Reflections

This school year has definitely been my most stressful year. I did manage to pass physics though. =)  It has also been my most rewarding year. I have been blessed in so many ways. First with NHS and then with being elected onto executive and class SGA. It has been a growing experience. By taking two college classes and planning banquet I have learned about responsibility. During the middle of this year I had said that it was my worst year of high school. However, looking back now I see that even though it was hard, it was my most rewarding year. Unless this next year can out do it!

"Love- why I'll tell you what love is: It's you at 75 and her at 71, each of your listening for the other's step in the next room, each afraid that a sudden silence, a sudden cry, could mean a lifetime's talk is over."
                                                                                        -Brian Moore, The Luck of Ginger Coffey, 1960

I love this quote! It gives me chills every time I read it. Looking at my grandparents relationship, I see how true this is. To be together so long is an extremely powerful thing. Another idea I thought of when reading this quote is that love and death can also mean a lifetime's talk begins. With God we will live eternally and we will have Him to praise and talk to for all of our eternal lives.

Fire!!!

I often wonder what I would take with me if my house were on fire. My first answer would be my books. But there are so many! I could not possibly save them all and myself. I would also want my pictures, letters, and everything that has memories in it, but that is most of my belongings. So, as I rack my brain trying to come up with a solution, something dawns on me. I will be logical and simply go get the fire extinguisher and put out the fire.

A Changed Place

        One place that has changed tremendously over my lifetime is my church. I have attended King Street Church all my life. I used to know most of the church members. Now, I don't even know a quarter of them. With 2,000 attendees on Sunday mornings and many additions to the original building, it is hard to know everyone. I love our pastor and the messages he gives every Sunday, but sometimes I wish for a smaller environment. The growth of our church has been a huge blessing even though I sometimes yearn for the old days.

Adagem

TRUST in Him who gives you strength.
IN ever steady arms I rest.
THE purest love I'll ever know.
LORD give me faith for all my days.
OH trust in the Lord forever more.
MY body will die, but do not fear. My
SOUL will live eternal with my Lord.

Change

new places

scary beginnings

not knowing what's ahead

ever moving and changing lives

the days go bye in a blink of an eye

it's never easy to say goodbye

new things are as scary as knives

we must move on, ahead

happy endings

new places

The Carnival

To my delight
rays of light shine about
happiness glows
off of childrens' faces
games are played
bingo, coin toss, and darts
aromas fill the air of
cotton candy and candy apples
children run about
screaming on the ferris wheel
winning prizes
oh look a stuffed bear
what fun it is just sitting here
under the ferris wheel
at the carnival

Moment of Summer

It is so close I can smell it. I have been anticipating the moment of summer for a month. I love school, but this year has made me anxious to get out. Final tests are being taken. Seniors have been discussing graduation. My friends and I already have plans for summer. The moment is almost here. June will be filled with sleep and friends. July holds the trip to the beach with cool waves crashing up against my legs and sand between my toes. And don't forget the seafood, especially the clams. Yum! August brings volleyball and soon I will be back in school as a senior. Why can't summer last a little longer! I should really focus on the beginning of summer not the end of it. I am a little nervous for my senior year. I really do not like change and the end of my senior year will bring a lot of change. So now I will focus in the present time and just get through these next few weeks. At last the moment will arrive. O what a marvelous day that will be!

Nursery Rhyme

Original Version
Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells, and cockle shells,
And pretty maids all in a row.

Parody
Mary, Mary, oh so cheery,
Why must you jump and shout?
but then one day good news came and
Mary jumped out of her house.

Family Ritual

My family ritual is kind of the opposite of a ritual. You see, every Christmas we are very busy. My family always gets home late from my grandma's house and we are all exhausted. No one ever has enough energy left to open our stockings. So, my family ritual is that we open our stockings the week after Christmas. Not the next day or a few days later, it is almost a week before we get around to opening them. They just hang on the fireplace waiting to be opened. This ritual started when My sister and I were young. My parents usually made us wait until the next day to open them. However, as we got older the days between Christmas and the openin of the stockings increased. This is probably not a normal tradition or ritual, but it seems to be the only one my family is capable of achieving. No one minds opening the stockings a week after Christmas though, so it continues to happen year after year.