O heart bereaved and lonely,
Whose brightest dreams have fled
Whose hopes like summer roses,
Are withered crushed and dead
Though link by link be broken,
And tears unseen may fall
Look up amid thy sorrow,
To Him who knows it all
O cling to thy Redeemer,
Thy Savior, Brother, Friend
Believe and trust His promise,
To keep you till the end
O watch and wait with patience,
And question all you will
His arms of love and mercy,
Are round about thee still
Look up, the clouds are breaking,
The storm will soon be o'er
And thou shall reach the haven,
Where sorrows are no more
Look up, be not discouraged;
Trust on, whate'er befall
Remember, O remember,
Thy Savior knows it all
“I have come to believe that by and large the human family all has the same secrets, which are both very telling and very important to tell. They are telling in the sense that they tell what is perhaps the central paradox of our condition - that what we hunger for perhaps more than anything else is to be known in our full humanness, and yet that is often just what we also fear more than anything else.” - Frederick Buechner
7.07.2008
7.03.2008
All the small things.
Goal for the Week: Make it to Friday without the aid of starches.
*This will be more difficult than it may sound. I'm the type of girl who eats a bag of popcorn for dinner on more than one occassion. I love bread and starches are cheap foods that fill you up quickly. Bonus! However, I've set my mind to doing this, so I've prepared for the mission by stocking the fridge with fresh fruit and ordering a pizza as my last meal. Wish me luck!
Goal for the Month: Discontinue the use of plastic bags.
* I own a couple of those reusable bags, but I always forget to bring them with me to the store. I hope to remedy this by keeping them in the front seat of my car. we'll see if this works.
Goals for the rest of the year:
- Care less about the people who dislike me for no reason (or for stupid reasons).
* I've come a long way in this department, but not as far as I would like. I'm down to a handful of people whose opinions still matter to me, for whatever reason, regardless of the fact that I have little to no respect for them as people. It's hard when you live in a place where people are sickly sweet to your face just to turn around and badmouth you the moment you leave, usually over something stupid or because they are highly misinformed. I'm guilty too though. I regularly perpetuate the madness by knowingly smiling and making small talk with plenty of petty people who could care less if I got hit by a car tonight. It's a sick game, really. I'll be honest.. I want to be liked. I honestly like 95% of the people I meet right off (usually to my own fault), and I spend a good bit of time trying to convince myself to like the other 5%, so it bothers me when I feel like people don't like me. But I'm getting over it... I'm down to the final few. It won't hurt them, and it will help me, so by golly I'm going to try to be one of those individuals who just really doesn't care... I may have to update on this come December... chances are not a whole lot will have changed, but maybe!
- Get the road rage under control.
* This my friends, will take a miracle. I've already taken countless numbers of years off of my life just by driving. No more. I want to be that person who enjoys driving. The person who isn't frustrated by the driver going 5 miles under the speed limit, or by the moron who doesn't know how to merge, or by the jerk that cuts me off. No, come December, I don't want to be that girl. Sometimes, in my brighter moments, I can convince myself that there is a reason to people's stupidity on the road: "Oh, her mother probably just died." "He just got laid off after 25 years of loyal service" "She had a miscarriage.." etc... but those moments have become few and far between. Something has to be done. I don't want to be 25 with blood pressure through the roof because I've had to drive across town. So here's to calm, cool and collected car rides.
Things that made me say "yay!":
-Finding I have a free pool at the community center a block from my house.
* complete with a gym for $2. Awesome.
-Getting one of my invoices in, finally.
* one down, more to go...
-Hearing that Julie is flying out in August!!!
*Yessssss!!
-Seeing/Hearing myself & my music in a ghetto-fabulous television commercial.
*Bizzare, actually...
Books I've read the past couple weeks:
-Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
-Goose Girl
-The Phantom Tollbooth
-The Golden Compass
-Island of the Blue Dolphins
-The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
-The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears
-The Witch of Blackbird Pond
-Criss Cross
Music I've Enjoyed:
Missy Higgins
The new Coldplay
The new Jon Foreman
*This will be more difficult than it may sound. I'm the type of girl who eats a bag of popcorn for dinner on more than one occassion. I love bread and starches are cheap foods that fill you up quickly. Bonus! However, I've set my mind to doing this, so I've prepared for the mission by stocking the fridge with fresh fruit and ordering a pizza as my last meal. Wish me luck!
Goal for the Month: Discontinue the use of plastic bags.
* I own a couple of those reusable bags, but I always forget to bring them with me to the store. I hope to remedy this by keeping them in the front seat of my car. we'll see if this works.
Goals for the rest of the year:
- Care less about the people who dislike me for no reason (or for stupid reasons).
* I've come a long way in this department, but not as far as I would like. I'm down to a handful of people whose opinions still matter to me, for whatever reason, regardless of the fact that I have little to no respect for them as people. It's hard when you live in a place where people are sickly sweet to your face just to turn around and badmouth you the moment you leave, usually over something stupid or because they are highly misinformed. I'm guilty too though. I regularly perpetuate the madness by knowingly smiling and making small talk with plenty of petty people who could care less if I got hit by a car tonight. It's a sick game, really. I'll be honest.. I want to be liked. I honestly like 95% of the people I meet right off (usually to my own fault), and I spend a good bit of time trying to convince myself to like the other 5%, so it bothers me when I feel like people don't like me. But I'm getting over it... I'm down to the final few. It won't hurt them, and it will help me, so by golly I'm going to try to be one of those individuals who just really doesn't care... I may have to update on this come December... chances are not a whole lot will have changed, but maybe!
- Get the road rage under control.
* This my friends, will take a miracle. I've already taken countless numbers of years off of my life just by driving. No more. I want to be that person who enjoys driving. The person who isn't frustrated by the driver going 5 miles under the speed limit, or by the moron who doesn't know how to merge, or by the jerk that cuts me off. No, come December, I don't want to be that girl. Sometimes, in my brighter moments, I can convince myself that there is a reason to people's stupidity on the road: "Oh, her mother probably just died." "He just got laid off after 25 years of loyal service" "She had a miscarriage.." etc... but those moments have become few and far between. Something has to be done. I don't want to be 25 with blood pressure through the roof because I've had to drive across town. So here's to calm, cool and collected car rides.
Things that made me say "yay!":
-Finding I have a free pool at the community center a block from my house.
* complete with a gym for $2. Awesome.
-Getting one of my invoices in, finally.
* one down, more to go...
-Hearing that Julie is flying out in August!!!
*Yessssss!!
-Seeing/Hearing myself & my music in a ghetto-fabulous television commercial.
*Bizzare, actually...
Books I've read the past couple weeks:
-Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
-Goose Girl
-The Phantom Tollbooth
-The Golden Compass
-Island of the Blue Dolphins
-The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
-The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears
-The Witch of Blackbird Pond
-Criss Cross
Music I've Enjoyed:
Missy Higgins
The new Coldplay
The new Jon Foreman
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