School was out yesterday for Veteran’s Day, so we decided to go and hang out in Seattle. It’s an easy way to just spend the day with youth. Fill the van, drive downtown, then bum around shops all after noon (thrift stores, etc.). It was a great day.

Last night, we took all the kids out for their first expeience with Pho. I’ll have to say it was the first time I’ve really enjoyed them when going out to eat. When they’re smaller, you have to lug so much stuff around just to go out. Then once you’re there, you’re constantly making sure they’re eating or not buringing the place down.

Well, yesterday marked a new season in the Delony family. We’ve finally begun to be able to just go out and just chill. It was a great time. The kids enjoyed trying new food and we really enjoyed the kids. It was all around great.

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Tomorrow is coming and there is no plan B…

Any thoughts?

This has been rattling in my mind for quite a while and it all kind of poured out of me during Catalyst in my journal. This is an idea. A catalyst. Some primal desire for change, but nothing we do should be outside the scope of community. So, my friends, readers, critics… I need your help. I want input and ideas. Let’s make this some sort of collaborative conversation. I’m looking for change. I’m looking for something more. I’m not even sure why I’m writing this, but I’d like to hear from you about this manifesto.

A Manifesto of Revolt and Activism in a Journey

Out of the Cluttered Woods of Faith

This is a clearing, a walk in spiritual anticipation for a tribe of earth shakers, lovers and heretics.

1. First and foremost, we are followers of Christ, lovers of God and chasers of the Spirit.
2. We the people are discontent with the way churches are today.
3. We want to do the work of Jesus and join in the healing of a broken world.
4. We are fueled by compassion, driven by love, and broken by God’s unfathomable grace.
5. We will not complain or bicker or dissent about the current state of the broken church, but we will incite change through our actions, meditations, prayers, and love.
6. We will pray and seek the Lord in the world around us.
7. We will break the mold of religious traditions and the American dream because we are sojourners, aliens, nomads following in the steps of a wandering Aramean.
8. We are social and religious heretics who are only accountable to the sovereign creator of the universe.
9. We are lovers of change, hope and compassion and will shake the status quo by how we step outside the herd and barbeque the sacred cow.
10. We will work out our faith in transparent community of broken followers stumbling after Christ.