Don't wait

We live in a fallen world. In this venomous place we are all hurting. We are bitten by sin and like a dog licking its wounds we crawl back to hidden place inside ourselves. We make walls around that pain. We cover it in think protective armor. We do this to protect ourselves so that we might never feel that pain again.

But walls and defenses are fooling. We build a fortress around our hearts with trenches and barbed wire. But all we are doing is making a prison of loneliness. We aren't escaping future pain. No. We are locking ourselves up with the ghosts of past pains and failures. It makes us cold and empty.

But Jesus is love. He came to the ill and the dying and reach out and touched them in their dark places. He healed them, restored them, made them whole. We don't have to live with armor. We can lay it down and live life free. We can open our arms and embrace love. It's a wonderful new day.

Don't wait. Lay it down today.

Fine Arts

Hello friends,

I am working now on relaunching this site as a Fine Arts ministry. I hope to share my art, my poetry, music, friend's art and music and such. Stay close. Thrownroom is just in a caccoon.

Currently I am apartment hunting for my summer move. I am also decorating for prom this weekend. That is always a major drain but I love to create. I am glad I had something since I am not focused on the band and writing music and messages and such.

I am working on some tatt designs for some friends and I am ready to get my bronze lamp on my back. I just need the CASH.... darn kids eat EVERDAY! ;-)

Grace and peace,

Bollman

Forever and ever

I remember better times when life was sublime if we just made it to Crowder once a year. We lived for that feeling of connectivity in the pit. It's very sad but it seems so far from those days, those innocent days of seeking and finding, of knocking and opening.

But I watch this video and I smile. I think we all can recapture that youthful gleam, that child-like smile... Heaven was made for these. Jesus said it takes the heart of a child to gain entrance into heaven. So let us put away our pretense and our self-importance and run barefooted through the clover, jump on our beds and laugh with our heads tilted back. Oh, Childhood.. where are you hiding?


For your viewing pleasure... The new DC*B video.

New Horizons

Hello friends,

Some of you know this already, but for those who don't (if they still check this almost abandoned little blog) I will announce it here.

I have accepted a job teaching art at a school district in central Iowa.

It is not easy leaving Elk Horn, my adopted home, but life is a series of changes.

I will keep my connections to my close friends here in western Iowa and Omaha. I will continue my ministry in whatever new form it takes. Chris and I are writing music. Thrown will step back, heal, grow, evolve, leap, push and work for the Kingdom. In all things we strive to transform and never conform.

Thank you for your support. Now that my occupation is secured I will have more time to write. I want to tackle many issues on why I felt it necessary to leave Elk Horn. I want to share so that my readers can learn as I have learned. Jesus is remedy. He isn't easy just as the truth isn't easy to hear and medicine is hard to swallow. But we choke down the hard lessons and we keep it down and we are healed and we are made new.

I feel that I am shedding my cocoon and spreading my wings.

More soon...

Bollman