all about us - he is we

Take my hand, I’ll teach you to dance.
I’ll spin you around, won’t let you fall down.
Would you let me lead, you can step on my feet.
Let’s give it a try, it’ll be alright.

Cause lovers dance when they’re feeling in love.
Spotlight shinning, it’s all about us.
It’s oh, oh, oh, oh, all about uh, uh, uh, uh, us.
And every heart in the room will melt,
This is a feeling I’ve never felt but,
It’s oh, oh, all about us.

Suddenly, I’m feeling brave.
Don’t know what’s got into me,
Why I feel this way.
Can we dance, real slow?
Can I hold you, real close?

Cause lovers dance when they’re feeling in love.
Spotlight shinning, it’s all about us.
It’s oh, oh, oh, oh, all about uh, uh, uh, uh, us.
And every heart in the room will melt,
this is a feeling I’ve never felt but,
It’s oh, oh, all about us.

Do you hear that love?
They’re playing our song.
Do you think we’re ready yet?
Love I’m really feeling it.
Do you hear that love?
Do you hear that love?

favorites

cause i can:

food: anything my dad makes

non-physical activity: painting

physical activity: swimming

ride in disneyland: peter pan

thing people say after i tell them i go to MIT: i love you anyways

grade of school: 12th

fastener: anything that i can make a bow with

drink: starbucks caramel frappuccino

10/27/10

day 81:

running up and down the charles was the best thing i could have done. YHWH makes pretty people who make pretty skylines.

10/26/10

day 80:

october in boston doesn't usually involve shorts. but i live in denial and my furry boots and hat make me warm despite the fact that all 8 feet of my legs are exposed to the frigid cold.

plus, when i wear kevin's sweatshirt i can pretend he's hugging me. which is warm.

10/25/10

day 79:

matching argyle. may or may not have worn it in public. jam session, because zac is a musical nerd and i just pretend to be.

listen to he is we.

read the bible.

10/24/10

day 78:

i don't even know what else to say. i love the rocket summer. bryce avery is really just a genuine guy and he loves Jesus and he does what he's good at.

i love acting like a pre-teen.

this was such a blessing. i've been so blessed lately. i seriously just can't fathom God's love. but i want to keep trying.

in other news, i love you.

10/23/10

day 77:

wanting to document something interesting every day has made me really appreciate all the little things that YHWH enables me to do. like climbing on my bed, and playing soccer, and enjoying the view from my window, getting homework done and having a good attitude at the same time, doing laundry, feeling how my bruises hurt and how my muscles are sore, reading letters, eating dinner.

none of that is particularly special, but the world's standard. but i just LOVE that i can find God in all of these things, and they become magical, beautiful, full of wonder.

i'm turning into a romantic.

10/22/10

day 76:

fancy dessert with good friends. rock candy with my latte. too much good dessert. ends in swing dancing. lovely

God is good.

10/21/10

day 75:

straight hair, making sitting at my desk seem attractive.

10/20/10

day 74:

we're ice-skating class skippers. i call it maintaining our sanity.

i think Jesus is a nice ice skater.

10/19/10

day 73:

from a window in simmons

10/18/10

day 72:

i don't know. science experiment or something.

i just don't get school.

10/17/10

day 71:

these are my little friends the yellow gummy bears. i ate them all up.

10/16/10

day 70:

you can miss so much if you only spend your time looking down.

i waste so much time not looking at the sky.

10/15/10

day 69:

going to the converse store. we wore our converse. the river isn't freezing. that was a good hair day.

10/14/10

day 68:

i miss this place. how funny that it would show up with the boston skyline in the background.

10/13/10

day 67:

i have been happily dating this boy for 3 years today. how blessed i am.

10/12/10

day 66:

back at nerd school.

10/11/10

day 65:

YHWH made the colors, and then He made a promise to us with them.

i just love color.

world of color.

