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<title>Joel Bidderman Music</title><link>http://www.joelbidderman.com/index.html</link><description>The Memoirs of Joel Bidderman</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:creator>joelbidderman@gmail.com</dc:creator><dc:rights>Copyright 2006 Joel Bidderman</dc:rights><dc:date>2008-10-02T22:42:51-07:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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<lastBuildDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:47:22 -0700</lastBuildDate><itunes:author>Joel Bidderman</itunes:author><itunes:owner><itunes:name>Joel Bidderman</itunes:name><itunes:email>jorlyswing@joelbidderman.com</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:category text="Arts"/><itunes:keywords>Joel Bidderman</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>Joel Bidderman Music&#x2c; Stories and News</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Music&#x2c; stories&#x2c; news and random thoughts from Joel Bidderman.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/podcast_channel.png" /><item><title>Myoclonia and more music-a-comin</title><dc:creator>joelbidderman@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Music &#x26; Stuff</category><dc:date>2008-10-02T22:42:51-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/dad20fa3f9214504a501a9f9c2021772-27.html#unique-entry-id-27</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/dad20fa3f9214504a501a9f9c2021772-27.html#unique-entry-id-27</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey!  Myoclonia Productions (a production label that I started with some friends) is starting up.  For more, check out www.myoclonia.com

I'll be starting back on my podcasts soon.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Developments....</title><dc:creator>joelbidderman@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Music &#x26; Stuff</category><dc:date>2007-08-05T14:49:12-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/3da2a7ee9ea9eefad22f8fc08127c8d1-26.html#unique-entry-id-26</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/3da2a7ee9ea9eefad22f8fc08127c8d1-26.html#unique-entry-id-26</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[So.  I have a new series on my blog.  Click the pic.

Also, my friend Derek Luptak's book is out.  You can check it out at his website.

And soon I'll be on the road.  Shows will be updated soon!]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Holy Obsession</title><dc:creator>joelbidderman@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Music &#x26; Stuff</category><dc:date>2007-07-27T19:07:49-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/c9536a7a33023bb2a3834c874dbf02a0-25.html#unique-entry-id-25</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/c9536a7a33023bb2a3834c874dbf02a0-25.html#unique-entry-id-25</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[So, here is the podcast re: Holy Obsession.  I did it in the morning with weak coffee...so my voice has that tired, Jazz radio tone.

Anyway.]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/podcast_25.mp3" length="4803962" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Joel Bidderman</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Art"/><itunes:keywords>Joel Bidderman, a Prelude to Tomorrow</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>Coffee and Psalm 63</itunes:subtitle></item><item><title>Interview with Ron &#x22;Rezdog&#x22; Everingham</title><dc:creator>joelbidderman@gmail.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-05-16T09:58:36-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/25fc9e368dc096f5d4129bbd278e8a59-24.html#unique-entry-id-24</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/25fc9e368dc096f5d4129bbd278e8a59-24.html#unique-entry-id-24</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[So, if some of you have been expecting the podcast on prayer...sorry, it had to get delay due to the craziness of life.  I will be releasing it (soon I hope) though.  If you have no idea what I'm talking about...don't worry about this paragraph.

This interview is something that I did when I was in AZ.  Ron Everingham is my dear friend on the Apache Reservation.]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/podcast_24.mp3" length="13683918" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Joel Bidderman</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Arts"/><itunes:keywords>Joel Bidderman Ron Everingham Apache Youth Ministries</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>Apache Youth Ministries</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Joel&#x27;s interview with Apache Youth Ministries&#x27; Ron Everingham.  They discuss youth center&#x2c; Apache youth&#x2c; and being Christians.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/podcast_image_24.png" /></item><item><title>New Stuff 1</title><dc:creator>joelbidderman@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Randomnimity</category><dc:date>2007-05-10T13:25:04-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/c7eafc3da9f5a19e742866da3e3dd92c-23.html#unique-entry-id-23</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/c7eafc3da9f5a19e742866da3e3dd92c-23.html#unique-entry-id-23</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[So the new news on what's up is: - I am now on Red Point Artist Management's Roster.

