Basically Christmas break so far has been spent with family, working at the factory, and organizing my life (by that I mean all of the stuff in my room).
I felt the need to reorganize EVERYTHING. lol.
I like to save things...I'm not a pack-rat...but I save memorabilia like letters, notes others have given me, my own journals and sketches, papers and things from important events. Some objects I save because the event in which I obtained them are special to me...even if it is just a feather. :)
I have letters and little notes left by friends when I was having a rough day that I have saved and those people probably don't even know I still have them. I like to go back and read them sometimes...it makes me feel good all over again. :)
But it has come time to go through all that and really decide what should be thrown away...
and in this journey I have discovered things that I think are pretty cool.
Quotes. Old journal entries. This and that.
I thought I'd share some.
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." -C.S. Lewis
"To explain the conflict of Jesus being equal and lower than God at the same time is like a circle on a 2-dimensional plane telling the plane it is a sphere. But the plane keeps telling the circle it's not a sphere because all it can see is the sphere's outline; it can't comprehend what a 3-dimensional figure even is. In the same way we try to picture God. We know He is great but cannot image Him. So Jesus put himself lower as a 'plane'. He is equal to God, but lowered himself to try and help us understand." -something I heard a speaker say at CIY one year and wrote down.
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| In case that totally confused you...no worries...I'm a visual learner too |
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." -Helen Keller
"If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden" -Claudia Ghandi
"Moving on is simple, it's what you leave behind that makes it so difficult."
"So I'm sorry that I can't go on with you. And tonight may be a night I'll regret, but I'm already somebody's lover, he just hasn't found me yet."
"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." -Albert Schweitzer
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." -Mother Theresa? maybe?
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."
"One can never consent to creep when one feels and impulse to soar."
"Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either." -hmm...maybe this one and the last two are Albert Einstein?
Anyways...I have much to write about but just haven't gotten around to it. I thought I'd write those quotes down fast before I forgot and threw them away...but I promise at least "most" of my next post's words will be my own. :)
Stay tuned for what I'm learning through the book Captivating. Then read a journal entry I wrote for my Composition class at Nebraska Christian College that my professor told me I should publish but never did. :D However, at the moment I need to sleep, no matter how sleepy I don't feel, in order to wake up at 5 am for work...meh.
Oh, and Happy New Year!
haha!! Ok, maybe one story before I go to bed. Today the sandwich maker at the Subway in Wal-Mart hit on me...again. (Yes, again...he probably doesn't remember me from the first time a few weeks ago. lol) Apparently my lack of eye contact and mumbly short answers to his attempt at conversation didn't clue him in that I wasn't interested.
He asked me how 2011 was going so far for me. I said "not much different," to which he replied "really!? Mine's been everything I dreamed it would be"
to which I let my "don't-even-try" guard down for a second and actually laughed.
Clever, Subway sandwich maker...clever.
...and then I sang "Larger than Life" by the Backstreet Boys in an animated fashion to my brother who was trying to eat his sandwich while we sat at a table with a good view of the Wal-Mart shoppers. Ha! :)
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| A little 90's indulgence is quite okay once in awhile, right? I'm not ashamed that this cd is currently in my car and I occasionally sing along to it as loud as I can |
Lest I forget, I must inform my avid readers that Laser Eye Surgery is a possibility for me that is currently being considered. Who's excited and crossing her fingers?...THIS GIRL!
Okay, for reals. Goodnight Neverland.
~Merely Mortal~
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