Thoughts Created In The Willow Bowl

Lyrics to No Worries, Today I'm Going To... :

Wait Wait Wait Wait a minute

Hold up

STOP

...The press

I woke up today without that 5 million pound boulder of stress on my chest and now I feel blessed and can rest.

Oh! to rest these weary extremities that have been inflicted with infirmities unseen or experienced by them before

So tell me, what does the future have in store?

I don't know

I'm just going to let today be today, I'm going to wake up this morning with a smile on my face, look in the mirror brush my teeth and not wrack my brain wondering weather shes going to call me or not because when a girl says "lets just be friends," what she really means is "I'm never going to talk to you again."

Accept it

Move on

I just did

And after that I'm going to put on my play clothes, go in the front yard and climb that pecan tree like I did last week, but this time I'm not going to get halfway up it and start debating weather morality is...

A social adaptation

A product of Evolution

Or put there, by God

I'm just going to climb the thing and have fun like I did when I was a kid

And after that I'm going to go to vertebrate zoology class and listen to my boring lifeless instructor talk about how there are 50 different species of minnow in Arkansas alone.

But I'll smile

Nod

SHOW INTEREST

Act interested

(because that really is interesting if you think about it. Think about it)

And then after that I'll go home and have lunch. The same ol' boring lunch again! Two more fricken' frozen Monterey jack bean and cheese burritos with a glass of distilled water and an Orange. But I'll give thanks that I do have food to eat because so many people don't

And after that Ill go to work and paint But I'm not going to paint that boring eggshell white on that old ladies wall like she requested...no, I'm not going to do it. I'm going to pretend I'm a juvenile Leonardo Da Vinci and paint a stick figure masterpiece of a young couple frolicking in a field of flowers with little butterflies and gophers popping up here and there. (I'm sure the old lady will appreciate it later in life)

And after that, I'm going to have dinner with my Paw Paw and when he cries to me about how his arthritis is bad his own daughter rejects him he's sad, I'll put my arm around him and listen watch his old weary eyes glisten as he experiences my love for him.

And after that I'll go home, sit on the floor and start singing songs to the one that gave me this joy that I'm feeling, but it's more then just some fleeting feeling, it's eternal truth in which I am reeling.

And then at night I lay my head to rest without the slightest bit of fright or fret knowing I made the day the best I could

And that God truly is good.

- Bradley Hathaway

God IS good.

And ive been realizing recently just how good He is.

Take for instance my walk with Christ.

At some times in my life, like the start of the semester, I felt like I was walking pretty close with God. I was reading my bible multiple times a day, I was really trying my best to live for him… and then I got bogged down some how. Something in my life took the spot if where He should be.

But even if there wasn’t something that was blocking it, even if it was just myself getting a bad attitude. I still felt as if I wasn’t doing a good enough job. Like I wasn’t pleasing Him enough. And in a sense, that’s a good thing. Its good to feel like you need to do more for Him, because He has done everything for you. But if looking at your life and realizing all the things you aren’t doing, and getting in the attitude that you will never be able to do them, then that’s bad. And that’s where I am/was (Depending on when you read this).

And that’s when I look at my life and realize just how blessed I am.

Tonight, Scott and I sat in the willow bowl and talked from 12 to 2. We talked about many things, but one of those things was about being blessed. And as Americans, just how blessed we are, and we cannot take that for granted. And this just echoes Gods love for us. He doesn’t love us because he has to, he doesn’t HAVE to do anything. He loves us because he wants to. He loves us because he wants us to be with him. So we cannot take that for granted. We have to realize just how much that means; the magnitude of His Love.

And once we can grasp that even in the slightest, everything else doesn’t seem so bad.