I really need to learn how to express my happiness.
But I can't think of anything to say right now.
*speechless*

chips

Rachel, the family loves my barbeque chips and are trying to eat them. Please let me know next time you go back up and you'll have to buy us several 5 gallon buckets. I mean, seriously. I hid them this morning and they still have found them and are eating them. I doubt there will be any left when I get home. However, I did eat about 2/3s of them by myself when I first brought them home. :) So... I guess they can have some.

Hannah was just talking about these. And I saw an article about them online and so I thought I would remind all of you to go buy your Muppet stamps. The 37-cent stamps were released nationally on Thursday.

Gonzo: Stop the presses!
News Editor: What happened?
Gonzo: I don't know. I just always wanted to say that.

Rowlf the Dog: It's not often you see a guy that green have the blues that bad.

Sam the Eagle: Kermit, does this film have socially redeeming value?

Fozzie: Hiya! Hiya! Hiya! Hiya!
Crowd: BOO!
Fozzie: Bye-a! Bye-a! Bye-a! Bye-a!
[Waldorf holds up a score card that says "1"]
Statler: You gave him a 1?
Waldorf: He's never been better.

Miss Piggy: But I love him.
Rowlf: How could you love him? You're a nurse.
Miss Piggy: That may be true, but I am a woman first.
Rowlf: No, you're not. You're a pig first. Nurse second. I don't think woman made the top 10.

Kermit: OK, well, we've done a lot for the music lovers on the show, so it's time we did something for the music haters. So here he is, as threatened, the Great Gonzo singing a song. [Cheers weakly]
Kermit: Yay. Uh, those of you with hearing aids may wish to remove the batteries.

Waldorf: Just when you think this show is terrible something wonderful happens.
Statler: What?
Waldorf: It ends.

So, it is really amazing what a body can do on only three hours of sleep, a cup of coffee, and a headful of dreams.

1 John 3:1-10
"How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! "

Three Days!!!

Yesterday a whole gang of us went over to the Townsends and blitzed their house with primer. It was a blast. I had so much fun singing with Rachel and Stef and Anna. Anna is a good little painter, one of the best!! I would have her work beside me anyday. I hit the top of the walls and she did the bottom. We are awesome. It is even better when we have Sarah along because she cuts in very nicely. The three of us are a nice little trio of good paintingness. My shoulder is definatly feeling the effects of painting too many ceilings yesterday. Haha. But who cares, it was great fun! The Townsends house is totally awesome! I can't wait to have party's and game nights there! Woohoo.

Before the painting party, I was at school (turning in my two million homework assignments and projects and various presentation). Thankfully I only have two exams next week and half a million homework problems (it isn't that I have many homework problems -- I just have homework problems that each take about three hours a piece (it done right -- if not you have to start over and see where the problem is)).

While I was at school I picked up Emily Price -- who really is a great kid. And we went to Little Caesars and laughed our heads off as they struggled to fill our order for 4 cheeses, 5 pepperonies, and 8 bags of breadsticks. It was one of those things where you had to be there to really think it was funny. But we had a blast or at least I did.

Well, it is almost the weekend (which means week 5 is almost over --> once I make it through my last Wednesday class, I consider it the weekend because I don't mind the work in my Thursday class -- it usually flies by it is so interesting). Only 10 weeks to go!!! Hip hip Hooray!

We've got all the time in the world!
Because tomorrow is another day! :)

Curses on Physics, I love it so, but it demands my full attention and it is blasted hard to give it that right now.
I need to find time to think, clearly! Which probably won't be until this weekend...

Make sure to take a walk sometime today. It is wonderfully warm.
I'll have my windows open at work!

B L E S S E D
B E ! ! !

God is good and I can't sleep. And that is all I have to say right now because I can't think clearly.

Talk to me in a few weeks when I wake up.

Ephesians 1:3-11, 15-21
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. And he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment—to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ. In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will.

For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come."

Matt Strawbridge is a good kid.
Thanks to him I might make it through Mechanics alive.
Man, I hate Mechanics.

I am sitting in lab and watching football on the lecture screen, while doing physics. This is entertaining.
I would say "Go Georgia!", but it isn't college football.

I love this song!

We may get the youth to sing this song gospel style (well, as gospelish as we white people can do - haha! Like the choir's offertory today...). It has potential. I don't think the group will last long, but I am being a pessimist (or logical - they are usually the same for me -- I am possitive about things when I think they can succeed). However, I Mrs. Townsend asked me to come, so I did.

Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
O what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.

This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior, all the day long;
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior, all the day long.