- I'm doing a concert in CA in a few weeks.  - I'll be putting in a photo gallery soon.  - I'm getting rocked by the book "Irresistible Revolution: living as an ordinary radical" by Shane Claiborne - I've been eating a lot of fruit lately.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Derek Luptak Interview</title><dc:creator>joelbidderman@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Music &#x26; Stuff</category><dc:date>2007-04-21T01:31:40-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/a14f2e1fd721fb8bd00d52f6aeebaacf-22.html#unique-entry-id-22</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/a14f2e1fd721fb8bd00d52f6aeebaacf-22.html#unique-entry-id-22</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Derek Luptak rocks...and so does his soon to be released book of poetry "The 62 Loose Sonnets".  Visit Derek's poetry website: highland grogg  Also, if you're interested in Frederick Buechner (listen to the interview), the book that we talked about is entitled "The Alphabet of Grace"]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/podcast_22.mp3" length="12579883" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Joel Bidderman</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Arts"/><itunes:keywords>Joel Bidderman Derek Luptak</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>Luptak book interview</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Exclusive Joel Bidderman interview with Derek Luptak regarding his new book of poetry &#x22;The 62 Loose Sonnets&#x22;</itunes:summary></item><item><title>In This Hour</title><dc:creator>joelbidderman@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Music &#x26; Stuff</category><dc:date>2007-04-17T09:59:53-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/d5bf18045951cfa460496932cf0fb534-20.html#unique-entry-id-20</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/d5bf18045951cfa460496932cf0fb534-20.html#unique-entry-id-20</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Alright.  Happy times.  An all new podcast and a trip.

You can subscribe to this podcast at itunes!  I know, pretty sweet.  Click here to subscribe

Good things are in store.]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/podcast_20.mp3" length="9411962" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Joel Bidderman</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Arts"/><itunes:keywords>Joel Bidderman In This Hour</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>Stories&#x2c; melodies and random stuff</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>The story behind the song &#x22;In This Hour.&#x22;  Available on Joel&#x27;s 2007 release&#x2c; &#x22;A Prelude to Tomorrow&#x22;</itunes:summary></item><item><title>Prelude Podcast 1</title><dc:creator>joelbidderman@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Music &#x26; Stuff</category><dc:date>2007-03-09T19:37:55-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/5412272b9c69be80ccb182f1d415559f-18.html#unique-entry-id-18</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/5412272b9c69be80ccb182f1d415559f-18.html#unique-entry-id-18</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[This is the first podcast for "A Prelude to Tomorrow".  Enjoy.]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/podcast_18.mp3" length="3568754" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Joel Bidderman</itunes:author><itunes:keywords>Joel Bidderman, Memoirs of a Visitor</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>Stories&#x2c; melodies and random stuff</itunes:subtitle></item><item><title>Grind by Night</title><dc:creator>joelbidderman@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Concerts</category><dc:date>2007-02-26T23:24:08-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/29b362b1eb7bdd0aa580699ee57024c0-17.html#unique-entry-id-17</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/29b362b1eb7bdd0aa580699ee57024c0-17.html#unique-entry-id-17</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[So the playing gig was a little different than a normal gig.  There was some miscommunication amongst leadership, but that's cool...we (Marissa, Gabe and I) got a small set of tunes in. Highlights were: Marissa and I got to hang out with Gabe.  We met a friend of a friend.  & I met the booking guy for the coffee house, so I may be going back to gig again.

With all this said...Viva la Daily Grind.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Gniiks htiw GYFO</title><dc:creator>joelbidderman@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Concerts</category><dc:date>2007-02-25T21:15:00-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/8a7cc83ccb1b1bbcfaa793f50527719f-16.html#unique-entry-id-16</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/8a7cc83ccb1b1bbcfaa793f50527719f-16.html#unique-entry-id-16</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[So, I led worship for the youth group from Oakwood Forest Christian Church (from Kingsport, TN) the weekend of Feb 23rd....  I enjoyed it for many reasons, and here are some of my thoughts on the matter: 1.  It's nice to see that there are still stars....  The utter pain of waking up after an entire day of falling down (snowboarding) does a remarkable job of reminding you that you are still alive.

...So Wolf Laurel is about a 4 hour drive from where I live.  My wife and I loaded up my humble Chevy Cavelier with our stuff and headed to the mountains....  Then it got dark, and I remembered that in the mountains dark is much more dark than the city....  This might not seem like a big deal to you, but it's a really big deal to me.

...I met a few of the teens a few years ago, and they're bigger now.  Eric has grown into a young man, Wesley has grown into a young giant, April is getting ready for College and Cameron is fortunately still Cameron.

...I fell down a lot...and fortunately I didn't take anyone with me.  (at least no one that I noticed) Sunday morning I woke up with muscles that I never had before.

