Hanson deserves more credit

for everything. They are the most amazing male celebs out there. They do so much good to others in need. I could care less about Angie and Brad or all of the other celebs. Hanson needs more credit (posted in Hanson.net Forums).

IsaacHanson: I don't want "Credit". I want for people to see the greatness within themselves and not except mediocrity and passivity in there own lives. I want people to act when they feel the pull of there conscience and see that there is so much joy and reward when we start living life for others as well as ourselves. Hopefully we see this in our own lives through our relationships with our families and friends helping each other even with basic things.

I think that we learn to love, and learn what life is all about through service to others. But do not misunderstand, this is about each of us choosing for ourselves... that part is very important. We have the liberty and the freedom to do so.

Thank you to all the hundreds of people who have hosted walks of there own through TakeTheWalk.net, more than half of the 28,000 miles walked so far have been because of your action, not ours. That is what this is all about... YOU!

Thank you for your kind words. Now go out there and Change the World.

-I

“Love is only what you give up, Life isn’t what you get, Love won’t always fill your cup, Life when you start to live, Life’s when you learn to give.” -Z. Hanson
(from the song “In A Way” from the 2007 H.net Members EP)

Isaac Hanson

old writings

I found this in an old blog this morning. I wrote this in March 2006 and I can't quite remember what my motives were for writing it... but I like it:

so, i thought i was losing my days. they seemed to fall behind me in a blurring trail of red and orange and green, leaves gone before their time. i could barely discern one day from the next. everyday –identical. what was the point? or was life meant to be so empty? each new day held no speck of wonder to capture my attention. and so, each minute of each day, i fumbled along, months passing in a frighteningly quick stream of moments. each day, i hoped for a difference. today, things will be different, i said to myself, hitting the same keys on the old piano as the day before or tomorrow. there will be change. and life went on in its bewildering kaleidoscope of color and sound. and then one day, things changed.

a little over two years ago – that was when i found Him.

and that was when i realized that the stars i hung my hope on had been dead a million years.

MOE 2009

I'm home from Tulsa and I'm currently suffering from post-Hanson depression :(

MOE 09

gone to Tulsa for the long weekend to see my boys :)

when did faith become dangerous?

This is one of the most ridiculous articles I've read in a while:

A lawsuit has been filed against Orange County by a veteran group home counselor who was suspended six weeks for exposing four teenagers to Christian music. The counselor is represented by affiliate and staff attorneys of Pacific Justice Institute.

The lawsuit states that, in the summer of 2006, the counselor took four teenage girls from the Orangewood Children’s Home on an approved field trip to a 5K run and then to the beach. At the beach, the group encountered a “Surf Jam” taking place at the Huntington Beach pier. The group also overheard Christian music for about ten minutes while they were eating.

Following the beach outing, the counselor, an eighteen-year employee, was summoned to a disciplinary meeting focusing on the Christian music. Several months later, the same incident was brought up again and the counselor was slapped with a six-week suspension for “exposing children to unapproved religious activities.”

After many months of exhausting state administrative remedies, the counselor filed suit late last week in Orange County Superior Court to recover the financial losses she suffered from the suspension and to vindicate her constitutional rights. The counselor is represented by John and Laurie Messerly Stewart, attorneys in Orange, California, and the Pacific Justice Institute.

Brian Welch

Brian Phillip Welch (born June 19, 1970), better known as Head, is an American musician best known as the former lead guitarist of the band Korn. Welch left the band in 2005 due to contrasting personal beliefs, to focus on life as a father.

On February 22, 2005, Korn's management announced that after almost 12 years, Welch had parted ways with the band, citing that he had "...chosen the Lord Jesus Christ as his savior, and will be dedicating his musical pursuits to that end." On March 10, 2005, Welch was baptized in the Jordan River with a group of believers hailing from Bakersfield, California.


This is probably one of the most powerful testimonies I've ever heard: