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Tuesday, 25 August 2009

  • The Muse
    by Katie Barnett

    The Man who captured the world in time,
    What thinks He of our attempts to refine
    His art?  A piece pronounced complete, yet we cut, script, block, and try to re-shape the
    tough ends of divinity.  Why do we
    not stop and drop all that we think
    we know to commit to the rougher work
    of acceptance?  Then we'll climb the muse
    of His Invention to discover living
    poetry.  Here we picture a sleeping death,
    but when dawn comes, we'll rattle the spear
    at highbrow chains or shake that hand while permafrost melts.  Who'll then take offense
    to smile at willful recompense?

Friday, 01 May 2009

  • . . .first entry in 09

    It has been a long couple of months.

    God has been at work, in spite of the fact that His followers have a distinct, reliable way of ... being indistinctively unreliable. 

    And here?  Right now?  I am in a computer lab, writing a paper that is due tomorrow by midnight for which I have lost nearly everything:  including my sanity.  I told Jesus to take my life and everything, but I didn't think He'd take that request quite so literally. 

    But I?  I am happy.  I am confident.  I know God is up to something.  I know that He has given me His peace for this; how else could I be utterly sane about finishing a fifteen-page paper in about twenty-four hours? 

    People have told me today they can't believe how calm I am in lieu of all the craziness.  But I tell them, how can I not be calm?  It's not even in my hands.  Praise the One whose hands carry all of us. 

    In the twenty-first century when everybody is trying to find themselves, find their lives, keep track of everything, I have lost a lot.  But simultaneously found so much.  An unexpected treasure trove in the loss of a hard drive.  I think I must feel like Rahab after the walls of Jericho came tumbling down. 

Thursday, 25 December 2008

  • My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died;
    my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, He is my righteousness.
    My faith rests not upon what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done,
                                     and in what He is now doing for me.

    [spurgeon]

Friday, 07 November 2008

  • we would all be a sick, sad mess without Jesus. 

     

     

     

     

    actually, i think we are in a sick, sad mess already.  but without Jesus, there'd be no way to get out of it.   

Monday, 03 November 2008

  • it's been a month.

    So the semester is flying by.......
    ....and I officially cannot wait until it's over. 

    I think that the general busy-ness will get a little bit better as of next week, though.  Phonathon is ending on the 13th.  My life will get hectic starting on the 11th after that due to the 3 papers I have due on the 18th.  So if you don't hear from me during the times of the 10th until the 20th... that's why.

    I am so glad.  I realized that next semester I only have to take 16 credits, not 18.  And if I play my cards right, then I could only take 13 credits spring semester of my senior year, which would all be elective classes... lovely.  So theoretically, if I finish this semester well, then get to take all the classes I want next semester, my senior year I will have it pretty easy.  I could do an internship.  Maybe.  So excited....

    But in any case, I can't wait for this semester to be over.  I really hope I can manage to get a 3.4.... or even a 3.6.... that would be glorious.  I wouldn't want all my work to go to waste. 

    Time to go back to this stupid paper......... laaaaaaaaaaame.

    End entry.  I've missed writing in this.  It's been a very charged month. 

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  • Through the winds and the storms, life has proven to me that it will always go on, no matter how difficult the circumstances might be. I've grown a lot. I'm not the same I was a year ago, but in many respects I've not changed. I'm so excited to see what God has for me in the future and I completely trust Him for what is going to come...be it good or bad. He has become such a stronghold, such a presence, such a Friend in my life that if you were to remove Him every part of me would completely change. I've got so much more ground to cover, but with Him by my side to teach me things and have loads of fun along the way, what could be more exciting? ...Is there really anything I can say beyond that? Love.