...full of dreaming

Listless, quiet, restless but still
Flashes and reflections pass in the dark
Miles and hours will fail to fill
Each passing house, in it's place, plays it's part
Inside, are lamps, tables and chairs
Dimly lit rooms with a welcoming glow
Windows stand as portals, in pairs
As quickly as they pass, it seems so slow
Lives go on inside and sun is soon to rise
Open fields and frost sing a searching song of warmth
Arrival to rest and sleep finds my eyes
Never such comfort and dreams are sent forth

...bad poetry

What good are all the words on the earth
If, to healing, they cannot give birth?
And so it seems my words have no worth
And I sing an empty song

If all the stories that I tell
Are only proof that I lie so well
And on every word I tripped and fell
Then I sing an empty song

But through my sin and through my shame
I heard you calling out my name
You held me close without blame
And I sang an unworthy song, a beautiful song, indeed

...hard sometimes

The past few weeks have been rough in many ways. And yet no matter how hard life gets or much we suck as humans...the amount of love God pours out on us in so many ways still ceases to amaze me.

Like a song upon the wind
I hear Your calling voice, within
A song, i sing, in sweet return
With standing strength and softly stern
And when my strength fails me to stand
Ever faithful is your hand
Forgiveness in it's bracing form
To shield my heart from raging storms
And in my failure I rejoice
With, perhaps, a wavering voice
But of Your love, I can only sing
And of the glory that it brings

...tasty

I ate a mouthful of ants, today. It wasn't intentional. I sat my clif bar down beside me at work and apparently it took the ants no time to find it because I picked it back up a few moments later and took a huge bite, only to find that it tasted kind of weird. I looked down and saw that my clif bar was swarmed with ants...as was my mouth.

I didn't eat any more on purpose but they really didn't taste that bad.

Take that, Bear Grylls!

...somewhat eventful

So this is my first blog post. I feel almost arrogant for thinking that I need a special place for this, haha. But then I'm sure all two of you who will keep up with this will find something of interest here. I'm not much of a journalist so I doubt that there will be any kind of a daily update but then again my life, at it's busiest, doesn't deserve a daily post.

So let's see. Friday I drove down to stay with Chuck at his slammin' pad in Beebe and saw the majority of "Be Kind Rewind" before falling asleep on his couch. The following morning we headed for Ponca after making a stop at walmart only to realize that we were completely unprepared and had done zero planning but it was all good. We drove up scenic HWY 7 which has some pretty saucome views and a pretty decent little burger joint out away from everything. After getting there we got about 3 miles down the Buffalo River Trail before the rain hit, almost a day early! But that didn't stop us from doing so swimmin' in the very whole that I learned to swim in! On the way back we stopped in Jasper and I had an elf burger for the second time in my life. Still Good. Sunday morning I got to attend an AMAZING church, New Life Church, in Conway! I wouldn't survey a church by this...but they served me a Chai Latte. Sweet.

I can't help but feel that I'm somehow reverting to my childhood by watching so many old movies lately but I can't help it. They're the best.

That's all I've got. Bye.