waiting

Several of my favorite songs at this point in time include the word “waiting.” I know where I want to be in ten years. I know what I need to do to get there. So what am I waiting for?

Time on this earth is precious. So I need to stop waiting. To use one of my favorite phrases, I need to “get a move on.” One of the girls that I am blessed to have in my life today phrased it this way, “I need to make sure that my actions are the best use of my time that God has given me to fulfill his purpose in my life.” That is a powerful statement, and it definitely spoke straight to me.

I know that there is a purpose for the people and things God has put in my life. I need to figure out what my purpose for them is, and then I need to act. I am sick and tired of waiting.

these are a few of my favorite things

An eclectic collection of things I love

1. hot tea
2. sunflowers and irises
3. anchors
4. the color pink
5. my room in the house
6. sleeping with two pillows
7. matt wertz/dave barnes/gabe dixon
8. breakfast food
9. polka dots
10. fall leaves

10,000 children

While I’m studying for my HIV/AIDS special topics quiz tomorrow, I can’t help but think about the best way to fix this crisis. I may not have any answers, but I think Dave Barnes says it best:

10,000 children and all i can do is just talk
while my house is full of possessions that negligence bought
everyone tells me that i’m not to blame
why do i still feel the same?

only love can save us all
only love can save us all
save us all

10,000 children are my invitation to change
to continue in excess now suddenly feels oh so strange
prayers and money should not be confused
but i pray that both still are used

only love can save us all
only love can save us all

what will become of me?
inside my history

10,000 children and all i can do is just talk

Actually, he can talk, sing, laugh, and raise money: https://www.mochaclub.org/mochaclub/welcome

it was the summer of ’69

If there is one thing I absolutely do not understand, it is how in the year of our Lord two thousand eight people are still harboring issues related to racism and sexism. I am fortunate to live in the South (yes, capitalized), and I have been blessed with family and friends who have always demonstrated respect for and joy in diversity.

In the past few weeks, however, I have been utterly disappointed to see people blinded by the difference of skin color and gender.

I truly wanted to believe that this world has improved in the last century. However, just as I think things have taken a turn for equality, things happen, such as:

1. Palin achieves a great feat in receiving a vice-presidential nomination to the White House, yet does not believe in equal pay for equal work.
2. People refusing to see that a person (and in my belief, a better person than herself) is worthy of her time simply because they have a different skin color.
3. People refusing to believe that a person is capable to run the nation due to her sex or his skin color.

There are plenty of other examples, but these have been particularly irksome to me recently.