Robb + Jessie Married & in the Badger State
last.fm
I’ve installed a plug-in that allows you all to see what songs I’ve been listening to. Data comes from my last.fm profile and appears magically in the sidebar. Of course, if I’m not listening to anything, it will just say, “not listening”.
Check it out. I still have to get the spacing just right.
Journey through Lamp Waste and such.
Hello.
I want to share a favourite quote of mine from The Magician’s Nephew which I just finished early this afternoon after a tasty bite to eat (a toasted peanut butter and honey sandwich).
The new stars and the new voices began at exactly the same time. If you had seen and hear it, as Digory did, you would have felt quite certain that it was the stars themselves who were singing, and that it was the First Voice, the deep one, which had made them appear and made them sing.
“Glory be!” said the Cabby. “I’d ha’ been a better man all my life if I’d know there were things like this.” …
The eastern sky changed from white to pink and from pink to gold. The Voice rose and rose, till all the air was shaking with it. And just as it swelled to the mightiest and most glorious sound it had yet produced, the sun arose. …
The earth was of many colours: they were fresh, hot and vivid. They made you feel excited; until you saw the Singer himself, and then you forgot everything else.
I am wanted.
I just read a story of M. Teresa that made me realize how silly I am sometimes. Rather than attempting to paraphrase, I will just include it:
“I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in the last days and her only lament was: ‘My son did this to me.’
I begged her: You must forgive you son. In a moment of madness, when he was not himself, he did a thing he regrets. Be a mother to him, forgive him. It took me a long time to make her say: ‘I forgive my son.’
Just before she died in my arms, she was able to say that with a real forgiveness. She was not concerned that she was dying. The breaking of the heart was that her son did not want her. This is something you and I can understand.”
I don’t know if I have ever been completely “unwanted” or “unloved.” Sometimes I feel that way, or confuse myself into thinking that is a truth. I am very loved. I know this because of Jesus. Because of his incredible gift to me (to all of us) that I sometimes ignore or brush off as minor.
I am so thankful for everything and everyone I have been blessed with. So please, all of my friends and family reading this: You are wanted. You are wanted by me. You are wanted by your friends and family. You are wanted by Jesus.
shoutbox?
Should the shoutbox stay or go? Have you even seen the shoutbox? (It’s located on the menu under ‘shout’.)
What do you think?