This quote still makes me laugh...

"Still, it doesn't do to murder people, however offensive they may be."

-Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey

A year I barely knew...

It's funny how things change. Some change is so slow that you don't notice it until you're looking back. Other change is in the blink of an eye. The gradual one is comfortable, like a warm summer breeze. And then it slaps you across the face like a face-first fall into ice cold water.

A great many things have changed this year. Some changes I predicted. Some I expected. Some I planned.

Some I didn't plan. Some...I couldn't stand. Some hurt beyond reason or explanation.

Yet life goes on.

There were times I cried, my world turned upside down. Facing future I couldn't plan for, wasn't expecting.

But there is strength in promise.

"With Whom there is no variation or shadow of turning*..."

The Giver of Gifts. The Giver of...yes, even change. And the Giver of pain.

With Whom there is no variation....

He doesn't change. He doesn't leave me in pain, in confusion. Through changes in my life, He remains constant.

Neither shadow of turning...

Not even a shadow of turning. How slight a shadow is, but He promises not even a shadow of turning.

And through change that knocks me senseless...or creeps suddenly in...I can trust that promise. That the Giver of all things won't give me something I can't handle. Won't change any outward thing that He's not walking beside me in.

I hardly know how to describe the last year. I hardly knew it. It came- and has gone. With the coming of 2011, I desire to live in the moment. To remember the little things that make life meaningful. To live life alive. To know this year. To be faithful.

Good morning.

*James 1:17b

Christmas Recap

Memorable. Crazy. Randomly fun. Green. Family frenzied.

Musical. Cold-at the last minute.

Beautiful.

Hope yours was wonderful as well.

I recieved an email with a Christmas thought question: Why did Christ come as a baby? He ascended in an unusual way, and it would have made perfect sense for him to come in an unusual way as an adult. Why did He not come for his few years of ministry and then ascend a few years later? What was the point of the birth as a baby and then the silent years until his ministry began?

I don't know the reason. That may be a thing too high for us- we aren't supposed to know. But I know what He did.

He came as a baby to be born like we were.

He grew up like we did.

He walked the ground we walk on.

He was born under the law so that He could fulfill it- He is the only one that could.

He was tempted as we are, and overcame without sinning.

He felt the pain we do, and His pain like no other.

He cried the tears we cry, then cried tears of blood.

He was silent to teach us to speak.

He became sin, that we may become righteous.

He died the death of a sinner, so that we could live.

He loved us. Though we hated Him, He loved us. And He is The Way.

He came under the law to save us from it. Christ didn't have to become a Christian. He came so we could be Christ-followers.

And I stand in awe that He could love me. Me.

And I'm forever grateful.

Randomness, ect.

It's been awhile. Life happens.

I turned 17.

I got my driver's license.

My procrastination is 10 times worse.

I make faces with fruit snacks during math. Then take a picture. After all, it's math, right?

My family and another family went to a Civil War reenactment. We dressed up. :) My little brother was the cutest little guy there.

The guys died after the battle. Well, most of them.

We even made the paper.

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The longer between posts the harder posting is. Not really sure why.

I'm not going to promise updates any more-they may or may not happen.

My apologies to the 12 people I haven't emailed back in the last...well, little while. My philosophy for respondng to emails is:

1 line email- I'll probably respond within the day.

2 line email- I'll probably respond within two days.

3 line email- it may or may not take me a week.

More than that- call me. Otherwise you may have to wait a week or a matter of months.

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Because Christmas is almost close, I'm hosting a contest on my blog! It's the how-random-can-you-be-in-one-sentance contest. The winner will recieve a random prize. The only way to enter is to leave a random comment. No extra entries, sorry. This contest will close December 17th at 7:32 and 1/2 p.m.

Good night!

Your Hands

Thanks Ames.

Math must've gone to his head too...

"I know that two and two make four-and should be glad to prove it, too, if I could-though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert two and two into five it would give me much greater pleasure."
-Lord Byron