i will keep the bad things from you
catch it while you can, it's the feel good hit of the summer
catch it while you can, cause there won't be another....
{ damnwells }
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it's weird to say goodbye knowing it's a two months plus goodbye.
this year i am finishing knowing i am challenged to think about what is truly important, and i know this will even worse if and when i decide to really go for the double majoring thing and/or write a senior thesis. i JUST discovered on the american studies site that there are different guidelines for different recommended emphases... i use the internet every day, why hadn't i noticed that before?? now i know exactly what to take, and there's even a journalism emphasis.
makes me wonder what else has been right at my hands the whole time and i dont even know to think about it. i talk about potential a lot, achieving, challenging and developing what we know of the world and flooring that beyond even the limits of our imagination. we are puny things, given to change at random, given to impulses in which we give away our treasures, and here's the kicker - we don't even realize when we're doing it!!
gah. it is an awful thing to realize that, once committed to a life with no regrets, we are also submitting control to the situations that cross our way, and effectively say, "come what may, i will stand firm, i will not be shaken."
compare this damnwells song, which i adore, and the heavy acknowledgement that having only ourselves to shield our loved ones from pain is insufficient, that we may promise and promise stability but harbor doubts anyway, no matter how we close our eyes to them - situations that break me - and all troubles to Isaiah 54:
if we would but give up the ashes we roll around in, that we have come to crave the feel of but have never dared to test the stability of, and whet our taste and appreciation for the beauty and the magnificence of the one who never only provides but created provision unshakable himself... oh, the possibilites are endless.
happy summer, my friends. take the plunge and find your eyes opened, moment by moment, day by day. make yourselves teachable, make yourselves smaller, honor each other by considering others greater. remember that faith openly coexists with pursuit. for i cannot keep the bad things from you, but i can lay myself down that you might finally, finally see where all my energy comes from.
catch it while you can, cause there won't be another....
{ damnwells }
-->
it's weird to say goodbye knowing it's a two months plus goodbye.
this year i am finishing knowing i am challenged to think about what is truly important, and i know this will even worse if and when i decide to really go for the double majoring thing and/or write a senior thesis. i JUST discovered on the american studies site that there are different guidelines for different recommended emphases... i use the internet every day, why hadn't i noticed that before?? now i know exactly what to take, and there's even a journalism emphasis.
makes me wonder what else has been right at my hands the whole time and i dont even know to think about it. i talk about potential a lot, achieving, challenging and developing what we know of the world and flooring that beyond even the limits of our imagination. we are puny things, given to change at random, given to impulses in which we give away our treasures, and here's the kicker - we don't even realize when we're doing it!!
gah. it is an awful thing to realize that, once committed to a life with no regrets, we are also submitting control to the situations that cross our way, and effectively say, "come what may, i will stand firm, i will not be shaken."
compare this damnwells song, which i adore, and the heavy acknowledgement that having only ourselves to shield our loved ones from pain is insufficient, that we may promise and promise stability but harbor doubts anyway, no matter how we close our eyes to them - situations that break me - and all troubles to Isaiah 54:
9 "To me this is like the days of Noah,
when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth.
So now I have sworn not to be angry with you,
never to rebuke you again.
10 Though the mountains be shaken
and the hills be removed,
yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken
nor my covenant of peace be removed,"
says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
11 "O afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted,
I will build you with stones of turquoise,
your foundations with sapphires..."
if we would but give up the ashes we roll around in, that we have come to crave the feel of but have never dared to test the stability of, and whet our taste and appreciation for the beauty and the magnificence of the one who never only provides but created provision unshakable himself... oh, the possibilites are endless.
happy summer, my friends. take the plunge and find your eyes opened, moment by moment, day by day. make yourselves teachable, make yourselves smaller, honor each other by considering others greater. remember that faith openly coexists with pursuit. for i cannot keep the bad things from you, but i can lay myself down that you might finally, finally see where all my energy comes from.
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