"He said jazz music was invented by the first generation out of slavery. I thought that was beautiful, because, while it is music, it is very hard to put on paper; it is so much more a language of the soul. It is as if the soul is saying something, something about freedom. I think Christian spirituality is like jazz music. I think loving Jesus is something you feel. I think it is something very difficult to get on paper. But it is no less real, no less meaningful, no less beautiful." -- Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz

This morning we gave our "life philosophy" speeches as our final speech in scom 102. I learned a lot through the experience about other people. There were so many different philosophies people had on life. The first few people who went seemed to have their life pretty together. But by the end I had heard some pretty awful life philosophies. I think I had it in my mind that people pretty much have their lives together. But I saw so much pain and depression in those people. It made me want to reach out to them and tell them that God loves them more than they can imagine.

At work today I didn't really do work. Kristina asked if I wanted to go to Morro Bay with her to take pictures of a historic rock wall and a quarry where they might dump sledge from the marina. So we basically got to spend a few hours doing what I would do on my free time and I got paid for it. We hiked up a bit of a trail and it was so pretty overlooking the estuary and their were tons of wildflowers -- big, bright monkeyflower bushes, buttercups, California poppies, blue-eyed something, and lots of other flowers that I can't name. Here are a couple pictures she took, but they certainly don't express the beauty of it.




I just spent an hour talking to Marissa, my discipler this quarter. It was a good time. I enjoy good conversations about things that really matter.