Hmmm...once again, God has totally provided, in miraculous and unexpected ways.

My heart is gladdened by the prospect of carving my pumpkin tonight in a Homestar-ish fashion. There are other things my heart is saddened/gladdened by at the present moment...I think it is amazing how God speaks to us through other people...it's like He's telling us,"Hey, I really am here, with you. I hear and know your inmost being, your deepest thoughts. You can trust me to mend your heart. You can trust my will and my sovereignity." I just want His glory, really. That's all I want. The things that I think I want matter nothing compared to Him recieving glory and honor and praise. And He can recieve that in actions and lack of actions, I believe. Just like we can commit sins of omission as well as commission.

Mae has a new cd coming out soon, and another in 2005. Talk about happy. I mean, I am way more excited about this than I was even for the Jimmy cd. I love Mae. Destination Beautiful has the rare, and I mean rare, ability to make me super duper ecstatically happy. It did that to Logan, too, the other day, when she decided to listen to it during her day at campus. She came home and told me that she didn't know if the music was responsible, but that it seemed to make her day much brighter. Yeah! Music does that sometimes. Usually though, music in combination with a memory-forming moment is the most bestest.

Yesterday as I was driving down south National to apply somewhere, I was listening to Tom Petty and the sky was perfectly Scottish (meaning the there was dispersed lighthing, as Andrew Dour and I used to comment) and the wind was not necessarily blowing, but stirring in such a way that it was causing the leaves to fall off of the trees and rise and fall in poetic motion...and this combined with the wind blowing my hair around through the open car window and the particularly fun song on my cd and the smell and coolness of the air created a very worshipful moment. I was definitely fully aware of the beauty, grace, and constant presence of God in that space and time, and I know that the smile that alighted on my face was being given back through every possible sensory device that I own, and given back to my heart.