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may you be free, be free to surrender it all. let the ebb and flow of the Water of Life form you into the most beautiful form of yourself. take no control, make no fit. may the beauty of your new formed self inspire others to allow the surrender to their truest selves and beauty in their life.

do blogs just create more of an ego, or do they help to remove the ego binding the person and their mind? what about actually writing in journals?

why is it that we are obsessed with the "I/Me" that exists inside? We should always remember to be present in our own bodies, not lost in the past "should have" and future "should be" we stress ourselves out with. always expecting to be better than we are and at the same time making ourselves out to be better than those around us. just accept, love, and be where you're at and don't worry about more than one step ahead.

May all gardens flourish

I want my garden weeded. Not just light weeding, but I want to pull up every deep and far reaching root, so that no ugliness can continue to grow. I want my garden to bloom with strong trees and beautiful flowers. Flowers that bloom over, and over, and over again, drawing everyone around with awe. Not because the garden resides in me, but because of the gardener of my soul.

I want people to get lost in my soul’s garden when they try to get to know me. As they get to know the garden they get to know its gardener.

I want all to know the very same gardener so their garden may grow strong and beautiful and they may share in the joy and peace. And even when the storms roll in and out of the garden, as they will, may the branches of the strong trees help shelter them from the storm and the flower grow back more beautiful than before.

May all gardens flourish.

Love yourself down to the bone, down to the roof of your mouth. Leave no stone unturned, no cell unwanted. Love down to the blood no matter how fast it boils.

-Meggie Royer, Lessons For Thriving Not Just Surviving

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i hope these roads lead me to montana

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truth

banjo lessons or ski instructor in the mountains?

life's tough decisions.

"one day we'll understand the plan for our lives"

"no we won't. let's not lie"

"at least we are people who are always searching"

-to all the searchers of the world: it will never be easy, and in many ways it will always be confusing, but keep searching because in your search you are found and what you have lost will be found only in new and more beautiful ways. stay curious, longing for more, and in constant reflection and never give up the hunt for the truth and answers.

Into the wilderness.

I feel God calling me into the wilderness to find myself. I have always found a grounding and indescribable peace amongst creation and yet I seem to have forgotten to make much time for it over the past few years since living in Montana. So here I stand a changed woman in so many ways and yet God is callling back into the wilderness to take off my shoes and sink my feet deep into the cool earth with no distractions- just me and my soul grounded amongst nature and God's breath of life.

dysfunctional mind and overflowing heart

that place where you know you have a good life and you feel stupid because you shouldn't be sad and yet you are. You want the tears to just flow and with them all the emotions and confusion of life that build up until you can't withstand them anymore.

your mom says "have you been taking your medicine?"

YES.

but medicine doesn't make life happy, easy, and peaceful. it is belittling to your sanity and makes you wonder if what your feelings are real or just some made up problem in a dysfunctional mind.

I had a dream last night that I was just cuddling and hiding in the arms of my ex-boyfriend from like 6 or 7 years ago. Its not because I miss him in particular, although I do think about him sometimes and hope all is well in his world, but its because me myself and I wishes there was someone that could just hold me and shield me from the world. I just want to feel safe, loved, and protected. And I am sick of trying to do it all for myself.

Surrender. Trust. Patience. All things I need to do. Surrender and trust the God and have the patience and trust that He is working in my life and will offer that protection. Christianity is not choosing the happy or easy road, but it is choosing the most fulfilling and impact-full. Perseverance and faith in this mission as God continues to strip the layer of my ideas of who I am and what I am supposed to do/be- even if it is painful to let go. Surrender.

Breathe

we long for connection. we thirst for community. we are human beings that were made for communion. You need friends- not ones that you can just talk about how you both love corgis, japanese food, and alt j's new album, but friends that you tell about your deepest desires, fears, faults, sins, struggles, and passions. Ones that will hold you accountable to fixing some, reaching others, and even a helping hand out of the darkest places of your soul. Ones that you truly let your guard down. Ones that you have nothing to prove to, not even your love because it is already a given. Ones that see your ugly, but they still love you and your beauty even more. Ones that when you walk away from time with them you feel like a more complete version of yourself. And of course, ones to sip wine with when you just need a moment away from the rest of the world.

