Prayers for Nate

Hey everyone

Please keep Nate in your prayers today. He started the conditioning process today. It is a 6 day long process that involves intensive drugs to destroy his bone marrow. He has had neuro radiation for the past several days and praise be to God that pretty much the only side effects have been some headaches.

Please continue to pray that :
- the Holy Spirit moves through the hospital and through Nate
-that God would make himself clear to Nate in this time
-that the Holy Spirit would give the doctors not only wisdom but the skill they need to perform
-that the Father's love permiate throughout Nate and the hospital
-protection over Nate's healthy cells (particularly brain cells)
-and complete destruction of all the cancer/bad guys cells!!

Thanks friends :)

Procrastination at it's finest!

Things I have done to avoid working on my English homework:
-take out the trash
-paint my nails (4 coats)
-sit on Pinterest for hours
-sit on Facebook for hours
-google study abroad programs
-look at study abroad programs for hours
-watch Arrested Development
-listen to the new Mumford & Sons album for hours
-do my algebra homework
-do my speech homework
-apply for a CA position

I am now out of excuses and energy! Time for bed and a crazy filled day tomorrow of class, meetings and tackling this unwanted English paper. Eh. Definitely not looking forward to grad school!!

Q: What do you call a cat that has 8 legs and likes to swim?
A: An octopuss! :)

Hold On To What You Believe

I, I can't promise you

that I won't let you down

And I, I can't promise you

that I will be the only one around

when your hope falls down

 

But we're young, open flowers in the windy fields

of this war-torn world

And love, this city breathes the plague

of loving things more than their creators

 

I ran away

I could not take the burden of both me and you

It was too fast

Casting love on me as if it were a spell I could not break

When it was a promise I could not make

 

But what if I was wrong?

 

But hold on to what you believe in the light

When the darkness has robbed you of all your sight

 

And now this land means less and less to me

Without you breathing through its trees

At every turn the water runs away from me

and the halo disappears

and the hole when you're not here

 

So what if I was wrong?

 

But hold on to what you believe in the light

When the darkness has robbed you of all your sight

 

So hold on to what you believed in the light

 

--"Hold On To What You Believe" Mumford & Sons

My lip gloss be cool

So, for some reason this morning in the shower, I had the song "Lip gloss" by Lil Mama stuck in my head. It continued to stay in my head for pretty much the rest of the day. And the more I listened to the song, the more agitated I became with the song. The more agitated I became with Lil Mama, and with the current music sector in general. Let's be honest, most pop culture music today is terrible! Should I name some examples: Lil Mama, Snoop Dog, 50 cent, Rebecca Black and even Katy Perry. Don't get me wrong, their tunes are catchy and often witty but are they really substantial? What message does it send? Only ones that you like to have sex and party. Definitely intellectual!! This isn't just within the past five years. I mean go back 20 years and you have songs like "Ice Ice Baby" and "Baby got back" and "MMMBop". But what happened?! What went so wrong that we went from writing deep, intellectual and meaningful songs to writing fluff? I seriously think there are marshmallows more dense than most songs today, in comparison to songs like "Sunday Bloody Sunday", "Imagine", and "Awake my Soul" (I had to throw a Mumford song in there :)). Just saying.
As much as I am bashing pop culture music, I will admit - I have Beiber fever!! And hey, if it makes you dance and makes you happy then to you it is good music, but I think that overall there has been a steep decline in quality and content of music in the past 30 years and I pray everyday for a new revival of artists to step out, not only in courage but also out of the box and put their heart on their sleeve to come up with creative and meaningful music.

"Music expresses feeling and though, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words." - Robert G. Ingersoll

Hakuna Matata

It means no worries...for the rest of your days!!
Apparently, whoever wrote this song has never been to college. In the last week of college, I can't believe it's only been one week, I feel as though I have read an entire textbook, written the equivalent of a doctoral dissertation, had more to do than I ever did in all my high school years combined! And yet, I have to say, I am thoroughly enjoying it. Call me crazy but I love to have a busy schedule. And yet at the same time I want to pull my hair out. A feeling that only a fellow college student could understand!