Wednesday, November 16, 2005
The dark side...
So, i guess this is me deciding to come to the dark side. Of the blogging world, that is. i've heard so much about livejournal versus blogspot, blah blah blah, so i decided i'd check this out, at least.
i guess a couple explanations - hope came home, the title of this blog. hope - it's a huge thing for me. always has been. i dunno, there's just something about it that's always encouraging (imagine that! ;)). There's this song by Bebo Norman -
Hope came home
Home to me today
And fear has run
The other way
Words are weak
They don't know
How to say
You know I still
Believe in You
And should my dreams
Fall through
I will be safe
With You
And with every breath
I can breathe
I'll sing about how
You love me
I'll sing about how
You love me
(funny, my media player is on random, and guess what song just came on?)
something that i've had to hang onto is the dreams falling through part. since i got back from Russia, some crazy dreams, and some may say plans, have popped into my head. they're crazy because i would've never dreamed them before. i never would've thought that i'd actually be excited about moving thousands of miles away from home for extended periods of time (really really extended, possibly). but i am excited. but i'm terrified at the same time. and if those dreams fall through, i have to remember that i'll still be safe with Him. with the God that created the entire universe. i mean, c'mon, what safer hands to be in are there?
secondly, the web address - erinlizabethturner.blogspot
my name is erin elizabeth. i've always liked the name elizabeth. i looked it up once, and it means consecrated to God. but erinlizabeth is what a lot of my family calls me. especially one aunt and uncle. and looking at that, and hearing my uncle say it in my head every time i see it spelled like that makes me think of my family.
my family's kinda crazy. there's some stuff going on right now that i'm not real sure about. and i've been kinda frustrated lately. i've felt like they're trying to hold onto me - too tightly. i just wanted them to let me grow up.
but if i really let myself, i would miss them. terribly. i haven't seen my family in (probably over) a month. that's a long time for me. and i'm still close. i'm still only 120 miles away. this is an absurd statement for me, because a lot of my family lives within 10 miles of each other. and i thought i'd be right there with them. but now i'm not so sure. maybe. but there are other options, that i wasn't even aware of. crazy stuff.
so i guess they tie together, a little bit.
and i thought i didn't have anything to say, since i just posted on LJ last night. but there you go. here's my first post on the dark side. ;)
i guess a couple explanations - hope came home, the title of this blog. hope - it's a huge thing for me. always has been. i dunno, there's just something about it that's always encouraging (imagine that! ;)). There's this song by Bebo Norman -
Hope came home
Home to me today
And fear has run
The other way
Words are weak
They don't know
How to say
You know I still
Believe in You
And should my dreams
Fall through
I will be safe
With You
And with every breath
I can breathe
I'll sing about how
You love me
I'll sing about how
You love me
(funny, my media player is on random, and guess what song just came on?)
something that i've had to hang onto is the dreams falling through part. since i got back from Russia, some crazy dreams, and some may say plans, have popped into my head. they're crazy because i would've never dreamed them before. i never would've thought that i'd actually be excited about moving thousands of miles away from home for extended periods of time (really really extended, possibly). but i am excited. but i'm terrified at the same time. and if those dreams fall through, i have to remember that i'll still be safe with Him. with the God that created the entire universe. i mean, c'mon, what safer hands to be in are there?
secondly, the web address - erinlizabethturner.blogspot
my name is erin elizabeth. i've always liked the name elizabeth. i looked it up once, and it means consecrated to God. but erinlizabeth is what a lot of my family calls me. especially one aunt and uncle. and looking at that, and hearing my uncle say it in my head every time i see it spelled like that makes me think of my family.
my family's kinda crazy. there's some stuff going on right now that i'm not real sure about. and i've been kinda frustrated lately. i've felt like they're trying to hold onto me - too tightly. i just wanted them to let me grow up.
but if i really let myself, i would miss them. terribly. i haven't seen my family in (probably over) a month. that's a long time for me. and i'm still close. i'm still only 120 miles away. this is an absurd statement for me, because a lot of my family lives within 10 miles of each other. and i thought i'd be right there with them. but now i'm not so sure. maybe. but there are other options, that i wasn't even aware of. crazy stuff.
so i guess they tie together, a little bit.
and i thought i didn't have anything to say, since i just posted on LJ last night. but there you go. here's my first post on the dark side. ;)
// posted by erinlizabeth @ 2:54 PM 
