Currently Speechless By Steven Curtis Chapman see related

with hope

1 Thess. 4:13-14 / Heb. 6:9, 10:23

This is not at all how
We thought it was supposed to be
We had so many plans for you
We had so many dreams
And now you've gone away
And left us with the memories of your smile
And nothing we can say
And nothing we can do
Can take away the pain
The pain of losing you, but ...

We can cry with hope
We can say goodbye with hope
'Cause we know our goodbye is not the end, oh no
And we can grieve with hope
'Cause we believe with hope
(There's a place by God's grace)
There's a place where we'll see your face again
We'll see your face again

And never have I known
Anything so hard to understand
And never have I questioned more
The wisdom of God's plan
But through the cloud of tears
I see the Father's smile and say well done
And I imagine you
Where you wanted most to be
Seeing all your dreams come true
'Cause now you're home
And now you're free, and ...

We have this hope as an anchor
'Cause we believe that everything
God promised us is true, so ...

We wait with hope
And we ache with hope
We hold on with hope
We let go with hope

Updates

1. Post-MPA life is nice
   
2. Pretty bored at work though
   
3. 42 days and counting till I pull the 5 o'clock whistle!
   
4. I might be moving to Baltimore
5. I'm hanging on a string of hope (i.e. God) to let me stay in NYC

You know you're a BoBo when...

I'm having a bobo crisis!

I can't find my gold shoes!  I'm packing to leave for Ethiopia and I can't find my gold shoes that goes with my every summer outfit! RARG!!!

Free

My evenings (except for Mondays) are now open for quality time with New York(ers)!

Currently Listening The Gulag Orkestar By Beirut Postcards from Italy see related

In NYC

I'm back in NYC. It's been kind of surreal. It's as if I never left. Yet things are kind of different here.

At work, all the staff that I've worked with in the past 3.5 years will all have moved on to other things by the end of the month. Consequently, I've been promoted... I'm facilitating the transition of all the new folks that have replaced my peers. It's also weird because they are all younger than my younger brother, which while not that much younger, still seems a bit weird.

I'm attempting to study hardcore for the next two months for a standardized that I have much love for. As with the SATs, I will be taking this for the 3rd time. You'd think that I'd really take it uber-seriously this time... I hope so... We'll see... but thanks to N, being the most supportive friend in the world, I now have a study partner!

The funny thing is that I'm not having testtaking anxiety. I'm apparently still hungup about my luggage mishaps this summer. IO had a dream where the airport people basically sent my luggage away, after I had claimed them. Then they required me to go get it on a day when I'd no longer be in the country. ARGA! I hate luggage drama!

Which reminds me. I also am quite delayed in putting up the remainder of my pictures from this summer's trip. I will... maybe after I have more time (as in when I'm not posting on Xanga and studying)...