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Because you can't buy 'em back.

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This song has been in my head on and off for four months. It humbles me every time and sings right to my soul. 

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If you never leave home, never let go, you’ll never make it to the great unknown.

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Soooooooooooooo excited for the new album!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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1 Corinthians 13:13

But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love. {YouVersion}

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One Month

It amazes (and I do mean astonishingly, awesomely, and brilliantly amazes) me how in one month a life of 20 years can seem insignificant. Seems unfulfilled. 

How many times have I sat on the couch, watched mindless tv, thinking to myself, I wish my life was more exciting. I wish I was doing something that I was passionate about. I wish I was making a difference in someone's life, anyone's life.

Life is sweet. In every sense of the word, life is sweet. Life is full of joy, love and laughter, if you choose it. I can't even begin to count the amount of times that I chose a grumpy attitude, a prideful up-turned nose, an angry thought towards someone over joy. Joy that breathes life, hope and unceasing love. 

One month ago, my life, the lives of my dear family and the life of a sweet cousin have changed. Period. There have been highs and lows, and there have been moments of despair and moments of hope. The constant in them is this brand new territory that none of us have ever faced before and can only bear it in one way. Together, broken and upheld in the hands of the Almighty.

This has been one month of choice. 

The choice to is to choose joy. Choosing preference of others, and of generosity of love, prayer, time, and friendship. 

It's the recognition that life is too precious and too uncertain to feed it anger, pride, selfishness, bitterness and sadness.

There is only one word to describe my heart right now. Thankful.

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This is such a beautiful story. 

It speaks to the hope and joy of life that we are steadfastly and expectantly waiting for.

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Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.

Mother Theresa

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When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast, but it isn’t vast. It’s all connected by roads one can ride a bike down. If you watch the news and there’s a tragedy about a house in Kansas, that guy’s driveway connects with yours, and you’d be surprised how few roads it takes to get there. That trip taught us that we were all neighbours, that my life is connected to everybody else’s, that one person’s story has the power to affect a million others.

Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years

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2Cellos. So Good. 

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God gave us a great big apple, see, and He said don't touch it. He didn't say touch it once in a while He didn't say take a nibble when you're hungry He said don't touch it! Don't think about touching it Don't sing about touching it Don't think about singing about touching it!

Jerry Lee Lewis; Walk the Line.

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