Chronicle at strive4impact.com

July 1994
Jonathan is 14

Quiet Knowledge
Innocence
Feelings
Impact
Wonderings

Peace War Hate Love

July 1994
Jonathan is 15

If you plant a seed and nothing grows up
What is it that you do?
If you find you are bored with your everyday life
Is there some way you can make it new?

July 1994
Jonathan is 15

Dear God,
Is it wrong? Could it be a factor when I reach heaven? I understand the wrongness in it, but it seems like I've gotten some pretty subtle hints that say it's ok, but perhaps it's not you giving the messages.
%Jon, listen to your heart, you'll know what's right.%

July 14 1994
(After listening to Dances With Wolves Soundtrack)
Jonathan is 14

It will all end how it all started, and we will find out that we really do know nothing.

November 1994
Jonathan is 15

Jesus,
Give me the strength to try to help others and not want in return. Let me know when to try to help (always). Let me know how to help. Please. Also, help me to find you in a deeper meaning.

August 7, 1994
Jonathan is 14

The girl who could talk with her eyes
Tonight I met her
I tried to talk
but what could or would I have said?
Tonight I met her,
and in her eyes, I saw a brilliance of the soul
A brilliance ready to shine
A brilliance that is ready to help
Is this,
This girl who can talk with her eyes,
Is this what I've been waiting for?
Perhaps.

August 1994
A song I heard at a retreat
Jonathan is 14

A story and a song called The Color Angels

Beautiful Blossom Growing
Beautiful Blossom Grow
Beautiful Blossom Growing
Beautiful Blossom Grow

And holy are you
God of the universe
Maker of colors
Maker of mountains
Maker of promises that are true
Holy are you

August 1994
Jonathan is 14

Keep smiling, keep shining
Knowing you can always count on me
For sure
That's what friends are for
In good times, in bad times
I'll be on your side forevermore
That's what friends are for

August 1994
Jonathan is 14

You've given in to the self

The chain of impact

Perceptions of reality

August 1994
Visiting St. Peter's Basilica in Rome
Jonathan is 14

We stand before the mountains of the world, and wonder how we are supposed to climb them. But it is in climbing those mountains that we reach the top of the mountains of God.
We stand before the mountain of God, and wedo not know what it is we will do. We only know that it will be great.

September 3,1994
Rome, Italy
Jonathan is 14

Dear Giver Of Direction,
Help us, as we venture on this pilgrimage, help us to take back with us what we learn. Help us to be able to look at the incredibleness of what we see here.

Thank-you so much for the reinstatement of hope you have given me. Both through the pope, and through these structures built for you.

September 16,1994
Jonathan is 14

After seeing Forrest Gump

Everyone must return to the innocence frequently so that they see only what they have and what they need and what they need to do.

And most importantly, how to help others.

September 21,1994
Jonathan is 14

Dear God,

I have just finished a very important return to my innocence by looking through my writings to, for, from, and about you.

September 1994

I used to sit up late at nights and write to someone who had given me more than I could ask for, ever. I didn't know much about details... little things and big things alike, I didn't know about, but it was okay, and it was fun for me to stay up late those nights writing. They helped me discover more of what I'd been given.

Then I began to slip away. I was a Sunday Catholic who really didn't have a statement for life. That time was hard. And the bad thing and strange thing about it was I could have made it so much easier just by finding out who I'd been writing to.

September 1994

I once heard a saying that whatever you have in life is God's gift to you. Whatever you do with what you have is your gift to God.

September 1994

Dear God,

Help Carma. She has done so much for many.

September 1994

A song I heard in a dream/daydream.

We march for the greater glory of God (GAGFGFEFEDC)
We march within His light.
We march for the greater glory of God
And we shall prevail against the night.

October 1994
Jonathan is 15

In life, we're searching to find ourselves, but are we not also searching for love?

October 1994
Jonathan is 15

I did not know what the date was, though I sometimes wish I did.

For it was on that day that I pledged my life to the Lord.

October 1994
Jonathan is 15

Everybody wishes for what they don't got
The blind wish they could see
The lame wish they could learn to walk
And I wish I could be me.

November 3, 1994
Jonathan is 15

All of our lives, we are taught to tune out things around us so that we can concentrate on what it is that we're trying to do.

Maybe it's time we stop tuning out things and start tuning in to the big picture.

It's time we realize that there's things more important than just ourselves.

November 1994
Jonathan is 15

It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

November 1994
A song
Jonathan is 15

Tonight's a perfect night to look at the stars EEEFEDCDDEE
With someone by your side EDCEDCE
I wish that I could look at the stars EEEFEDCDDEE
I wish that she was here tonight CCEDCDCC

November 1994
An alternative verse I wrote for a song we sang in church
Jonathan is 15

"I will take the cup of life and call God's name all my days..."

Cantor: How can I call to myself the people that I love?
Choir: Lord, we are your servants, make it known to us, may your will be done, Amen.

Thanksgiving 1994
Jonathan is 15

Jesus,

I am thankful to you and your father, and others in heaven and on Earth, especially my parents, for giving me this life. Thank-you!

November 1994
Jonathan is 15

In Her Eyes

(A poem I was going to write about a girl named Melissa)

November 1994
Jonathan is 15

Do you feel the same
Do you not let it show
If that's true
How am I supposed to know

December 1994
Jonathan is 15

Quotes from Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance

Pg. 5 "The truth knocks on the door and you say "Go away. I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away."

December 7, 1994
Jonathan is 15

Troubling times
Busy people
People too busy to care
To care about anything but themselves
Self-satisfaction in people made busy by the world
Troubling times