friday!...er...thursday?

i seriously do not know what day of the week it is anymore.   not that that's a bad thing.   one thing God has shown me since coming out here is that i need to get out of my busy 24-7 routine.  it's been painful and stretching, but it's also been a good thing.    i've also gotten away from some bad eating habits, that were mainly influenced from my parents' eating habits... i've given up pizza, pop, and bad carbohydrates.  i think i've lost like 12 lbs since coming here, not to mention the weight lost from getting all my hair cut off yesterday.  its nuts.   

today's schedule is pretty light.  i have a song i want to record a demo of entitled "under the silent stars."   it's a quote taken from elizabeth elliot's book "passion and purity."   i also want to sign up at this one local gym and get my student id pic taken.   after that, who knows?  maybe i'll go for a hike in the mountains.  oh! and tonight there are several parties in celebration of the season premiere of the office.  maybe i'll go to one of those

about a month ago, i was praying this one puritan prayer, the valley of vision, fairly regularly.  i was scared about quitting my job, moving out here, leaving home, leaving everything i knew, and i was in a pretty strong place of humility.  however, as the prayer explains, when we are in a valley of humilitiy, we are also in a great place of vision, where we have a great view of God's leading.  in hindsight, the prayer is completely right, and God is undoubtedly doing some awesome things with this move.   i've pasted the context of the prayer below. 

peace.

Lord, high and holy, meek and lowly

Thou hast brought me to the valley of vision

Where I live in the depths but see Thee in the heights

hemmed in by mountains of sin I behold Thy glory

Let me learn by paradox that the way down is the way up

That to be low is to be high

That the broken heart is the healed heart

That the contrite spirit is the rejoicing spirit

That the repenting soul is the victorious soul

That to have nothing is to possess all

That to bear the cross is to wear the crown

That to give is to receive

That the valley is the place of vision.

Lord, in the daytime stars can be seen from the deepest wells

And the deeper the wells the brighter Thy stars shine.

Let me find Thy light in my darkness

Thy life in my death

Thy joy in my sorrow

Thy grace in my sin

Thy riches in my poverty

Thy glory in my valley.