Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

"We tend to identify ourselves with those we love. We try to enter into their own souls and become what they are, thinking as they think, feeling as they feel, and experiencing what they experience. But there is no true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude. I cannot be united in love with a person whose very personality my love tends to obscure, to absorb, and to destroy. Nor can I awaken true love in a person who is invited, by my love, to be drowned in the act of drowning me with love. 
If we know God, our identification of ourselves with those we love will be patterned on our union with God, and subordinate to it. Thus our love will begin with the knowledge of its own limitations and rise to the awareness of its greatness. For in ourselves we will always remain separate and remote from one another, but in God we can be one with those we love.
We cannot find them in God without first perfectly finding ourselves in Him. Therefore we will take care not to lose ourselves in looking for them outside Him. For love is not found in the void that exists between our being and the being of the one we love. There is an illusion of unity between us when our thoughts, our words, or our emotions draw us out of ourselves and suspend us together for a moment over the void. But when this moment has ended, we must return into ourselves or fall into the void. There is no true love except in God, Who is the source both of our own being and of the being we love."  Thomas Merton

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Monday, December 15, 2008

Yusan arrived yesterday
So far we have
drank coffee
drank more coffee
played scrabble many times
and tonight we're watching Wall E.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

'Therefore it is possible, and very probable, that we shall see the corporeal bodies of the new heaven and the new earth in such as way that, wherever we turn our eyes, we shall, through our bodies that we shall be wearing and plainly seeing, enjoy with perfect clarity of vision in the sight of God everywhere present and ruling all things, even material things.'
i'm cold. it's raining. i just want to go home.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

I can't stop listening to Post-War.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

I don't know what to blog about but feel that I should. The semester is almost over, duh. I need to do really well on my finals, duh. I drink too much coffee, duh. I don't have anything to say that isn't a duh. I LOVE YOU, duh. 

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

every tear
every heart ache
every tossing
every disappointment

i do not overlook
i do not disregard

i cry with you
i plea with you

my hand is upon you 
my kiss is more powerful than the world's

give me your burdens
give me your heart
i want to help you

i love you precious daughter
my love for you overpowers your darkness
Lovely and beautiful is your name