Meet my Nerd!
He may look small in the picture, but he has grown a lot, especially his head. Thanks Sarah for this fun birthday present. To explain to the rest of you all...this is my very own "grow your own nerd" he started out very small and has been sitting in a cup of water in my house for the last week as he continued to grow. My roomate found it amusing to call him my date or my boyfriend which I quickly reminded her was not true, He is just my nerd! Notice even his socks are not matching. Fun times - Letha

Meme
So Hannah MeMe'd me awhile ago and I was just sitting watching my roomate clean and not wanting to do my school work so thought I would answer.
So here are 6 interestingly odd things about me.
1. I have a sleeping issue. I used to think I could sleep through anything, but recently discovered since sharing a room for the first time in awhile that I cannot. I find myself most nights sleeping on the couch away from the noise of my peacefully yet loudly sleeping roomate.
2. I love to travel, yet hate to do new things by myself. So I haven't been as many places as I would like to have been.
3. I love to read and can be quite the critic yet have no skills for expressing myself in written word. I love research and gathering of information but totally freak out every time a paper needs to be written.
4. I love chic flicks especially musicals - movie was not made to be realistic, but to let you relax and enjoy some time out of reality.
5. My roomate thinks I am quirky because I won't let her double dip in the sugar bowl. I don't think that is so very odd.
6. My name alone is pretty quirkly. I know some of you may not think so, but everytime I am introduced, and I have met a lot of new people resently my name is always an easy topic of conversation. Where did it come from, what does it mean, is that Lisa? And so the mystery of the name will continue. Thankfully the Lethal Weapon movies have been pretty much forgotten so I don't get that comment anymore.
I am sure I am much quirker than this but my lack of creativity is becoming very obvious and I really should be doing something more productive.
I am not going to pass this on but hope it inspires another to write a MeMe blog.
Letha

Lamentations
So I have always been planning on writing a few entries on the many interesting and exciting things I am learning and studying here at school. Today seems the perfect day to begin, beings as I have tons of stuff that could be getting done and a paper that needs written. As you may be wondering about the title of this entry, Lamentations, I will explain. The paper I am supposively now writing is on Lamentations 2. How often do you read Lamentations? I don't very often, actually the only times I know for sure that I have read it is when I make a point to read the entire Bible, then I read it.
It is a fascinating book. I don't claim to be a great Biblical scholar or theologian, but I get excited about learning and I am learning bunches about the historal setting of Lamentations, the debate over who really is the author, the literary structure and form of the book. Did you know it is an acrostic? I never did.
The question that remains ungrasped for me is application. I can see a lot of ways I could take the text and make it "apply" to me, but I always come back to the thought, 'how dare I.' I have a very blessed life, I haven't experienced any great suffering, sure I have seen it and know people who have experienced it, but how do I relate to a people who have had everything they ever possessed or valued taken away from them and destroyed?
And this is only the surface question I have a lot more, and I love it! I know I would love to live in a black and white world where everything is clearly cut out and in its place, but I am learning to appreciate these difficult to answer areas. Areas where all I can do is trust God and his sovereignty, trust His purposes, and know without a doubt that I serve a God who is present, not distance. That I can go to Him will all these questions and work them out, slowing coming to a greater and deeper understanding of who I was created to worship.
Thanks for reading, Letha