Carpe Diem

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime Doubly so. -Douglas Adams
Love is funny, or it's sad,
Or it's quiet, or it's mad.
It's a good thing, or it's bad,
But beautiful...
Get ready, this should be a long post.
Our Time is Running Out.
GO!
Our Time is Running Out.
I have been having a wonderful past few hours, like, 16 or so of them. I have come to be amazed at God's providence and his will. Today has been a wonderful example of how God can use your life and the seemingly small occurances in it to touch others lives or to make your own even better if you just throw up your hands and say "Thy will be done." I have been having many songs spin through my head today and the one that fits in right here is Relient K, Life After Death (and taxes)
You can't push it underground
Hey taxi, send me straight to the heart of it
The nucleus of politics was somebody
Somebody started it
Cause they taxed me with a scalpel piece by piece
they cut me deep and let me dry until there was nothing left to bleed
You can't stop it screaming out

And this is how I choose to live
As if I'm jumping off a cliff
knowing that you'll save me
and after all the stupid things I did
there's nothing left that you'd forgive
because you already forgave me
yeah you already forgave me

Keep driving
leave this deceit miles behind me
so far back I'd have to wrap my mind in
just remind me
I can't try this to pick myself up
and then move on
think about the life I'll have
when this fragile one is gone.


Never forget
there's life after death and taxes
Forgiveness come
and all of the rest
is what passes away
Death and decay can't touch us now

Every breath that I inhale is followed by exhaling traps the one who never failed
I know you'll never failed me


Never forget
there's life after death and taxes
Forgiveness come (forgiveness come)
and all of the rest
it just passes away

Death and decay can't touch us now
Beautiful to take a chance
And if you fall, you fall,
And I'm thinking,
I wouldn't mind at all.
On road of life, many times we have to climb hard, difficult mountains and decend the other side. When we reach the top, we feel elated and triumphant. Then we begin the long slow descent down the other side. Some people climb, some people get some help and rappel. I prefer it when God says, "this is taking too long, jump." God seems to be doing that a lot lately, and who am I to argue? It makes me excited. I got to Hope College this way, it was lightning fast and I made it with little knowledge, a slap in the face to my scientific side. I just felt I needed to go there and I decided to jump the cliff, although I had a very very nice path all planned out to get down the mountain. The freefall was exhilatating and I am infinitely happy that I did so. Throw caution to the wind my friends.
Love is tearful, or it's gay,
It's a problem, or it's play.
It's a heartache EITHER WAY.
But beautiful...
Also, thinking about the verse that says "all things work to the good of those who love Him."
Nothing bad can ever happen to me because I believe in God. Before someone becomes a Christian, they have bad things happen to them along with the good things. Once you become a Christian, you see that you misinterpreted the bad things, and that God makes everything, even pain, is building up to something that is great and wonderful.
And I am thinking that if you were mine
I would NEVER LET YOU GO.
And that would be, but beautiful,
I KNOW.
I am also feeling a bit of Sinatra.

I've got you under my skin
I've got you deep in the heart of me
So deep in my heart, that you're really a part of me
I've got you under my skin.

I tried so not to give in
I said to myself this affair never will go so well
But why should I try to resist, when baby I know so well
I've got you under my skin.

I'd sacrifice anything come what might
For the sake of having you near
In spite of a warning voice that comes in the night
And repeats, repeats in my ear

Don't you know little fool, you never can win
Use your mentality, wake up to reality,
But each time that I do, just the thought of you
Makes me stop before I begin,
'Cause I've got you under my skin