I'm a Christian. I follow Jesus the Christ. I'm also a young (24) professional; specifically a chemist (although my degree is in chemical engineering). I also live with five other Christian guys in a place called "The Dawg Haüs". Four of the guys are students. The other is a professional as well, but he is planning to go on staff with the campus church, Illini Life, that we are involved with. As a house, we have Dawg Names. I am Shaggy Dawg. My hair is long and curly, so the name is fitting. While living with these guys I'm learning what it means to follow Christ while working a full-time job and while trying to reach out to the student population of the U of I, that I once belonged to. One of my all time favorite songs is "Something Beautiful" by Jars of Clay. The song is a very fitting portrait of my walk with God and the struggles I have had believing that He could change me from something normal into something Beautiful.
Something Beautiful ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rj6_TVmMWY )
by Jars of Clay
If you put your arms around me,
could it change the way I feel.
I guess I let myself believe that
the outside might just bleed it's way in.
Maybe stir the sleeping past lying under glass.
Waiting for the kiss that breaks this awful spell.
Pull me out of this lonely hell.
Close my eyes and hold my heart.
Cover me and make me something.
Change this something normal into something beautiful.
What I get from my reflection isn't what I thought I'd see.
Give me reason to believe you'd never keep me incomplete.
Will you untie this loss of mine, it easily defines me.
Do you see it on my face.
That all I can think about is how long
I've been waiting to feel you move me.
Close my eyes and hold my heart.
Cover me and make me something.
Change this something normal into something beautiful...
And I'm still fighting for the Word to break these chains.
And I still pray when I look in your eyes.
You stare right back down into something beautiful.
Close my eyes and hold my heart.
Cover me and make me something.
Change this something normal into something beautiful...
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It brings me such joy to read this Chuck and to see how Christ has transformed you from the freshman I knew to the man I know now...and to see how God leads you in the days ahead. Christ is in you and he is returning!
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