And here's your Monday fix.
Not as glamorous as the last video, but I dig none the less.

**EDIT 10/5** Autoplay was annoying me, so I'm changing it to just the link:

http://videoec.nw.ctscdn.com/UploadedFiles/65692f04-58bb-43a6-b2ca-4037aef90d94.mp4

I'm heading off to Maine in a few hours here, so I'm giving you a few videos to tide you over as I'll miss my posts tomorrow and Monday.
For Friday, enjoy this absolutely gorgeous tennis video!

I'm in the middle of a video editing craze! I made this one two days ago, another one yesterday. The newest one is a lyric video for a local band, so I'll post that as soon as the officially drop the track!

Even with my fear of heights, I REALLY want to do this!

"I've stopped dreaming because every time I do, God just shows me how much better of an imagination He has!"

- spriestapphotography

Words cannot express the joy that this video brings me.

No goals, no souls,
No aspirations beyond the walls.
My generations deepest thoughts,
Inscribed on these here bathroom stalls.

One of my favourite weddings this year.

“A lot of men want a woman to mother them. They get with a woman and all they do is regress to the point where you might think he might not be capable to take care of himself at all. I don’t want another mother. I want a woman. I want to rise to the occasion. I want to learn and bask in your glow. I want to protect you and do whatever I can to give you strength. There is no twist to this. I am not about to blow my brains out. You have not cut me up like others have. It’s just this. I want to love you with everything in me. I need your help because I don’t know anything about it. I am suspicious and ready to leave and hit the cold road for the frozen dawn. I am just going to trust you with everything in me. I see now that it’s the only reason to be here. After kissing you, I cannot remember what it was like to kiss any other woman. At this point I am not sure if I ever have.”

- Henry Rollins

I hope to one day be as good as DuckDuck. I in love with everything they make!

After a busy busy but amazing weekend (read lots of wedding videos coming soon), we're back in business!

At first this movie looked incredible and I was super pumped to see it. Then I thought a little more about what worldview it was presenting and I looked a little more into "The Machine Gun Preacher." Now I'm not so sure. I just can't support the use of guns and violence, even in response to violence (see my post from Bonhoeffer a few days back).

Check out the actual story for yourself at Sam's website and let me know what you think.

"it is (the devil's) cleverest trick to deny his power and to pretend that he does not exist."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer in The Cost of Discipleship p.204

"Oh, and if you don't believein God, how can you believe in love? When we're all just matter that will one day scatter, when peaceful the world lays us down."

- Noah and the Whale in Peaceful the World Lays Me Down

Anyone want to check this out with me?

" Anyone who does not love remains in death."

- 1 John 3:14b

I need to try this!

"What good was it when the scribes herded the people in to the schools, when the devotees of the sternly condemned sinners without lifting a finger to help them? What use were all these orthodox preachers and expounders of the Word when they were not filled by boundless pity and compassion for God's maltreated and injured people?"

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer in The Cost of Discipleship p.202

A plain beautiful style of skating that's been all but lost.

"Unlike the founders of the great religions, (Jesus) had no desire to withdraw (his followers) from the vulgar crowd and initiate them into an esoteric system of religions and ethics. He had come, he had worked and suffered for the sake of all his people."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer in The Cost of Discipleship p. 201

I can't even express how excited I am for the rugby world cup! It all starts tomorrow!

"Jesus knows only one possibility: simple surrender and obedience, not interpreting it or applying it, but doing and obeying it ... he does not mean that it is to be discussed as an ideal, he really means us to get on with it."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer in The Cost of Discipleship p.197

Great TED talk.

‎"The missionary is one in whom the Holy Ghost has wrought this realization--'Ye are not your own.' To say, 'I am not my own' is to have reached a great point in spiritual nobility. The true nature of the life in the actual whirl is the deliberate giving up of myself for to another in sovereign preference, and that other is Jesus Christ...Be entirely His."

 - Oswald Chambers

"God will not ask us in that day whether we were good Protestants, but whether we have done his will."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer in The Cost of Discipleship p.193

WWF, when did you get so good at filmmaking?

"To believe the promise of Jesus that his followers shall possess the earth, and at the same time to face our enemies unarmed and defenceless, preferring to incur injustice rather than to do wrong ourselves is indeed a narrow way."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer in The Cost of Discipleship p.190

So yeah, I missed a lot of posts last week. If any of you actually cared, thank you but get over it. I spent Monday in Canada, Thursday in NYC, Friday in Ithaca and Saturday in Penn Yan. It was an incredible week!

Here's what I did on Friday.

What did you do?

UPDATE:

My friend Dylan put this together from the days footage!

"We are drowning in information, but starved for knowledge.”

- John Naisbitt