Hearts of San Francisco

I carry your heart with me

I carry it in my heart

I am never without it

Anywhere I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling
I fear no fate

For you are my fate, my sweet

I want no world

For beautiful you are my world,my true

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows
Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart

I carry it in my heart 

ee cummings 

Holy moley, Life is so good, aka a blog about how bad it could be.

Just thought I would put some things into perspective because Americans can get all whiny and selfish this season. We are amongst the most privileged people in the world. I am really tired of people complaining about the poor economy and the down turn in the market because guess what:

 Your situation may be difficult but it could be so much worse.

Over 400,000 have been killed and 2,500,000 displaced in the Darfur region of Sudan. The displaced are living in camps with little food or water in Darfur and in Chad. $1.00 feeds a large family for one day.

In Sub-Saharan Africa there are almost 25 million people living with HIV, of whom over 2 million are children under the age of 15. In 2006 alone, almost 8,000 adults and children died of AIDS each day.

India has 456 million people, 41.6% of its population is living below the new international poverty line of $1.25 per day. The World Bank further estimates that 33% of the global poor now reside in India. Moreover, India also has 828 million people, or 75.6% of the population living below $2 a day.

The US standard of poverty is about $28 a day

 I could throw out some images of starving children but that doesn't seem right.

My point is that WE ARE SO BLESSED. And we should be sharing our blessing with the world.

There is enough wealth in the world to meet everyone’s need,

 But not everyone’s greed.

Here is a link to Doctors without Boarders

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

Read about them and maybe donate to their program or pray in their needs.

And Happy Thanksgiving!

I love this, it makes my heart want to explode!

PS22 Chorus performs VIVA LA VIDA by Coldplay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_tcE4rWovI

Shepherd's Pie

I made shepherd’s pie, from scratch, without a recipe. Just thought I would get that out there.

Currently watching Harry Potter, I watched the most recent movie the other night and there are more biblical parallels than I can count, and if you have read the last book then you know that Harry dies to defend his friends and by doing so he effectively conquers evil in the world. Sorry if I just ruined that for you, but seriously, you haven’t read the book yet? You are waiting for the movie? That’s so lame. Anyway, I said all that to say that the author of the HP books wouldn't reveal the end of the series even though the religious right said that her books "were of the devil.",
In other words she kicks ass, and she is very brave.

I am going to Susie V this weekend to take Sara to my Dad’s, if he really is my dad, lol. I can’t decide if I want to go to church or not, part of me thinks it will hurt too much. Bill told a story on Sunday to illustrate that so much of the Christian life is already paid for, we are just sitting on our hands waiting for one more thing; one more sign, one more wonder, and then we will live the life of faith and communion that we were destined for.

I have been trying to come up with a one liner that could sum all my feelings up, but I can’t.

Off to bed.

AT&T Sucks

As the title may have mentioned, AT&T Sucks!

 

I had to wait a week to get our internet switched over and now its still not working and it was easier for me to steal someone else’s than it was to hook up my own.

So here I am using secondhand internet, and I would call AT&T but their hold music is AWEFUL. You know when you get in an elevator at a casino and they have really cheesy jazz music playing a little too loud? Well take that and pair it with every Lamb Chops song you have ever heard, played at volume level slightly higher than a screaming two year old. If you can imagine that then you are on the outskirts of just how horrendous this music is. 

So here I sit, on the borrowed slightly slow internet. I have to leave for work in 30 minutes and I am still in my pajamas. Lovely.

In other news, I bought a car. Its  a 2006 Mazda 3 and it is silver. I am very happy.

The end.

Stop, Collaborate and Listen.

Today I promised myself that I would write here more. 

For me really, not for anyone else; though your feedback is appreciated.

I feel that there is a huge change taking place inside of me. I am not sure if this is good or bad. But I know that I am not the same person today that I was about three months ago. This has very little to do with Bethel and more to do with living in the real world for more than a few minutes. Things are hard out here! My mom has cancer. My sister is mad, and she is leaving to live with my dad. My dad is an idiot, I have told this too him to his face several times, so don’t worry, that’s not gossip. I don’t know where all my friends have run off too, almost certainly to live lives that are much more enjoyable than mine.  I do not have a charmed life.

On top of all of that, this election has made me question what I believe and more importantly why I believe it. I voted for Barak Obama. There I said it. I would go into an extensive explanation of why, but it’s just not worth the effort because I can’t win with everyone.

Yesterday I posted a bulletin about people sending me emails assaulting Barak Obama’s character. Honestly these emails swayed me to the left, rather than the right. I don’t understand how people who stand for truth can promulgate so many rumors and lies! 

And then I started thinking about my programming. You see I have been reading these books set in the future where doctors can program minds to be less aggressive, more agreeable and positive, thereby making them very passive and enjoyable to be around. Alternately they can also enhance traits to make super aggressive violent people. The thing is that all the people in this book have no idea that their mind has been messed with; it just feels natural to them. Only a handful of doctors know that they are controlling the population through this surgery. Think about this. We were not born predisposed to our opinions, every leason we ever learned shaped and molded us into who we are now. 

Who and what were you shaped by? 

And are you ok with the shape you are in?

The fourth disrict.

I just heard an ad on the radio that encouraged “Real Americans” To go down to “Gun Store A” and buy a gun before they are outlawed in America.

Only minutes later I overheard this conversation:

“You know what my husband said? He just can’t believe that America has stooped low enough to elect a black president. He’s not racist or anything, he just can’t believe it!”

“Oh I know, and you know that there is nothing we can do about it! He has the senate and the house. Personally I am thinking about moving to Norway, where capitalism is still alive.”

Wait, what?
While I would love to pick apart the idiosyncrasies of this conversation, I can’t because I am still at work. Blogging at work, about work is probably worse than just blogging about your work from the comfort of your own home.