HS change me! I need to be more loving at work

Call anytime you need, I have been waiting alone on the road
Call anytime you need, I have been waiting, I will be waitingSomeone told me about a past friendship of hers in which the guy told her that if she's ever in need, for whatever reason, she should call him, even if it's in the middle of the night -- he said he'd be there for her ( Read more... )

life goes on ( Read more... )

what good is being famous, if i'm never on your mind?

seeing the magnificence in people is what i learned 2 months ago -- rather, i learned that there is treasure waiting to be discovered within each individual, and my best chance at finding it is talking to them

All this pain
I wonder if I'll even find my way
I wonder if my life could really change at all
All this earth
Could all that is lost ever be found
Could a garden come up from this ground at all

I just had an amazing conversation with my parents. I don't feel like recording the contents of it...but it felt really constructive, we all stayed calm, and my dad stayed despite saying that my mom will never change.

But the change is undeniable...our God is so great

I'll be the phonograph that plays your favorite
Albums back as you're lying there drifting off to sleep...

Was listening to a genius mix based on Bixby Canyon...I really like it when artists use metaphors to explain what they want to be for another person. Makes me wish I was a little more clever in that regard.

I think about the way CS Lewis put it in The Weight of Glory:

Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when ( Read more... )

"Charlie, don't you get it? I can't feel that. It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder. What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of ( Read more... )