All this is too wonderful for me... delicate flower, making love, dancing with passion's breath, it is my dream to be you, to be the lover of God...
Sunday, May 14, 2006
Sky is Falling!
Light of the world, you stepped down into darkness, opened my eyes, let me see.
All this is too wonderful for me... delicate flower, making love, dancing with passion's breath, it is my dream to be you, to be the lover of God...
All this is too wonderful for me... delicate flower, making love, dancing with passion's breath, it is my dream to be you, to be the lover of God...
Mind your Mannerisms
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”- Ellen Parr
Realizing that the mind is given to us, we are no longer given to the mind. And oh to clear the heart of the mind..!
Realizing that the mind is given to us, we are no longer given to the mind. And oh to clear the heart of the mind..!
Wisemen
"...the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..."
-Kerouac
Austin
Could never put this place into words, but the picture and this quote are a great start... "Why live in a $200,000 house when you can live under a $20,000,000 bridge" -buddy at 2222 and mopac
Saturday, May 13, 2006
Lauren
she was born a day early, never one to worryshe'll hit the ground runnin, leave you wonderin
how a girl loves so much - how a girl gives so much
i'm so lucky, and i've got a phene,
there's somethin so true bout this dairy queen
she sees a perfect world; helps me see through those eyes
there's no where i'd rather lean, she's my wall
with lauren on my side, Heaven will call
Magnified
one person reaching out
one voice screams
whispers out to another soul
help me to live in the reality, in response to your goodness, revealed.
our lives laid down, yours magnified.
one voice screams
whispers out to another soul
help me to live in the reality, in response to your goodness, revealed.
our lives laid down, yours magnified.
Friday, May 12, 2006
Everyday Soul Lovin'
The power of interaction is astounding. love is all "l'amour c'est tout," and everything that inspire us comes from love. When we gather the things we love, we see a picture of love. love is that place where my heart touches your heart and adds to who you are as a person. lance secretan
Living on borrowed time, thankfully it's not up to us to figure out the meaning and purpose of our lives. Through His Word, God has provided written instructions to recognize why and where our skill intersects passion.
Let us love one another, for love comes from God. 1 John 4:7 NIV
I knew that love would surprise me, but I'm surprised how much.
Living on borrowed time, thankfully it's not up to us to figure out the meaning and purpose of our lives. Through His Word, God has provided written instructions to recognize why and where our skill intersects passion.
Let us love one another, for love comes from God. 1 John 4:7 NIV
I knew that love would surprise me, but I'm surprised how much.
Biodiesel
Biodiesel Blog
Texas is a great place to inaugurate any type of program (biodiesel potentially being the biggest, overwhelming amount of potential with). Being in England, the speed at which things are implemented due to its smaller size stops me in my tracks; so many systems are able to evolve quickly (be it speed cameras on the roadways, or credit card 'chip and pin'), all simply because the area is so concise. There's no reason Texas shouldn't be a leading force in launching great (and much needed) modifications, especially with the mindset and pride of still being our 'own country.'
Texas is a great place to inaugurate any type of program (biodiesel potentially being the biggest, overwhelming amount of potential with). Being in England, the speed at which things are implemented due to its smaller size stops me in my tracks; so many systems are able to evolve quickly (be it speed cameras on the roadways, or credit card 'chip and pin'), all simply because the area is so concise. There's no reason Texas shouldn't be a leading force in launching great (and much needed) modifications, especially with the mindset and pride of still being our 'own country.'
Each Unveils a Piece
They all laughed at Albert Einstein. They all laughed at Columbus. Unfortunately, they also all laughed at Bozo the Clown. Winston ChurchillBut I have been loved by people who know Jesus, and I don't know that there is any greater love, than from those who have been touched by the Messiah. I keep a list of things I've learned from angels along the way; it makes my soul smile.
Keep a green bough in your heart, and the singing bird will come~ Chinese Proverb The mills of God grind slowly but they grind finely. ~ Irish proverb
Simple Elegance
Simple to Simple vs Complex to Simple
Posted by: Natalie
May 10th, 2006
This post is a summary, mostly to serve as a reminder, of some of my thinking at this time about complex and simple…
The Short: An Analogy
Today we live in a world that would prefer to eat a table spoon of white sugar over digesting an apple for instance, and in the digestion ending up with sugar…as well as other nutrients: all benefit of having participated in the digestion process…
Worse still, many of us are now substituting the spoon of sugar for a spoon of ’sugar’ (nutrasweet etc) - artificial means of receiving our sugar needs, which doesn’t even off the energy rich potential of simple sugar - chemical filled, it is aso potentially dangerous…
We seem to keep reaching for the spoon of sugar, or ’sugar’ [sugar tm], which leaves us ‘full’ momentarily, yet what does such simple energy do? It quickly leaves us sluggish, de-energised and mal-nourished…
From Analogy to Reality
…We live in an increasingly complex world. Or perhaps we are appreciating and again seeing its complexity?
