Okay so this has been rolling around in my mind for awhile. Why pray? Now don't get your panties all in a bundle, I do pray, I know that it's having a conversation with God, I mean duh He's my friend and all and I love talking with Him, but why actually go through the motions of praying. Not motions, lets rephrase that and say the act of prayer. I ( Read more... )

Driving through Queens we passed a beautiful cemetary, if cemetaries can accurately be called beautiful. I then saw the apartment buildings next door and said "look, those are living cemetaries." Kristy told me if that' the case then we're all living cemetaries. I like that. And I know my journal is called Gravestones for Memories, it's like each ( Read more... )

Yesterday, while my parents were in Seattle, I went out to dinner with my sister. We had Olive Garden and got to pay with a gift card...which makes it so much better! Good food, good conversation, and then we rented movies and sat at home and hung out. I love that about life, about family, when you're just so comfortable you can hang out and still ( Read more... )

the weather ( Read more... )

Oh yeah, Happy Halloween!

So my mom decided that tonight would be a good time to broach a subject that "has been bothering her" for awhile. Good grief, here we go again. She proceeds to bring up some comment I made a couple of days ago where I said "I don't like talking to boys." So? I was like, what do you want from me? An explanation of my lack of interest at this time in ( Read more... )

One of my fondest dinner memories from growing up is watching my mom and dad cook tacos. I was given the task of grating the big block of yellow cheese, and while my mom cooked the taco meat, my dad fried the shells. He would roll up the sleeves of his white button up shirt, put on the red striped apron to cover his suit pants and would begin ( Read more... )

Oh man, today was the best day ever. Of course I'm incredibly used to meeting God in my contemplative way, through journalling and reflecting, etc. but then today I was blown away by meeting God through relationships. I sat at Starbucks for 8 hours, (not really unusual, it's like my second home) and talked with several girl friends. Now I've had a ( Read more... )

Most people, after they have decided that they want to get married, end up marrying the next person that they meet (who obviously also wants to get married). So no wonder we girls say "oh my gosh that cute guy in starbucks could be the one..." I mean statistically, he could be, if he were interested. Kind of scary to know that subconsciously that ( Read more... )

I went to the park today and remembered ( Read more... )