supreme bliss

i think the longer i live the more accustom i'm becoming to the unexpected or unreasonable.  two weeks ago at missio dei josh was talking about living the christian life in the reality of the challenge to often be pushed to the edge of chaos... "hello chaos, my name is phil". life right now seems like just about everything is filled with major question marks. thankfully the big bold stake in the plain of reality for my life is God. i've been reading thru the first couple chapters of psalms again lately and find myself staring face to face with a God who covers his kids in the shield of his hands. though the world rages around them the huddle in the center of god's protection is sublime. david (the author of most of the psalms) was literally facing thousands of men with blood hungry intent to make his life no more. he lived life on the very edge of chaos and fear, but still penned the words that now thousands of years later bring my soul comfort. david for all his charisma and power was still just a man, one who faced a reality of life and death that thankfully few of us ever will. he was called a man after god's own heart. he didn't get it all right, in fact he screwed up royally, a couple times, yet god's hand was over him. he yearned to times of peace but seemed to love the life of a warrior as well. my soul longs for the comfort food of an easy and peaceful life, but my heart tells me that life is only well lived when it's lived well with the challenges of red-meat toughness and radical pursuit of the face of god. 

pray for me, pray for us when those of you who know us personally. pray for us to have the courage to live boldly, pursue radically, and live in the bliss of god's hand covering us. 

much love