I think I really miss it

Thought 1:
I miss winter breaks. Winter breaks are special because they are too short for you to feel obligated from working to fill your resume and they're just long enough to get you pumped for the semester that follows. Everyone keeps asking me, "Are you excited about winter break?" Woe is me, I have no winter break. I have winter, but no break.

Thought 2:
The phrase "live a little" has taken on new meaning for me. I feel like people usually say that when the person's too uptight to go out for drinks or bungee jumping or something crazy and spontaneous. To me, it means "enjoy the process".

In the coming new year, I want to be transformed into someone who LIVES rather than someone who is planning how to live. I want to appreciate the steps God allows me take rather than starring anxiously at the prize.

Thought 3: Is it sad that I don't know how to play in the snow? =( Someone teach me! Every winter, something always comes up and I don't get to play in the snow. I have become quite the awkward snow player in my 23 (EW) years of life.

Smile big, kiddos!
-E.H.

Move Along!

"Speak to me, when all you got to keep is strong
Move along, move along like I know you do
And even when your hope is gone
Move along, move along just to make it through
Move along."
-"Move Along" by All American Rejects

In high school, I was the first amongst my closest friends to get a driver's license and I didn't have a fancy shmancy MP3 player with an adaptable thingy until much later. So, to get my music fix, I had my friends make me mixed CDs named after them to have in my car. Well, it's been 5 years since then and I'm not the neatest chick on the planet...so those CDs are all over the place. And since then, I've been hooked on NPR and Praise 103.9 (man, hve times changed...). Well, yesterday my brother dug up one of my mixed CDs from my friend Mina and there's this song I forgot even existed, "Move Along" by All American Rejects.

I LOVED this song back in high school because it was fun to sing along with, I didn't think about what it meant. Well, I think it's just because of the period of my life I'm in, trying to make every moment count and meaningful, but yesterday I found myself really connecting with the message of this song and appreciating it.

"So a day when you've lost yourself completely
Could be a night when your life ends
Such a heart that will lead you to deceiving
All the pain held in your
Hands are shaking cold
Your hands are mine to hold"

What comforting words and so true! It reminded me of my relationship with Christ, how he's also prodding me to move along even when life seems dramatically horrible and lame.

Your hands are mine to hold.
I love that line! So sweet.

Okay, Go listen to it now:



(FM (more like CHAN, because I know you're the only one who reads this from FM)...you guys should consider doing this song next semester! ^_^ Hehe I would arrange it...but I don't got that kind of skill yo)


Smile Big,
E.H.