beautiful things

this website: http://www.givesmehope.com/
this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfzRlcnq_c0
this picture:


i don't have a choice, but i still choose you.

priorities

"I have three things to say today. First: While you were sleeping last night 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second: Most of you don’t give a shit. Third: What’s worse is that you are more upset with the fact that I said shit than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night."

Tony Campolo



Lord, straighten out our priorities. help us to get this right.

lord, save me from myself

it's hard to be the person i want to be, the future me, here.
i am surrounded with what i was and what people expect me to be, and it's hard to admit to these people that i am not one of them anymore.



"This world is where I breathe
Let it never be called home"

http://www.mediafire.com/?atam0g2tgin

silent

http://www.mediafire.com/?dvomjgwmwt0

i love

talking to people that make no sense.
there's no pressure to even know what's going on and its so much more entertaining.
it's been indescribably wonderful seeing so many people i haven't talked to in a really long time.
and i am so curious to know how so many of these people are going to turn out.



http://www.mediafire.com/?rmy0jzdwzyc
i love driving in the dark in warm georgia when the heavy air pools around you as you slide quietly home.

mountain

"The child of God knows that the graced life calls him or her to live on a cold and windy mountain, not on the flattened plain of reasonable, middle-of-the-road religion."
Brennan Manning The Ragamuffin Gospel



so friends,
let's keep going strong for the top.

i'm on my way back to georgia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZP5U6SW_08

Love & Loss

http://www.mediafire.com/?mymhzdynaen

conversations

i vastly underestimate people a lot of the time.
i forget how infinitely beautiful God has made all things if you take the time to try and love them. a lot of love is decision.
my scariest final is over- it went okay, but by this point i really don't care how it went. i care that it is over.
this seems real now- this going home. and i am getting readier and readier to be there.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqinAiqxgK4

distance

usually i don't really measure the distance between myself and home.
i am here, home is there.
but tonight, now that everyone is starting to leave and return to their homes, i feel far away.
exactly 2 more weeks.

http://www.mediafire.com/?zzguo1zkly2

goodbyes

tonight was the last time the missions bible study that i am in met and i am disappointed but so blessed.
i have been in few groups of people that have made me feel so at home and have pushed me so hard into doing life better.
i will probably never see most of them again what with my africa semester and them going virtually everywhere else but i am so thankful for so many authentic people and for the questions and seeking of Christ that they validated in my life.


http://www.mediafire.com/?mmem2ztygjm

quote

“I am a part of all that I have met.”
Lord Alfred Tennyson