Hope

hope: /hoʊp/ [hohp] – noun: to believe, desire, or trust

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Lights Will Guide You Home

So now I'm home. The summer of fun freedom is over and real life starts all over again. This time I'm starting with a different outlook though. I've made some big decisions, set my heart on big things and learned that life doesn't always give you what you think you want. 

Life is full of surprises.
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I'm sleeping on a small patch of carpet on my bedroom floor tonight... well, at least that was the plan. It's 1:55 and I have yet to fall asleep. I'm in the process of moving back in, and it seems I've accumulated a lot of stuff over the summer. 
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I'm excited to meet new people and make even more new friends once school starts. I love meeting new people and I think my shy-syndrome has become less paralyzing this summer. The fun thing about going to school for photography is that the majority of the friends I will make will also really love photography - and there aren't too many things more attractive then a boy with a camera ;) So for those reasons I am very excited to get going. But seriously though, it is going to be so nice to be able to talk 'camera' for once. And to be able to spend time with people that appreciate the beauty in small things. 
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I'm getting serious about Snapbird too. My dad hates that name, but I really like it. Snapbird Photography... yay, nay? I'm going to register my name soon and get a business number and start up my portable studio. 
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My brother is the coolest. 
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Ever do something you wish you could reverse? Sometimes results turn out better in my head then they do in real life. But you live and learn, right? I know what not to do again...
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I'm so tired, but I can't concentrate on sleep! I want my bed so bad, but I accidentally covered it in... everything... and now there's no room for me. I have Coldplay stuck in my head, Serena fell asleep on me and my new Mac is so fascinating (and expensive... a thousand dollars more expensive then I was planning on actually). I miss Emily next to me at night and always, Will making me laugh, and well, Cameron just being Cameron. I really want to go back to Picton... that one day... you know, the really good one when it seemed like we were the only ones left on earth. 
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... I was swinging with Logan today and she inspired me so many times. She's the wisest eleven year old I know. I wish I could be more like her...
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I'm going to go watch an episode of 'Flight of The Conchords' ... I bought that, season 2 of 'Arrested Development' (they didn't have season 1 in my price range) ooo and season 6 of '24'! I'm excited for that. I also bought 'Once'.... 
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Enough chatter... this wasn't inspirational at all. 

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His Plan For Me

  • Get In To the Word and Deep In Prayer
  • Prayer Journal - To see God's amazing power through Prayer
  • Committment Journal - Record my struggles and successes to visually see progress over time
  • Personal Goals - Start doing more of the things that make me happy and save some "me" time (art, writing, reading, etc.)
  • Work - Pleasing to God, to be happy in what I do and offer my abilities whenever I can
  • Tithing and Saving - Respecting my money and using it appropriately
  • Education - Study God's word and begin thinking more about my future
  • Touch Cleansing - Relationships (family, friends, dating, God, etc.)
  • Taste Cleansing - What I eat and put into my body (food, drink, nutrition, health, etc.)
  • Smell Cleansing - Waking up and smelling the roses, appreciating small things
  • Sound Cleansing - What I listen to and hear (music, language, people, messages, truths, etc.)
  • Visual Cleansing - What I watch and see (movies, television, magazines and media, pictures, people, etc)

God's Amazing Power

In Christ Alone

In Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light, my strength, my song
This Cornerstone, this solid ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heights of love, what depths of peace
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease
My Comforter, my All in All
Here in the love of Christ I stand

In Christ alone, who took on flesh
Fullness of God in helpless babe
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones He came to save
'Till on that cross as Jesus died
The wrath of God was satisfied
For every sin on Him was laid
Here in the death of Christ I live

There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave He rose again
And as He stands in victory
Sin's curse has lost it's grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Brought with the precious blood of Christ

No guilt in life, no fear in death
This is the power of Christ in me
From life's first cry to final breath
Jesus commands my destiny
No power of hell, no scheme of man
Can ever pluck me from His hand
'Till He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I'll stand