Perfect submission, perfect delight,
Visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
Angels descending bring from above
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.

Perfect submission, all is at rest
I in my Savior am happy and blest,
Watching and waiting, looking above,
Filled with His goodness, lost in His love.

quick rundown

A quick update on how the weekend went:

• Last night Sarah, Anna, Luke F. Hannah, Jared, and I went to see the Corpse Bride. Tim Burton is a wonder. Remarkable stuff. And Danny Elfman is pretty darn hot as well. Great music. I really enjoyed the piano. I told Sarah I was going to have to buy the soundtrack just for the piano parts. I guess we will be hearing that for a while playing around the house. Anyhow, I greatly enjoyed it. Sarah liked it too. Haha. And she is hard to please.
• Happy Early Birthday to Krissy. Linnea and I decorated yesterday for her surprise party. Decorating with Linnea was a blast. Great job, chamP!
• Friday was Caedmon's Call. I gave the concert a 3 out of 5 for a poor opening act and not the best selection of songs (mainly playing none of my favorite Caedmons songs). But it was still a good concert, just not wonderful. I drove home by myself from Joppa... woohoo. All two and a half hours. It wasn't a bad drive after I got to Wilmington. Coldplay traveled home with me singing, "lights will gui-i-i-i-de you home!"

Today my family all went off camping without me. Anna might be staying home with me, but I am at SU doing homework, so I don't know. I had put it off all weekend. I really need to get it finished.

Alive

New Rebecca St. James song!

The weather has been beautiful these past few evenings. Autumn evenings are so friendly and inviting. I need to find a good field for gazing up at the stars and having deep conversations. It is really been perfect for that.

Caedmons in Joppa

Is this the strange feeling
Of you working all to good
'Cause I am so confused
I don't even ask for what I should

When I asked for and deserved a stone
You broke and gave your body as bread
And even the stone that dropped down and rolled away
Spoke of the one who bled

There you go working good from my bad
There you go making robes from my rags
There you go melting crowns from my calves
There you go working good of all I have
Till all I have's not that bad

When I asked for and deserved a serpent
You gave a net full of fish
And even the serpent that told the lie
When lifted high foretold the gift

For you so loved the unlovable
That you gave the ineffable
That who so believes the unbelievable
Will gain the unattainable

A purple sky to close the day
I wade the surf where dolphins play
The taste of salt, the dance of waves
And my soul wells up with hallelujahs
A lightning flash, my pounding heart
A breaching whale, a shooting star
Give testimony that You are
And my soul wells up with hallelujahs

Oh praise Him all His mighty works
There is no language where you can't be heard
Your song goes out to all the Earth
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah!

O cratered moon and sparrow's wings
O thunder's boom and Saturn's rings
Unveil our Father as you sing
And my sould wells up with hallelujahs

The pulse of life within my wrist
A fallen snow, a rising mist
There is no higher praise than this
And my soul wells up
O my soul wells up
Yes my soul wells up with hallelujahs!

w h o l e

n o t h e r

Or do you say, "whole other"? Haha. I say nother.

Bible Study was really great last night. Ryan did a good job leading. And the lesson was awesome. Hannah is making me feel really guilty everytime she speaks. But I love her for it. Keep it real, Hannah! Corpse Bride on Saturday, the 10 o'clock showing...? Maybe. Or Flightplan... Think about it.
If I could shake this cold, life would be pretty sweet (like Monkey Bread).
Thankfully, I have been able to pay pretty good attention in all of my classes. Normally with a cold I just sit there dazed and try to write down things that might make sense later on. The worst thing about being a physics major is that you get to understand these amazing concepts and ideas of how the world works and they are so interesting and exciting and there is no one to share your enthusiasm. I mean everyone would look at me and go "huh" if I started ranting about how cool (and also difficult, but rewarding) it is to take the integrals of cylindrical coordinates. Physics is mind boggling. Amazing. I both hate it and love it.

Caedmon's Call concert tomorrow!!!!

Fernando Ortega has recorded some awesome hymns!

In the morning, when I rise
In the morning, when I rise
In the morning, when I rise, give me Jesus

Give me Jesus,
Give me Jesus,
You can have all this world,
But give me Jesus

When I am alone
When I am alone
When I am alone, give me Jesus

Give me Jesus,
Give me Jesus,
You can have all this world,
But give me Jesus

When I come to die
When I come to die
When I come to die, give me Jesus

Give me Jesus,
Give me Jesus,
You can have all this world,
You can have all this world,
You can have all this world,
But give me Jesus