Micahpie's Xanga

It's a boy!

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:40:28 GMT

Well, we found out on Tuesday that we're having a boy! We are just thrilled; although we would be just as thrilled if it were a girl. It's funny though; I've always wanted a boy first, because I have an older brother and I love our relationship. He's always looked out for me and supported me, and we are best friends now. So it's all good!

Micah

I got tagged!

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:02:00 GMT

“Rules” After posting these rules, each player proceeds to list 8 relatively random facts/habits about himself/herself. At the end of the post, the player then tags 8 people and posts their names, leaving them a comment on their blogs to let them know.

1) One of the most difficult things for me to deal with is a person who picks on someone who appears "weaker" in some way than themselves. I have no tolerance for this.

2) I drive fast, and aggressively. I'm not a total jerk on the road, I'm just an efficient driver. And no one (except my husband at times!) ever feels unsafe with me.

3) I tend to be anti-consumerist, and I am a political conservative. Sometimes I think people get confused by this, but I believe that it is truly conservative to find your happiness in something other than what you buy. I'm not saying that I'm an ascetic. I just believe that what you own in this life is not really important in the grand scheme of things.

4) I used to eat butter-flavored Crisco sprinkled with sugar, and I really enjoyed it!

5) I don't believe you could put me through any type of medical test that would embarass me. If a doctor tells me it's necessary, I don't care what it is, they can look at it, take pictures of it, probe it, whatever. I'm fine with it. Probably comes from being a nurse; I realize that sometimes discomfort and nakedness is necessary.

6) I secretly wish that all of my friends and family could live in a commune-type setting. Separate houses, but all on one property. And we would farm and hunt and be mostly self-sufficient. Yeah, I know...I'm a hippie.

7) I devour books the way that some people devour cake. Reading makes me so happy!!! And the library is just a miracle to me...all of those books in one air-conditioned place! My utopia!

8) When I was little, my mom found me floating face down in a pool, and she revived me. Thanks mom!

EIGHT PEOPLE:
moviemaid, and seven other people from myspace...I just didn't think anyone read this anymore! But, if you're reading it and want to do it, go ahead...just let me know so that I can read it!

Leggo my preggo

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:33:45 GMT

I'm with child. And so excited!

Micah

Continue to do good...

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:25:29 GMT

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.

Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds...

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:17:09 GMT

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come:

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

William Shakespeare

(1564 - 1616)

"Stand Inside Your Love" by Smashing Pumpkins

You and me
Meant to be
Immutable
Impossible
It's destiny
Pure lunacy
Incalculable
Insufferable
But for the last time
You're everything that I want and ask for
You're all that I'd dreamed
Who wouldn't be the one you love
Who wouldn't stand inside your love
Protected and the lover of
A pure soul and beautiful you
Don't understand
Don't feel me now
I will breathe
For the both of us
Travel the world
Traverse the skies
Your home is here
Within my heart
And for the first time
I feel as though I am reborn
In my mind
Recast as child and mystic sage
Who wouldn't be the one you love
Who wouldn't stand inside your love
And for the first time
I'm telling you how much I need and bleed for
Your every move and waking sound
In my time
I'll wrap my wire around your heart and your mind
You're mine forever now
Who wouldn't be the one you love and live for
Who wouldn't stand inside your love and die for
Who wouldn't be the one you love

Both beautiful, huh?

Micah

"Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell..."

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:42:32 GMT

It's funny to think back on life, and realize that something as simple as a song can change the whole trajectory of your future...

I can honestly say that I owe a lot of my present happiness to a Switchfoot song, and the way that God brought it to my attention.

Micah

Thursday, September 28, 2006

Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:13:20 GMT

Okay, well, I heard a song on the radio a few weeks ago that brought me to tears, and still does every time I hear it. Here are the lyrics:

You Are the Sun by Sara Groves

You are the sun shining down on everyone
Light of the world giving light to everything I see
Beauty so brilliant I can hardly take it in
And everywhere You are is warmth and light

And I am the moon with no light of my own
Still You have made me to shine
And as I glow in this cold dark night
I know I can’t be a light unless I turn my face to You

You are the sun shining down on everyone
Light of the world giving light to everything I see
Beauty so brilliant I can hardly take it in
And everywhere You are is warmth and light

And I am the moon with no light of my own
Still You have made me to shine
And as I glow in this cold dark night
I know I can’t be a light unless I turn my face to You

Shine on me with Your light
Without You I’m a cold dark stone
Shine on me, I have no light of my own
You are the sun, You are the sun, You are the sun
And I am the moon

You have made me to shine
And as I glow in this cold dark night
I know I can’t be a light unless I turn my face to You
No I will never be a light until I turn my face to You
No I will never be a light until I turn my face to You
No I will never be a light until I turn my face to You

It reminded me of something that I read and then responded to in my Xanga a few years ago. It is below.

So,love...

"No sooner do we believe that God loves us than there is an impulse to believe that He does so, not because He is Love, but because we are intrinsically lovable. The Pagans obeyed this impulse unabashed; a good man was "dear to the gods" because he was good. We, being better taught, resort to subterfuge. Far be it from us to think that we have virtues for which God could love us. But then, how magnificently we have repented! As Bunyan says, describing his first and illusory conversion, "I thought there was no man in England that pleased God better than I." Beaten out of this, we next offer our own humility to God's admiration. Surely He'll like that? Or if not that, our clear-sighted and humble recognition that we still lack humility. Thus, depth beneath depth and subtlety within subtlety, there remains some lingering idea of our own, our very own, attractiveness. It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realise for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us."

C. S. Lewis, in The Four Loves: Charity

We are mirrors...I pray that mine is polished and ready at all times to reflect his love and grace...we are His hands and feet. If we are not out there loving and showing others His forgiveness and mercy, then how will they see it? Don't get me wrong, God is a big God and He can send someone else, but don't we want to obey? Because that is where we are living in joy, because our transformed hearts are only satisfied when we are within His will for us...and isn't that what we truly want?

...it is not the beauty of the mirror, it is the light reflected that draws others to us. So our focus should be getting closer to the light, and as we draw closer, the reflection grows brighter and clearer. Seeking not a brighter light, or a more beautiful mirror, but the actual presence of the Light.

Jesus, show me how to better be a reflection of You...give me strength to seek You each day, and get to know You better. Let me diminish, so that Your light might shine more clearly and brightly...when people see me, let them not see the mirror, let them see You reflected...

Micah

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 06:06:01 GMT

Finally, we're back online. It was such a headache, but the journey is over and we have our DSL back...and just in time too! (Matt needs it for school.)

I'm tired, and heading to bed. More soon, 'kay? :)

Micah

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 23:06:45 GMT

I am still without internet! I am having DSL issues, but don't worry...I will be back in force shortly! Miss everyone!

Micah

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:18:49 GMT

"Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere."
- Elrond, from J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings"