roommates and India

I thought I would dedicate this blog to my roommates who are moving out at the end of the semester. It is just starting to hit me that I only have one more week with these two beautiful ladies. They are leaving to spend a semester in India. So let me begin with Kimmy. Kimmy is my little Jewish Asian roommate. She was adopted by a jewish family from Korea when she was just a little asian pea, so she is really the whitest asian i know. She is this little ball of energy! Sometimes she thinks cussing is the funniest thing in the whole world and you never know what to expect to come out of her mouth! I think she's narcaleptic because I have never known anyone who could fall asleep in any position at any time of the day. She is leaving in 2 weeks to go see her boyfriend before she goes to India. I am going to miss her lovin!

Then there's Lindsey. Linds is one of those girls that you just know she's got something to tell you as soon as you walk in the door. She has these huge blue eyes that just light up a room! She's a deep thinker too, and she's extremely passionate. And let me tell you, she's a TALKER! Her and I could talk for hours and hours and hours before we realize we have homework we should be doing. She's pretty ghetto-fabulous too. Her favorite movie is "Diary of a Mad Black Woman"...she could quote the entire movie to you if you asked her to.

I love these girls with all of my heart and everytime I think of them leaving, I get really sad. I'm tearing up right now actually! SO thats what i am going through these days!

great quote

“We are, not metaphorically but in very truth, a Divine work of art, something that God is making, and therefore something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character. Here again we come up against what I have called the “intolerable compliment.” Over a sketch made idly to amuse a child, an artist may not take much trouble: he may be content to let it go even though it is not exactly as he meant it to be. But over the great picture of his life - the work which he loves, though in a different fashion, as intensely as a man loves a woman or a mother a child – he will take endless trouble – and would, doubtless, thereby give endless trouble to the picture if it were sentient. One can imagine a sentient picture, after being rubbed and scraped and re-commenced for the tenth time, wishing that it were only a thumbnail sketch whose making was over in a minute. In the same way, it is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.” –C.S. Lewis The Problem of Pain

Disneyland

So I just got back from Disneyland...thats right, the happiest place on earth. "What were you doing in Disneyland on a Tuesday?" you might ask. Well, let me tell you. Some of you may have heard of the Christmas Parade they show on ABC every year. It takes place usually just at Disneyworld, but this year, for Disney's 50th, its at both disneyworld and disneyland. So to get to my point, my choir, UCO was asked to sing the back-up vocals for Fantasia (American Idol) for this big Christmas ordeal. We were there from 5:30 in the morning unil 11:30 filming this song, which will air on ABC on Christmas morning. So if you get a chance, watch ABC on Christmas morning. You just might see me in a bright green choir robe singing back-up for Fantasia. We're the grand finale number!

http://abc.go.com/specials/wdwxmasparade.html

why fear?

I thought I would dedicate my first actual blog to describing why I believe fear is such a good thing. Psalm 111:10 says that “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” Psalm 19 says “The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever.” Proverbs 10:27 says “The fear of the Lord prolongs life.” So far, fear sounds pretty good to me. What do you mean by “fear” you ask? Well, fear is defined by Merriam Webster as “to have a reverential awe”. I wonder how anyone could not have a reverential awe for God. What a great big God I serve! For who can fathom the depths of the riches of knowing Him? He spoke and the world came into existence! All that we see is His doing! And yet somehow, people do not have a reverential awe…I don’t get it. But there are a lot of things in the world I don’t get. I don’t get traffic…if everyone just kept moving, we wouldn’t have traffic (I realize its much more complex than that, but it’s a nice thought, isn’t it?).

Anyways, I made a website (also for my computer class). The site is so creative, are you ready for this?? Its http://fearisgood.tripod.com Man! I’m all about technology these days! Well, that’s all there is to say for now. Its 1:30 am and I have some homework I am procrastinating on…although, since this is for class…I guess I am doing homework by posting this :)