A serious post

HI

well
I love God so much.

I was walking and praying that God would open my life, that he would free me, that a gloomy cloud I had been living in would be dissipated.

Do you want to know what I am learning? Well I going to say.

I was working at a factory and a lady make a comment like, "You don't think do you."

I don't take this well. It rolls in my mind and brings fear, worry, self doubt, flailing self justification, and the like.

As I attempted to tell myself truths, I was able to see more truths.

Which are: Mean people have to live with themselves, that stinks.

Mean people attract mean people, and that stinks for them, their getting what they dish out.

I don't need to be personally offended, I am smart and have a good education, "I do think"

I don't need to justify the meanness with a defence, I need to sit in the truth.

I don't need to be personally offended I am associated with an outstanding name.

yo dude

then the curtain rolled to reveal this idea

I think that I need the most truthful perspective of every situation or "stich"

What is my true context? Who am I in this sitch?

okay

well this is what i was wondering, i think that when Jesus was silent like a lamb before slaughter it was because he knew his sitch. when people were falsely accusing, hitting, and spitting, he didn't need to cry out in defense. he knew: who his accusers were, they were just acting according to plan, they were living with the punishment that is the fact that they were crucifying the Christ, they were only humans, he was God, he knew he was going to become saviour through this, he knew he was going to receive the highest glory. God is the judge. well,

i bet that he was full of peace when they were accusing him that is why he didn't need to speak.

just a thought

well to me it is more because

i can learn peace through this

and have been having much more lately

I am going to post a picture just for fun

thanks for
the comments all you comment making commentators
oh and a quick shout out for
Josh and Leslie
dude(s) you rock!

from me

A poem of Braden 8/23/08 5am-ish

O Lord have mercy on me
Please fill my life with
Joy and gladness
God you are so wonderful
I think about you and
Am thankful.

My Father in Heaven, this
Morning sleep is so far
From my eyes and
Rest so far from my bones

My flesh tells me, “Worry
About today, your body
Will hurt and pain will
Be your companion.”
But I trust in you
For from you come
Every good and
Perfect gift!

In you I trust
Your existence is my hope
Your character as revealed
In scripture is my
Comfort.

I am thankful o Lord
For the joy of knowing
It- of knowing you that is.
Lord my excitement
Grows at the thought
Of you in eternity

My Lord you, your unfailing
Love, Is so desirable in
The quiet of this
Morning, in amongst
The cricket legs rubbing

I see your beauty is
in creation in part
unlike people creators
who’s work may be
beautiful while their
life is ugly

You God are hinted of
In the unending intensity of
Creation.

God I love you thank you
For letting me kind of
Meet with you, you
Are awesome

I love you!

hi

Hi
This is a letter to myself.
Dear Braden-boo
Remember that you are bankrupt. What I mean by that is that all that you have comes from God. So don’t get all weird like you don’t want to fully submit in your heart, to God, thinking that you are going to loose what you have. Look God alone gives contentment, happiness, peace and joy. So if you don’t submit who knows what kind of perversion of God’s gift you’ll create by clinging to what was good, but was good only for a time. Let go, have some faith, go where He takes you, to that amazing place, chill relax, chillax. Free your mind and the rest will follow, be color blind don’t be so shallow, oh wait that’s en vogue.
Bye b

Some thoughts

Hi,
I am writting today. I have been drawing these cartoons, some I have posted. I have been wondering how a person can live counter cultural with consistancy.
Well, two days ago I, with my wife and some close friends, went to some sand dunes on lake Michigan. The trail we walked brought us into an environment of steep sand and unusual plants. It lead us to the coast where the water was cold and blue. The steep dunes plunged into the water and at one point in history land fell into the lake. Wow.
Well, I enjoyed this experience. It captured the senses. It alienated the normal that is usually concrete, asphalt, and tar. I am very thankful for this.
this is all I am writing now
thank you
braden j m l c w

retro issue 6 part two

What if there was a Mcdonalds on the moon, would you go to it? I would. So I'm hanging out in Millennium Park. The sky is hazy, cars are zooming on Michigan Ave. I'm wearing blue, white and grey. The gentleman sitting next to me is reading a newspaper and wearing a baseball cap. There are a lot of mothers with their children and cameras. That is what it looks like at least. I did not ask them. A slight breeze rustles the flag that has four stars in between two horizontal blue stripes on a white ground. A security guard drives a Segway Human Transporter, gliding as if a ghost wearing a yellow vest. Here comes a large group, maybe a field trip, of children. A girl just said to a boy, "... it's not coffee, it's capuccino!" The wind is chilly now. I should have brought a shirt, but yesterday was hot.
I love you
bye
bradenjmwilliams

i hope that you aren't getting tired of retro issues

Williams roller retro issue #6 origional issue date 4/20/05

I love you, friends and miss you
My friend made me a card with an airplane on it. I like it. I'm so amazed at the city, (I'm in Chicago) people everywhere, all with little acknowledgement of each other's existance. But then I was at a skate park and when someone did a cool move the people, as if part of a community, celebrated this achievement. The buildings shoot right up out of the ground. A ten story building is not very large compared to a couple hundred story building. Obviously I come from a small town. At my brother's college they have foaming soap that smells really nice and since it foams you don't have to work up a lather. Well, in all honesty, I feel like a freshman again. I'm meeting hordes of people and I can't, for the life of me, remember their names. It is really humid here. The are is so thick, that I would get tired from walking around except that since the air is so thick there is actually something to breath. I saw an exhibit of real human bodies that have been preserved with the use of space-aged polymers. You know when They, and by They I mean anti-drug people, try to discourage smoking by comparing two pictures of lungs. When you see the black lung in person, it is a lot more effective. And I had always thought that the inside of a heart was smooth but it is not. It is kind of stringy. Can you imagine if our skin was clear like the skin of some creatures? And what if we could see each other's insides? Would that make people more conscientious in regards to the fragility of life? I imagine that we would just be used to seeing guts and there would be no difference in our behavior. Maybe change really comes from the "heart" not the circomstances. What if when people talked, physical objects came out of our mouths and were absorbed into the recipient? And negatively intended words were hard and sharp and actually cut people. Then would we be more careful about what we said? And what if every thought came into existance, only in a different dimension? What would that be like?

Wow

So Hi,
yeah i was watching this show and the person on it, it was a non- scripted show, ate something tasty. this fella held up three fingers on both sides of his mouth making a wow sign. one hand was a W the mouth was the O and the other hand was the other W. i was shocked really.
well my wife has a blog it is great you should check it out. stacymw.blogspot.com
well her first post is called the alpha post and i like that.

well i thought that i would have tons more to say but i don't

thanks
yours truly
b. j. macintosh williams