Greetings friends!

It’s officially been way too long since we’ve blogged here at LLM. A lot has been happening the last 6 months with us. We’ve had an amazing time at festivals this Summer. We made loads of new friends and checked out a lot of great music. Thanks for everyone thats supported out on the festival circuit! We’ve got a a bunch of new shirt designs, tanktops, vnecks etc etc.. Also, we’ve got WMBTC hoodies on the way as well! So check out our store for the latest, www.llmstore.com and tell your friends about us!

Here’s a rad quote I read a while back.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt

I want to encourage you all to dream big and to work to achieve those dreams. There’s a big God out there that loves you and wants the best for your life. I think a lot of times we can disqualify ourselves because we are “too young” or don’t feel adequate or even just because of practicalities we decide its not going to happen. We take the easy way out and don’t make the effort to achieve things that are in our heart to do. I want to challenge you all to dream big and work hard to achieve those things. Yes, submit to God and seek first the kingdom of God. Yes, be patient. But I see too many people that don’t do anything because of a fear of failing. There’s a famous saying, “I failed my way to success.” I think so many of us think that success in something is an easy road for those that succeed. I guess it can be in some senses, but everyone is faced with adversity and even failure in different ways. Some choose to avoid it at all costs and some choose to push through. What kind of person are you? Are there things in your life, dreams in your heart you’ve put on the shelf and allowed to gather dust? Revisit them. Maybe find out if you’ve disqualified yourself. Dare greatly. Take a step towards those things in your heart. Even better, those things that you’ve always wanted to do for someone else, step out. Show love. Bring hope. See what happens. If you fall on your face. Thats ok. It happens. But Im betting you’ll be fine.
Thanks for listening.

Ben Kasica
LLM Clothing

Today I visited the LIFELOVEMUSIC Clothing website to see how it was doing. I realized that our blog was pretty lacking so made a mental note to write a blog. I added it to the list of about 100000 other things I “need to do” this week. And then it got me thinking. Why do I need to write a blog? Why am I doing any of the things that I think I so desperately need to get done. Life is busy if we allow it to be. But the question is, what are you living for? At the end of your life we will be judged on how we have loved. Not on how much we got done. How much we achieved. What kind of car we drove. What type of job we have. We will be judged on how we loved God and how we loved others. And by loving God, I dont just mean the warm fuzzies for the old man living up in heaven. The Bible says, if You love me, obey me. Our obedience is a good indicator of our love for God. If we say we love God and hate our brother, then we’ve gotten off track somewhere. Truly loving God by putting our faith into action in our every day lives.

I want to encourage you guys to stop. For 5 minutes. Turn off your phone. Log out of Facebook. No TV, music, noise. and just evaluate your life. If even the thought of that scares you, maybe you need to do it more often. But seriously, still everything around you and evaluate your life. What do you spend your time doing? What are you giving your heart to? What is valuable and precious to you? Imagine you just died and your looking back on your life story. What kind of story did you tell? Was it all about you? Or did you give yourself to other people? was it a story boring and spent watching other people live an adventure in a movie. Or did you take risk in your life? Did you step out in ways you’ve always thought would be great but always felt too scared to do? Be radical. Pursue God with your whole heart. Be obedient when you feel Him lead you to do things. You will never regret it. Remember this life wont last forever. One of my favorite quotes is from the movie Gladiator. “What we do in this life echoes in eternity”. Think about it. What will be echoing the rest of eternity because of your action. Will it be Love? Will it be obedience to God? Or will it be mistakes? Wasted time? Regrets? If that, then stop now. Go to God and ask for forgiveness for living the way you have. And then simply start living for Him. He’s a gracious God and is so quick to forgive. His heart for you is Love. Deeper than we can imagine. And He has a purpose for you in this life. We just need to tune in and find out what it is. And once you do that, you realize why you were created. To love and serve Him.
Sorry for my ramblings, I hope this is encouraging to you all.

We Must Be The Change

Benjamin Judah

Well Folks, We did it. The new Web site is launched! We would like to say a big “Thank You” to the guys over at Cross and Crown Productions. If you need any web, print or apparel design you should check them out! Since this is a new site, we are sure there will be a few hitches in the next few days. If you see any, please feel free to post them here and we will address them asap.

Peace and Love!