this song is incredible to me. david crowder wrote this after the pastor at his church was tragically killed in front of the congregation, and they were grieving together. i find it a powerful reminder that no matter what is going on in our lives, no matter what we're struggling with, the Lord always has us in the palm of his hand.
psalm 139.7-10, where can i go from your spirit? where can i flee from your presence? if i go up to the heavens, you are there; if i make my bed in the depths, you are there. if i rise on the wings of the dawn, if i settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx5Y9DhoLJQ
when clouds veil sun/ and disaster comes/ oh, my soul
when waters rise/ and hope takes flight/ oh, my soul
ever faithful/ ever true/ you i know/ you never let go
when clouds brought rain/ and disaster came/ oh, my soul
when waters rose/ and hope had flown/ oh, my soul
oh, my soul overflows/ oh, what love/ oh, my soul
fills with hope/ perfect love that never lets go
oh, what love, oh what love/ in joy and pain/ in sun and rain
you're the same/ oh, you never let go
zephaniah 3.17, the Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save. he will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
i love fridays
i love fridays, i love fridays, i love fridays! have i mentioned how awesome fridays are?
getting through these last few months of grad school has been tough. i feel like i take life week by week... i know it's not good to just wish life away, but i just need it to be june already. i'm ready for my job to be my main focus each week so that i can do my job well again. sometimes my mind gets pulled in so many directions every week that i get overwhelmed and end up not doing anything well. when you're able to give your undivided attention to a task, i think you can just do it much better!
i would like to say that my internship would get much easier if i could just drop-kick a patient that i've been working with. please let me complain for 30 seconds... i just don't know what else i can do for you, and even if i did, i don't want to help you anymore because you are so needy! buck up, deal with the crap that you're causing for your family, and figure it out on your own! grrr. thanks, i feel better already. but i don't think i'm going to last very long in social work...
but i guess that's life. trying to figure out where God would like me to be. and that's where my lack of patience comes in. because i want to know NOW! i have a great job now; do i stay here for another year? another five years? or am i supposed to be somewhere else? i find myself reading psalm 139 over and over on days when i'm struggling with this, because it's such a beautiful reminder of how well God knows us and how he's got things planned out. even when i'm wondering who i am and what i'm doing here!
i know i want to have kids someday. and i know that eric is going to be a great dad, i can't wait to see that. but i get so nervous about having a baby and then changing my mind, about getting sick of it, about not being happy about or good at being a mom. we babysat last night for baby emma (of our friends brent & jen from church), so i guess this is what makes me think about babies. so many new moms that i've seen, like jen and other friends, seem SO happy. i hope i'm like that! but i'm worried that i'm going to be the one suffering from post-partum depression, that just can't wait to hand baby over to someone else, and just resenting parenthood. maybe that just means that i'm not ready yet, but maybe i'm not cut out for it? does anyone else think about that, or am i just crazy?
oh man, i worry too much! but it's the weekend, and i'm not prego. i have a great hubby, and kaits is coming over tonight, and i'm going to ann arbor and then denver in a couple weeks, so life is good. let's just leave it at that :)
getting through these last few months of grad school has been tough. i feel like i take life week by week... i know it's not good to just wish life away, but i just need it to be june already. i'm ready for my job to be my main focus each week so that i can do my job well again. sometimes my mind gets pulled in so many directions every week that i get overwhelmed and end up not doing anything well. when you're able to give your undivided attention to a task, i think you can just do it much better!
i would like to say that my internship would get much easier if i could just drop-kick a patient that i've been working with. please let me complain for 30 seconds... i just don't know what else i can do for you, and even if i did, i don't want to help you anymore because you are so needy! buck up, deal with the crap that you're causing for your family, and figure it out on your own! grrr. thanks, i feel better already. but i don't think i'm going to last very long in social work...
but i guess that's life. trying to figure out where God would like me to be. and that's where my lack of patience comes in. because i want to know NOW! i have a great job now; do i stay here for another year? another five years? or am i supposed to be somewhere else? i find myself reading psalm 139 over and over on days when i'm struggling with this, because it's such a beautiful reminder of how well God knows us and how he's got things planned out. even when i'm wondering who i am and what i'm doing here!
i know i want to have kids someday. and i know that eric is going to be a great dad, i can't wait to see that. but i get so nervous about having a baby and then changing my mind, about getting sick of it, about not being happy about or good at being a mom. we babysat last night for baby emma (of our friends brent & jen from church), so i guess this is what makes me think about babies. so many new moms that i've seen, like jen and other friends, seem SO happy. i hope i'm like that! but i'm worried that i'm going to be the one suffering from post-partum depression, that just can't wait to hand baby over to someone else, and just resenting parenthood. maybe that just means that i'm not ready yet, but maybe i'm not cut out for it? does anyone else think about that, or am i just crazy?
oh man, i worry too much! but it's the weekend, and i'm not prego. i have a great hubby, and kaits is coming over tonight, and i'm going to ann arbor and then denver in a couple weeks, so life is good. let's just leave it at that :)
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
welcome
i follow a lot of blogs. okay, so not really that many, but it just looks like fun! so i thought i'd jump on the blogging-train too. our lives aren't that exciting, but i think it's important to be able to look back years from now and see who we were at this point in our lives.
eric and i have been married for just short of two years now, so i guess you would stay that we're establishing ourselves as a family (although give us a few years yet before we have kids)! we've changed and grown so much in that time, and it makes me excited to see where we'll be another ten years down the road.
some random stuff about me: right now, i'm a grad student, intern, and social worker of sorts. i'm 17 weeks from graduating and regaining my life and my sanity again! a couple of weeks ago i taught myself how to crochet... i guess i just needed a creative outlet. and it's really fun! i have an insane sweet tooth, so i'm giving up candy until my birthday (it's about a month away). so far, i've made it three days, woot! i'm also training for the riverbank 25k in may. partly because i like to exercise, but mostly because i'm standing up in two weddings this summer and need to slim down a little :)
that's it for now! happy hump day!
eric and i have been married for just short of two years now, so i guess you would stay that we're establishing ourselves as a family (although give us a few years yet before we have kids)! we've changed and grown so much in that time, and it makes me excited to see where we'll be another ten years down the road.
some random stuff about me: right now, i'm a grad student, intern, and social worker of sorts. i'm 17 weeks from graduating and regaining my life and my sanity again! a couple of weeks ago i taught myself how to crochet... i guess i just needed a creative outlet. and it's really fun! i have an insane sweet tooth, so i'm giving up candy until my birthday (it's about a month away). so far, i've made it three days, woot! i'm also training for the riverbank 25k in may. partly because i like to exercise, but mostly because i'm standing up in two weddings this summer and need to slim down a little :)
that's it for now! happy hump day!
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