study time again.

Study.
AHHRRRGGGGGG!
I've just been sitting here all afternoon achieving nothing. Procrastinating professional.

I even took a photo of my NOT studying state.

Study and I don't go together very well, add a cold flat, Grandad being sick, not knowing my direction etc. to the mix and the product is sitting here all afternoon and NO study.

I wrote a poem.

Wandering these parallel paths we are 
Conformation in overheard conversation 
In isolation we carry these unnecessary burdens 
If only to meet and see that we all feel the same 

The ancients of this institution look on 
Viewing an all to familiar cycle 
That they once completed and now set 

The pursuit of knowledge 
We have to start somewhere

Breathe and write
Understanding will come

Wandering these parallel paths we are 


Ya. Exam time again. 

deep calls out to deep

I was listening to a song the other day on Life FM (the NZ Christian radio station) and I don't even know what the song was called but I contained the lyric "Deep calls out to deep." It wasn't even the main refrain but something about the phrase cried out to me. It stood out. I consciously remember thinking, "I need to remember this..."

I looked up the phrase and it comes from Psalm 42:7 "Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me." 

You could take it to mean one bad thing after the other, not being able to breath or being completely overwhelmed, though those were not the thoughts that came directly to my head when I heard it. 

What I immediately thought and fell in love with was, as one commentator put it "only a call from the depths can provoke a response from the depths." As God cries out to us we are compelled to respond from the depths of our beings, it feels only natural. When the creator of all things calls to YOU something from deep within stirs... deep calls to deep. 

Meaningful relationship. I always find myself craving meaning, intimacy, depth, and reciprocity.... don't we all? Maybe one way of finding that or creating it in our lives is to interact, communicate from a place of depth. Superficiality will invite superficial responses. When the deep part of us calls out to others, nature, the universe, God.... who knows what kind of response will be reciprocated? What will be opened up? What walls will be broken down? What will be discovered? 

Thoughts for a Sunday night.