"No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath... We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?"

--Donald Miller

Hoping That Greater Things Are Yet To Come

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

The flu. Group projects. Sleepless nights. Unfortunately those are the things that reign my life at the moment.

I wish I could go on about other, more beautiful things that are going on but I can't.

English grammar is demanding my attention for my exam at 7:45.

But here's a quick glimpse of beautiful things happening in my life:

-"Falling In Love In A Coffee Shop" by Landon Pigg: this could be the most beautiful song I've ever heard

-The girl I've been tutoring this past semester told me she loved me. It was a particularly rough day so just hearing those words brightened my day

-I am the Messenger by Marcus Zusak: Fantastic, brilliant, original, written by an Australian so that you'll want to infuse "bloke" "mate" and "sheila" into every sentence

-For possibly the first time since entering college, I've really wanted to go home. And it was in that moment that I've realized that although being independent is grand and life changing, one of the greatest feelings is to be taken care of.

-This quote:
“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.”
--Edward Everett Hale
-Laying down in bed and saying, "Thanks God. Today was especially awesome."

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