...So, so far this blog is exactly the kind of blog that isn't very interesting to read.  It's the classic, I got up, did this, did that, kind of blog....  See, life is full of surprises, sensations, ups and downs...but mostly it's filled with the in-between moments, almost mundane, and sometimes unfortunate.  How we live today is the serious chance that we have, to do something extraordinary....  Right now, just stop, close your eyes, take a breath, let the air fill your lungs, let your chest rise, let it fall, do it again.

...Here is the big picture: You have a a chance to live life....  So your vehicle may break down, it might not be the best day at the slopes, you might have a disagreement with a friend (or a stranger), and maybe things don't go your way....  Jesus is for-real coming back, live for (and abide in Him) because He's the one sure thing.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>A Prelude to Tomorrow: a raw refreshment</title><dc:creator>joelbidderman@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Music &#x26; Stuff</category><dc:date>2007-01-14T00:29:28-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/315c91581943f2153c316eaa8d3ee238-14.html#unique-entry-id-14</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/315c91581943f2153c316eaa8d3ee238-14.html#unique-entry-id-14</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I'm partly not sure if this should go in "Memory Residue" or the "Prelude Notes," but I just wanted to express some things about this project that is going to be available in a few weeks.

The first thing to realize is that my CD's are concept albums....  For instance, "Depravity, Grace and Reckless Abandon," my last album was a grappling with devotion and abandoning oneself to the martyr's love that is found in Christianity.  Likewise, this one carries a theme that is close to my heart.

Did you ever notice that we live in a country that has a reputation for being founded on Christian values, is now a country where those values are their own economy?  Radio stations, TV stations, bookstores, clubs, associations and churches of every flavor all stretching to meet the demanding need of a rapidly changing society.  Within the Christian (sub)culture of US America, I wanted to do something different.  I wanted to just stick my heart raw on a recording and market it.

...This is my first recording in a while, but it is my first recording having come out of recording school....  I could have spent big dollars in trying to compete with a market of common sounding, radio worthy, manufactered sound (with a bank account in the high negatives)...but that's not where my heart is.  So for this I took what I had available: two microphones, a guitar, a djimbe (and some percussion items), an acoustic bass, and some vocals and laid them down in a recording....  The theme of the project is simply that I love Jesus Christ.  Within a culture of "programs" and "ministry philosophies" I wanted to just declare my love for God in an almost bootleg fashion....  It's about the art: that music and recording is something that I love, and (in my life) God is continually changing me.

...It's not a myth or a fairy tale, He's going to come back and life as we know it is going to be extremely different....  I'm completely captivated by Him and am amazed that the uncreated God would choose me not only as a friend but adopt me as His child.  He continually breaks into the moments that I live in to lavish me with love....  He's continually drawing me deeper into the mystery of who He is....  He is everything to me, so I long to give Him everything, continually.  I can't really say it any other way than in song...thus my new project: "A Prelude to Tomorrow."]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>In the mail</title><dc:creator>joelbidderman@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Music &#x26; Stuff</category><dc:date>2007-01-12T19:15:18-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/5cb743b7e1887ef6a74a6ea5b69710a5-13.html#unique-entry-id-13</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/5cb743b7e1887ef6a74a6ea5b69710a5-13.html#unique-entry-id-13</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Prelude to Tomorrow is on its way to the manufacterer.  Yessssssss.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Prelude is Coming&#x21;</title><dc:creator>joelbidderman@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Music &#x26; Stuff</category><dc:date>2007-01-02T20:26:38-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/3002539c6eed0b27acd04d14e1580bb0-12.html#unique-entry-id-12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/3002539c6eed0b27acd04d14e1580bb0-12.html#unique-entry-id-12</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[So, the new CD is mastered, the graphic designing is finishing up and this week I'll be starting my account with the manufacterer.  Soon and very soon my friends.

