World On Fire

Sarah McLachlan "World On Fire"

Hearts are worn in these dark ages
You're not alone in this story's pages
Night has fallen amongst the living and the dying
And I try to hold it in, yeah I try to hold it in

The world's on fire and
It's more than I can handle
I dive into the water
(I try to pull my ship)
I try to bring more
More than I can handle
(Bring it to the table)
Bring what I am able

I watch the heavens and I find a calling
Something I can do to change this moment
Stay close to me while the sky is falling
Don't wanna be left alone, don't wanna be alone

The world's on fire and
It's more than I can handle
I dive into the water
(I try to pull my ship)
I try to bring more
More than I can handle
(Bring it to the table)
Bring what I am to able

Hearts break, hearts mend
Love still hurts
Visions clash, planes crash
Still there's talk of
Saving souls, still the cold
Is closing in on us

We part the veil on Archille's sun
Stray from the straight line on this short run
The more we take, the less we become
A fortune of one that means less for some

The world's on fire and
It's more than I can handle
I dive into the water
(I try to pull my ship)
I try to bring more
More than i can handle
(Bring it to the table)
Bring what I am able

Overwhelming Joy

I got out of school during lunch today to hang out with my two favorite people, Aidan and Bridget, my nephew and niece. Okay so I was babysitting, but it's way to fun to be called that.

I was running around with Aidan, who's three, and shooting bad guys (aka everything that wasn't a person). While doing this I got this overwhelming feeling of joy, and it was just awesome. He is such a little angle and he is just a blessing to us all. Just being around him makes you smile, no matter who old or tough you are. God has really shown me true joy, joy that I can't deny no matter how hard I try.

Bridget, well she is just adorable, she is about six months old, and so precious. She lights up every time she sees you and a HUGE grin spreads across her face and, I've found, across the other persons as well. She is just a cute, fat, ball of wonderful. She likes to make meaningless sounds, and touch her toes in the strangest ways. She also likes to eat anything that she can, including my jacket and fingers!

While observing the two of them today I was just happy, I couldn't stop smiling. Watching Aidan running around, smiling, playing with him, holding his hand laughing with him, and having him say "Lisby, you're my friend" was just so.....wonderful. I don' t really have any more words to describe it, I hope that you all will find the joy and wonderfullness ( I don't care if that isn't a word) that I found today with my niece and nephew. I love both of them very much, I truly believe they are what keep my family and I going.

Peace and Love Friends

It's la rap, get over it.

I walk through the halls of this familiar school
passin all the kids they all act soo cool.
But i can still see the depressed, the opressed the distressed, the nicely dressed.

I see crying I see screaming I hear singing I hear laughing
I see the loud and I feel the silent
I see all these strangers everyday and I don't know what to say and I don't know any other way to go about my day.

we're put into these situations, smashed into these little classes, cramed into these little desks and expected to succeed?

all those around us, those people who don't even know our name, they all act exactly the same, and i think it's really lame, because it's all just a competition for fame.

Does it even matter?
does anyone care who you were?
that you were prom queen,
unseen,
or anything inbetween?

I've realized that none of it counts.
no one cares what happend back then.
so i gotta ask the question WHY.

WHY do we put ourselves under all of this stress?
WHY do we overdress?
WHY do we press and press and press?
WHY do we do all the rest?
WHY WHY WHY?

I can only guess..it's got to do with this broken world, all the pain, the hurt, the weakness, and the fear.

This discrimination, exhileration, proclimation, declaration, all this violation and lack of motivation!
WHY don't those who are so stable, and so well off not help those who aren't?
WHY do we all just sit around talking about all the pain in this world and do nothing about it?
WHY is it soo hard to reach out to a stranger? to love your neighbor, to help those who need it so much?

what will happen if this generation just ignores it? if we don't do anyting about it, who will?

who will....
who will....

who will....

who?

Beautiful soul

I thank God every day for the beautiful angle he has sent me.