January 2011
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We are not ourselves. Perhaps we have never been ourselves. Perhaps we have only ever been each other.
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Only Owl City could make me hate 'How Deep the...
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...when fears are stilled, when striving's...
I am never an after-thought. I am important. Not in a self-righteous way, not because I have any abilities that are astounding. Not because I am good in any way, but because You make me important. The fact that You desire me makes me worth more than anything I could own. Your influence, Your grace, Your power—it’s unmatched, inconceivable, humbling, and terrifying. I never understood...
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It's a cruel world.
psalm138-8:
The English teacher you want:
The English teacher that you will get:
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You make me laugh harder, love deeper, search for Christ more diligently than ever before.
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jumping-in-faith asked: I just want you to know, you are fabulous. And I kinda sorta really stinking miss you.
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In the course of 24 hours...
A) I have undergone one of the most emotionally tiring things that’s happened in awhile. B) I have had my bank account drained. C) My phone has broken. D) The soles of my boots ripped apart from my shoes. While I was frolicking in a pile of snow.
In the course of 24 hours… 1. I have spent more time with Mr. Kersulis and Miss Graham that I would have thought conceivable. 2. I have made...
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“I loved being the supporting character,/because I felt it was my way of...”
– The Realm of Possibility
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Let's take a break for our weekly American Idol...
Bob: If Paula Abdul can judge, why not I?
Ted: People mocked Paula...and then Jennifer Lopez sat in the chair--
Bob: And I mock her, too.
Ted: As is your right as an American. But this show is on its last leg. We're scraping the bottom of the barrel. This whole 'encouraging all of these people to find their inner artst'--on your own time, please. This isn't the Nobel Peace Prize--Sanjaya was in the top 10, for goodness sake!
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On an unrelated topic...
…discovering that my friend Aaron has a deep appreciation of Gilmore Girls fills me with more joy than anyone can truly understand.
And now we press forward, bloody and beaten, with...
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When was the last time you considered where you're...
This afternoon, I had lunch with a dear friend, and we began talking about who is important to us; not a list of people we would invite to a party or functions, but who we valued, encouraged us, were active in our lives, made our lives better.
He had 13. I had 17.
There are 17 people in my life who love me. 17 people in my life who cast a beautiful light over every day. How lucky am I? God has...
Annie and I just learned 'Three Cheers for Five...
And it was the most beautiful 40 minutes I’ve ever spent.
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All I want
is for all of my homework to do itself all semester. is for my friends to be treated with the kindness and sincerity that they exude on a regular basis. is to be allowed to make my own decisions. is to make everyone happy. And not in a people-pleasing way, but in a ‘I wish I could instil happiness in everyone I know’ sort of way. is for compatibility to be something I control. is to...
I have had my nose pierced since Thanksgiving.
It decided to wait until NOW to get infected? Really?
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Typical.
It’s always the days that I wake up late, have to run out of my room, almost forget to brush my teeth, and look rather scrubby, that I end up running into absolutely every single person that I know.
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Oh dear gracious, I need to make these five... →
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“There will come a time, you’ll see,...
Aaron: Your pokes were lacking in meaning.
Jonas: How can I make my pokes more meaningful to you?
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I just read through all of our letters.
I miss you. Unfortunately nothing will ever be as it was.
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The fact that I'm eating bacon and cheese flavored...
….right?
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“I just did enough work to kill a migrant farm worker from a Steinbeck novel.”
– Stephen Baier
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Tonight, my childhood was ruined.
We all have that one book that sticks with us throughout our youth, something that struck a chord within us that we’ve always carried around. While I joke about this book being The Baby-Sitter’s Club or Sweet Valley High, the book that influenced me the most when I was young was ‘The Giver.’ Aside from ‘A Prayer For Owen Meany’ I can’t honestly tell you...
Sometimes it’d be ridiculously fun to tell people to piss off.
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“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to...”
– Jack Kerouac
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You make me want to be better than I am.
I had forgotten just how busy I get when I'm back...