ha!! i love this:
source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/15/AR2009121502928.html
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i need.
just a brief hiatus from trip recapping right now (at work and no access to my pictures, grrr)…. and since I’m skipping class tonight, i’ll post another this evening later ;)
wow, a real blog post! i think my 400 years of silence are over. i’ve been literally brimming with things to say recently.
so i went on a little walk to get away from my cubicle. beautiful, breezy wednesday morning. great weather for contemplation.
" 'cause i'm not the strongman
i am the one in need ”
i dislike being around people who think too well of me. those who feel as though I have it all together and i have no issues and can do no wrong. those that i know will always, without fail, praise me for something in conversation with them. this might be odd…. i know…. and i’m a little weirded out putting it on the blog considering it could come across as, “ugh, can you say ‘self righteous’? ” or “oh, jen is so humble and holy” because that’s not even it. i assure you.
i feel as though I might be playing my “part” too well. and i’m honestly not trying to manifest a certain image of angelic-ness.
are we to appear strong to others?
are we to wear our hearts on our sleeves?
i still don’t totally know the answers to those questions.
what i do know is that definitely Do Not have it all together and i need.
i feel as though I might be playing my “part” too well. and i’m honestly not trying to manifest a certain image of angelic-ness.
are we to appear strong to others?
are we to wear our hearts on our sleeves?
i still don’t totally know the answers to those questions.
what i do know is that definitely Do Not have it all together and i need.
i need.
i need God so much. more than anything i crave. more than my life.
yesterday was tuesday. tuesday’s are tiring. oh so tiring.
8 hours of work, then a class, then hightail it across Dallas to prayer/Bible study.
during the “hightail it” portion yesterday, i reflected on my need. the Lord has spared me from many a policeman, especially on tuesday’s, a few months before. i felt such a great need for Him then. after class, i would cautiously speed (oxymoron) to church because of the intense need i felt to go to the altar and lay it all down yet again.
did i need more in this time than ever before? it sure felt like it! but that’s all it was: a feeling. and feelings are dumb.
my need for God has not diminished. it has, in fact, grown. every day it grows more. and the fact that i’m not currently an emotional basketcase makes me aware of how easy it was to see & feel my need in the past.
may I never lose my ability to need.
yesterday was tuesday. tuesday’s are tiring. oh so tiring.
8 hours of work, then a class, then hightail it across Dallas to prayer/Bible study.
during the “hightail it” portion yesterday, i reflected on my need. the Lord has spared me from many a policeman, especially on tuesday’s, a few months before. i felt such a great need for Him then. after class, i would cautiously speed (oxymoron) to church because of the intense need i felt to go to the altar and lay it all down yet again.
did i need more in this time than ever before? it sure felt like it! but that’s all it was: a feeling. and feelings are dumb.
my need for God has not diminished. it has, in fact, grown. every day it grows more. and the fact that i’m not currently an emotional basketcase makes me aware of how easy it was to see & feel my need in the past.
may I never lose my ability to need.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
the southern fried road trip: part 2
wow! so long, no see! ok sooooo....
when we last left our heroes, they were having their last supper before the long grueling journey ahead.
OOO! OOO! OOO! i must insert this picture from mich's facebook album. here's the one that the kind gentleman offered to take of us after watching (and probably snickering) at our attempt to use the self timer.
SAT EVENING
so we managed to maneuver our way out of new orleans eventually and begin the long long loooooooonnnnnngggggg trek to florida.... or rather, through florida, since miami is quite a ways from the florida panhandle. *sigh* ok, i do love road trips and being with friends and tormenting those dear friends with my silliness knowing that they have no means of escape. ;) but there's the issue of time.... i'm not a fan of insanely long (um, can you say 14 hours?) stretches of driving. granted, during this nighttime leg of journey, i was curled up in my minuscule but very cozy backseat. but, i constantly drifted between 1/2 asleep/awake mostly out of worry that michelle was getting tired of driving. she has the stamina of a trucker, that girl. and i say that with admiration!
apparently alot of deer were standing on the side of the highway in florida (who woulda thunk?!)
awwww...
how cute...
JUST DON'T RUN IN FRONT OF MY CAR!
SUN MORN
thankfully, this never occurred. sometime in the wee morning hours, we pulled into a rest stop and slept. ahhhh, sweet sleep. then we woke up at the crack of dawn and it was jen's turn to drive and i made it to miami. whoohoo! went to church that night and ate dinner at a friend of my sister's who had the most adorable doggie ever! his name was appropriately "Blue"!
MON
oh hallelu. slept in on monday. then we went out for a cuban cuisine breakfast.
hello, my name is jennifer and i enjoy taking photos of nicely presented food.
this is a guava tart. it was muy delicioso!
cafe con leche! sooo much cream = sooo many calories = sooo good!
my big, honkin' cuban breakfast
and then we set off to the coral gables area of miami for a tour of this beautiful home turned into a museum called "Vizcaya"!
behold:
and more to come later, for i shall soon fall asleep and wake up with my keyboard being used as a pillow and indenting my face with numerous square shapes.
it's been a long day/week/month.
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