Seven Quick Takes!

1.  Yesterday, my daughter was sick with a stomach virus. It was terrible. I don't know that there is any more tortuous moment-by-moment difficulty to sit through than watching someone who is so precious to you, and so helpless, go through so much pain. It made me pause for a moment and think about how maybe this is how our Heavenly Father feels when He sees us trapped in the bondage, corruption, and sickness of sin. How heart-breaking to be sitting with the child you love and see them continue in the way of pain and sickness, refusing to take the medicine, to see the Physician. We are so helpless to untangle ourselves from sin!

Thank God He loves us so much. All I could do was pray that He take away her flu, even if it meant giving it to me.  So He did. (Stupid, stupid -- why didn't I pray He would take it away and protect me?) Hahaha, anyways, it looks like it was just a short 12-hour bug that needed to work it's way through our systems.

2. I am very excited about Mason Slater's new series "Adventures of a Young Biblicist". Read Part One here.
I tried to get into Moody Bible College. I didn't. I was so heartbroken at the time, I so badly wanted to be the new hope of Evangelical women everywhere, to assure them their Bible studies didn't have to be trite, with flowers on the cover. I was very full of myself, if you couldn't tell. :) After my rejection, I went to visit a friend who had made the cut, getting into the Vocal Performance program. While there, I had a conversation with a girl who believed certain music was inherently evil because it made you "want to move in a sensuous manner". I literally had to pick up my jaw off the floor when she said she believed it was a sexual sin to dance with anyone who wasn't your a) relative or b) husband. I just wondered, what other sexual sins are there that are ok to perform with your relatives?? :P Anyways, from that visit on, I was very grateful I was rejected. My poor soul would have been shredded there, I'm sure.

3. I got to visit the book store yesterday! I picked up three books I'm very excited about:

• The World Treasury of Modern Religious Thought ($4.25)
• Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus (Hinges of History) By Thomas Cahill (a signed copy! - $12.50)
• The Way of a Pilgrim: and The Pilgrim Continues His Way ($.50)

I'm pretty delighted. 

4. I'm liking this song: 

"All I Could Do" by Kimya Dawson from her upcoming LP "Thunder Thighs". Lyrics: 

"I had a show a few weeks ago
its getting harder and harder to sing
and it is hard to focus on my guitar
playing when inside a baby is kicking

At first I was sad and scared
cause this is all I know how to do
then John and Peter played standing up
sometimes something will change and that change
will change you.

then I thought back to six years ago
when Brian Pilkton told me to play
he gave me a car, a typewriter, a guitar
before that all I could do was count days.

then I thought back to before my coma
rehab into coma, my junkie roommates
all that I knew how to do was put cigarettes 
out on my self, I took pills and I drank.

and I thought back to when I was 15
how I was squeaky clean, and I wanted to die
I was feeding the homeless while combating loneliness
all that I could do was keep living a lie.

then I think back to that 12 year old poet
how she didn’t know it was what she would be
all she could do was hide under her bed
scared to death that somebody might read her diary

see I have changed and I’ll keep on changing
and maybe my songwriting will suffer
but its okay if at the end of the day
all i can do next is just be a good mother
its okay if at the end of the day all i can do next
is be a good mother."

*Sniff*

5. I love the blog Pithless Thoughts. Mostly for stuff like this:

6. I never thought of this before, but stumbled across this quote about the way we talk about breast cancer: 

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“The really frustrating thing about the “Save the boobies” campaign and similar ones is that it gets it exactly backward. Often, the point of breast cancer treatment is to destroy some or all of the boobies in order to save the woman. 

Saying that we should work to cure this disease because it threatens breasts is really upsetting. For starters, it suggests that women are worth saving because they’re attached to breasts, rather than the other way around. But worse, it tells any woman who’s had a life-saving mastectomy that she’s given up the thing that made people care about her survival. What a punch in the stomach.”
- Randall Munroe, writer of xkcd

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7.  Oh, and even though I just bought three books, I've already added another one to the list: A Heart for Freedom: The Remarkable Journey of a Young Dissident, Her Daring Escape, and Her Quest to Free China's Daughters.

Oh and a bonus: Here's a picture of a cat I drew with my eyes closed on Paint:

Thanks to Jen for hosting!