Thanks for posting your Rich Mullins quote. FYI, that quote is from his Lufkin (TX) Live Concert, which is available on VHS and DVD. May I highly recommend that recording to anyone as a starting point for investigating the life of one of the most intriguing servants of God of the last century?

It's still available several places, including ebay, and from his estate, at the following website:
http://www.kidbrothers.org/products.html

It's such a healing concert setting--very intimate and humble, with such creative, kind of wild (in a good way) musical arrangements--that I watch a little of it every night to "de-fragment" myself after cluttered days.

I also highly recommend his biography, An Arrow Pointing To Heaven (by James Bryan Smith) (available at www.christianbook.com). Again, a grace-filled book that has changed the nature of the Christian-walk of many people I know (several went on their first mission trips because of him, or burst out of their middle-class bubbles--a huge step for some of us--to become involved in helping the local homeless...just in order to become more like "Jesus with skin on" as one said, and to walk where He walks).

You can read many more of his insights in the concert transcripts and interviews posted at www.kidbrothers.net. He just had a very startling and refreshingly truthful way of looking at everything.

Here's another quote for you:

"When you’re young, you naturally think that there are real answers and there are people who know these answers. As you get older, I think everyone gets a little more moderate about everything. Not that I don’t believe there are real answers, I just think that even if we knew what they were, they wouldn’t make sense to us." --January/February 1998 Interview in Group Magazine by Mike Nappa

Eastertide blessings,
A serious Rich fan :-)

thanks. I wondered where they found it.

Sorry, I didn't mean to be mysterious by not introducing myself. It's just that I'm not a homeschooler. My sister homeschools and I was just visiting her site to look at photos when I happened to see "Rich Mullins Quote" in the "most recent 100 posts" and being a huge fan.... Well, you know the rest of the story.

Except that it was skimming your most recent posts that made me feel comfortable enough to write anyway. Because 1) while I have no idea how to make chai tea, I'm a huge tea drinker (Alvita Green, Constant Comment, and Twinings Earl Grey decaf), 2) I've worked third shift in downtown Washington DC and can no longer EVER think of staying up late as being a treat...in fact, most nights I breathe out sincere thanks as I snuggle in bed before 10 a.m. The nights I return home late from day-trips and don't get to bed until midnight seem like torture to me now. I always tell everyone doing third- or swing-shifts: don't make ANY major decisions until this is over. You may think you're thinking straight, but the truth is you're going to be a bit whacked until this is over. And 3) my father had/has mental problems, too, and we just grew up with it being that way. We--my sister and I--didn't even fully realize it (it was our norm) until we were adults, then had to go through a serious phase of asking ourselves, "Um, are we weird?" (We've concluded that we're not! :-)

Anyway, that's why I felt comfortable writing.

I wish you well,
Christina

I meant "snuggle in bed" before 10 P.M. not 10 a.m. Sorry.

It's just gross to get home in the morning and to want dinner when it's breakfast time. So do you have a burger or Cheerios? :-)

Thanks, Christina. Please stop by again.