Mercy

Feeling unsettled and anxious today.

I will sing of Your mercy

That leads me through valleys of sorrow

To rivers of joy

While we wait for a rescue

With our eyes tightly shut

Face to the ground, using our hands

To cover the fatal cut

Though the pain is an ocean

Tossing us around, around, around

You have calmed greater waters

And higher mountains have come down

One class left...

..until I am an official grad school graduate complete with a Master's degree! Tonight was the final night of my second to last class and my professor left us with some closing remarks that struck me. He said that life is a process, not a product. It gave me hope in this transitional stage of my life where I am waiting. I am so close to my dream of being a teacher that I can taste it. Unfortunately, it isn't here yet and I continue to wait. Have I mentioned that I am one of the most impatient people that I know? My professor's words encouraged me to remember that it is this waiting time that counts. The product will come to fruition and I will be a teacher, eventually, but it's this processing time that refines and molds me into a better person. It is the processing that makes life, life.

Fireflies

Recents:

Netflix- Felicity season 3

Book- The Book Thief (amazing)

Music- Owl City (fireflies), Train (soul sister)

Best mojito: Denver Hyatt (27th floor)

Candy obsession: fireballs

Big purchase: ski pass

Domesticating: finally putting up pictures from my Europe trip

Realization: I'm more fragile than I think I am

Quote- "So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it. Love is just the skin of knowing." ~the Shack

Pictures from Girl's night in Boulder a couple weeks ago....Just what I needed :)

the best.

She's liked him for so long and was all but certain that he was not interested. She had moved on, resigned to the fact that he would never be hers. That is until, Friday the 13th. On this day he told her that he was smitten. (yes, he used "smitten"!) In fact, he had been smitten for about as long as she had liked him. He was holding onto the fact that just maybe, she might like him even just a little bit. And all the time, she was certain that he had no feelings for her. And then he said it, and she said it. And they were soaring. They couldn't believe it was true. As he left, he held her extra close and just a little bit tighter for fear that this might be the first and last time he would have the opportunity to hold her.

There is no better feeling in the world then when unrequited "like" is at last recognized and returned.

Here's to you dear friend. Enjoy the moment.

Fact #4

Fact: Funding for pancreatic cancer research has lagged behind that for other cancers, prompting the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in 2000 to dub the disease the “orphan cancer.”

Fact #3

Fact: In 2009, the American Cancer Society is estimating that there will be 42,470 new cases of pancreatic cancer diagnosed and 35,240 deaths from pancreatic cancer in the United States.

Just because.

A friend of mine posted a picture of her and her dad as he was giving her away at her wedding...the caption read "Daddy's girl to the end."

I couldn't agree more.

Here's to you daddy.