Mother Teresa: We are called not to be successful, but to be faithful.

I've really been struggling a lot with my interpretation of that thought lately. How can you be faithful without some small amount of success? You're supposed to sell everything you have and go serve God but then where will you live? How will you eat? I really want to go teach in Tanzania next Fall. That's so clearly Serving, but how can I afford to go Serve? To do good, a lot of times you have to pay but how do you pay without a job and a level of success that allows you to afford to do good? I think I'm looking at this from the wrong perspective but I'm not sure I see any other spots from which I could see better.


This wasn't eloquent, but I never promised it would be.

Everytime I go to stretch I don't understand why I can't stretch my limbs further
My research appears to be unfruitful
Four months just isn't what it used to be
And everyday is just the same

Audrey and I went to the craft fair in the secret park below our house this afternoon
They had soy candles, pressed flowers, knit hats, handmade jewelry, record bowls, pottery, etc.
We didn't buy anything outside of the buttons I got resembling trees I want my tattoo to resemble
But we found a lady doing fortune-telling and each got our palms read
Apparently...
-I have an ego (true)
-I'm aesthetically-focused and I'm good with design (false)
-I'll always give my opinion on things but I'll sugarcoat for loved ones (true)
-I have a shell around my heart in romance (true)
-I take care of my goals but I'm always close to taking it too far (huh?)
-I'm a "goat, definitely not a sheep". "Sheep follow. But those that try and tell you what to do will get bitten and kicked. You do what you want to do." (true)
All in all though, I really enjoyed it
Audrey's was just about dead-on
We decided to get regular fortune-telling in one capacity or another
And there was a man walking around giving a puppet show
We're listening to the music being played there from inside our living room
I love Sunday afternoons in Austin

Do you want to come sit in the park with me?
I mean, I know it's not Nepal or Iceland
Or any of the places we said we wanted to go
But it's not a couch or a cold staircase
We could just sit



Did you know that the Great Barrier Reef is bigger than Poland?
That's irrelevant

Can we go somewhere and do something?
Everything's gone stale
I just want something new
Who knew that it could be so hard to come by

I don't know where I'm going
But I only like maps for their aesthetic quality
And taking advice just isn't my thing

I'm sick of all the people out there who are still bitching about Obama winning. People who probably didn't have a political stance to begin with. Seriously? Maybe if you had the slightest idea of what was going on in the country beyond your own front door then you'd understand. No one said the man is God. Those of us that support him, that believe in him, just have a brain and a sense of duty to more than ourselves. Yeah, I cried. Because I cried when I found out what war really meant, and what it meant for us to be a part of something like that. Because I cry about how my family is financially crippled by health problems that can't be avoided. Because I cried when I would read about the state-by-state fight against same-sex civil unions and marriage. Because I cried when I would think about how many children are left behind by an education system that fails in low-income areas. Because I cry when I read about what's going on in Darfur and how little the current administration has done to aid the region despite the fact that a second Holocaust is obviously occurring. Yeah, I definitely cried the night he won. And many of those who were aware of these issues, or affected by them personally, did too. I'm not sick of those who were opposed to vote for him for their own political reasons, for his stance on issues important to them. No, I'm just sick of the bigots and the brainless.




p.s. I'm sorry, an admitted weakness of mine is that I'm very hostile about politics. This isn't meant for anyone that went out and voted Republican or Libertarian based solely on their political beliefs. But if you are one of those folk and you are offended, please say so so that I can apologize.