hope

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,
Therefore, we are saved by hope.
Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
Therefore, we are saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.
Therefore, we are saved by love.
No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;
Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.

-Reinhold Niebuhr


I've loved this quote since I found it in high school.
Through different stages in my life it has helped me, and reminded me.

Days like today seem impossible, and they make you question so much.
I spent most of the day crunching numbers, because it's my job. I spend 40 hours a week in a windowless building, with gray walls, gray carpet, and dull florescent lights. I listen to phones ring off the hook, the women whisper about each other, and all the while there is a steady hum coming from the hundreds of keyboards.
And I wish for the sun.

Danny has a bird nest in his vent. He and I are the only ones who have noticed it.
And since he has been gone (he had surgery) his door has been shut,
and I've missed the birds.



November can't come soon enough.

Today I got to talk to three of my best friends
And it brought so much light and warmth to my day.

We're all so lucky to have each other
to be so young and so surrounded by so much love.

I hope you feel the sun today,
and I hope hear the birds.