It's a lip . . . it's a lip lip lip!

I look like a dog baring its teeth . . . a dog that went hog-wild with botox (hog-wild? hmm). Stinking wisdom teeth. Chipmunk? Pretty much yeah . . . Just know, I'm smiling on the inside :-)

2:21 AM

I can't sleep. Perhaps it's because I'm going to get four barely visible mullers yanked from my jaw in 6 hours, or the fact that I'm a spazz. . . both will work. Today I've been thinking about the Mercy of God.

Mercy in the sense of how, is such a ridiculous creature like myself allowed to be blessed in such amazing ways? Blessed to touch and love those around me. It should spread. It's intense, humbling, and shocking all at the same time. Is it deserved or earned?

Heck No.

There are SO many people with SO much less. I want them to know the joy that is the Lord's. To fear the Lord is to begin to know wisdom, a handy companion I hear. Be wise and fear the omnicient, omnipotent, and omnipresent.

We love and whatever ways we can. Remember: Your parents could have done worse. And if someone reading this has had the "worst of the worst", for it truly exists, I pray that your heart may be healed and that you might know the perfect love that HE has for you and that I get to be an instrument of His love.

My dad took me to his favorite bookstore in San Francisco today. Even though we've struggled in the past, it meant a lot to me. Clement St. is my favorite at the moment.

I get to hold a hand and pray earnestly for God's will above all else, and know that He, the owner of the hand, is praying a similar prayer 'cause likes Jesus more than me. . . Thank God!

Faith: It colors my world with brilliance and hope during trials and tribulations. Without it, why bother to look beyond the gray duldrums of concrete and iron?

You who know the goodness of God, walk in Mercy and act Justly (Micah 6:8)

There is beauty. There is hope. There is love.
. . . and it's all because there is God.