This song feels so good to me right now. I want everything to be beautiful like this (song). Maybe it is already, but I guess I'm just having trouble seeing it.

Once upon a time (last night)

Once upon a time, me and my friends swam and swam and swam, and laughed and laughed and laughed until our hearts were so full, that they were overflowing into a pool of joy. Then we swam in that and it was love.

Dad: I still like rocks...all guys like rocks!

Me: Why?

Dad: I don't know.

Very enlightening

According to brain games on discover channel, I am a man.

I am slightly offended, slightly proud, but mostly.. Not really surprised.

 A dadcommendation from my dad (obvz)

Musical breakthrough = pure bliss.

Thank you God!

wild wild wild and free

Kurt Vile

Shoot... do I smell a new summer fav?

I just checked my life dream list to see if I've lived-out any more of it, and guess what?? In the last year I've accomplished 8 more items on it!!!!! I feel so happy! That makes 24 total dreams lived on my dream list! Yipeeee! Thank you God!

"My spirit is all harmony and rhythm:

everything in my being is musical and song, 

from the saddest requiem of tears

to the triumphal melody of joy."

-Latin American oral tradition

"Child of the pure, unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale."

 -Lewis Carroll

10 resolutions for mental health

Wow. This just set me free to be who I already am, but sometimes feel I need to suppress.

Before bed last night, I opened up a post on John Pipers "Desiring God" blog. I was falling asleep as I even opened the page. But before I drifted off to sleep, I read three random reminders, and they were the very ones I needed. They sunk deep into my soul and I take them as encouragement straight from my God my loving dad. They were as follows:

    1.Don’t give up when your long prayed-for prayers have not yet been answered.

And he told them [the parable of the persistent widow] to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart (Luke 18:1).

 2. Don’t give up when that familiar sin, still crouching at your door after all these years, pounces again with temptation.

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it (1 Corinthians 10:13).

3. Don’t give up when the devil’s fiery darts of doubt land and make you reel.

Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day…in all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one (Ephesians 6:13,16). 

SPOT on what I needed to hear. The Spirit of god is willing and gracious. I feel loved, cared for and protected.

Must be summer

My feet are JACKED! And I don't mean buff haha. My two big toes got bruised from backpacking last summer. The bruised part turned into dead nail and this summer, the new nail part is still growing out. On this summers first backpacking trip, the dead part of the nails got cracked and wants to come off (which would look even more gross because that would leave me with very tiny big toe nails). In addition I have HUGE blisters on the sides of my big toes from this last backpacking trip. Also, the day before that trip I cut off the tip of my pinky toe in the back yard. IN ADDITION I jammed that same toe on a rock at the beach the other day.. and today ....broke it... Soooo basically, my feet are beautiful.

Some summer landmarks are glamerous: lemonade, tans, sun-hats, fireworks....
Some are not: Jacked feet...

But either way they both tell of long days spent wild and free. :)
I'll take it. I guess.