So I am reflecting on my life and thinking that I've focused so much on romantic love and I'm still single. I want to focus more on loving my friends, on loving all people ( Read more... )

Last night I realized the only real security is giving up on security. I'd been having some worries, you know, all those "what ifs." And I examined them and tried to reassure myself that they were unfounded. But something still kept nagging me. And I realized that when I was completely honest with myself, there's no way of knowing. The things I ( Read more... )

I realized today how much I rely on my actual journal made of paper that no one else reads. It does wonders seriously. To be able to get my thoughts out with complete honesty and in a place where I know I can refer to them later - that makes it acceptable to let them off my mind. I thought, what would it be like to set a rule of not writing there ( Read more... )

Along the same lines as yesterday, this quote from the Bible has brought me comfort today ( Read more... )

Wow... 15 weeks since I posted. Something I've been thinking about lately is "the Beloved in his distressing disguise" or "Jesus in his distressing disguise". This means that when you see someone (even yourself) who annoys you or disturbs you in some way, they are still worthy of love and compassion. Its like that parable where a god goes down to ( Read more... )

Sychronizing "AWWWWWWW!"ing

Yes Medieval Manor sucks.

They make you go **on stage** and ask permission to go to the bathroom! I am not crazy here, what person would want to do that? I love the spotlight and I think that is humiliating, forget about it if you are shy to begin with. And I hate being told what to do, why should I pay for it ( Read more... )

My most excellent quote of the day(as in I said this): "I'm like one of the hungry hungry hippos. I have to snap them all up! And then I'm like UGH!!! I HAD TOO MUCH!... cuz... you know that's what the hungry hungry hippos are thinking afterward"

My life is amazing. I have done so much great stuff since I broke up with Kevin (not to say that wasn't great while it lasted). The past three weekends I have spent the night with three different amazing friends. Wow. I am lucky to have one friend so great and I have a few. And one night I stayed up talking to my friend Joe for 3 hours til 5 am. ( Read more... )

-On the way to church yesterday morning I only passed a few people here and there, yet two people said "good morning" to me ( Read more... )