I should add that in my mind there are at least two types of simple, best illustrated by Einstein’s quote:
"Simplicity this side of complexity is worthless, Simplicty on the other side…priceless"
Curiously, many of our models and ways of seeing focus tightly on the need for simple on this side of complexity - quick fix, magic bullet, 10 steps until you…type models. Fixed and rigid over flexible dancing and dynamic.
The reason I find this curious is because it is like we are all ok to pull the proverbial wool over own eyes. We know that things don’t happen in clean neat little plans and packages…we know that things are interconnected and thus changes in one area have impacts on another area…we know that there is a natural time / digestion process enroute to coming to the great idea…and yet we seem to keep wanting to eat a table spoon of sugar…or worse still, something that isn’t even the simplication of the solution we are seeking in the first place…
I am not arguing against simplicity - I crave it. But I crave the real simple…elegant simple…why are we settling for the false (empty, un-nourishing, de-energising un-healthy) simple?
Why?
PS Somehow this quote sticks in my mind: "Alfred Marshall once said that short words are usually bad economics"
Trackback: What questions are you posing for your future?
An answer is always the part of the road that is behind you. Only questions point to the future. Jostein Gaarder
Posted by: Natalie
May 10th, 2006
This post is a summary, mostly to serve as a reminder, of some of my thinking at this time about complex and simple…
The Short: An Analogy
Today we live in a world that would prefer to eat a table spoon of white sugar over digesting an apple for instance, and in the digestion ending up with sugar…as well as other nutrients: all benefit of having participated in the digestion process…
Worse still, many of us are now substituting the spoon of sugar for a spoon of ’sugar’ (nutrasweet etc) - artificial means of receiving our sugar needs, which doesn’t even off the energy rich potential of simple sugar - chemical filled, it is aso potentially dangerous…
We seem to keep reaching for the spoon of sugar, or ’sugar’ [sugar tm], which leaves us ‘full’ momentarily, yet what does such simple energy do? It quickly leaves us sluggish, de-energised and mal-nourished…
From Analogy to Reality
…We live in an increasingly complex world. Or perhaps we are appreciating and again seeing its complexity?
I should add that in my mind there are at least two types of simple, best illustrated by Einstein’s quote:
"Simplicity this side of complexity is worthless, Simplicty on the other side…priceless"
Curiously, many of our models and ways of seeing focus tightly on the need for simple on this side of complexity - quick fix, magic bullet, 10 steps until you…type models. Fixed and rigid over flexible dancing and dynamic.
The reason I find this curious is because it is like we are all ok to pull the proverbial wool over own eyes. We know that things don’t happen in clean neat little plans and packages…we know that things are interconnected and thus changes in one area have impacts on another area…we know that there is a natural time / digestion process enroute to coming to the great idea…and yet we seem to keep wanting to eat a table spoon of sugar…or worse still, something that isn’t even the simplication of the solution we are seeking in the first place…
I am not arguing against simplicity - I crave it. But I crave the real simple…elegant simple…why are we settling for the false (empty, un-nourishing, de-energising un-healthy) simple?
Why?
PS Somehow this quote sticks in my mind: "Alfred Marshall once said that short words are usually bad economics"
Trackback: What questions are you posing for your future?
An answer is always the part of the road that is behind you. Only questions point to the future. Jostein Gaarder
Tunnel Light
Sometimes on the way to our dreams we get lost.
And find a better one...
life is no straight and easy corridor along
which we travel free and unhampered,
but a maze of passages,
through which we must seek our way,
lost and confused, now and again
checked in a blind alley.
But always, if we have faith,
God will open a door for us,
not perhaps one that we ourselves
would ever have thought of,
but one that will ultimately
prove good for us.
A.J. Cronin
And so, for every dream, there is a Job, to be made, to be held.
"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. 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 were all meant to shine as children do. Its not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same as we are liberated from our own fear. Our presence automatically liberates others." - Maryanne Williamson
And find a better one...
life is no straight and easy corridor along
which we travel free and unhampered,
but a maze of passages,
through which we must seek our way,
lost and confused, now and again
checked in a blind alley.
But always, if we have faith,
God will open a door for us,
not perhaps one that we ourselves
would ever have thought of,
but one that will ultimately
prove good for us.
A.J. Cronin
And so, for every dream, there is a Job, to be made, to be held.
"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. 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 were all meant to shine as children do. Its not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same as we are liberated from our own fear. Our presence automatically liberates others." - Maryanne Williamson
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Thursday, May 4, 2006
A diamond is...
Forever... but not Eternal.Why must we take certain things in the Bible literally, yet leave others as imagery?
I've had wack theories about marriage my whole life and on the ring thing. I could easily presume that, regardless of whether or not you've dreamed of this your whole life, it must be stunning to marvel over a stone resting on the flesh of your finger throughout your whole life to serves as a reminder, to you and everyone you meet, of the person who was specifically designed for you.
