Take me out to the ball game...

The Blue Jays won this weekend 13-4! Isn't that amazing? I didn't know they had it in them. :) Watching baseball was much more fun than I expected it to be...maybe it was because we were such awesome fans!
If I had won some free stuff or got on the jumbotron that would have "iced the cake".

"Let's go *clap clap* Blue Jays *clap clap* Let's play Ball!"

Song for the Year

If all I've done, at last should come to nothing.
And all I love, like sand be washed away,
Still I will sing, of Your unfailing glory.
On bended knee, I'll lift my voice and say.

Chorus:

Great is the Lord, Great is Your name,
Til my last breath, I will proclaim,
Great is the Lord, Great is Your name,
I give my life, to sing Your praise.

If you should speak, or should remain in silence,
Should give me light, or lead me through the dark,
Whatever the cost, whatever joy or sorrow,
I'll worship still because of who You are.

When death becomes, the end of all my labours,
And Christ alone my rest and reward,
May all I've done, be one enduring echo,
Resounding on to shout, Great is the Lord.


man, and that's why i do what i do...(Great is the Lord by Starfield)

not to dwell, but just to trust...

Here's a quote from a wise great uncle of mine whom i respect very much,

"It is good to read these scpriptures(Isaiah 40, Psalm 19) often to remind us how awesome a God we really serve. It is really difficult for me sometimes to understand with my finite wisdom who God really is and how He does what He does. But I believe every word that is written, and when I do think about it, I don't dwell on it, I just say God I do believe what you say in the scriptures and You are truly the great I AM , and my all sufficiency. Thankyou LORD."

I say thank you Lord very much for this encouragement. And so often my attitude is not the humble "i believe what it says" attitude. I want to be teachable/humble but i just want to be there...not get there.

I hope this encourages you too. :) God is more than one step ahead of us.

Experiments in living alone

Oh kay. I really like reading people's blogs. I like people and I like knowing about them - but i haven't become a real big fan of me actually blogging. My favorite blogs are the personal ones that actually let you into their lives, thoughts, and feelings - but those are hard to write! Put your personal feelings out into cyberspace for anyone to read? man, i don't know...i just don't know.
Sometimes i think of brilliant things to write about and then i forget. Sometimes i want to write something and as soon as it's down i question it's interesting-ness or value to the reader. just erase it my mind says. either way, i don't totally get the whole blogging culture - it seems good for brilliant people to blog - because they have intelligent things to say. Like C.S. Lewis, i would read his blog. But yeah - sometimes it's like taking off your clothes for everyone to see. that's weird. But i know i like it on other people's blogs so i guess it's not as weird as it seems. Here's a bit of what's going through my brain right now.

I've been living on my own for a week now and overall i don't like it. There are benefits, that's true - for example:
1) I leave it dirty, no one cares.
2) i leave it clean, no one messes it up!
3) i can talk on the phone as loud and late as i want and keep no one up!
4) i can express myself freely and not get weird looks - dancing, crying, talking, yelling in frustration.
BUT, things that i find difficult about living alone are as follows:
1) i annoy myself because i just talk and talk to myself and i can become really strange after a while - books help with the sanity but it's not enough.
2) no incentive to go to bed or get up...it all just seems like a lot of discipline.
3) eating alone...i agree with alison lau on this one. i usually dine with a good book
4) too much space.
5) it's lonely. phone calls are just not the same as face to face
6) it's draining. My personality profile says i'm drained by too much alone time - sooo true! It's hard to clean when it's just me...with people around (even if not in the same room) it's seems like fun.
Anyway, this seems long enough. Looking forward to school starting and students getting here. Today a group of us went to the beach and erected a minor monument to doing something with free time. It was a bunch of progressively bigger and bigger sticks (last one about 30 feet) that we "planted" in the beach. Maybe a "post-modern" sandcastle, if you will? picture to follow. :P
Hannah, Meredith...come quickly. For now, God and i have had some good long conversations.
blah. there. that's my thought for the week
ps. just so you know, life is generally good, and hannah comes tomorrow! yay!