C.S. Lewis on Love....

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”
-C.S. Lewis

Love it.

Happy New Eyes!

I got Lasik this week and I'm so freaking excited. I went to Cullom Eye and Laser Center in Williamsburg, and can already say it was SO worth it!

Goodbye glasses. Here are the things I will not miss about you:

• The way you fog up when I walk inside after being outside in the winter air
• The way your lenses would inevitably get scratches
• The way you would get crooked during volleyball and then my vision would be all jacked up
• Having to find creative places to put you while staying overnight anywhere (tents, cabins, foreign countries, etc) just so that I could find you should chaos arise in the night.
• The way you sneak your glare into photo's
• The choices you forced me to make. "Keep my head above water and be able to see...or swim blind?".

Hello new eyes. Here are the things we can do together now:

• See the shampoo bottle
• Fall asleep while watching T.V.
• We can now enjoy a little thing known as "peripheral vision" 
• Stare intently at people (you know, in case the need arises) 
• And many, many other joyous things, I'm sure

So, as Jess says..."Happy New Eyes!"

If I truly had a grasp on the reality of heaven and hell, then I would not let fear and short sightedness stand in the way of showing His love to everyone I come in contact with. Right?

Finished my project!

Amos 5:21-24 (The Message)