| I think my favourite letter for albums on my ipod is "O":
See what I mean?
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| made it through a manipulative meeting with the landlord. thank God for compassionate Czech friends who are willing to translate and firmly stand their ground for common sense. roomie and i just finished an amazing [jamie oliver] chicken dinner and are recuperating with dark chocolate, merlot, & chuck...
(a shooting star & sarah siskind also help).
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| people who are good at what they do and are unpretentious about it.
the swell season going on tour. and coming to prague.
having more on my plate than i have time for.
friends who challenge and inspire.
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| i recently met a girl at the airport and my roommate and i have had a couple of conversations with her. she has been homeless since august, but this is not her first time being homeless. what is different about this time is that she has gone through a severe depression, is no longer dreaming & does not have ideas for her future. it made me realize how much i have. i'm sure you have heard before that as middle-class people from the western world we are much more rich than we realize.
i think our wealth is not so much in our level of education or bank accounts, although those are valuable things. i think a huge part of wealth that we take for granted is the ability to dream, to envision possibilities that may or may not be feasible, but are worth taking the risk on. the confidence to take a stab at something even though we are not sure that we can accomplish it. to risk, to attempt great things, even if we only end up achieving something in the middle.
thinking about what it would be like to be homeless, to have cut myself off from my community, and to have lost the will to dream has made me think about some of the risks that i can take in the years to come. there's no reason not to apply for an internship/job that is hard to get into or to live somewhere where i can become fluent in one of the languages i have already studied. there is nothing to lose...
also, life with Jesus is life worth living. i am not alone in the journey or the risks i take. this is something else it is so easy to take for granted until i am in a conversation with someone who really is alone.
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