Right before I walked into my psychology class, which is happening right now as I write this blog. I know I am such a focused student, but seeing the professor goes way to fast to even try to keep notes and that she has repeatedly pointed out that all of this material is in the text and that you should read the text before class, which I’ve done, taking a few brief seconds to record my thoughts doesn’t bother me all too much. Anyways, back to the story.
So right before I walked into this class, I stopped and bought myself a lovely little thing of BYU chocolate milk in the twilight zone. Now, I want to say a few things about this. It bugs me to no end that the Creamery on Ninth sells the same thing in the same size for 35 cents less, than any where else on campus. The vending machines are 1.40 and and the Twilight Zone has it for 1.39. Creamery on Ninth 1.05! I saw equal opportunity milk selling here! I know you have the vending machine and the Twilight Zone as convenient spots, but raise the price in something else, like water or candy bars, but not the greatest thing that man can experience.
This is what I am really trying to get at. I get this chocolate milk and I feel like a kid at Christmas! Super excited so I open it up and I have to restrain myself from pounding the entire thing right then and there. Someone once said you have to savor it. It is a little tough to do when it is a slice of heavenly bliss going down into your belly. There aren’t words to describe what it is like. So, small chugs, little by little. Well, sometimes faster and bigger than the others but still, small chugs. Then the saddest part of the day, all gone. Nothing left. I almost want to shed a tear when that happens.
Why am I telling you how I feel as I drink BYU chocolate milk? Well, I’ve never sat down and said, oh no, not BYU chocolate milk. The day I say, I’m not really feeling like chocolate milk, just take me to a funeral home and make preparations because I must be seriously ill. Every time, yeah I said, every time, every time I drink BYU chocolate milk, it is the same feeling. This amazing slice of amazingness being absorbed in my body. Purely amazing.
Friday, March 5, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Take it ALL in!
This blog has an original reference to Friday 22 January, 2010. Sorry it took me so long to finish it. Hope you enjoy!
Friday night was a great night... Mainly at the wee hours of the night, early morning when we decided to go sledding at Rock Canyon Park with some mission buddies. It was one of those things that you have to do at least once while you are in college, if not more. It was a lot of fun to be out in the middle of the night, enjoying life. But the thing that I took away from the whole thing was something rather spiritual.
After going up and down the hill a few times, we gathered at the top and sat down on our various sledding devices we talked and joked around, throwing some snowballs here and there. Being a little past one in the morning I leaned back to rest for a few seconds and looked up into the partly cloudy night sky. That is when it happened. There is something about looking up into the night sky and starring up into the immensity of space. I just felt something over come me. This whole world, this whole life, is far more than I can image. This whole plan that God created and set in motion thousands and thousands of years ago is so far out of my comprehension that I can’t even begin to wrap my head around it all. With God being the ruler of it all it is even farther out of my understanding how one person (well one God) can hear and answer everyone’s prayers, understand everyone’s problems, fully and completely understand the pain, the heartache, the exquisite joy, and everything else in between that we feel.
I know I started out by saying that there are some things that you should do at least once in college, well, to be honest, there is some things that you should do not just in college, but all through out your life, and some of it is just taking in nature. Whether it be looking into the night sky, going on a hike through the forest, watching the sunrise or sunset, or just stopping and letting yourself just take it all in. You can feel it, something close, something that just comes over you. I don’t know how it feels for everyone, I can hardly explain it for myself. But it is something that makes me feel like I am not alone out here. That there is something bigger and greater and grander out there.
Friday night was a great night... Mainly at the wee hours of the night, early morning when we decided to go sledding at Rock Canyon Park with some mission buddies. It was one of those things that you have to do at least once while you are in college, if not more. It was a lot of fun to be out in the middle of the night, enjoying life. But the thing that I took away from the whole thing was something rather spiritual.
After going up and down the hill a few times, we gathered at the top and sat down on our various sledding devices we talked and joked around, throwing some snowballs here and there. Being a little past one in the morning I leaned back to rest for a few seconds and looked up into the partly cloudy night sky. That is when it happened. There is something about looking up into the night sky and starring up into the immensity of space. I just felt something over come me. This whole world, this whole life, is far more than I can image. This whole plan that God created and set in motion thousands and thousands of years ago is so far out of my comprehension that I can’t even begin to wrap my head around it all. With God being the ruler of it all it is even farther out of my understanding how one person (well one God) can hear and answer everyone’s prayers, understand everyone’s problems, fully and completely understand the pain, the heartache, the exquisite joy, and everything else in between that we feel.
I know I started out by saying that there are some things that you should do at least once in college, well, to be honest, there is some things that you should do not just in college, but all through out your life, and some of it is just taking in nature. Whether it be looking into the night sky, going on a hike through the forest, watching the sunrise or sunset, or just stopping and letting yourself just take it all in. You can feel it, something close, something that just comes over you. I don’t know how it feels for everyone, I can hardly explain it for myself. But it is something that makes me feel like I am not alone out here. That there is something bigger and greater and grander out there.
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