So this is perhaps one of the coolest things I've come across in the last year! But this isn't just any pocket-sized notebook... open it up and you find... Five-line staff paper!!!!! This is a musical notation heaven! A friend at school had this notebook and offered it to me knowing that I might appreciate it as a music major. I do, in fact, appreciate it. Actually, I adore it. Now, whenever inspiration strikes me with an awesome melody, I can...
Bitterness
Supplant the plant of bitterness,
Secured in all its stubbornness,
The rally cry: "Uproot! Uproot!"
Incinerate the bitter fruit.
This mighty root we now assail,
Against the dust we will prevail,
The battle cry: "Return! Return!"
Drink water from your own cistern.
Direct your introspective gaze,
Reflect upon your numbered days,
The primal cry: "Renew! Renew!"
No longer do I bow to you!
Let now the victory unfold,
We all, as jars of...
How limited is my view of God! As of late, I've been wrestling with questions about direction in life and letting go of my conceptions of what God's blessing on my life should look like, and it's only now that I'm realizing that I have such little experience of God's power or His glory or His love. I'm only now realizing that I struggle to trust Him with every part of me because I haven't come into the knowledge of His love for every part of me....
It all started with waking up. The threads of consciousness, woven and spun into the glory fall, worked their way into me, seeping into the dreams lingering in my mind yet being steadily dispelled by the constancy of activity in the physical domain. Stillness. I had a thought upon waking up, profound and personally meaningful. Yet the wording and phrasing of the thought escaped the frail grasp of my groggy brain leaving nothing but the...
