Aj Schwanz

ìWatch out – you might get what youíre after
Cool babies
Strange but not a stranger
Iím an ordinary guy
Burning down the house.î ~ Talking Heads

Last night as I was working on a crochet project (my only source of traditional craftiness – somehow having an online photo album doesnít count as ìtrueî scrapbooking), protecting my needles and scissors and yarn and self from a roaming Judah Boy, I put on a Graham Cooke tape: lifeís all about multitasking at this point – Iím sure thatís Biblical. On this tape Graham started talking about how the church is in for a BIG shakeup, that Godís tired of the way things have been done – us putting Him in a box and telling Him to play nicely (my interpretation). He said Godís literally going to shake the earth; all of the ìfluffî is going to fall away, and the church will look as it was truly meant to. Acts must come to completion, he said.

Did you ever play the Rain Game? I had an image of heaven and the angels going crazy with the ìthunderstormî part – pounding their feet and clapping and laughing hysterically, rolling on the floor and beating their wings, stopping their all-consuming whanging only to wipe the tears of laughter pouring down their faces. Why are they so joyous? They see the work of people on earth listening to Godís call, responding to His desires: people who know thereís a bunch of crud on the church, that itís got to be blasted away, that itís going to take each and every one of us coming into Christís presence. As a bi-product of the angelsí cacophony, I saw all the sediment and other crud thatís glommed onto the church – all of it crumbling away, revealing the true church – the true shape – what God intended.

They arenít joyous over a program or over one individual whoís the mouthpiece for Christians – theyíre bursting with happiness at an ordinary guy whoís happy to see God burning/shaking down the house.

Cool.