How Sweet...

I surreptitiously snapped this picture this evening. Aren't they sweet?

Senior Pictures

These are rejects from my senior pictures, but I like them nonetheless. My favorites are posted on Maidens of Worth for readers to vote on. Meanwhile, enjoy!

My Savior My God

About God

About God

by Rita Springer

I have thought about God and my own life’s existence,

And it’s not like I’ve not been on my knees in repentance.

Bigger than life, and out on my own.

I’ve come to these conclusions about God.

I have thought about God when searching for solutions

Disappointed and cost birthing such confusion,

Surrendered my heart to the truth not a system. And to God.

How can we walk underneath an open sky?

How can we say we have eyes and yet we can be so blind?

You have your race and religion, and I guess I have mine,

What about God?

I had thought about God when my own father was dying.

And I thought "the idea, of death and it’s timing!"

I turned the other cheek only because I was crying out to God.

How can we walk underneath an open sky?

How can we say we have eyes and yet we can be so blind?

You have your race and religion, and I guess I have mine,

What about God? What about God?

How can we walk underneath an open sky?

How can we say we have eyes and yet we can be so blind?

You have your race and religion, and I guess I have mine,

What about God? Do you think about God?

You can look through the windows of a stained glass cathedral

You can speak in tongues in a church with a steeple

Who holds the keys to your own heart’s temple?

I wonder if it’s God.

I wonder if it's God.

Do you ever think about God?

Quotes For Thought

Those who won our independence...valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty...that without free speech and assembly discussion would be futile; that with them, discussing affords ordinarily adequate protection against the dissemination of noxious doctrine; that the greatest menace to freedom is an inert people; that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government. But they knew that order cannot be secured merely through fear of punishment for its infraction; that it is hazardous to discourage thought, hope and imagination; that fear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces a stable government; that the path of safety lies in the opportunity to discuss freely supposed grievances and proposed remedies; and that the fitting for evil counsels is good ones... Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

-- Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)

Find Us Faithful

Find Us Faithful

By Steve Green

We're pilgrims on the journey
Of the narrow road
And those who've gone before us line the way
Cheering on the faithful, encouraging the weary
Their lives a stirring testament to God's sustaining grace

Surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses
Let us run the race not only for the prize
But as those who've gone before us
Let us leave to those behind us
The heritage of faithfulness passed on through godly lives

CHORUS:
Oh may all who come behind us find us faithful
May the fire of our devotion light their way
May the footprints that we leave
Lead them to believe
And the lives we live inspire them to obey
Oh may all who come behind us find us faithful

After all our hopes and dreams have come and gone
And our children sift through all we've left behind
May the clues that they discover and the memories they uncover
Become the light that leads them to the road we each must find

CHORUS:
Oh may all who come behind us find us faithful
May the fire of our devotion light their way
May the footprints that we leave
Lead them to believe
And the lives we live inspire them to obey
Oh may all who come behind us find us faithful

Oh may all who come behind us find us faithful
Oh may all who come behind us find us faithful