My ideal Sunday morning is spent listening to Music and the Spoken Word while eating breakfast and studying related scriptures. This program has a way of inspiring me and touching my soul the way spoken words alone cannot do. Today the program touched on the beauty of God's creation coupled with the trials we face and our ability to overcome. Lloyd Newell told about the poet William Ernest Henley and his battle with tuberculosis during his lifetime and quoted this famous poem about courage and determination. It is beautiful...
Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Friday, September 3, 2010
The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance
A book I read not too long ago. I don't know if I would reccomend it necessarily, but it sure was entertaining.
I've been thinking lately about one of her thoughts in particular. She was remembering when she first moved to NYC and imagining what her life would be like, what her apartment would look like, what kind of person her roommate would be. She remembered how much she loved that moment, between unlimited possibility and actual reality. She loved that feeling because in that moment she could imagine that her life and circumstances could be anything in the whole wide world. The possiblities were endless. But once she saw her apartment and met her roommate, they would be what they were. No fun imaginings anymore.
I feel like that in my life lately. There is so much possibility for us right now, I could be scared, but I'd rather just imagine that things are gonna be wonderful beyond my wildest dreams....
I've been thinking lately about one of her thoughts in particular. She was remembering when she first moved to NYC and imagining what her life would be like, what her apartment would look like, what kind of person her roommate would be. She remembered how much she loved that moment, between unlimited possibility and actual reality. She loved that feeling because in that moment she could imagine that her life and circumstances could be anything in the whole wide world. The possiblities were endless. But once she saw her apartment and met her roommate, they would be what they were. No fun imaginings anymore.
I feel like that in my life lately. There is so much possibility for us right now, I could be scared, but I'd rather just imagine that things are gonna be wonderful beyond my wildest dreams....
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