Something about You

Where do I begin?
How do I say what's on my heart with paper and a pen?
How can I describe
The God of all the universe and make it right?
I just wonder if it's worth
Painting You with so few words,
With so few words.

Why do I even try?
If I could speak the tongue of every man, I'd be still tonge-tied.
What can I say about you
When all I have won't do,
It it will not do?

As long as life runs through my veins
I will live to praise your name,
But if a hundred years I live
I won't even scratch the surface!

Still, there's something about You
That keeps me in persuet of who You are,
And I will spend my days finding ways to praise
the glory and the grace of who You are.

~"Something about You" Mercy Me

And Spring Break is Over

Sleep, good food, rest, relaxation, hanging out, talking, playing games, watching movies, and not feeling guilty about doing any of it because you don't have to get anything else don that day. Breaks really do spoil me fast. I almost think it would be better for me not to have any breaks longer than a 3 day weekend straight through until I'm finished with college. We would be done quicker and the trying to come back problem simply wouldn't exist. Of course if I could have a three day weekend every week to keep myself caught up, would be wonderful. Oh well......
Real life. We are always doing things that are fun or feel good at the time, why don't we ever think and plan ahead enough to avoid problems such as not having our homework done after an extra week to do it? Crazy people we are. Sometimes though, we do have a sufficiently reasonable excuse for not looking ahead. Example: when you are a Christian and you have no idea what direction God wants you to take. I've had this trouble before and even somewhat now to a slightly lesser degree. It can be so frustrating. The word "Why" keeps festering in my mind. Bother that old word!

My Great God

It is SO spring break. I can not express how incredibly relieved I am that I don't have to think about school for a week. One week... man, I'm excited!! This week was so long though. Wow. I can honestly say that I know that I wouldn't have made it through this week with out my great God.

The beginning of this week was so brutal. On Monday morning, I knew that I had one test scheduled for Wednesday. Throughout the course of the day, I learned that I had another test, two quizzes and an ACL run all scheduled for Wednesday. The ACL run did not only mean that I had something else to do on Wednesday, but it meant that I had to do prep work on Tuesday which really cut into my test/quiz studying time. On Tuesday, I had classes and meetings planned from 8:15am-9:45pm. However, God is amazing, and a few of my meetings got cut short so that I was able finish all of my necessary homework for the day. Wednesday... was amazing. First, God gave me flowers (aka those white trees that bloomed in like 3 hours flat). After that, I was less and less prepared for each successive test/quiz I took. My first test was fine because I studied enough for it. My second test was fine because it was easier than I expected. My first quiz, which I could have potentially failed, was fine because Mrs. Rispin gave us a word bank (she never does that). My last quiz, which I went into cold, was fine because it was Calc. After that, the ACL run wasn't bad. Our machinery actually all worked for once, and I was only there for three and a half hours (as opposed to the six and a half that I was dreading it would take).

Like I said, God absolutely got me through this week. I would just like to take this small portion of your computer screen to praise His amazing Name.
Yay for Jesus!

Negation Field

From Rene who got this in an e-mail from the big man Dr. G himself!

Quite ironic, we think.

Just Another Friday

Tomorrow is the last day before Spring Break! I don't think I have ever looked forward to a break like I have to this one. It's pretty amazing actually. I can't wait to sleep when I want and how much I want for more than one day in a row. I of course will have stuff I have to do, but for most of the time I'll get to hang out with friends, read a book of my choice, and SLEEP!! You know I find it rather interesting how college reduces the seemingly intelligent student into the equivalent of a caveman; we long for and hunt down good food, more sleep, and company to talk to. We are being forced to stuff tons of facts, complicated processes, and analysis strategies into our heads and develop new skills all at the same time that we are struggling to satisfy our most basic needs of food and sleep.
Yes, I am turning into an animal who lives everyday under self-inflicted stress. I think the tarsier's reaction to life fits well with how I've been feeling recently, not to mention how most all the other college students around me have been feeling as well.

Okay, Andy, Rene, now one of you needs to post something up lifting.........

My grace is sufficient for thee

"My grace is sufficient for thee."2 Corinthians 12:9
If none of God's saints were poor and tried, we should not know half so well the consolations of divine grace. When we find the wanderer who has not where to lay his head, who yet can say, "Still will I trust in the or, when we see the pauper starving on bread and water, who still glories in Jesus; when we see the bereaved widow overwhelmed in affliction, and yet having faith in Christ, oh! what honour it reflects on the gospel. God's grace is illustrated and magnified in the poverty and trials of believers. Saints bear up under every discouragement, believing that all things work together for their good, and that out of apparent evils a real blessing shall ultimately spring--that their God will either work a deliverance for them speedily, or most assuredly support them in the trouble, as long as He is pleased to keep them in it. This patience of the saints proves the power of divine grace. There is a lighthouse out at sea: it is a calm night--I cannot tell whether the edifice is firm; the tempest must rage about it, and then I shall know whether it will stand. So with the Spirit's work: if it were not on many occasions surrounded with tempestuous waters, we should not know that it was true and strong; if the winds did not blow upon it, we should not know how firm and secure it was. The master-works of God are those men who stand in the midst of difficulties, stedfast, unmoveable,--
"Calm mid the bewildering cry,Confident of victory."
He who would glorify his God must set his account upon meeting with many trials. No man can be illustrious before the Lord unless his conflicts be many. If then, yours be a much-tried path, rejoice in it, because you will the better show forth the all-sufficient grace of God. As for His failing you, never dream of it--hate the thought. The God who has been sufficient until now, should be trusted to the end.

-Spurgeon's Daily Devotional

Home of the Tarsiers

"When caged some tarsiers have been known to injure and even kill themselves because of stress." -- Singapore Zoological Gardens Docents