Sunday, 25 November 2007

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  So I've decided to start a xanga account, I think this will be a good source to use for writing and building more intimate relationships with people I don't see to often and good chance to meet new people. I'll be updating more of the sight soon. In the meantime I live in NYC with my girlfriend and I'm doing vocals for a christian hardcore band called claim your innocence. I'm pretty excited but stressed because writing songs and creating a good sound, quality that would be listened to is complicated when your in school full time and working what seems to be full time but is really part time. This has helped me a lot to see another avenue I can use for outreach, I've spent a few years working in shelters and on the streets in a social gospel way but now I think this will help me to reach youth and hopefully give young people a view of God they have not seen and also at the same time an importance on social justice and what we as a community can accomplish.
  
  I've been in and out of church for the last 3 years and it's been pretty obscure to not have what I considered my home church underground church nyc around anymore. I admit that since we stopped it's been tough to find a spiritual self in the same way. I have been pulled to a more social justice gospel that incompanies christian anarchy theory and reevaluating old convictions I once had. Being into hardcore in the mid nineties formed a perspective that if you changed a conviction then you never really had one in the begining but that is not true it's just not sound enough and shows the problem of an adolescent scene where people are finding themselves and forming their thoughts. I've been so into college that sometimes I understand parents fear of university and what can do to their childrens beliefs, but at the same time I am in support of critical thought. What this has brought me to is a perspective that is very similar to Soren Kierkegard I hope I spelled that right. Which is a lifestyle that is always questioning purpose and reason.
  
  I've been overjoyed in the last few months because my heart for my faith has been growing again thanks to my partner and friend who helps me believe in God's promises. So I've been hanging out witha  church in harlem that is about social justice and is mostly staffed with social workers which is my major, to be more exact sociology and africana/latina studies at Hunter College. It's been great and I'm learning about God and it's fresh and academic but in with the streets. I'm really excited I'm working at a cafe so I don't have to stress to much about work and that leaves me, just working to secure my relationship and learning how to live in community with a partner and others, learning what Jesus teachings truly are; and even finding joy in this city of NYC that makes me so angry most of the time, with their hypercapitalist agenda to evict every underclass and working class person here so that new and stronger and taller condo's can be built. Hopefully now I can grow in God and still not leave my heart for a more wholistic change in the system.
  
  We will soon see...
  
  
  
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