2013

There rarely are groans or goofing off when Glenn Young is the substitute teacher.

Young greets students with a smile and peppers the day’s lessons with his crowd-pleasing jokes and stories.

“I lift them up, build them up any way I can,” Young said.

When it comes to his students, Young seems to abide by the Golden Rule.

“Treat them as young people with dignity, respect and things reciprocate. The kids are very good, kind and generous to me,” Young said. “You can order, command, threaten, that kind of thing with the kids — ‘you do that, here is a detention, shape up!’ —Now how does that go over?”

Young has lived in Colorado, Oregon and California, served in the Army, married his high school sweetheart, Judy, raised three sons, worked in construction, sold encyclopedias, went on a mission trip to Hawaii, built churches in Japan and in February, underwent heart surgery.

Yet no matter where life takes, him he gravitates back to the classroom.

Young is in his 15th year as a substitute teacher. He primarily subs at Flathead and Glacier high schools and Kalispell Middle School, where he lives within walking distance.

The 76-year-old said the greatest thing students do is keep him from getting “old in his thinking.

“How do I define old in my thinking? Well, the way old people — well some old crotchety people — get,” Young said. “Oh, you know, older people [and] their attitudes toward — against — young people. I don’t want to be that way.”

Young makes an effort to be involved in students’ lives by attending music concerts, plays, sports games and many other events.

“My wife and I attend as many as possible,” he said.

During an interview Aug. 30 in the Kalispell Middle School library, Young wore a sweater showcasing both Glacier and Flathead colors to show equal pride. Young knows many people who come into the library.

“Rudy,” Young said, waving to a middle school tutor.

The two chat for a minute before Young returns to the interview. Some students say hello.

“Rapport with teachers and students is important,” Young said.

Young’s teaching career began in 1965 in a one-room schoolhouse near Troy, up the Yaak River. After a year he went on to teach seventh and eighth grade for six more years in a rural schools around the Flathead Valley, such as Helena Flats and Creston, before he decided to try construction.

“I had some fabulous students,” Young said.

Even while working construction, he continued teaching as a substitute during the winter. Interspersed throughout his career in education and construction, he sold World Book Encyclopedias to area schools and eventually became a district manager in 1987.

“The experiences and skills I built up at one time is very, very valuable at a later part in my life,” Young said.

Those skills would become useful when he and his wife served with Youth With a Mission in Kona, Hawaii, in 1989.

Their one problem was getting enough money for airplane tickets.

“We were talking, thinking and praying when and where,” Young said.

Then they entered and won a contest held at The Daily Inter Lake that would become their golden ticket.

“We won a round trip for two people to Hawaii,” Young said.

For three months they worked in a school and spent another three working on construction projects.

When the outreach was over, a fellow mission worker invited them to continue on with him in Japan to help build two churches.

“We built a church in Kyushu and I was part of the team that went to Shizuoka City, that’s where Mount Fuji is, so on a clear day I could look up and see Mount Fuji,” Young said.

The couple lived in Japan for about four years after he was hired to teach English composition and conversation at a girl’s school.

“We adopted many of the girls as our ‘Japanese daughters,’” Young said and showed a printout of a Facebook message from a former student expressing her appreciation of him as a teacher.

These lifelong friendships with students and colleagues bring Young joy. He then showed a thank-you card from a Kalispell student.

“These are some of the things that make teaching so wonderful. It makes you keep wanting to come back,” Young said.

(A spectacular, humble soul. Everyone in my town of Kalispell, MT knows Mr. Young, and every time I am home he remembers all of my siblings names and asks how we are- I have no idea how he knows our names let alone our stories- he was only my substitute teacher every once in a long while! One of the biggest and most generous hearts. He treats every human with the respect, time, and humanity they deserve- no matter how old, what culture, who they are, etc. I hope I can touch lives the way this man has and continues to.)

two of my favorite musicians in collaboration. amen.

A true woman:

She has everything to share and nothing to prove.

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