Stolen Prayer

I stole this from another blog, but more importantly, no one can steal the power of prayer. No one can take away prayer, you can always pray, no matter what. Lately when I've been getting really fed up with school or tired or frusterated throughout the day, I just lean my head down and think about God. I don't usually pray, I just think. No one can ever take that from you. Not ever.



After being interviewed by the school administration, the eager teaching prospect said: "Let me see if I've got this right. You want me to gointo that room with all those kids, and fill their every waking moment with a love for learning, and I'm supposed to instill a sense of pride intheir ethnicity, modify their disruptive behavior, observe them for signs of abuse and even censor their T-shirt messages and dress habits.You want me to wage a war on drugs and sexually transmitted diseases, check their backpacks for weapons of mass destruction, and raisetheir self esteem. You want me to teach them patriotism, good citizenship, sportsmanship, fair play, how to register to vote, how to balancea checkbook, and how to apply for a job. I am to check their heads for lice, maintain a safe environment, recognize signs of antisocial behavior, make sure all students pass the provincial exams, even those who don't come to school regularly or complete any of their assignments. Plus, I am to make sure that all of the students with handicaps get an equal education regardless of the extent of their mental or physical handicap. I am to communicate regularly with the parents by letter, telephone, newsletter and report card. All of this I am to do with just a piece of chalk, a computer, a few books, a bulletin board, a big smile AND on a starting salary that almost qualifies my family for food stamps! You want me to do all of this, and then you tell me... I CAN'T PRAY!?!

Favourite Songs

Here are two lists: my Faves playlist and My Playlist on my iPod.

Faves:
Vindicated - Dashboard Confessional
Screaming Infidelities - Dashboard Confessional
A Walk Through Hell - Say Anything
Julia (Acoustic) - Our Lady Peace
4am - Our Lady Peace
Outside (Acoustic) - Aaron Lewis and Fred Durst
Theif - Our Lady Peace
Made To Heal - Our Lady Peace
The Scientist - Coldplay
Made of Steel - Our Lady Peace
As Lovers Go - Dashboard Confessional
A Lack Of Colour - Death Cab For Cutie
Grace Like Rain - Todd Agnew
Plus Rien - Les Cowboys Fringants
Alive With The Glory Of Love - Say Anything
Existentialism On Prom Night - Straylight Run
Swallowed In The Sea - Coldplay
Best Of You - Foo Fighters
All I Can Do - Chantal Kreviazuk
Stolen - Dashbaord Confessional


My Playlist:
Where'd You Go (Clean) - Fort Minor
Move Along - The All-American Rejects
Ready To Fall - Rise Against
Swing Life Away - Rise Against
How To Save A Life - The Fray
The Secrets In The Telling - Dashboard Confessional
Turn The Page - Bob Seager
Natural Anthem - The Postal Service
Your Ex-Lover Is Dead - Stars
Seasons Of Love - RENT Cast
Times Like These - Foo Fighters
Such Great Hights - The Postal Service
Letters To You - Finch
The Grace - Neverending White Lights
Over My Head (Cable Car) - The Fray
Unsaid - The Fray
Again I Go Unnoticed - Dashboard Confessional


Well, that's what I'm listening to, along with some new Christian songs...Give me some comments!
Hannah

Forgiveness and Jellyfish

I just found the bible verse one of my favourite songs is named. "Seventy Times 7" by Brand New is a reference to how many times you should forgive someone. Jesus told Matthew this in Matthew 18:22...check it out for yourself.
Anyway, here are the lyrics (I may have posted them before...)

"Seventy Times 7"
Brand New
"Your Favourite Weapon" (2001)

Back in school they never taught us what we needed to know,
like how to deal with despair, or someone breaking your heart.
For twelve years I've held it all together but a night like this is begging to pull me apart.
I played it quiet, left you deep in conversation.
I felt uncool and hung out around the kitchen.
I remember I kept thinking that I know you never would,
and now I know I want to kill you like only a best friend could.

Everyone's caught on to everything you do
Everyone's caught on to.

As if this happening wasn't enough I got to go
and write a song just to remind myself how bad it sucked.
Ignore the sun, the cover's over my head.
I wrote a message on my pillow that says, "Jesse, stay asleep in bed."
So don't apologize. I hope you choke and die.
Search your cell for something with which to hang yourself.
They say you need to pray if you want to go to heaven
but they don't tell you what to say when your whole life has gone to hell.

Everyone's caught on to everything you do
Everyone's caught on to
And everyone's caught on to everything you do (And I can't let you, let me down again.)
Everyone's caught on to (And I can't let you, let me down again)

So, is that what you call a getaway?
Tell me what you got away with.
Cause I've seen more spine in jellyfish.
I've seen more guts in eleven-year-old kids.
Have another drink and drive yourself home.
I hope there's ice on all the roads.
And you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt,
and again when your head goes through the windshield.

And is that what you call tact?
You're as subtle as a brick in the small of my back.
So let's end this call, and end this conversation.
and is that what you call a getaway?
well tell me what you got away with.
cause you left the frays from the ties you severed
when you say best friends means friends forever

So, is that what you call a getaway?
Well tell me what you got away with.
Cause I've seen more spine in jellyfish.
I've seen more guts in eleven-year-old kids.
Have another drink and drive yourself home.
I hope there's ice on all the roads.
And you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt,
and again when your head goes through the windshield.

Everyone's caught on to everything you do (And I can't let you, let me down again)
Everyone's caught on to (And I can't let you, let me down again)
And everyone's caught on to everything you do (And I can't let you, let me down again)
Everyone's caught on to (And I can't let you, let me down again)