Ever have a moment of sudden revelation? I've been having many of these lately: simply going to and from activities, day to day, when all of a sudden, the smallest thing will strike me. The way the clouds have formed, the way a friend speaks, the stillness of the air, the way a stranger walks across the room... I find myself constantly stopping in my tracks and reeling from the weight of the realizations from these simple things, and often I...
"Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling." — Psalm 91:9-10 I want to make the Lord my habitation. I hunger for it. I desire it. I want to be open to all the fullness of His presence.
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...
Welcome to the 2011 edition of my annual New Year's letter. If you are privileged enough to have been given the password to read this post, then I invite you to grab a cup of coffee (because coffee makes everything more enjoyable) and read on. Let me know in the comments how your year was too and what some of the lessons were that you've come away with. :) History
Trying to recall exactly what happened in January and February of this year is...
Today has been a respite, a respose from the inanity of semester's end. After a late breakfast, I decided to go outside and enjoy the glory-fall. I walked out past the parking lot and sat on a big rock and gazed across the field in front of the school. It was a beautiful moment—gazing and reflecting and praying. I couldn't help but take it all in, and I was so thankful that my eyes are truly open. When your eyes are really open, you never...
In all honesty, I haven't had a lot on my mind lately. Over Thanksgiving break I've been house-sitting which has been a blessing and a curse, but mostly blessing. The hard part is being by myself, yet at the same time that is also the blessing—the silence is like an emotional/mental/spiritual detox. Yep, it's just me and the dog I'm watching and frankly, I couldn't ask for more. Thanks to the tremendous amount of silence and stillness, I've...
Ok, as I begin this post, I frankly have no idea where it's going to end up. Sooooo, here goes. Today began with the word "change" for me. I noticed that in the word "change" is the word "hang" and I realized that so often change feels like your life is hanging in the balance. Right now, my life feels like it's hanging in the balance. I'm on choir tour with my school, and things started off pretty well, but something today went out of whack. I'm...
