tonight i wanted to cry. i still want to cry. i feel like it would help. but the tears aren't coming and so i am left feeling like crying but unable to actually cry.

and i'm struck with the idea that no one really cares. and by no one, i mean ... no one here. no one can fix it. i will just feel like crying.

"be completely humble and gentle, bearing with one another in love." - ephesians 4.2 ( Read more... )

Your Inner European is Swedish!


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Before you pack your bags and leave ( Read more... )

TrackingBuffalo: how's classes going for you anyway, since this is your last year ( Read more... )

every semester is different. that's a given. and the beginnings of most semesters, for whatever reason, are difficult. i talked about this a lot with a girl i gave a ride to roanoke the other day...we decided that it has a lot to do with that everybody, let alone everything, changes so much between each semester. seems like a fair assessment to ( Read more... )

college is funny ( Read more... )

this was the sermon at peace hill this morning...and it was so good that i wanted to share it. don't look at it, see "sin" and quit reading. it really is such great insight.

at the heart of our sin

what is sin? - how do we think about sin? what do we think about our own sin and the sin of others--about the sin we see in society? is sin just ( Read more... )

"yeah, i think college is just about learning how to deal with people who aren't like you. because if you think about it, we went for 18 years without knowing any of these people, for four years we can't get away from them, and then we'll never see most of them again." - e. a. barth ( Read more... )

doubt is really an absolutely amazing phenomenon. i can have these moments of absolute clarity in which i totally understand what i'm supposed to do and make decisions, and not two hours later be doubting that decision in its entirity, thinking "well did you really need to be that absolute about it? was it really that big a deal anyway ( Read more... )