10/10/10

day 64:

there is power in the cross

10/9/10

day 63:

in california it is:

sunny, colorful, happy, warm, peaceful, exciting, home, comfortable, familiar, wonderful, awesome, whatever it is that makes you feel like a kid.

10/8/10

day 62:

renewed my disneyland annual pass. i'm completely dedicated to childhood.

10/7/10

day 61:

i will pay attention to you again blog. i am sorry for my absence.

i'm saying it again

true love is a big deal.

whatever it is that you find true love in. if it's true, it's from Daddy.

10/6/10

day 60:

let the wind fall wild across my path

10/5/2010

my favorite class this year is, by far, my graduate environmental policy and planning class. we sit around a table and talk, freindly-ly about how it should go down and what we should do to sustain our environment, if it even needs sustaining. but until today, we'd only talked about methods, not ethics.

ethics, values, whatever you want to call what you believe, not how you act, or how you should act. this is the subject that people argue about, this is the subject that people don't argue about, because they don't want to hurt feelings.

so my thinking started with this quote:

"it all comes down to values, and we all have different values, so these arguments will always happen and radical policy changes will never happen."

you know, i think Daddy gave us His written Word, so that on some level, we don't have to come up with our own values that conflict. like, we're so influenced by the world and not by the kingdom that we're going to think our values are godly, when they're just disguised worldliness.

so even though i think that we shouldn't threaten the salmon population by building dams, if we're actually following God's command to subdue the earth and glorifying Him by using our engineering knowledge to protect the livelihood of people (who are more important than fish), who am i to say that the resulting threatened salmon population isn't within His will?

which then got me thinking about the tower of babel, and how they thought they were cool enough to building a tower to get to heaven, and then God was like "No" and then he spread them all out and made communication difficult. now, we think we're cool enough to make our own heaven on earth and God's response now is "No" and then he spread our resources out and made sustainability difficult. not that God is actively smiting us, because He's actively redeeming us through Jesus. but the earth is also experiencing the suffering that comes from the Fall and will one day be fixed up for us to all live together happily ever after. but i just wondering if we're all looking at this from the wrong perspective...

so heres what i think Father's values are regarding the environment:

1. God made the environment, and made it well, therefore it is part of His beautiful creation (genesis 1:31)

2. we are a part of the environment and were created to be in it (genesis 2:15)

3. we were also created to use it and take care of it (genesis 1:26, genesis 2:15)

4. God ultimately sustains the environment (isaiah 43:20-21, matthew 6:26)

5. destroying the earth is bad (revelation 11:28)

how this translates in to action, i don't know yet.

10/4/10

day 58:

i have enough fall retreat pictures to last for a really long time. i've never mentioned how much i like sailboats.

the sky's such a sweet blue.

10/3/10

day 57:

the LORD made the sun, and he didn't just make it. he sculpted it, created it, originated it, designed it.... all of those verbs i want to do well too.

10/2/10

day 56:

today was my boo's birthday. he turn into a non-teenager. i still love him.

we threw my friend emily in the air. it was fun. but i am sore.

10/1/10

day 55:

we went to new hampshire for campus crusade for christ's fall retreat. i loved it. evidence in the picture

one of my favorite books

Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE, JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

dear laura ware

i love that you view my blog.

9/30/10

day 54:

write your sins down on a piece of paper. tear it up and accept forgiveness.

easier said than done. but it was said and did. and i am forgiven.

huzzah.

9/29/10

day 53:

go forth and bake cookies. a science experiment for a class i loathe. some of those cookies look like poop. but i'm very thankful Father blessed me with more than enough.

9/28/10

day 52:

taking crazy pictures at night because i don't want to pset. thanks for humoring me friends.

9/27/10

day 51:

bubbles are pretty. and make me feel all childlike. i love being childlike.

9/26/10

day 50:

this is my favorite place in all of central square. i like it more than starbucks and the flower store and the art shop and the bus stop. this alley is beautiful.