Josie's Journal Journey: The Second

          This journal is the one that helped me through my first semester of college and boy, is it interesting to look back on. Who knew that I would feel so differently about everything? Well, everyone who has ever been to college did, but I hardly ever listen to them anyway. 

• Inspiration?: 
  • ​"She put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong." - The Awakening by Kate Chopin
  • "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader." - Robert Frost
• Kurtz:
  • ​Roses are red and feelings are fickle / Let's watch the raindrops come down in a trickle
  • We had dreams that struggled to stay alive. / We had dreams that withered and died. 
• Zwölf: These existential moments leave your faith broken in all the right places.
• Sermon: Liturgical Chapel on "Faith," 3 October 2013
  • ​"The righteous will live by their faith in the face of God's absence."
  • "You don't need more faith, you need better faith."
  • "Be an active participant, not a passive observer."
• Ein Bischen: Money makes the whole world drown.
• Achtzehn:
  • ​I want to live a million lives in the span of one.
  • For a little while, you're numb as the feelings fade away. That's the most amazing part of life.
• Neunzehn: We're all so focused on living a meaningful life that we forget to stop and think what that might look like.
• Woo: 
  • How lovely life is since you broke my heart. How deep is this passion that set us apart.
  • Isn't love about falling more than once?
• Dreiundzwanzig: My soul is starving for the beauty of times lost and times that will never be.
• Sermon: Fellowship Monrovia - "The Growth of a Disciple," 11 November 2013
  • "Stop having a Costco mentality when you have a Whole Foods God."
    • "You don't need leftovers, God will provide fresh blessings for you tomorrow."
• Sermon: Chapel on "Humitlity," 4 November 2013
  
  • Hubris: excessive pride
    
    • "The natural condition of the human ego."
• "Don't be an emotional slut."
• Dreizig: They mean me no harm, but sometimes I can't convince myself of that.