January 2010
21 posts
21 Things to do before I'm 22
Alternate title: I do so love to make lists. Also, it makes me really happy that the title rhymes.
In the next 5.5 months, I hope to:
Sketch and learn to identify butterflies, birds, flowers, and leaves.
Hike on the Pinhoti Trail.
Graduate from college.
Get my first real job. (Thinking positively!!)
Learn to make chili.
Finish a quilt.
Have a picnic.
Go camping.
Plant a wildflower garden.
...
“Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us...”
– Hebrews 11:1
I don’t think we’re supposed to know the answers to all the questions. I think that’s what faith is all about.
“We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they...”
– Romans 5:3-5
“Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what...”
– Philippians 4:6
And to quote Joe Fox from “You’ve Got Mail”: ‘Repeat that to yourself every time you feel you’re losing your nerve.’ (Granted, he wasn’t talking about a Bible verse..I still feel it’s applicable.)
“..but if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of...”
– L.M. Montgomery, in Anne of Green Gables
So hard to pick just one Anne quotation! I never used to cry when I read, but I do all the time now, even when it’s a book I’ve read a half a dozen times before, like Anne of Green Gables or A Little Princess or Harry Potter 6 and 7..Strange,...
Watchsaw this at inspired kara and thought i should share..
“Next year I am going to be 10% thinner (or taller), 15% fitter, 13% kinder, 12%...”
– Lucy Mangan
http://betsydunlap.googlepages.com/bdunlap →
I want to teach myself to do calligraphy like Betsy Dunlap..new year’s resolution maybe?
“‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ is about hope. You, like the little...”
– —Eric Carle