So recently, a handful of people on my flist have been having pretty lousy days/weeks/time frames.  I've been trying to do the appropriate friend thing, "It'll get better,"  "I'm here for you," "Stay strong," etc, etc, etc.  However, as I was going along typing, periodically I just wanted to say "Me and Jesus love you!" (which is true), but most of ( Read more... )

New year, new beginnings.

For those struggling with God and grace, remember "His mercies are new every morning."   You're never too far gone to ask for help and it's never to late to change your ways/yourself.

For those of you, who don't believe in God, the same is true for you too.  It's never too late to change and you're never beyond help.  :-)

I ( Read more... )

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  In him was life, and that life was the light of men. -- John 1:1-4 (NIV 1984)

In other words, once upon a time, the Author of all Creation, the Ruler of ( Read more... )

May or may not have BEASTED THE GRE!

:D :D :D :D

You should all join me in the knowledge that there is now a much higher probablity of me actually getting into graduate school.

Also, dancing.

There should be much dancing.

This made me giggle!

The Hollywood Guide to Speaking Chinese

This is probably not very funny to people who don't speak Chinese/aren't studying it and as a white, non-native Chinese speaker, I totally sympathize with people trying to learn how to speak a foreign language and being ridiculously terrible at it at first.

On the other hand, I am not a ( Read more... )

"There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there, the stars, like notes on a page of music, free-form verse, silent mysteries swirling in the blue like jazz.) And as I lay there, it occurred to me that God is up there somewhere. Of course, I had always known He was, but this time ( Read more... )

"O Lord my God, When I in awesome wonder,
Consider all the worlds Thy Hands have made;
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,
Thy power throughout the universe displayed.

Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art.
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art!"

Savior God ( Read more... )

Guys, guys, guys!

I found the GREATEST comic ever!  It's called Fake News Rumble and involves Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert taking on space aliens using magical powers.

Yes, you read that right.  Space aliens!  Magic powers!

No, it's okay.  Read it over again, slower and let the awesomeness soak into your brain.

Aliens.  Jon Stewart.  Magical powers ( Read more... )

Poll TattoosMe?  Going through a tattoo phase?   Why do you ask?  *whistles innocently*

The monk, Gregor Mendel, more or less created the study of genetics (via pea plants and honey bees) back in 1856, but his work went mostly undiscovered/ignored by the scientic community, until about 16 years after his death in 1884. Since then, he's been considered the founding father of genetics by the scientic community as everyone who's ever had ( Read more... )