I started my blog earlier than normal today.
After my class, I came back to my dorm room and worked out and took a shower... Then, I made the following observation, so I wrote this down in the moment to revisit it tonight:
Life is beautiful today. I can't quite explain it... The way the sun is hitting the trees and buildings outside, the people around me, seeing the faces of people back home up on my wall... everything feels vividly real. It's one of those days where I just feel alive, but I'm happy to be alive. Life is beautiful, and not just to look at. Life is beautiful deeply, profoundly, and below the surface of appearance. How is that possible that out of everything that exists here on this earth, there's hardly a single thing that lacks beauty completely?
I don't understand how people can look at life on a day like today and not feel like they're part of something greater, or that life is something intricately incredible. I don't understand how people can credit this type of profundity to mere chance or evolution. I don't understand how God came up with all these amazing ideas for how the world should be either. You hear people talk a lot about how great and good and wonderful and powerful and loving and merciful God is... but our God is a creative, artistic God that never fails to make a masterpiece.
I don't know, maybe I'm just in a great mood, or maybe God actually is grabbing this little portion of Earth today and giving it a big hug and a little touch up of paint.
Later I added:
On a completely different note, I could listen to the Frozen soundtrack all day. It makes me really happy :) Except the Fixer-Upper song.... Still not sure if I like that song. Tangled's "I Have a Dream" was much better.
For real though. Frozen. Yes.
Unfortunately, I didn't go outside much today. I've been in my dorm getting organized and chopping stuff off the to do list. On the bright side, I now only have 2-5 things I actually have to do now!!! So it was a productive day.
I went to dinner with Jinny, Jessie, Sneha, Kieryn, and Corona. It's so fun talking with them and spending time with them. We had a lovely conversation at EVK, and then came back and were joined by Anna and Jacqueline. We laughed and talked for a good long time. It made me really happy :)
I should've gone to bed earlier tonight, since I had the chance. Oh well. Today was filled with life and the beauty of it. My friends are beautiful. My campus is beautiful. Life is beautiful, and I'm grateful for that today. I'll worry about stress some other time :)
Fight on, friends.
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