how would it feel?

-- to pray together as a family

-- to eat and laugh and talk at the dinner table with the family

-- to have just one day where everyone is really, really joyful

-- to not worry about coming home and seeing if something bad happened

-- to spend money without worrying if you'd ever run out of it

-- to be in love with someone and to always be in love with that one person

-- to have a sibling

-- to know what you want to do in life

-- to have a cheery mom who enjoys living

-- to have a hard-working, not-so-angry, not-so-violent, not-so-hateful, dad

i wonder how it feels to have all these things...

don't take things for granted.

appreciate the simple things in life.

marriage

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church -- for we are members of his body. "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become on flesh." This is a profound mystery -- but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

-- Ephesians 5:22-33

hw assignment

i'm back in sd. and my psychotic roommate is sitting next to me on my bed, staring right at me as i type my first blog entry for the year 2011. she's so crazy and creepy! i think she missed "wrestling" with me, attacking me at nights, sitting on me, and messing around with my pooh bears. heh heh, whoever her future boyfriend/husband will be, he will never be bored with her. haha! anyways...

i saw my tutor kids today and one of the homework assignments i had given them during winter break was to write a short paragraph on what christmas means to them. this is what the boy had written:

"Christmas is the time of giving and getting presents. It is the time of year when you worship God the most for the food and presents. You get together with your friends and family. You get a Christmas tree, decorate it, and make your kids believe in Santa while the adult or you sneak the presents under the Christmas tree."

haha, i chuckled at the last part. but i was pleasantly surprised when he mentioned God. his family doesn't go to church and i'm pretty sure none of his family members believe in God, either. hmm. anyways. cool :)