He heals those broken hearts

midterm time means...a return to blogging! horray! I really want to have a poem here, but I have not written anything in weeks. SHAME! next time you see me, remind me how much I love writing and that I am doing myself a disservice by not writing, even if it is just for my personal enjoyment. I mean, last night, I got up and sang in front of a group of people who were my friends. Mind you I sang with two other awesome singers, and then with the boyfriend, but still, I do not remember the last time I got up and sang in front of a group of people where my voice could be discernibly heard (that was not Mass, cause mass is praisin' Jesus!). I really hope that my writing can praise the Lord, but it can't if I don't share it, hence this blog. Okay, so I'm going to share a psalm I interpreted while I was on NET. I meant it to grab my other journal but this is the one I came up with so....

Psalm 147

How good is it to praise You
To sing to our God with sweet song
How great it is to celebrate our God
With joy we sing Your name

With His mighty hand
The Lord, His cities rebuilds
So too He heals those broken hearts
And gently binds their wounds

The countless stars, He knows each by name
And calls them to shine
Limitless in power is our great God
His wisdom is measureless

In His mercy, the Lord lifts up the poor
But rebukes the wicked to the ground

Dear Blog...

haha, so I'm watching Dear John right now and really it should be called Dear Yawn. GOSH that kind of makes me feel better about my life, at least it's not as lame as this movie. Oh Nicholas Sparks, this is not one of your masterpieces. The upside it has good music. which is delighting my ears just as the smell of my awesome stew is tickling my nose and taste buds.

The last few weeks have been pretty tough emotionally. I've been lacking in motivation for life...Oh I have a reading...whatever...oh I have a talk to right....sure thing...later...investing in people....nah....I just want to sleep and sleep and sleep...maybe forever.

idontcareidontcareidontcareidontcare anymore.

Jesus, please show me how to care again

how many have you read?

This looked interesting so I did it... I have only read 23/100 of the most popular books... hmm should get on that. Including partially read I'm at 35/100. Not too bad.

P.S. I haven't attempted to verify whether BBC said this or not, but I thought it'd be fun.

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt. Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so I can see your responses!

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma -Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Inferno - Dante

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (in French)

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hug

Coconut White

no music today, I lost my headphones. Being the clever one that I am, I hopped onto a bus and picked up a new pair at the mall. I thought I was so smart, alas, I was duped by the malcontent packagers of said headphones. No amount of stabbing with my keys has helped me open the plastic. So I sit here forlorn, listening only to the sounds of my typing and other peoples general idiosyncratic study noises. Again, I am procrastinating on my weekly assignment. I need music to distract meeeee! I was talking to my friend, another student, and he said that he can't study or do work with music playing. I have such a hard time focusing without music on. I don't know exactly what it is about it that helps my brain focus that little bit more. How do you study?

Goodnight and Godspeed

ps: my headphones are called coconut white cool and comfortable. I think that's just silly.

Hope is not Crazy

So, this is going to be my first post despite the fact that I have had this url/blogger account for almost a year. I had good intentions when I created it. I was going to write and inspire all those who wandered (or stumbled) onto my blog. I would move them to tears with my words of wisdom and hope. Comments would come flooding in and I would feel good and benevolent. Then I stopped and thought about that....and became depressed. That is never going to happen, who am I kidding? What if all that I write is contrived and the few people who wander onto this space laugh at my words? Things are never as grandiose as we think they are in our heads. So why am I all of a sudden blogging? What makes today special?

...procrastination...

I have a reading assignment due, and I really don't feel like doing it. I am to talk about music piracy, a whole page. A whole, single-spaced page. Single-space in university is just crazy talk! So, I am "taking a break" and getting my creative juices flowing. This is the latest in my line of procrastination techniques which include: shopping, fixing my printer, facebook, online shopping (browsing), facebook, catching up on my usual blog reads and vlogs and of course, facebook.

While I was browsing I came across this awesome vlog by John Green. You may not get the first part, but at about 2:10, John starts talking about hope, and how we need hope, even when it seems insane, hope is what carries us through. Paul talks about this in his letter to the Romans

Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, ⁴and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. ~Romans 5:2-5

on that note,

Goodnight and Godspeed