"little wonders" - rob thomas

still makes my tummy do flips every time I hear it.
& I have no idea why, but I like it : )

If I believed in reincarnation, my "prime" of my past life would have occurred during the 1930's-1950's, I would have lived in NYC, would have known Coco Chanel on a personal level, and would have never owned a pair of "slacks," as they called them. I would have listened to records all day, probably been a housewife and mother (since I'm so not a fan on it now), and had some sort of ties to Italy.

truth

	Turning page - Sleeping at last .mp3
	Found at bee mp3 search engine

my day in a nutshell.

• early start
• coke at 10 am
• feeling sorry for Cinderella
• gardening with four children under the age of six
• sneaking in studying the nervous and endocrine system when not doing anything
• chugging a starbucks iced mocha in five mins
• sneaking in studying the nervous/endocrine system while taking notes on the nervous/endocrine system
• exam 1/2 finished... (thursdayyy)
• studying MORE nervous/endocrine + vino + wings

I want a pair of mint shorts...

holy holy holy is the Lord God Almighty

who was and is and is to come

with all creation i sing

praise to the King of Kings

You are my everything

and i will adore You

filled with wonder, awestruck wonder

at the mention of Your name

Jesus Your name is power

breath and living water

such a marvelous mystery

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Do this is remembrance of me

Luke 22:19

run-ons

I feel I often have a wide and random assortment of goals to reach in my life. Some of them pertain to a long term goal I have had forever, others are random ideas that have sparked an interest and stuck within my mind for a few days and then become permanent. It’s wonderful to think of how I can achieve these various goals in a month, a year, five years, etc. and plan for these to happen. As much fun as it is to lis these goals, it is just as difficult to plan for the future knowing these goals I have. I would love to go to Africa for some sort of mission or charity work, a way to establish connections for future “doctor work,” which leads to another goal of mine- to go to Africa and do surgeries and provide eye care for those who would not have access or the opportunity to do so. I would love to live in NYC for a brief (and I mean BRIEF) period of time, just to experience the Big Apple, attempt to live the Carrie Bradshaw life, however, as a strictly and happily taken New York City gal. I would love to start a fashion blog, as soon as I can update my outdated wardrobe and begin incorporating more labels, designers, and just a bit more … experience. I want to rescue a pitbull from a shelter and prove that the stereotype placed upon these poor pups is nothing but fabricated and exaggerated media articles. I want to get my Masters in a Physiology program somewhere that I can see my boyfriend regularly, maintain a GPA, and afford an apartment. I want to attend medical school somewhere that is also, just as accommodating as the Masters program. I want to write a book, be it non-fiction, fiction, a children’s picture book, a young adult, whatever, to be published as an author, and not of a scientific paper. I want to run a triathlon, at least once, as well as a marathon. I would love to be BA enough to qualify and run in the Boston Marathon, just once in my life. I want to go to Europe, and just jet set around for a few weeks, preferably with a certain someone : ) I would love to drink my way around Italy, go to as many pubs in London, see the Eiffel Tower, shop in Paris, stroll around Amsterdam, take in the views in Ireland, and wherever else the wind happens to blow.

If you can see where this is going, you can see that I could write about this for hours… so I’ll save us all the detail and call it quits. However, I now have a half-summary of things I wish to achieve in my life. And I can’t wait to get started on ANY of them : )

a Thank You that can never be properly conveyed.

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith- and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's masterpiece, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

-Ephesians 2:8-10 (NIV)

I MISS MY LONG HAIRRRR.

all our trouble and all our tears

God our hope

He has overcome

all our failure and all our fear

God our love

He has overcome

all our heartache and all our pain

God our healer

He has overcome

all our burden and all our shame

God our freedom

He has overcome

all our trouble and all our fear

God our love

He has overcome

all our failures and all our fear

God our love

he has overcome

God our justice and

God our grace

God our freedom

He has overcome

God our refuge and

God our strength

God is with us

He has overcome

moving. a must watch.

http://chiselseason.com/?p=768

Crisis of Confidence

as stated by President Jimmy Carter, July 15, 1979 and quoted in "Miracle:"

I want to talk to you right now about a fundamental threat to American democracy.

