How much longer will I be an addict?

For those who don't know, there is an add-on to Facebook called Scrabulous, which is basically Scrabble in playable on-line form. You can play with friends at a leisurely pace, making several moves a day, or one per week. Since I enjoy playing Scrabble, it should come as no surprise that I have a few games going, um, nine at the time I wrote this.

Unfortunately, like all fun behaviors, this one will come to an end soon. Hasbro, the maker of Scrabble has contacted Facebook about removing the unauthorized program.

See the C|Net article here

Facebook will relent under threat of legal action, although one might think that they will wait as long as they can, since, according to the article, it is the ninth most popular Facebook add-on.

Hasbro won't care about that, and probably won't attempt to buy Scrabulous' software and just make it authorized, which would set a bad precedent, they will just force Facebook to remove it, and we'll have to find a new time waster.

*sigh*

The Shell (new song)

There seems to be some prolific writing going on around here lately.

The Shell

V1
I'm just a shell of the man I used to be,
wealth and pleasures and fame plenty.
All of it gone, broke and broken I stand,
just one possession, your loving hand

Chorus
Emptied of the world, all it gone,
dejected, rejected, and nothing inside
Lord take shell that once was a man
and fill it with light by your loving hand.

V2
Empty, broken what use can I be?
you loving Savior that's not what you see.
Fallen and broken by worldly loads,
I find myself lifted by the hands with holes.

Chorus
Emptied of the world, all it gone,
dejected, rejected, and nothing inside
Lord take shell that once was a man
and fill it with light by your loving hand.

Bridge
Take this shell,
in your fire renew,
make me a vessel,
in service to you,
fill it with love,
until overflow,
and never again,
this world will I know.

Chorus
Emptied of the world, all it gone,
dejected, rejected, and nothing inside
Lord take shell that once was a man
and fill it with light by your loving hand.

Double Shot of Comfort

There is a song running through my head these last few days that is giving me a lot of comfort, it is Who Am I? by Casting Crowns. The end of the song has one of the most comforting thoughts I know of: If God is with us, who can be against us? Romans 8:31, here rendered as "Whom shall I fear?"

Here is a little secret, I haven't heard the Casting Crowns version, or if I have, it didn't stick in my head.

What is stuck in my head is the version that is sung at Great Adventures, which at the end has SmileChild singing the "Whom shall I fear?" ... what a comfort, scripture running through my head in the voice of one of my dearest friends.

Driven Halfway to Death

No controversy this time, this picture was taken in my driveway.

50,000 miles, that's twice around the earth, a quarter way to the moon, or the distance light travels in an eighth of a second.

More of You (new song)

I wrote a new "song", all my guitar playing friends may have at it. I have a melody in my head if no one else is inspired.

More of You

Verse 1
Alone in the crowd I wait 'til you come,
all this indifference it makes me numb,
They say know you, and the scriptures they do
but their hearts are far away from following you

Chorus
You desire mercy and not sacrifice
When they consider me, they don't ever think twice
Thrown to lions, or to the side of the road
Alone with my burdens, no help with my load
Lord my prayer in all that I do,
less of the world ... more of you.

Verse 2
They'll quote you the world, but live in shell
don't want you to disturbing where all looks well
If I lived on the street, they'd say what a shame
Someone else should help old whats-his-name.

Chorus
You desire mercy and not sacrifice
When they consider me, they don't ever think twice
Thrown to lions, or to the side of the road
Alone with my burdens, no help with my load
Lord my prayer in all that I do,
less of the world ... more of you.

Bridge
Captured by your love
enthralled by your Name,
Your my one love affair
despite all my shame.
At the end of my days,
your judgement at hand
to the golden paved streets
or to the firey lands
Show my Lord
salvation to win,
and that loving too much
was my greatest sin

that loving too much
was my greatest sin.

Chorus
You desire mercy and not sacrifice
When they consider me, they don't ever think twice
Thrown to lions, or to the side of the road
Alone with my burdens, no help with my load
Lord my prayer in all that I do,
less of the world ... more of you.