“If you knew someone you loved would be outside in the cold for a very long time and would not be allowed to wear mittens, you would give them the warmest jacket you could find. Because when someone you love is going through a tough time out of your control, what they need from you is a warm, caring, sweet attitude, not a constant reminder of how cold their fingers must be.”

- smart pretty awkward

random snippets of ... conversation

i was going to say "wisdom" but it's definitely not that

"Always choose the better apple, that way every day is the best apple" - dad's profundity in picking an apple out of the crisper

"Honey, did I fill your daily love quotient?" - i overheard this as oma 'hugged' abba goodbye... SHUDDER SHUDDER SHUDDER.  i think sharing this with you, dear reader, helps ease my pain.

"you should work out now! when your butt's sore it's getting better - that's how i have this cute butt-" - mom yelling this to me outside in front of the neighbors as i protested having to work out....

"I'm glad you're not married and we get to live together longer" - mom
"Oh don't worry, when I get married, we'll live here." - me
"No - you have to be biblical - leave and .." - mom
"No no no, it's being frugal!  we'll stay here, it'll be great" - me
"No, you can marry a rich husband with a house and a car and you can spend his money! ... that's what God wants for you" - mom
"okay!" - me


Next Monday outing; redwoods.  I guess I'm now an official member of their Monday date days...

the beginnings of a brownnoser

..a  result i got from a free-write assignment of "Write about a quest you accomplished or are trying to accomplish."


"Since I was in the first grade, teachers have always found me very annoying and obnoxious.  I always get in trouble with my teacher.  Now since I have met miss Kim and seen how nice and wonderful she is, I have been trying to stay out of trouble and be obediant.  This is still a quest I am doing since I still get in trouble with her and make her angry.  I hope that one day I can become a good student and be favored by all the teachers."

spelling and grammar intact

(he's a rather smart(aleck) student... and has no trouble with English.  thus non-A's make no sense)

grace used to live under a rock.

that's just something that i just said

is has nothing to do with what i'm about to do

just some links
because i don't know where else to put them
and i don't want to forget just yet


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8682558.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8677637.stm

"her voice had a peculiarly engaging quality; it was deep, a little husky, and one always heard the breath vibrating behind it. Everything she said seemed to come right out of her heart."

My Antonia.

yummy book so far.

I'm always fond of husky-voiced heroines.
After a while the sing song, clear-belled tones get old and maybe even a little ridiculous when you listen to snow white's mindless prattle.



i forget who else.

i just got back from a wedding; so shoot me if i'm feeling a lil sentimental

"To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last; you will in the course of the next two or three years meet with somebody more generally unexceptionable than anyone you have yet known, who will love you as warmly as possible, and who will so completely attach you that you will feel you never really loved before."


- Jane Austen in a letter written on Feb. 20, 1816 to her cousin Fanny Knight 

Is this too idealistic?

After all, if Becoming Jane is accurate, Jane's love life wasn't too successful either.  (augh that movie made me cry)

Speaking of author biopics, who's excited to see Bright Star?  Hot DAWG I love Keates!  Intrigued by him ever since I found out in my Spring 08 Romantic Lit class that all the other romanticists looked down on him and likened his works to self-gratification (or the more lurid counterpart).  Poor Keates.  (although the actor who plays Keates is sort of a creepers... anyone seen Perfume?  yagh)

my first time using Hat Trick. did i do it right?

Charles Spurgeon quote that I think corresponds well with Matt's sermon yesterday on James 4:1-10.  That was a very convicting sermon; still trying to formulate my thoughts (and actions) around it.  may share in the future.


