Mumford & Dad

Tonight at church the guest speaker was Marcus Mumford's dad. Again, if you know LB and I at all you know that we are borderline obsessed with Mumford; my happy place is listening to Not With Haste envisioning myself walking down the aisle to LB on our wedding day. Further, the happiest day of my life to date has been the Mumford concert at Red Rocks. So. You can imagine that when Marcus' dad got up there to speak, we were floored. His message was beautiful: you need three things to serve Jesus.

Love Jesus. Be alive. And be nervous.

Then our conversation afterwards yielded this gem amongst a lifetime of memories that came from getting to meet Mumford's dad.

The stages of grief are like orbiting planets. Just when you think you've tackled one stage it swings back around gets ya. Take the time to sit and cry. It's important.

To add to the amazingness that happened this evening, on the one year anniversary of Trenton's passing, the Mumford's are hosting a spiritual night at church. Eleanor Mumford: "Come and cry your eyes out."

Church on the Computer

I started listening to Vanessa's church's podcasts on my computer a few days ago. Typically, I really need to be in a face to face environment to gulp up everything that someone is preaching. But there was something about her pastor that made me just keep on listening. In the following sermon, you can hear about 3 minutes in where he warns his church that this sermon is going to feel intrusive--that he isn't apologizing for that, but rather preparing. In yogi terms, he is setting an intention for their spiritual practice... and setting an intention is how I warm my whole being up to be in communion with the divine. When my intentions are less than pure, my communion with the divine, is (not surprisingly) lame/interrupted/unfulfilling ect. So, set your intention for your day/week/month/year today. It doesn't have to be specific, but setting that intention just helps.

You can find her church here and her blog here.

Thanks V!