sprung

I was doing fine
on my own--
and then you came along
and shook that.

I never knew
what it felt like
to burn
for a person
until i burned
for you.

I didn't know it
was possible for
a human
to make me
walk on sunshine.
but you do.

no one has ever
consumed
my thoughts
my time
my prayers
my heart
the way you are
right this moment.

I've never wanted
anything so badly
the way I want you.

i am
head
over
heels.

sprung.

and now,
it hits me:
this is how You feel
about me,
O Lord.

You are
in love with,
obessesd with,
crazy about
me.

You are
jealous.

and so I return--
all of me--
to the strong arms
of my first Love.

drop everything and read!

Why I tolerate being a Middle Level Education major:

assignments like this one.

to everything there is a season (turn turn turn)

It feels like autumn outside! Today I have worked with my windows open, letting the fall flood in. I love fall tremendously. Yesterday, my roommate and I watched the band assemble from our third floor window; it's football season again! What a beautiful and magical time of year! Today I got excited to break out my "Autumn Leaves" playlist. It includes close to 100 songs that remind of me of fall in some way or another (naturally, as years go by, the list gets longer). Some of the songs are:
-Landslide--Fleetwood Mac
-(*fin)--Anberlin
-Anything but Ordinary--Avril Lavigne
-Vienna--Billy Joel
-Daydream Believer--The Monkees
-Jesse's Girl--Rick Springfield
-Revolutionaries--Bethany Dillon
-The Best Day--Taylor Swift
-It's Not Easy (Superman)--Five for Fighting
-Left with Alabis and Lying Eyes--Emery
and the ultimate Fall Song,
-Pinch Me--Barenaked Ladies

As excited as I was to play my Fall Music this afternoon, I realized that this meant it was time to put away the Songs of Summer playlist (you see, you have to play season playlists sparingly throughout the year so they won't lose their season's feel). This makes me slightly sad, because I love summer tremendously. It is a beautiful and magical time of year. But somehow, it has slipped away. I'm not sure how I was driving down old Delta roads to visit my grandparents in May, and moments later I'm celebrating Labor Day. Please make it slow down before I'm in the nursing home.

You come like the rain

"Keep on asking, and you will recieve what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks recieves. Everyone who seeks finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.

You parents--if your children ask for a loaf of bread, do you give them a stone instead? Or if they ask for a fish, do you give them a snake? Of course not! So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him?"

Matthew 7:7-11

Open up the sky

fall down like rain;

we don't want blessings,

we want You!

Open up the sky

fall down like fire;

we don't want anything but You.

-deluge