heavy thoughts
Feb. 13th, 2003 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chestnutcurlsI have a lot on my mind today.
My brother's birthday dinner went well. I gave him a copy of Where The Red Fern Grows, because I'm reading it and I thought of him from the very first page. He doesn't read much, but I really think he'll enjoy that book. (My mom was pleased, too. :)) At our table at Shogun, there was a youngish, nice-looking guy eating by himself. He looked lonely. I'm not sure why, but I felt very sad for him. I even feel sad now when I think about it. Because I am weird and have random attacks of compassion for total strangers. :(
My mom told me that the Christian bookstore in the mall was going out of business, so I went there after dinner. Everything was half-off, so I went, um, a little nuts. :) The haul:
Books: When Dreams Come True, Eric and Leslie Ludy; Messy Spirituality, Michael Yaconelli; As Time Goes By, Lori Wick; a new English Standard Version Bible (10 dollars!!!)
CDs: Back Home, Caedmon's Call; furthermore: from the studio/from the stage, Jars of Clay; Myself When I Am Real, Bebo Norman
On the way to Bible study, I put in the Jars CD, and one of the songs really struck me. I'll probably post the lyrics later.
At Bible study we've been studying Glorification. Well, something has happened to make it much more real. A girl from the church, who went to Ole Miss and was on core group of their RUF, was killed last week in a head-on collision. She was engaged, to another member of the church. (This isn't my church, so I don't personally know any of these people, but many people present did.) I wish I could tell the story the way Jean did, as he talked about his conversations with her friends and her fiance, about heaven and how they know she's there. The topic of the talk was "the end of all tears," about how when we get to heaven, God will wipe away all our tears Himself. It was so powerful. I wish all of you could have been there.
After Bible study I went to Evan's for a little while. Then I went home and started to read When Dreams Come True. I was up until 1 am finishing it, because I couldn't stop reading. It gave me a lot to think about. But again, that is for a later post.
My brother's birthday dinner went well. I gave him a copy of Where The Red Fern Grows, because I'm reading it and I thought of him from the very first page. He doesn't read much, but I really think he'll enjoy that book. (My mom was pleased, too. :)) At our table at Shogun, there was a youngish, nice-looking guy eating by himself. He looked lonely. I'm not sure why, but I felt very sad for him. I even feel sad now when I think about it. Because I am weird and have random attacks of compassion for total strangers. :(
My mom told me that the Christian bookstore in the mall was going out of business, so I went there after dinner. Everything was half-off, so I went, um, a little nuts. :) The haul:
Books: When Dreams Come True, Eric and Leslie Ludy; Messy Spirituality, Michael Yaconelli; As Time Goes By, Lori Wick; a new English Standard Version Bible (10 dollars!!!)
CDs: Back Home, Caedmon's Call; furthermore: from the studio/from the stage, Jars of Clay; Myself When I Am Real, Bebo Norman
On the way to Bible study, I put in the Jars CD, and one of the songs really struck me. I'll probably post the lyrics later.
At Bible study we've been studying Glorification. Well, something has happened to make it much more real. A girl from the church, who went to Ole Miss and was on core group of their RUF, was killed last week in a head-on collision. She was engaged, to another member of the church. (This isn't my church, so I don't personally know any of these people, but many people present did.) I wish I could tell the story the way Jean did, as he talked about his conversations with her friends and her fiance, about heaven and how they know she's there. The topic of the talk was "the end of all tears," about how when we get to heaven, God will wipe away all our tears Himself. It was so powerful. I wish all of you could have been there.
After Bible study I went to Evan's for a little while. Then I went home and started to read When Dreams Come True. I was up until 1 am finishing it, because I couldn't stop reading. It gave me a lot to think about. But again, that is for a later post.