I do not mean our political and civil liberties. They will endure. And I do not refer to the outward strength of America, a nation that is at peace tonight everywhere in the world, with unmatched economic power and military might.

The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.

The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America.

The confidence that we have always had as a people is not simply some romantic dream or a proverb in a dusty book that we read just on the Fourth of July.

It is the idea, which founded our nation and has guided our development as a people. Confidence in the future has supported everything else -- public institutions and private enterprise, our own families, and the very Constitution of the United States. Confidence has defined our course and has served as a link between generations. We've always believed in something called progress. We've always had a faith that the days of our children would be better than our own.

Our people are losing that faith, not only in government itself but in the ability as citizens to serve as the ultimate rulers and shapers of our democracy. As a people we know our past and we are proud of it. Our progress has been part of the living history of America, even the world. We always believed that we were part of a great movement of humanity itself called democracy, involved in the search for freedom, and that belief has always strengthened us in our purpose. But just as we are losing our confidence in the future, we are also beginning to close the door on our past.

In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we've discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We've learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

The symptoms of this crisis of the American spirit are all around us. For the first time in the history of our country a majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years. Two-thirds of our people do not even vote. The productivity of American workers is actually dropping, and the willingness of Americans to save for the future has fallen below that of all other people in the Western world.

As you know, there is a growing disrespect for government and for churches and for schools, the news media, and other institutions. This is not a message of happiness or reassurance, but it is the truth and it is a warning.

These changes did not happen overnight. They've come upon us gradually over the last generation, years that were filled with shocks and tragedy.

We were sure that ours was a nation of the ballot, not the bullet, until the murders of John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. We were taught that our armies were always invincible and our causes were always just, only to suffer the agony of Vietnam. We respected the presidency as a place of honor until the shock of Watergate.

We remember when the phrase "sound as a dollar" was an expression of absolute dependability, until ten years of inflation began to shrink our dollar and our savings. We believed that our nation's resources were limitless until 1973, when we had to face a growing dependence on foreign oil.

[…]

First of all, we must face the truth, and then we can change our course. We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this nation. Restoring that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face. It is a true challenge of this generation of Americans.

[…]

We know the strength of America. We are strong. We can regain our unity. We can regain our confidence. We are the heirs of generations who survived threats much more powerful and awesome than those that challenge us now. Our fathers and mothers were strong men and women who shaped a new society during the Great Depression, who fought world wars, and who carved out a new charter of peace for the world.

We ourselves are the same Americans who just ten years ago put a man on the Moon. We are the generation that dedicated our society to the pursuit of human rights and equality. And we are the generation that will win the war on the energy problem and in that process rebuild the unity and confidence of America.

We are at a turning point in our history. There are two paths to choose. One is a path I've warned about tonight, the path that leads to fragmentation and self-interest. Down that road lies a mistaken idea of freedom, the right to grasp for ourselves some advantage over others. That path would be one of constant conflict between narrow interests ending in chaos and immobility. It is a certain route to failure.

All the traditions of our past, all the lessons of our heritage, all the promises of our future point to another path, the path of common purpose and the restoration of American values. That path leads to true freedom for our nation and ourselves. We can take the first steps down that path as we begin to solve our energy problem.

[…]

I do not promise you that this struggle for freedom will be easy. I do not promise a quick way out of our nation's problems, when the truth is that the only way out is an all-out effort. What I do promise you is that I will lead our fight, and I will enforce fairness in our struggle, and I will ensure honesty. And above all, I will act. We can manage the short-term shortages more effectively and we will, but there are no short-term solutions to our long-range problems. There is simply no way to avoid sacrifice.

[…]

Little by little we can and we must rebuild our confidence. We can spend until we empty our treasuries, and we may summon all the wonders of science. But we can succeed only if we tap our greatest resources -- America's people, America's values, and America's confidence.

I have seen the strength of America in the inexhaustible resources of our people. In the days to come, let us renew that strength in the struggle for an energy secure nation.

[…]

Let your voice be heard. Whenever you have a chance, say something good about our country. With God's help and for the sake of our nation, it is time for us to join hands in America. Let us commit ourselves together to a rebirth of the American spirit. Working together with our common faith we cannot fail.

it's quizzical how history repeats itself.