Treat yourself.

Did you ever want to do something completely out of character?

I get the urge to out-do myself every now and then.

I indluge in little pleasures that make me feel-

that revive my spirit and make me powerful.

These little acts aren't harmful or damaging-

they're playful and unihibited.

For instance, yesterday I painted my nails blue.

And it blue me away.

Into the Wild

I just started reading this pseudo-biography

of one young man's journey into the unknown.

It's moving and heart-wrenching-

humorous and dark at the same time.

I highly recommend it. Disappear Into the Wild.

My favorite passage thus far:

Nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.

Bodly do things (something I often personally remind myself of)...Make each day a new horizon.

It takes grace to give grace;

it takes hope to give hope;

it takes love to give love.

I can give these to you

because Christ gave them to me.

Paul David Tripp

Lest we forget...

Fate.

It's something holy, not superficial.
This I know.
Born from the Lord, received by your heart.
Pure and true.
Not on a pedastal or lost in a fairytale-land,
but given to all.
Freely it grows and stronger as it does.
Hold on.
Or it will hold you. In Love. Always.

Sometimes I forget to jump.

I forget that, in life, I have to take risks.

I have to put it out on the line-

and hope, pray, wish for the best.

I must pry myself free

from the tangled web of what-if's and why didn't I's?

I have to break out of the boundaries I set up-

why did I put them in place to begin with?

Sometimes I'll fall short,

but sometimes I'll get more than I ever could have imagined.

And when that happens,

I am reminded of the importance of the jump.

Life is an adventure; make the leap.

And then one day it happens...

And nothing is ever the same.

Nor would you ask it to be.