Listening to Jewel again tonight. Way too many memories associated with that CD. Spirit.

And it always makes me wonder how something so beautiful could turn so ugly.
And it always makes me wonder if I'll ever have something that beautiful again.

But the memory of what was beautiful somewhat strenghtens my faith
That perhaps God will again bless me with something beautiful in the future

But you've heard that story a thousand times before.
And it will probably be repeated a thousand times more.

I've begun to realize, well, I've known it for a long time now...
It just keeps hitting again and again...
that my emotions are way too easily swayed.

My hope is never constant. My eyes always fall to the waves crashing around.
Or perhaps my ears are a little too attentive to the seeds of doubt the enemy plants...
They're simple things really.
A couple holding hands.
A breathtaking sunset.
A warm spring day.
Do you know the fear?

Some quotes from a random website I found...


There is more to life than increasing the speed.
Mahatma Gandhi

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach, "Illusions"

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky.
Rainer Rilke

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Michelangelo


more to come later...