Hey hey hey! Soooo... is everyone alright with the new look, or do you thing the other one was better? Comment! :)
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Lookin' Good?
Hey hey hey! Soooo... is everyone alright with the new look, or do you thing the other one was better? Comment! :)
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
"So Close... And Still So Far"
Hey guys. Yet another post for all you hopeless romantics out there. Here's a song from Jon Mclaughlin featured in the Disney movie "Enchanted." The song title is "So Close" and it's about that old idea of finding the person you've been looking for and things going great "... happily ever after..."
but...
It doesn't always happen like that, does it? "OH... MY... GOSH... DID HE JUST SAY THAT???" I know that's what you all must be thinking (including Abbi... sorry for not clearing this one with ya, hun ;) But really... what am I (the landlord of loveydovey, the royalty of romantiocity, and the sultan of sap) doing writing a less-than-completely-sappy blog post on a blog for, from, of, and to hopeless romantics? Well, it's because people go through hard times in their romances. Even those who are the most deeply in love go through times where they doubt their feelings for each other, doubt whether things will really work out, or doubt whether they were "meant to be" together.
"Yeah, dude, but what does that have to do with this song?"
Ok, ok... The song "So Close," while a pretty hopelessly romantic song (i.e. "... the music playing on for only two,") has, at the end, a strange turn in the lyrics. the last line of the song is "So close... and still so far." WHOA!!! What kind of ending to a sappy song is that?!?! When I first heard this song and realized the words at the end, I thought, "Now what could it possibly mean to end a hopelessly romantic song with a seemingly cynical phrase like "... and still so far"? Well... now I've found my own meaning to these lyrics.
You see, when you love somebody and you want to marry that person, but current circumstances say "no," you could be said to be "so close and still so far." I, truthfully, have been going through that very recently. I have been dealing with the fact that, while Abbi and I might be "so close" emotionally and in our mindsets toward each other and looking towards God's plan for our lives, we are "so far" in that, me finishing up a bachelor of music and her about to begin grad school in English, we are circumstantially far from marriage. I do believe that God has a plan for us and will remain faithful to us in our relationship with Him and with each other as well as in our fight for purity. I encourage all of you who feel that you are "so close... and still so far" to hold on, trust in God to lead you both, and grow closer (to Him and each other). Don't worry about the "so far" part. That part will dissolve in good time. Just love. Please don't worry. Love involves pain sometimes. Waiting what seems a lifetime will hurt, but will be more than well worth it.
On those notes, literary and musical (lol), have a wonderfully romantic week with the one you love... OR, if you haven't found that special someone, thank God for how wonderful that person will be.
Your ever-faithful harbinger of (somewhat) hopelessly romantic trifles,
Shep <><
but...
It doesn't always happen like that, does it? "OH... MY... GOSH... DID HE JUST SAY THAT???" I know that's what you all must be thinking (including Abbi... sorry for not clearing this one with ya, hun ;) But really... what am I (the landlord of loveydovey, the royalty of romantiocity, and the sultan of sap) doing writing a less-than-completely-sappy blog post on a blog for, from, of, and to hopeless romantics? Well, it's because people go through hard times in their romances. Even those who are the most deeply in love go through times where they doubt their feelings for each other, doubt whether things will really work out, or doubt whether they were "meant to be" together.
"Yeah, dude, but what does that have to do with this song?"
Ok, ok... The song "So Close," while a pretty hopelessly romantic song (i.e. "... the music playing on for only two,") has, at the end, a strange turn in the lyrics. the last line of the song is "So close... and still so far." WHOA!!! What kind of ending to a sappy song is that?!?! When I first heard this song and realized the words at the end, I thought, "Now what could it possibly mean to end a hopelessly romantic song with a seemingly cynical phrase like "... and still so far"? Well... now I've found my own meaning to these lyrics.
You see, when you love somebody and you want to marry that person, but current circumstances say "no," you could be said to be "so close and still so far." I, truthfully, have been going through that very recently. I have been dealing with the fact that, while Abbi and I might be "so close" emotionally and in our mindsets toward each other and looking towards God's plan for our lives, we are "so far" in that, me finishing up a bachelor of music and her about to begin grad school in English, we are circumstantially far from marriage. I do believe that God has a plan for us and will remain faithful to us in our relationship with Him and with each other as well as in our fight for purity. I encourage all of you who feel that you are "so close... and still so far" to hold on, trust in God to lead you both, and grow closer (to Him and each other). Don't worry about the "so far" part. That part will dissolve in good time. Just love. Please don't worry. Love involves pain sometimes. Waiting what seems a lifetime will hurt, but will be more than well worth it.
On those notes, literary and musical (lol), have a wonderfully romantic week with the one you love... OR, if you haven't found that special someone, thank God for how wonderful that person will be.
Your ever-faithful harbinger of (somewhat) hopelessly romantic trifles,
Shep <><
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