In other news, you can now purchase the last remaining copies of my second CD, "World's Collide" online.  Right here as a matter of fact.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>3 Nights Before Christmas...</title><dc:creator>joelbidderman@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Randomnimity</category><dc:date>2006-12-20T00:15:08-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/20b4ffd03636b29fbd8b33fe43324b5b-10.html#unique-entry-id-10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/20b4ffd03636b29fbd8b33fe43324b5b-10.html#unique-entry-id-10</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It's not exactly the most exciting Christmas season ever, but it's by no means boring.  It's quiet, which is a welcome thing.  Right now I'm at the International House of Prayer where I work.  My wife is worshipping (playing piano and singing) on the stage in the smaller of our locations.  It's 12:15am right now and she has about an hour and a half left.  The shifts of worship here last for 2 hours each, then a new worship leader or team gets on stage and does it for another 2 hours....  I suppose if you want to be picky then I suppose it might stop for a second or two for a transition.  Maybe a piece of paper falling to the floor, or the drop of a guitar pick might cause a long pause of silence.  But I believe silence can be worship too, so technically it doesn't stop....  Well, for a few reasons, but one that is important to me is the simple fact that the industry of this world doesn't stop...so why should the Christian's.  There are people getting high right now, and people in all sorts of lusts.  There are kids, teens, college students and even some adults who are up right now watching movies or playing video games...they are doing in a little way what they were created for: being fascinated....  They are doing, in essence, something that they were created for.  The only problem though is that ultimately it won't satisfy them.  That's why I'm here.  Because, (1) I was created to be fascinated and God is the primary One who fascinates me, and (2) you need it.  See, I'm not just sitting here doing nothing.  The fact is that while you're (chances are) sleeping, I'm praying for you.  I'm praying that God will reveal Himself to you.  I'm praying that you will experience His love.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Do-overs vs. Brand News</title><dc:creator>joelbidderman@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>The Deep</category><dc:date>2006-12-03T22:31:31-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/10233d96177ba33fa44b468bf4228c61-3.html#unique-entry-id-3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/10233d96177ba33fa44b468bf4228c61-3.html#unique-entry-id-3</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The jist of course being that by nature he starts out as a jerk but after being stuck in the same day for long enough, his heart of stone oddly starts to soften into flesh.  The reason I mention it is not to talk about Bill Murray, but because I used to approach repentance like this.

...You do the thing that you said you'd never do (if not out loud, at least in your head)....  Then you go on, feeling like you're pretty much the worst person ever for awhile, but then you get over it maybe...or maybe you keep it in the back of your head and say, "OK, next time it won't happen....  Then out of the blue, out of nowhere or out of the inevitable, the one thing that you said that you'd never do...you do.

...And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good....  For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do&mdash;this I keep on doing.  Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it."

...For awhile he watched from the distance as we interveiwed other people, I'm sure listening to our questions and listening to the answers of others....  From the table next to him in the noisy coffee house we asked, "Excuse me sir, how do you cope in life?"  Now, I don't know if he was drinking 100% coffee or a mixture of something harder, and I found out that once he started to talk, he was kind of a volatile character.  But through a gravelly voice and a few choice words, he said something to the effect of: find out the source of the problem, and get rid of it....  In many ways the problem in my life is me...and often I would get rid of my sinful nature completely if it were within my power....  It's not that we aren't as bad as we could be, but rather that we have nothing good in us. The problem that I'm talking about here is sin, and that is something that as humans we are not free of...but we do not have to be consumed by it.

..."So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.  For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members....  So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin."

...Now, the point is not to live recklessly in sin, clinging to a Cheap Grace, saying "I'll go to church on Sunday, but right now I'll live in the spirit of this Age."

..."How do you cope?"...that is, with this sinful nature that is a part of our humanity.

...It's waking up to a world fallen, and while you don't know where you may end up in 24 hours, you know that wherever you end up you'll be Christ's.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The In-betweens</title><dc:creator>joelbidderman@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Randomnimity</category><dc:date>2006-11-28T10:49:28-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/d2190d22cc5f7b293f6a5a7a57c6f0d9-1.html#unique-entry-id-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/d2190d22cc5f7b293f6a5a7a57c6f0d9-1.html#unique-entry-id-1</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Thinking about God constantly isn't something that we have to be monks in order to do, which is good news.  Personally, I think that I'd look funny with a little bald spot on top of my head.  In the USofA we have a habit of being very Roman-Greco mindsetted.  The Roman-Greco mindset is categorized, putting everything into their own little place, apologizing faith on the basis of concept.  The Hebrew mindset is all encompasing, free-flowing, faith is something that saturates your life.  Christianity when it comes down to it, at its core, is Messianic-Judaism (Jewish belief with faith in Jesus Christ as the messiah).  As a Christian I believe that my life is all about Christ, and while I am always at constant friction with being pathetically human, I want my life to be saturated with God.

