I'm walking to DC

Brothers,

I'm taking a day tomorrow to be quiet--from 8:00 AM until around 6:30 PM, I'm going to be walking and praying. My plan is to pray over about 25 things that have been on my heart, both for personal concerns, community/ church concerns, and ultimately for our nation and world. I'm walking from my small group morning-time into DC--about 3 miles-- then going to see where the Spirit leads from there. Please lift me up in this time, that the Spirit would lead and draw out some heart-things of great importance, as He sees fit.

I love you dearly, brothers!

Ryan

prayer

something to be aware of and talk to the Father about
http://www.cnbc.com/id/44073673

debt part 2

the reason being, is not to live cozy. listen below

http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/ConferenceMessages/ByDate/2000/1483_Boasting_Only_in_the_Cross/

Man is enslaved to his debtor

Lets all be serious about this too. This battle needs to be won early.

http://www.daveramsey.com/new/baby-steps/

Global glory

I've been called of late to know what I want. Right now, I want the nations to know the glory of the Father. So, I've committed to lifting up the nations, one-by-one, starting a few weeks ago at Afghanistan and continuing daily until I get through to Zimbabwe sometime in 2011.

Each day, I'll be asking for a different nation and asking that He'd be known there, plus reading about the nation on the bbc news's country profile page. Think there's no pr. requests given specifically by nations? Reading the history of Algeria today made me yearn for the freedom of the people there from generational sin, injustice, war, poverty; before today, I couldn't have located Algeria on a map.

Ask for my heart in this pursuit, as it is time-consuming and rather exhausting. Ask that I'd do it and be joyful in it. Ask that my asking would be specific and not general, especially in asking for the leaders of the nations by name.

Praise the father that he moves us to ask for the nations!

Dancing with danger

I enjoy living in this country in East Asia for a lot of reasons. One reason, though, that I struggle with the country I'm living in is censorship: things like blocked websites. We've gotten creative with technology and been able to find ways around that (as, for instance, "blogger.com" is blocked in this country, but here I am typing!) A marvel to witness, indeed. So, I want to celebrate freedom by sharing some blocked sites with y'all! Here's an exciting one I found today about national integrity:

http://report.globalintegrity.org/?gclid=CKOrxvTcwqACFSgnawodoHNGbA

american boys

started reading some thoreau

They mistake who assert that the Yankee has few amusements, because he has not so many public holidays, and men and boys do not play so many games as they do in England, for here the more primitive but solitary amusements of hunting, fishing, and the like have not yet given place to the former. Almost every New England boy among my contemporaries shouldered a fowling-piece between the ages of ten and fourteen; and his hunting and fishing grounds were not limited, like the preserves of an English nobleman, but were more boundless even than those of a savage. No wonder, then, that he did not oftener stay to play on the common. But already a change is taking place, owing, not to an increased humanity, but to an increased scarcity of game, for perhaps the hunter is the greatest friend of the animals hunted, not excepting the Humane Society.

Housing market

I saw this article on Yahoo today and it reminded me a lot of what we were talking about the other day with health insurance, tax system/ incentive system, ect. It's an article about Detroit's housing market (or lack thereof):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091025/us_nm/us_usa_housing_detroit

I hope that these things press us toward Life, Peace, and justice.

Stalwart of the Faith

"My experience of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them, or indisposed me to serve them; nor in spite of failures, which I lament, of errors which I now see and acknowledge; or of the present aspect of affairs; do I despair of the future.
The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow, and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope."

-Robert E. Lee, 1870 (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_E_Lee)

something i think is important

I have been reading some political and economic stuff this weekend and wanted to share this link with you from Forbes Magazine.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/1005/taxes-financial-aid-college-roughing-up-middle-class.html

This stuff makes me mad.

Keep living free in Him yall.

Wheeler