February 6, 2005

• Yeah. So I am in love with this new song. And I am way too obsessed with Xanga Premium. And I am still needing a change . . .

  Listen to This Day and Age here. Long Walk Home, History is Falling for Science, and Seven-Eighty are really good too, but you have to listen at least to Second Place Victory:

  its breathtaking to think of you and to learn that sometimes the only way out is through
  its mindnumbing to think of yesterday
  i'll run to you now if i could but things have changed

  [chorus]
  (i heard you say) its enlightening to think of the breeze and to believe in things that we can't see
  (so here we go) lets show them how to live accept the pain always forgive watch the sun go down
  learn the sound of following all that is complete

  its breathtaking to think of you and to learn with our fate that the sky isn't as blue
  its mindnumbing to think of yesterday
  we'll look toward the stars and dream that we're airplanes

  [chorus x2]

  ~ This Day and Age (Second Place Victory)

  Pretty much this song has changed and defined my outlook of life (this is me being only slightly over-dramatic). Now I realize that this is a song about a love relationship between the singer and a girl, and I don't mean to minimize that meaning, but I think there are other meanings to the song. "Learn the sound of following all that is complete." It is interesting that the word translated in the Bible as "Perfect" could also just as justifiably be translated to "Complete." (as in Matthew 5:48 footnotes) Keeping that in mind this song as far as my outlook on life says this:

  1. Believe in things that we can't see (we call this faith)
  2. Be an example
  3. Endure the trials of life
  4. Always forgive
  5. Follow that which is complete, or in other words, Follow Jesus Christ, the Perfect One, or Complete One.

  Ok, I probably just put way to much thought into that . . . deal with it. Hmmm. So despite a bagillion gazillion posts in the past two days, I still haven't told you what I did this weekend. (sorry for all the lengthy posts, cause I know nobody reads the long posts)

  Friday night I ended up studying and going for a nice long walk up to the temple to do some thinking, which was nice.
  Saturday night I went and saw Shark Tale with Adrien, Eric, Mark, Lindsay, and Jake. Personally I did not like it (::resists urge to soapbox on all the hidden messages and political undertones and the social commentaries made by the movie::) Then we went back to the dorms and everything was all weird, and then slowly people started leaving until it was just Adrien and I. (I told her that I wouldn't tell this story partly because it's weird and partly because words can't really describe it, but I am telling it anyway) We sat down by the telephone where someone had left his mail. And we ripped up the mail into little peices and threw them in the air and at each other and everywhere. And then we got down to pick them all up, and then Adrien started compaining about her shirt- she was wearing a black spandex shirt, and she was saying that she didn't know why anyone would buy a spandex shirt or wear a spandex shirt. I just started laughing and couldn't stop as I took of my coat, revealing my own black t-shirt. Still laughing I tugged on the sleeve to show that it was stretchy. The two of us pretty much wet ourselves as we rolled on the floor surrounded in little tiny pieces of paper in black spandex shirts laughing until we couldn't breath.

  Today Church was really good. In Sunday school we talked again about personal revelation, and we talked about things being revealed in little bits at a time. I thought about how the revelation to pursue adopting Jonathan had come one tiny bit at time, each firm peice of knowledge coming at the exact moment when we needed it, but never before that moment- which has lead us to excercise faith. And to be honest, if we knew all that we know now then, I don't think we would have done it. Don't get me wrong, it has been worth it times ten, but if we had discovered everything at once, we wouldn't have been ready. The Lord had to prepare us little by little. In Elder's Quorum we learned certain ordinances like the healing of the sick with consecrated oil, and it struck me that the Power of God is on Earth, and that we- my neighbors and friends, these worthy young men- had been entrusted with that solemn power. It blows me away.

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