You need not weep because Christ died one-tenth so much as because your sins rendered it necessary that He should die. You need not weep over the crucifixion, but weep over your transgression, for your sins nailed the Redeemer to the accursed tree. To weep over a dying Saviour is to lament the remedy; it were wiser to bewail the disease. To weep over the dying Saviour is to wet the surgeon's knife with tears; it were better to bewail the spreading polyps which that knife must cut away. To weep over the Lord Jesus as He goes to the cross is to weep over that which is the subject of the highest joy that ever heaven and earth have known; your tears are scarcely needed there; they are unnatural, but a deeper wisdom will make you brush them all away and chant with joy His victory over death and the grave. If we must continue our sad emotions, let us lament that we should have broken the law which He thus painfully vindicated; let us mourn that we should have incurred the penalty which He even to the death was made to endure ... O brethren and sisters, this is the reason why we souls weep: because we have broken the divine law and rendered it impossible that we should be saved except Jesus Christ should die.




HT: Challies

Nina

“One day I have a dream that playing on the gress. If feels like bee and butterful flying on the sky. And I see the boy was at the other way to wait for me and give me prise. I feel like an apple, red and shy.”

- SO CUTE. HAHAHAHAHA.  (8th grade student)

NY Times Doris Day Tribute

"Doris Day symbolizes what so many of us first loved about movies — a stylish escapism, grounded with feeling and heart. She has done her part for the movies. Now it’s the academy’s turn to do its part for her."

enjoyable read :-)

hahahahahighlarious

"You don't understand the hypostatic union of a Triune God!" - Bethel's (7) response to my brother (18) rubbing his Blokus win in her face ... HAHAHA. that's what you get for having a Christian professor as a dad i guess...

i love you!!!!! when did you grow up? love, omma

teehee

hah

today abba and i went to see move '2012'. today was senior's day! hmmm, soon we will be quallified for that status!

if i were a grandmother by then, agae 55, it will be fun! :] no pressure at all!!! i mean it! God makes alll things beautiful for us all!
just start praying and asking God for the direction and hear from him then He always makes our path straight!


so much in the email to laugh at.
first of all the spelling and stuff.. she's actually good. i'm surprised at her random punctuations....

i like how she gives me a hint; then says no pressure; then slightly implies that i :"just" need to "start praying and asking God for direction" ... perhaps my path is not straight right now? hahaha.

NBA players are variable; thus we can touch them.

-a sentence from a Semicolon homework set that I received from an 8th grade student.

i don’t get it either.

quote

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. G. K. Chesterton

 If you have no time for the Bible in the morning this motto might help: “No Bible, no breakfast.” It’s not time. It’s taste."

- John Piper

first day of teaching tomorrow

suddenlygotacaseoftheNERVIES!b/cstomorrowisthefurstdayofschoolandifeeltotallyunprepared…wellnottotally,myheadtellsmei’mnottotallyunpreparedbutmyidontknow,anotherpartofmyheadistellingmeiam..wellnotreallyobviously.

in other words:
I love movies like Coach Carter.

Is it sad that the only times I really want to be a teacher is when I watch inspirational teaching movies? -____-

“ Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

Marianne Williamson (except the lady herself is sorta quack IMHO)

mixed feelings about this quote. part of me really loves it / it’s used to spur the underdogs, but i think humans are so used to thinking we rock / i don’t know if this is good for it!

"for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion"

- Benedick, Much Ado About Nothing

shackespere

Beatrice: “Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the world but I, and I am sun-burnt; I may sit in a corner, and cry heigh-ho for a husband!
Don Pedro: Lady Beatrice, I will get you one.
Beatrice: I would rather have one of your father’s getting. Hath your Grace ne’er a brother like you? Your father got excellent husbands, if a maid could come by them.
Don Pedro: Will you have me lady?
Beatrice: No, my lord, unless I might have another for working-days: your Grace is too costly to wear every day. But, i beseech your Grace, pardon me: I was born to speak all mirth and no matter.
Don Pedro: Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.
Beatrice: No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was i born. Cousins, God give you joy!

Much Ado About Nothing 2.1

“ well, sometimes nothin’ can be real cool hand"

-cool hand luke

"You can do more than pray, after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed."

- John Bunyan