Life Lesson: Now for the life lesson section of today's post. I suppose this isn't so much a life lesson as a common sense thing, but if your me it could be both. *Do NOT under any circumstances attempt to hit your thumb or finger with a hammer, even on accident (yes I know that seems very stupid to say). If you do, your thumb/finger will hurt for the next 12ish hours and be sensitive to the touch at the spot where you hit it.* Agian, I know this seems like a stupid thing to post as a life lesson, but after experiencing it Saturday afternoon I thought it was worth mentioning.
Health Class: As promised; more about Health Class. It is so insanely boring that I think I will want to cry later on in the semester. Granted that today was all formalities (rules, guidelines, yadda yadda yadda) but still! So for homework, our teacher gave us a student record sheet to fill out. Naturally it had questions about ourselves on it. However, these were not the usual name, phone number, partent's name and number type of questions. These were thought provoking questions that caused you to delve into your brain to find the answer (at least they were for me. Who knows....maybe I'm over analysing my health homework of all things). It really got me thinking as to what impovements I would like to see in my life and made me realize how far I've come since my first day of high school. Who knew Health class could be so deep.
Philosophy on Life: Right now, my philosophy for the school year is as follows: an episode a day. And no that does not mean a mental breakdown every day. What it means is every day after I get my homework done, I can sit down and watch an episode or two of Charmed. However, that is not the only philosophy I have come up with recently. When I was doing my English homework today, I really connected with the poem we were assigned to read ("The Waking" by Theodore Roethke). "This shaking keeps me steady. I should know. What falls away is always. And is near. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I learn by going where I have to go" (Roethke). This is the last verse of the poem but it has so much underlying potency it's ridiculous. Just the subliminal message that the only way to truly learn is by taking life slow and learning from experience is so striking. Then my mom found this verse: "The Lord Says 'I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you'" (Psalm 32: 8-9). I read/hear these verses and wonder "what the He** have I done with my life? How have I lost my faith and somehow managed to muddle through these last five or so years the way I have?" My life has been so messed up with so many twists and turns that it doesnt make sense for this to be to path set before me by the Lord. I just wish there were some "get out of jail free" card for this kinda stuff. I wish there was a shortcut that would put me on a more stable path and restore my faith at the same time. I just wish my life was different and I know how impossible that is; this passage proves that. If there was an easier path for me to travel down in life that would allow me to be as strong as I am I have no doubt that God would've put me on it. I guess for now I have to resort back to my "everything happens for a reason" and remember that with faith and resilliance everything will turn out as it should.....it just takes time.
Just let me hold you while your falling apart
Just let me hold you and we'll both fall down
Fall on me
Tell me Everything you want me to be
Forever with you
Forever in me
Ever the same
~ Ever the Same by Rob Thomas
Blessed be your name
On the road marked with suffering
Though there's pain in the offering
Blessed be your name
Every blessing you pour out
I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say
Blessed by the name of the Lord
Blessed be your name
~ Blessed Be Your Name by Matt Redman
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