As for me, I oppose the idea of all that money sitting on my finger to 'symbolize' the most priceless gift in my life. The irony alone is silly enough. Don't get me wrong, I marvel over diamonds like the best, girliest, and most geological of us all. For Pete's sake, we're talking about a rock whose former old, dirty form developed an incredibly strong bond and became solid under immense pressure, and whose beauty was revealed only after being found, carved, and fully exposed...And no matter what you do to it from there, it's a diamond... forever.
How cool is it that someone long ago once chose the diamond, which, like the relationship itself, is most beautiful when Light is able to shine through it!
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love, Ms. Mother Teresa smiled.
Love grows continually, eternally, as a constant reminder, reflection, and celebration of our union with God - the most glamorous gem we'll ever know!
If perhaps one day I were granted a groom to walk the world with, what a blessing it would be, and to share it with my church, not necessarily in the building, but in a sacred place in nature which God purely created, alongside a family of believers, a crowd who wishes to praise the beauty... Proof of my female being: a love Weddings and a longing to be spoken for.
Darfur
"If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation of people. And we will have only history left to judge us." -George Clooney, April 30, 2006, in Washington, DC
Tuesday, May 2, 2006
Pride
in the name of love there's an overwhelming desire to claim you. and an overwhelming disappointment when we deny the chance the claim your greatness.
not that it applies to our perfect Lord, but i just love this advice:
"If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: "He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned" - Epictetus
not that it applies to our perfect Lord, but i just love this advice:"If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: "He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned" - Epictetus
Monday, May 1, 2006
Angelic Embrace
Aren't all angels ministering spirits from above?! Hebrews 11:1
When death is the only thing that truly stops us in our tracks, shock and longing can sometimes be the worst symptoms of all, but Prayers never fail to be the best medicine. We have such an awesome God. I know He holds you in His hands and your loved ones as well.
For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. Philippians 1:21
When death is the only thing that truly stops us in our tracks, shock and longing can sometimes be the worst symptoms of all, but Prayers never fail to be the best medicine. We have such an awesome God. I know He holds you in His hands and your loved ones as well.
For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. Philippians 1:21
Summer 2004
Of the 50 states, I landed in Missouri, never knowing how much I would enjoy it. Taught dance and counseled at Kanakuk Kamps, a Christian sports camp, near Branson for six weeks then went to San Antonio for the Chi Omega National convention. We had a great Make a Wish party there for a girl whose wish was to be a movie star. She got to shoot her own commercial, print over 1000 headshots, and then have fans and cameras all around her, plus a make-up trailer. Both were great... a 7-week period of doing little more than meeting and building relationships with amazing people.
After spending July 4th at home with the fam, I moved to Kansas City for a six week internship, which was amazing. Working in the Investment department for a large privately-held life insurance agency, was only a portion of the fun. Although I'm not convinced the corporate world can keep me entertained or satisfied in the long run, I really enjoyed the perspective, seeing an overview of so many industries and learning how they fit together. I'm also trying to learn about my parent's company through resources here so that too has been very interesting.
Living in Kansas City was a blast. I adore the people I stayed with, the new ones i met from KCS, and all the random things we did along the way. Rudy Giuliani spoke to promote a republican candidate for Governor across the street from our office my first evening here. Such an excellent speaker. I was seated next to Gen. Ashcroft's daughter and really enjoyed the rest of the company at our table as well. I also started english riding/jumping, and after riding western as a child and always wanting to convert, I was extremely satisfied. I must say that the work was balanced out by plenty of play.
A special weekend in Santa Fe sticks out too. One of the girls was showing in the national arabian horse show championships and wow, the event is spectacular. its a whole different world.
Konnection: Approaching the end of school is overwhelming in good and bad ways ...like the same phrase of "I can do anything and go anywhere," a blessing and a curse. Not wanting to limit God's plan by creating my own I'm focused on surrending everything in me for HIM... my agenda, success, everything.
After spending July 4th at home with the fam, I moved to Kansas City for a six week internship, which was amazing. Working in the Investment department for a large privately-held life insurance agency, was only a portion of the fun. Although I'm not convinced the corporate world can keep me entertained or satisfied in the long run, I really enjoyed the perspective, seeing an overview of so many industries and learning how they fit together. I'm also trying to learn about my parent's company through resources here so that too has been very interesting.
Living in Kansas City was a blast. I adore the people I stayed with, the new ones i met from KCS, and all the random things we did along the way. Rudy Giuliani spoke to promote a republican candidate for Governor across the street from our office my first evening here. Such an excellent speaker. I was seated next to Gen. Ashcroft's daughter and really enjoyed the rest of the company at our table as well. I also started english riding/jumping, and after riding western as a child and always wanting to convert, I was extremely satisfied. I must say that the work was balanced out by plenty of play.
A special weekend in Santa Fe sticks out too. One of the girls was showing in the national arabian horse show championships and wow, the event is spectacular. its a whole different world.
Konnection: Approaching the end of school is overwhelming in good and bad ways ...like the same phrase of "I can do anything and go anywhere," a blessing and a curse. Not wanting to limit God's plan by creating my own I'm focused on surrending everything in me for HIM... my agenda, success, everything.
