Walking with God

I am currently writing an essay on religious poetry, including the poem Walking with God by William Cowper, and I am quite liking this one, so I thought I'd share:

Walking with God
by William Cowper

Oh! for a closer walk with God,
A calm and heavenly frame;
A light to shine upon the road
That leads me to the Lamb!

Where is the blessedness I knew
When first I saw the Lord?
Where is the soul-refershing view
Of Jesus and his word?

What peaceful hours I once enjoyed!
How sweet their memory still!
But they have left an aching void,
The world can never fill.

Return, O holy Dove, return!
Sweet the messenger of rest!
I hate the sins that made thee mourn
And drove thee from my breast.

The dearest idol I have known,
Whate'er that idol be,
Help me to tear it from thy throne,
And worship only thee.

So shall my walk be close with God,
Calm and serene my frame;
So purer light shall mark the road
That leads me to the Lamb.

Beautiful, isn't it? Now, back to work!

NaBloPoWhat?!

Oh, yeah. Fail. Sorry guys! My computer kind of blew up a little bit and I haven't had internet at home, in addition to feeling kind of exceptionally crummy, so that whole blogging every day thing just crashed.
I should be doing homework right now, so this is all you get. But I'm fine. Alive. Just letting you know.
At ease.
PS - thankful that I can get internet at school :)

The Way To Make It Work

I've discovered over the years that I am very good at planning things out: budgets, timelines, to-do lists, really life in general! Unfortunately, where I fall flat is on following through on all these brilliant plans.
I sat down tonight to plan out the next week, down to hourly accounting and all sorts of goals, with all my appointments in there for good measure. I look at it, and everything feels pretty achievable, but then I fall just a little bit short of those goals. All of a sudden it's all overwhelming but instead of tackling it in those bite-sized chunks into which I've broken it down (How do you eat an elephant?) I simply become entirely daunted by the enormity of it all and hide away intellectually and emotionally. I'll sleep or read or watch mindless TV, and that just feeds the stress machine and makes me even more angry with myself and to feel even less like I can conquer the mountain (or molehill!)
So what do you do when the t0-do list threatens? I've found this list pretty useful, in theory, but have a hard time applying even that. What works for you? Lay it on me!
Oh, and today? I'm thankful that I'm going to bed. Now. Here's hoping for a really good and restful sleep! Cheers!

New Moon

Well, Robyn, Jen and I went to see New Moon. It was pretty fun. Because of the huge demand, we bought our tickets yesterday, and then still showed up two hours early to the theatre to join the line, though thankfully we didn't have to wait long before they let us in to sit down. I didn't even have to break out the playing cards ;)
Once we actually got in to the theatre somehow I lost my ticket, and had to borrow Jen's so I could leave and come back!
I don't have a ton to say about the movie, so you needn't worry about spoilers. It was definitely better than the first one, though still pretty cheesy, with lots and lots of shirtlessness, and while Jacob looks darn hot, it's also a little weird, because he's only 17! So I felt a little guilty counting his (8) abs. Only a little though ;)
What I will say is that it was fun to go with people who were keen enough on the film to go with Jacob and Edward t-shirts. As I said before, Robyn's totally team Jacob, whereas Jen is 100% team Edward. Me, I'm still on the fence - they're both pretty much babies anyway - so I'm sticking to Team Gerard Butler. The fact that he wasn't in this movie is totally irrelevant of course. I almost wanted to slip away to see Law Abiding Citizen - I hear he's shirtless in that one too.
So today, I'm thankful for eye candy (what? I'm allowed! lol), silliness, and hanging out with the girls. All in all, it was a pretty good day!

Adventure, Day One

Well, the driving was worst between Merritt and Kamloops, actually, in my humble opinion, though that may just have been me getting used to winter highway driving. Because I couldn't sleep, I ended up leaving home around 4am, arriving in Langely around 8:30, so I hung out around a local Starbucks until it was time to meet the lovely Karen at 10.It was wonderful to see her - my only complaint was that she wasn't able to bring the girls because they had to be in daycare! We'll have to set up a full family date soon!
After brunch I headed over to Robyn's, where we dashed into downtown to take some pictures - more of those to come - and there was a great deal of geeking out over our cameras.
Then, we headed over to the theater to pick up our tickets for New Moon tomorrow night, browsed around Lush until we had scent-induced headaches, and then went off in search of dinner. We both really wanted to hit up the Olive Garden, and while we knew there was one in Langley, Robyn was sure she had seen one closer to home. After a rather convoluted drive and several changes of directions, not to mention rush hour and crazy city drivers, along with heavy rain, enormous puddles, and oh yes, a thunderstorm - we arrived only to find that it was... a Bread Garden instead.
The hunger and sleep-induced hysteria definitely set in then, because I don't know the last time that I giggled that hard. So, we gave up our quest for mass-produced Italian food, and instead headed for a local place closer to home - and it was delicious! The portions were absolutely huge, which had us excited - the leftovers are in the fridge awaiting our pleasure at lunch tomorrow!
More adventures to come, I am sure! For now - I am thankful I arrived here safely in spite of dodgy roads, and I am very thankful for my dear cousin, Miss Bobyn.
<3

Road Trip!

I'm heading down to the coast tomorrow to see my sisters and my adopted cousin, Robyn. I'm pretty stoked! I'm not 100% sure what we'll be doing, but I believe it will involve going to New Moon with her Edward-obsessed roommate...though Robyn's more likely to root for Team Jacob (she says because then she could have puppies!)
I also know that the weekend will involve some sort of photo-adventuring, as we did last time, which got me some of my favourite pictures of Bob, like this one...


and this one...



Oh, and Robyn also got this cute one of me (if I do say so myself haha!)


So hopefully, we'll have more adorable photographic evidence of this weekend! I'll keep y'all posted. Meanwhile, i think I'll take myself to bed - 5am is going to come mighty early!

Boom

This is kind of how it feels in my head right now. I'm going to take some drugs and lay down, but this might be the only blog post y'all get today.