Daylight...

I'm sitting at a desk with a bowl of summer strawberries and ice cream, Pullman has been washed with a lazy veil of hot weather. Excellent!

Listening:
My Friend Isaac told me I should check out a song by Matt and Kim, daylight(listening link); an excellent summer song. The song can be downloaded for free (legally!) here.

Things I want to do this summer:
:Read and practice writing poetry
:Sharpen up my programming skillz for work
:Swim in lakes
:Spend time getting to know all those awesome folks I never get to see during the school year!

I don't have to much more to say at the moment, as I am about to go spend time with a couple friends, but I will try for some substantive blogging soon enough! Enjoy the summer!

-Liam

The First Ending

We leave for home tomorrow, so as a last farewell we walked along the beach to watch the sunset(the sun is an amazingly beautiful thing, a fact evidenced by NASA's STEREO project[and also the SOHO project!], poke around the website for some awesome pictures). It's a bit strange to walk along the beach here, cars are allowed to drive along the seashore (speaking of which we saw one get stuck, but it ended happily! they got out after a little help and advice from a local) While walking I found another thing to add to the list of things to be done: watch the sunrise on the Atlantic.

We had the grand opportunity to tromp around the forest today and see the abandoned battlements before going to walking out to the lighthouse. I love antiquated things! A personal favorite was the water tower, a few feet off the muddy path.

And of course, there must be a picture of the lighthouse!



To end this blog, I was looking for a Psalm with reference to the Ocean, an amazingly powerful thing; endowed to it by our God.

Psalm 139

For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.

O LORD, you have searched me
and you know me.

You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.

You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.

Before a word is on my tongue
you know it completely, O LORD.

You hem me in—behind and before;
you have laid your hand upon me.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.

Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?

If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths,

If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,

even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.

If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,"

even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.

For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.

How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!

Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand.
When I awake,
I am still with you.

If only you would slay the wicked, O God!
Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

They speak of you with evil intent;
your adversaries misuse your name.

Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD,
and abhor those who rise up against you?

I have nothing but hatred for them;
I count them my enemies.

Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.

See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.

The Beginning

I discovered Sigur Ros this week. I've never had a great grasp on the European music scene, but I am more and more impressed by the sounds coming out of places like Iceland. I just ordered Sigur Ros' newest album Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust which is worth a listening(esp. while reading!).

I've also been road trippin'--first to see my dear friend John before he flew down to Argentina(for a missions trip & then to study abroad), then with my family to visit my sister at the coast. After a long walk on the beach, I came back with a few pictures! To the left is my sister and I, the waves chased us up the beach right after this picture was taken. Bellow, my sister threw a jelly fish at me, so I ran her into the ocean. We had a lot of fun!




This week as John left, I spent a lot of time thinking about what God's answer is to seeing people go and I was reminded of two verses.

• 1st Corinthians 15:54 "When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory."
• Revelation 21:4 "He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away"

God proclaims victory over the ultimate separation, death, and he himself will cure our pains. I'm glad the old order of things is going to pass away. Our separation is temporary.

I hope to keep updating this blog! God bless all who read
-Liam