"You won't relent until You have it all; my heart is Yours.
I'll set You as a seal upon my heart; As a seal upon my arm; For there is love that is as strong as death; Jealousy demanding as the grave; And many waters cannot quench this love.
Come be the fire inside of me; Come be the flame upon my heart; Come be the fire inside of me; Until You and I are one." //Jesusculture; You Won't Relent
I don't want to talk about you as if you're not in the room. I wanna look right at you, wanna sing right to you, tell you that everything that I have is yours. For your strength is made perfect in all my weaknesses.
"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night."
//Khaled Hosseini; The Kite Runner
Today TBH was talking about the law fraternity being a merciless, cutthroat and all-round unforgiving place. That once you have taken a step in the wrong direction, it stays in people's minds for a long time and it becomes very difficult, if not impossible, to ever get past it. So I'm truly thankful that you are different, that you are giving me a second chance even though I did nothing to deserve it. This time, I won't let you down.
"Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward." //E.E Cummings
I love the conversations that we have and how they always come back to the same thing. That we have walked the same paths, undergone the same experiences and held each other most of the whole way. Thank you for always affirming me in the choices I make and for encouraging me when I needed it. We may not always get to be together, but I know that we have something definitely special.
I am officially in deep, desperate, drowning love with the Amoy Street coffeshop muffins. They are just dying to be eaten. And I can't stop. I just had one chocolate chip with tea while mugging and now I'm craving all the blueberry ones which are not for me and when I don't even like blueberries in the first place. How, oh how can Edmund's Cafe even begin to compare with this awesomeness!
"It’s a lie, you know, to pretend that nothing is important to you. It’s hiding. Believe me, I know because I hid for a long time. But now I won’t do it anymore. The truth is bioluminescent. I don’t lie and I don’t waste time on people who do."
//Ellen Wittlinger; Hard Love
Eventually I will have to do this on my own. And the sooner I realise and understand that, the easier it will be in the long run. No need for hand-holding, no need to search for an easy way out, I'm just gonna have to grit my teeth and hold on to my source of strength.
"But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope."
//Emily Maguire; Taming the Beast
It was just a few years ago that we were in school together, playing together, growing up together. Now we're strewn across continents, collecting friends and partners that we don't know and have never met and making stilted conversations for the first time. And we are beginning to look different, slowly but surely
And standing where I am, about to plunge into the next phase of my life, I think I can see the impact of choices made in your twenties. That these choices will surely shape you and define you and determine the person you become. That one day, you will stand at that point and look back and be able to judge all that you've done in these eight years before you turn thirty. And the prospects I've seen scare me, just a bit. That people who I knew when I was young are making these same choices each and everyday and are now standing at the point near thirty, looking back and I don't know if they can say with conviction that they really like what they see.
And that just drives home the point for me. That I can spend the next part of my life clutching at withered possibilities or I can start making the choices I need to make. Right here, right now.
"You won't relent until You have it all; my heart is Yours.
I'll set You as a seal upon my heart; As a seal upon my arm; For there is love that is as strong as death; Jealousy demanding as the grave; And many waters cannot quench this love.
Come be the fire inside of me; Come be the flame upon my heart; Come be the fire inside of me; Until You and I are one." //Jesusculture; You Won't Relent
I don't want to talk about you as if you're not in the room. I wanna look right at you, wanna sing right to you, tell you that everything that I have is yours. For your strength is made perfect in all my weaknesses.
"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night."
//Khaled Hosseini; The Kite Runner
Today TBH was talking about the law fraternity being a merciless, cutthroat and all-round unforgiving place. That once you have taken a step in the wrong direction, it stays in people's minds for a long time and it becomes very difficult, if not impossible, to ever get past it. So I'm truly thankful that you are different, that you are giving me a second chance even though I did nothing to deserve it. This time, I won't let you down.
"Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward." //E.E Cummings
I love the conversations that we have and how they always come back to the same thing. That we have walked the same paths, undergone the same experiences and held each other most of the whole way. Thank you for always affirming me in the choices I make and for encouraging me when I needed it. We may not always get to be together, but I know that we have something definitely special.
I am officially in deep, desperate, drowning love with the Amoy Street coffeshop muffins. They are just dying to be eaten. And I can't stop. I just had one chocolate chip with tea while mugging and now I'm craving all the blueberry ones which are not for me and when I don't even like blueberries in the first place. How, oh how can Edmund's Cafe even begin to compare with this awesomeness!
"It’s a lie, you know, to pretend that nothing is important to you. It’s hiding. Believe me, I know because I hid for a long time. But now I won’t do it anymore. The truth is bioluminescent. I don’t lie and I don’t waste time on people who do."
//Ellen Wittlinger; Hard Love
Eventually I will have to do this on my own. And the sooner I realise and understand that, the easier it will be in the long run. No need for hand-holding, no need to search for an easy way out, I'm just gonna have to grit my teeth and hold on to my source of strength.
"But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope."
//Emily Maguire; Taming the Beast
It was just a few years ago that we were in school together, playing together, growing up together. Now we're strewn across continents, collecting friends and partners that we don't know and have never met and making stilted conversations for the first time. And we are beginning to look different, slowly but surely
And standing where I am, about to plunge into the next phase of my life, I think I can see the impact of choices made in your twenties. That these choices will surely shape you and define you and determine the person you become. That one day, you will stand at that point and look back and be able to judge all that you've done in these eight years before you turn thirty. And the prospects I've seen scare me, just a bit. That people who I knew when I was young are making these same choices each and everyday and are now standing at the point near thirty, looking back and I don't know if they can say with conviction that they really like what they see.
And that just drives home the point for me. That I can spend the next part of my life clutching at withered possibilities or I can start making the choices I need to make. Right here, right now.
