December 2009
7 posts
a banner year
If you were to ask me 6 months ago, how I felt like life was going, I would of been able to respond with nothing but a grin. I was approaching my last year of seminary, I had just got engaged and I had my future planned out and I was going to be able to succeed in it.
in the last 6 months: -my fiance left me -my future plans had to all be changed -my grandma will be dieing shortly (next couple...
I’ll see your heart, and I’ll raise...
I have had many interesting conversations on relationships as of late. I understand the obvious. I am going through what is the process of salvaging a heart that was weathered by a hurricane Mandy. And when it comes to these natural disasters, who really does have control? is it God? Did God send this hurricane or was it just the natural cause of life?
I will not dwell on these thoughts, for they...
no.
at the end of everything.
As advent comes, I wait for Emmanuel. I do believe that it is fitting that his quarter leads me into advent, because if there was a time that I ever needed to wait for God, it is right now. I am in a place of both hopelessness and great hope. A place of sadness and joy of expectations. To me, this cocktail of emotion can be found throughout Christmas music. One song can be about desperately...
The time I would spend with pictures I would not send. I watched you go from left to right. I followed you all night across my blinds. You’ll change your mind come monday and turn your back on me. You’ll take your steps away with hesitance. Take your steps away from me. I’m making my peace, making it with distance. Maybe that’s a big mistake. You know I’m thinking of...