I like crayons and rainbows. I love listening to interesting people tell their stories. I love Jesus. I like hugs and snowy mornings. I love when people smile first. I like to listen and be listened to. I love the sound of rain, and I love to go outside and dance in it! I like to lay on the grass… making figures out of the clouds or watching the lightning do its dance.  I want to try everything once including swimming with the dolphins and climbing the Sydney harbor bridge. I want to fall madly in love with the man of my dreams. I love to sing my heart out. I love music… taking part in it and listening to it. I like the smell of freshly cut grass. I want to understand people, and why they are the way they are.  I like open areas that amaze me with the vastness of it all, like the prairie or the ocean. I love the colors of fall I love lemonade, hot chocolate, and coffee. I like it when people are actually human. I wish people would have more respect for themselves. I love when people help people in need. I hate greedy people. I love hiking in the mountains and fireplaces on cold nights. I love harmony in music. I like colors and seeing a million colors in the color white. I love gerber daisies. I like puppies and watching them grow. I like the stillness that comes when the electricity is out. Its so peaceful. And kinda scary. I like to climb roofs and be up high, even though I am scared to climb down. I am not scared to die, but I am scared for people who never really live. I think everyone needs to sleep under the stars. I love laughing so hard I cry. I love being totally me, unique and original. I love my friends.

 

I am a redeemed imperfection. I am always changing, always growing yet even in shedding of the many skins I am intrinsically and essentially the same. I was created as who I am with the intention and purpose by a God who is the artist of this world- this life – who continues to paint a picture I am learning to see for myself just as much as others are learning to see in me. I am hopelessly flawed- and I mean that… I find it to be more and more true.

 

Living in the avoidance of the perfunctory life.