...I'm seeing how "taking breathers" are not just escaping to a queit place.  You can take them waiting in line at the bank, the post office and in traffic.  Places where I normally get driven crazy being a mountain boy in the city, I have been making myself stop.  It's so much easier for me to focus on God and be in a sustain conversation with Him when I was frequently around quiet...and lakes, and stars at night, and snow in the winter, and...I could go on. But slowy, and surely, God is giving me grace as He cracks open my heart through the business of an Atlanta pace.

It's turning off the radio in the car and talking to God.  "Jesus please help me to somehow share Your love in this sea of humans."  It's waiting in line and praying for the person in front of you and behind you.  "Jesus somehow reveal Your love to these people, whether it's through me, a family member, a friend or by supernatural means.  Through my interaction in this building, let Your love be left here."  It's paying attention to expressions on people's faces....  It's opening ourselves to the indwelling Christ, the one alive in us, and asking Him to purify us of selfishness, and all of our human tendencies to try to gain lordship over our own lives when that will lead us to destruction.  It's, each moment, abandoning ourselves to the one and only True God and surrending ourselves to His Lordship.  The foundation of His throne is righteousness and justice and is from everlasting to everlasting.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The New Website</title><dc:creator>joelbidderman@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Randomnimity</category><dc:date>2006-10-16T13:18:59-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/752e7355afb3417aaeb0a9bff701f61f-0.html#unique-entry-id-0</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/752e7355afb3417aaeb0a9bff701f61f-0.html#unique-entry-id-0</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Yes, this is the new website.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Boundless Cry</title><dc:creator>joelbidderman@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Poetry</category><dc:date>2006-08-15T15:36:05-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/6bf40858593cd6d6f54048acf485610a-5.html#unique-entry-id-5</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/6bf40858593cd6d6f54048acf485610a-5.html#unique-entry-id-5</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I need You Yeshua Shift and break, strene and place&hellip; close to Your heart.  You captivate me You apprehend my imagination, and comprehension and lay me bare  In the night hours where the dark lingers and simmers I wait and consider You, for You know me You&rsquo;re in my head, You know my ambitions and concerns  In desperation, nightfall, wintertime, & cold I cling to You  In springtime, flower bloom, waterfalls, and stars and moon I cleave to You  In summer&rsquo;s heat, rainstorm&rsquo;s breeze, and arid region solitude I glaum at You]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Evening Sacrifice</title><dc:creator>joelbidderman@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Poetry</category><dc:date>2006-07-03T15:37:27-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/f764b969b6cfd00b2fcb5f46a604b8db-6.html#unique-entry-id-6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/f764b969b6cfd00b2fcb5f46a604b8db-6.html#unique-entry-id-6</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Ancient key unlock the symphony of a heart Complaisant to Your love thundering of justice Compelled of Your love violent with peace Bound of a life held in wonder Found of a heart awakened from slumber  Sanctify by Your truth Purify by Your Word by Your truth Consecrate by Your Spirit, by Your Word, by Your truth]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Aghast of Devotion</title><dc:creator>joelbidderman@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Poetry</category><dc:date>2006-06-02T15:38:21-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/4686f618e25da83ed8a0e8fd97312f81-7.html#unique-entry-id-7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/4686f618e25da83ed8a0e8fd97312f81-7.html#unique-entry-id-7</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Awaken the Dawn</title><dc:creator>joelbidderman@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Poetry</category><dc:date>2006-05-26T15:39:53-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/6f9b6b3cf2bbb340b03f83e4bf8b9290-8.html#unique-entry-id-8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/6f9b6b3cf2bbb340b03f83e4bf8b9290-8.html#unique-entry-id-8</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Even so come In the night and the day and the flight of my heart In the joy and mundane and dawn and new start Strip myself to see the glimpse of Your majesty  Sing a song and give me ears to hear A rustling, a noise, a stirring As You reach down deep into a place I do not dare &hellip;My heart

My heart.

A new start.

A new breath to breathe.  A new song to sing.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>A Trip Into Today</title><dc:creator>joelbidderman@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Poetry</category><dc:date>2006-02-10T15:40:21-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/9855698fb54ff017d6ab32775e1d064b-9.html#unique-entry-id-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joelbidderman.com/blog/files/9855698fb54ff017d6ab32775e1d064b-9.html#unique-entry-id-9</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Twisting, dashing, curiling, climb Throw a rope around thoughts Thoughts that twist sublime up a ladder of memory drifting to tomorrow  Why try and cry if you never know where tears go Flow from two and fly to a sky that often sighs from mercy&rsquo;s persistence]]></content:encoded></item></channel>
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