whole new set of diseases: obesity, arteriosclerosis, heart disease, strokes, lung cancer, venereal disease, cirrhosis of the liver, drug addiction, alcoholism, divorce, battered children, suicide, murder. Take your choice. Labor-saving machines have turned out to be body-killing devices. Our affluence has allowed both mobility and isolation of the nuclear family, and as a result, our divorce courts, our prisons and our mental institutions are flooded. In saving ourselves we have nearly lost ourselves."

- Ralph Winter in Reconsecration to a Wartime, not a Peacetime Lifestyle

a.joel.witwer.original

So Davey and Bobby have gone to visit St Matthew's Orphan Center in Myanmar a couple times over the past few years. Recently the kids there sent the brothers a DVD saying hi so this video was the brother's response. Bobby was last there this pas December/January and he said the kids had caught the Bieber Fever so obviously we had to use this song!

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and here is a video Davey made when he was there last.
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"The world is not impressed when Christians become rich and say thanks to God. They are impressed when God is so satisfying that we give our riches away for Christ's sake and count it gain."

- John Piper in don't waste your life p.72

This almost makes me want to learn how to snowboard.

"Fleeing from death is the shortest path to a wasted life."

- John Piper in don't waste your life p.63

Car companies have the money to put out some of the best promos around.