What Is Good?

--transparency among friends, knowing each other's best and worst and loving each other the same.
--granola yogurt honey banana peanut butter combo--try it. dead serious.
--p90x with 2/3 of the members of our house--yeeuh gettin fit!
--enrique iglesias and pitbull's new song "I like it"...I like it!
--Learning how to maintain friendships
--Green tea
--Prayer
--Poetry
--Practicing freedom from worry
--WV's close win against Marshall. Talk about wetting your pants!
--Mexican parties....in Morgantown!! Wwwhat!
--Facebook, picture updates of Didasko and of friends in other parts of the world. I'm all for the old-fashioned send-your-letter-by-horse thing, but this Facebook is just a blessing of convenience.
--Indian Summer. The changing, falling leaves, blue sky, almost pants-wearing weather.
--Joy even in days of darkness, knowing Jesus is close to the broken-hearted, the lowly, the contrite in spirit. Paradoxes.


Lord, High and Holy, Meek and Lowly,
Thou hast brought me to the valley of vision,
where I like 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
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.

--The Valley of Vision