Love sings when it transcends the bad things.

Transcend:

1. To pass beyond the limits of. Ex; Emotions that transcend understanding.
2. To be greater than, as in intensity or power; surpass.
3. To exist above and independent of (material experience or the universe).

How many times does an experience in your life wake you up to that obscure level that liberates you from the painful parts of your existence long enough to see and feel what real love truly is? Even if it was just for a short moment, it alters something inside of you. Whatever the source, its what seems to be lacking in purity or steadfastness in this world. Yet when unadulterated love is given and recognized, it somehow stays. It is selfless. A few days ago I was thinking about a friend of mine that loved others with a purity in selflessness that revealed the depths of his motives. It rises above the mundane little ways that the word 'love' is tossed around. It defined to me how real love is meant to be greater than ourselves.

Passion's Price

"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live." - MLK, Jr. What are YOU willing to die for?

Amid the death and destruction that has befallen Haiti, a number of amazing stories of courage and survival have started to emerge.

~American James Girly, 64, was found by French military rescuers from the Securite Civile after he was brought out of the destroyed Hotel Montana where he was trapped for 50 hours in Port-au-Prince.

~Sarlah Chand ,65, was another of the survivors from the remains of the hotel along with seven other Americans who were saved.

~Gladys Louis Jeune was dragged out alive from the rubble of her home, nearly 43 hours after Tuesday's quake, where she was greeted by her ecstatic daughter.

~Native rescuers dug out a 3-month-old baby who was amazingly found alive in the remains of his home, hours after the magnitude 7.0 tremor hit.

~A Spanish rescuer carried to safety two-year-old Redjeson Hausteen, another of the quake’s young survivors.

When I think of the volunteers, foreign and local, who give their time and more often, endanger their lives, I get a glimpse at why Christ said his favorite thing amongst creation is mankind. It takes passion to set yourself aside for someone else, something bigger than yourself. I can't go to Haiti. I can't save the world with dollar bills. But to behold the grace of humanity sparks the motivation to improve the smaller world around me which I can do good for. I used to think it was abstruse selfishness for me to be motivated out of desire to please myself with myself. But that is not the case when the cost is greater than the payoff.

So what is the price of your passion?

Can't sleep. Clown will eat me.

Today I thought, why do I have a blog? Doesn't it add up to a bunch of paragraphs that go out into space? Do I really miss Lit class this much? And the answers are all yes. I love my work, I love my students, but there's something missing that I've got to implement. And I shall fill that void with blogging. Ahhh...let the healing begin!

Misadventures in Dating and God

Obscure question of the day: If a picture is worth a thousand words, what would your photograph say about you?

So this last weekend was bizarre. I'm so grateful that God has given me what some people call intuition. When I was a little girl I wanted nothing more than to one day be a nice man's little wifey and a little mommy of a bunch of adorable and perfect children. 25 years later, scratch the nice man and perfection in children...but I'm not completely disillustioned. Even in the weirdness of wandering around the dating world, I'm whole and wholey in love with the transcendence of this existance. Ugly moments and all, all is a lesson...even if it totally sucks at the time.