kye kye || music

This is Kye Kye. I love how their literally a musical family playing music not for themselves, but for someone much greater. 

My brother came back from IHOP (International House of Prayer) and their teen awakening camp and brought their album back. When I listen to this I feel like I'm immediately being taken away deep into the forest on a search for treasure. I feel a lot of anticipation and hope when I listen to them. 

Here is what I found on their website. What I read made me more drawn to them. You can find their album on youtube. I would check out "Broke" and "My Sight" 
They've been out for a while. It seems that I'm a bit late on discovering them. 

"Our love for music was passed on from our parents. Our Love for Christ was given to us from our Heavenly Father. " 

Certain things happen in a persons life that are a result of an intimate relationship with God through Christ. One of those things is the desire to spread the good news of the Kingdom of God. As this relationship grows a second set of desires tends to rise up in your heart. This desire is designed and tailored to you and grows for the very purpose of supporting the desire to pour out the gospel from within you. 

Kye Kye is our second set of desires. 

We Love what we do and are blessed to be able to pour out what God has done through Christ, why he did it, what that means, why its different than anything else that's offered in this world .. through the art of Music.

halfway through august || life

I spent an awesome weekend in Chicago at the beginning of August with my cousins and friends. I went to Lollapalooza for the first time. I loved it. I saw Sigur Ros, Of Monsters and Men, Jack White, Justice, Kaskade, Bombay Bicycle Club and some other randoms. It was like we were in a whole new world. Everyone is half-naked and so free. It was pretty fun to also observe the people that were there.

I also loved this weekend because we went good quality time with our cousins. I have a bad history of going to Chicago for a wedding or a church event and often I wouldn't see my cousins, or I'd see them for a really short time. This time was different. It was good to reconnect with Grace, Paul and Helen. When we were younger our age difference kind of restricted what we'd talk about and what we would do, but now that we're all in our 20s, we could all talk about similar things... even if it was usually about weddings.

I still can't believe that August is halfway over. I'm off to school in about 3 weeks. I was hecka nervous about it. I was even considering just dropping out after first year, go find a job and get started on my life. I have a lot more to say on that. There was a lot of fear in regards to my future and I didn't want to waste my time. But I'm starting to recognize that I have to go through the process in order to get to where I want to.

I hope you've all been having an awesome August. Summer is almost over!

still alive || life

Yea, it's been crazy hectic. I was in Chicago last weekend, and so much happened on the way there, while we were there and on the way back. My cousin came back to Waterloo with us so I haven't had much time to process, but let's just say August is crazy and I'm loving it.

august || life

A few nights ago a few friends and I were together to talk about August. We thought of different words that would really make August different from other months. We said JOY, BONDING, GROWTH, LOVE, INTIMACY and a bunch of others. 

July wasn't that great. I was in a funk, my heart was going through a lot and my mind did not want to leave that place of self-pity. But even a few nights ago I felt that August was going to be different. 

Who knows what'll happen. I'm off to Chicago this weekend and then I'll be back home to work a lot before I start school in September. I've got 30 more days. More than traveling and working, I want my mind to be strong and my heart to be fully covered in peace.

August will be marked and set apart by the realities of joy, intimacy and love.