Thanksgiving

Today is thanksgiving, cheer all around
May thanks to God abound
For he has blessed us all every day
He has blessed us in every way
He gives us food, shelter, water and all the rest
He gives us breath and the heartbeat within our chest
Thank God for all he has done
Thank him everyone.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Give Thanks

I'm not exactly sure who composed this song. We sang it in church today, and we have to remember to give thanks to him who is worthy of our praise.

Give thanks with a grateful heart;
Give thanks to the Holy One,
Give thanks because He’s given
Jesus Christ His Son.
And now, let the weak say, “I am strong”
Let the poor say “I am rich”
Because of what the Lord has done for us.

The Personality Test at 35,000 Feet

Your Personality at 35,000 Says...

Deep down, you prefer spending time alone to spending time with others. You enjoy thinking more than talking. You don't spend much time thinking about your place in the world. You are who you are - and people can just deal with that! Your gift is having a good eye. You take amazing picture and have the natural talent for most visual arts. You are inspired by what is possible. Real life is often too ordinary for you. It's very easy for you to feel happy. You can find peace with any situation.

The Personality Test at 35,000 Feet

A Dream Within A Dream

A Dream Within A Dream, by Edgar Allen Poe.
(This reminds me of The Princess Bride, and the old priest guy. "Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder tooday. Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam... " I love that movie.) Taken from this website. Go check it out. Lots of good stuff.

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand--
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep--while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

Broken Heart

Motion City Soundtrack: Broken Heart (Seriously awesome band)

I’ll start this broken heart
I’ll fix it up so it will work again
Better than before
Then I’ll star in a mystery
A tragic tale of all that’s yet to come
Fingers crossed there will be love

But I get carried away with every day
And every fantasy
The deeper the wound,
The harder I swoon and wish that that was me
There's so much to say
But no words to convey
The loneliness building with each passing day
But I’m getting used to it
You have to get used to it

I’ll devise the best disguise
A brand new look and take them by surprise
They’ll never guess what’s not inside
I’ll express myself with ease,
With confidence and character complete
With fingers crossed, they’ll talk to me

But I get carried away with every page
In every magazine
The cheaper the thrill,
the deeper I fill my head with blasphemy
There's so much to say
But no words to convey
The loneliness building with each passing day
But I’m getting used to it
You have to get used to it

I’ll destroy this useless heart
I’ll mess it up so it’ll never beat again
Not just for me but for anyone

But I get carried away
With every phrase and made up malady
The longer I hide behind these lies,
The more I disintegrate
There's so much to say
But no words to convey
The loneliness building with each passing day
You never get used to it
You just have to live with it

We're all created equal

We're all created equal, at least that's what the Declaration of independence does say
then why don't we all treat each other that way?
Why can't we all just get along
instead of treating each other wrong.
Why do we have racism, sexism, and all the rest
everyone thinks that they are the best.
We are all equal, that is true
all this awful treatment is making me blue.

Random Thought

The random thought of the day is this: Most people are working long hours at work in order to buy their dream home, or are working in order to pay to keep their home or pay rent for their apartment. After all that work wouldn't you think they would spend a lot of time in their house? They don't. When you think about it most of us spend most of our time out of our home. For myself, from 7:30 AM- 4:00 PM I am at school or in the car traveling around. For around fifteen hours I am at home, but for 8 or 9 hours of that time, I am asleep. Why work for such a big house that sucks up all your money if you only spend half the day there? A modest dwelling is much smarter. Yeah so that's my random thought.

The Battle In The Sky

The dark cloud overhead blocked out the sun
leaving it no where to run
No rays made it down to earth
they were trapped by the cloud's girth
The day was chilly and there was quite a bit of wind
but the cloud remained pinned
They stayed stationary in the sky
staying there oh so high
Down below a leaf was torn from his mother tree's arm
and thrown to the ground where in his future was harm
The wind cared not that he had ended the young leaf's life
he cared only that the sun and cloud would end their strife
as the two fought for control
of the sky as a whole
They fought and fought
but it all came to naught
The cloud sent down snow
and made it all white below
but the sun just warmed up the ground
and the snow melted all around
The sun's rays beat against the cloud wall
hoping that they would create a hole, through they might crawl
but the cloud remained set
the cloud didn't even fret
He knew the rays would never make it through him
for the sun it looked grim.
The cloud was quite cocky and his guard fell
it was only a second but the wind blew hard and said "farewell"
The cloud blew away at a pace, slow to be sure
but the sun didn't care, he was free and light the world with his light so pure.


-Author's Note: I didn't plan this, but does anyone see any parallelism? Comment and let me know what you think :)