Currently Listening O By Damien Rice #1 - Delicate see related

"So why'd you fill my sorrows with the words you borrowed from the only place you've known?
And why'd you sing alleluia if it means nothin' to ya?  Why'd you sing with me at all?"
I've discovered Damien Rice. 

I'm looking at schools I could apply for jobs at when I graduate... it's a little premature, I know, but it's interesting... I think I'd like to work with emotionally disturbed children or other "at-risk" youth.  I've been looking in center-city Baltimore, and also in the counties that surround Frederick.  I wouldn't mind taking extra special ed classes at all.  Of course, Africa's still a big item on the list. 

My dad and I went to play tennis today together for an hour.  I hadn't played since 9th grade gym class, so it was funny, to say the least.    We had fun, though, and maybe we'll go back a few times before the end of the summer.  My arm hurts a lot now though!

I've been reading My Utmost for His Highest almost every day recently.  The one for today says, "Over and over again God has to remove our friends, our heroes, to put Himself in their place, and we falter, fail, and become discouraged.  When the person died who represented for me all that God was, did I give up on everything in life?  Did I become ill or disheartened?  Or did I do as Isaiah did and see the Lord?"  It goes on to talk about our vision of God.  It was pretty convicting for me.  I've often lost good friends of mine - just because they move away, or we just drift apart and don't talk as often - but it stinks.  Sometimes they were the people who encouraged me the most in God, and I wonder why God would allow people like that to be taken out of my life.  I don't usually react well.  Our church family and our friends will come and go, but God will never leave.  He needs to be foremost in our lives - not because He's dependable or caring or even because He loves us, but because He's God, and deserves that high position of importance.