christmas spirit

it blows my mind
that my little life
is part of the bigger picture,
that i play a part
in his rescue plan.

and the hero of this epic story
is in love
with me.

he looks at me
with passion and delight.
and for christmas
he gives himself
as an everlasting gift.

"In the Christian view, however, the ultimate evidence for the existence of God is Jesus Christ himself. If there is a God, we characters in his play have to hope that he put some information about himself in the play. But Christians believe he did more than give us information. He wrote himself into the play as the main character in history, when Jesus was born in manger and rose from the dead. He is the one with whom we have to do."

-Timothy Keller Reason for God

life lately

today i finally finished my last assignment. i took many (too many) breaks in between where i watched one tree hill, and so i also finished season four this morning - i feel very accomplished haha.

apart from that i've done lots of random things...

-dishes (we have to much crockery)

-painted my nails christmas themed

whilst drinking tea

-made some very tasty apple strudel

-went to the pub

-and for wintery walks

and listened to this (a lot):

and this:

i've been in a incredibly good mood lately. i love christmas!

random

i'm easy like a sunday morning on a monday morning!
except for the fact that there is still over a thousand words left to write for my essay... #okayletsgetonit

new life

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the fact that
death is beaten
manifested daily
in my life
because death disappears
out of my thoughts and my desires.

it is all life now
overflowing, radiating.

i will remain
rejoicing, glorifying, thanking
all the days of my life
and than forever more.

oh your love...

waking up on a saturday morning
filled with peace and joy
because of his great love




oh your love is a symphony 
all around me
running through me
oh your love is a melody
underneath me 
running to me

oh your love is a song

summer recap #2

as i'm sitting here - freezing - i'm reminiscing summer: spending days hanging out at the rhine, doing nothing but sun bathing and solving cross word puzzles.
and enjoying warm summer nights with friends, wine and bonfires.
i'm so thankful for my life.

randomness, words, emotions.

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and it's swelling up
joy and love and fear
inside of her
and she is
trusting, risking,
in her fingers a
nervous tickling
but oh wait
let's breath and refocus
and so she exercises patience.

stirred.

Wake up child,
it's your time to shine
you were born for such a time as this.

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There are books you forget. And there are books that stay with you. Maybe forever.

"I looked over at Augustus Waters, who looked back at me. You could almost see through his eyes they were so blue. "There will come a time," I said, "when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this" -- I gestured encompassingly -- "will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does."

-John Green The Fault in our Stars 

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life lately

taking autumn walks

and marvelling at god's creation

breakfast dates with best housemate and friend

indulging in literature

and listening to this song while drinking coffee in the shower.

life is good.

and i say it's significant.

in these moments
between living and dreaming
when you see reality but only from afar
wrapped in the beauty of the light,
that the newborn day sheds through the window.

when hope is strong
and happiness easy
i close my eyes and know
that all this is not just random
and i utter a thank you
and smile.

life - just a blink of an eye

Forever's Not So Long from garrettmurray on Vimeo.

patience.

“If it is right, it happens—The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.” -John Steinbeck

via.

le weekend

my best friend hannah and i started the weekend off by having a meal at a pub in town and then went (feeling very cultured) to the 'light up lancaster' festival which was actually pretty cool. 

waiting for the food...

taking pictures of candles, cutlery and saltshakers

dancers and projections in the sun square

fire artist in dalton square

saturday i spent studying and drinking a lot of tea. 

it has become very cold the last couple of days - the air smells like winter already. we actually meant to see the fireworks (it is guy fawkes day) but decided to stay in, cook some chinese food and watch 'fight club' - which just remains to be my favourite movie.

i finished reading 'the condemned of altona' by jean-paul sartre and made a list 

(yet another one) of books that i need to read before i die.

                                     

i bough a new cd by the 'head and the heart' (love the band name) 

and so far this is my favourite song.

highlight of the week

one of the most beautiful moments in life

when the thoughts and sentiments of your soul

that are never to be expressed with words

are captured in a song.

the fossil collectives

us!

the lumineers

the civil wars

my favourite moment

aah music

in germany we have this saying "vorfreude ist die schönste freude" which means something like anticipation is the best kind of joy. well, i think that's true.
tomorrow i am going to manchester to see the civil wars and the lumineers! i am so excited.

summer recap #1

roadtrip to scotland...

Edinburgh

lots of rain and wet feet

waving to the queen

backpipes

good food and drink

Glasgow

scottish national football stadium

nature walks

...and castles!

thinking about home

this really makes me miss home, swiss german, basel, and my friends.




"manchmal muss man erst in die ferne reisen, um frieden mit seiner heimat zu schließen"

just that.

"don't be afraid; just believe."
-jesus (mark 5:36)

michael melford, national geographic