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O Lord, You are my God;
I will exalt You, I will give thanks to Your name;
For You have worked wonders,
Plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness.
For You have made a city into a heap,
A fortified city into a ruin;
A palace of strangers is a city no more,
it will never be rebuilt.
Therefore a strong people will glorify You;
Cities of ruthless nations will revere You.
For You have been a defense for the helpless,
A defense for the needy in his distress,
A refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat;
For the breath of the ruthless
Is like a rain storm against a wall.
Like heat in drought, You subdue the uproar of aliens;
Like heat by the shadow of a cloud, the song of the ruthless is silenced.

The Lord of hosts will prepare a lavish banquet for all peoples on this mountain;
A banquet of aged wine, choice pieces with marrow, And refined, aged wine.
And on this mountain He will swallow up the covering which is over all peoples,
Even the veil which is stretched over all nations.
He will swallow up death for all time,
And the Lord God will wipe tears away from all faces,
And He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth;
For the Lord has spoke.
And it will be said in that day,
"Behold, this is our God for whom we have waited that He might save us.
This is the Lord for whom we have waited;
Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation."

Isaiah 25:1-9

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i have urticaria!

don't be alarmed. its just hives.

i must say, hives are quite exciting. this is my first time to ever have them, but holy smokes! never a dull moment. for all of you who have never had them, they are incredibly ichy, and are accompanied by a lovely rash. mine have been hanging out with me for about fifteen hours. i wonder if they will come with me to polly's wedding...

you might be wondering how i ended up with hives. well, i'm too ashamed to say. so ask me later.


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our brand new puppy, chester! Posted by Picasa

people and places

campus feels pretty much like fall right now, with the exception of a million displaced freshman wandering around lost. I ran in to danis and got to chat with her for a bit which was lovely. and then I saw matt haglar on campus (i'm still not sure what he was doing since he isn't in class) and then saw brian and kenton brice, neither of them being in college anymore. and andrew marsh. So it was friendly day for me.

in other news, megan and i found an apartment. they are ridiculously cheap, brand new, and totally in a prime location next to campus. how could they be such a good deal? you ask, well, i don't know. hopefully there is no catch. they are a block behind the tennis complex off of razorback. walking distance! yes! i think i might get a bike to ride to class. that would be fun and collegiate like.

i'm excited for fall. won't you join me in praying that it rains a lot in the next month so that we can have beautiful leaves on the trees for autumn?

yes!

ten days until the awkward wedding of the century!

polly and eric, i love you both!

Ephesians 6

"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places..."

Most of the time, I wish I could remember that my struggle is not against flesh and blood.

Lately, by the Lord's hand, I have seen how it is indeed against the powers and forces of darkness.

why isn't this talked about more regularly?

In community group a couple of weeks ago, a lovely person mentioned she feels odd verbally rebuking the enemy when feeling attacked. We all discussed how weird and eerie it all is, the spiritual warfare thing, and how a lot of times we are enacting the armor of God, yet we feel strange and eccentric doing it. I believe that this is also an attempt of the enemy to disable us from fighting against him when it is most pertinent.

Feeling the presence of darkness recently, it reminded me of a Lovedrug song that paints an almost grotesque yet accurate picture of this spiritual battle:

"...The shadows from outside are creeping in here,
in dreams it seems you're lacking
of the dreams you need to wake up,
just to run out of luck.

Careful, the monster is round that corner
and he's waiting for blood tonight,
he knows that you might fight back...

You're dreams they seem to leave you alone,
in dreams it seems you can't fight,
but some weapons would be nice

Careful, the monster is down that hallway
drooling over your tasty arm,
he knows that you can't harm him ever

But he doesn't know you've got an exorcism show,
but he knows, rot in hell, rot in hell"


just a reminder for everyone to take up arms in this day.

"...Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm." Ephesians 6:12-13


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