the sky is truly the limit

Dear Disney,

I'm very intrigued by your recent billion dollar profit strategy so casually entitled "disneynature." Your powerful trailer, complete with footage filmed entirely by BBC, a British Morgan Freeman narrator and a Sigur Ros song eloquently placed to inspire audiences of all ages has almost made me believe that you care about the earth! Thank you for jumping onto the fashionable "green" trend bandwagon - honestly,  I'm surprised it took you this long! 

I recognize you were probably feeling cheated by how much cash BBC was raking in for filming videos of the earth - why didn't you think of that first?! Now that you love the earth, I think I might try to start loving the earth, too. Thanks for helping me recognize that my existence is slowly destroying our planet, glacier melt by glacier melt. I want to do something about it! I suppose I will funnel my energies into paying $9 to see your film in the movie theatre - all for the sake of saving the earth, right? 

I can't wait to see what your upcoming movies, "Crimson Wing" and "Naked Beauty" have in store for me, but I'm confident I will the first one in line to experience it all firsthand at Animal Kingdom!

Until your next exciting endeavor,

Morgan

Note: the contents of this blog entry do no necessarily represent the author's entire opinion of Disney and it's endeavors, which would mostly include any worthy princess movie and/or theme park rides named "Splash Mountain," "Space Mountain," and "Tower of Terror." 

hope is coming for me

I was made to live.

I was made to love.

I was made to know You. 

Does anything else compare to this? There is nothing more perfect, more complete, more satisfying than knowing our Creator, loving him, and living in him and for him. Beautiful, life-giving things happen when we obey this call. 

I can't put into words how joyful I am - still dancing in the blessings that come from obedience, I see glimpses of how lovely and mysterious the Lord is. All I know is that I want more. I'm excited because there is more to come. The Lord is faithful, and when we surrender things to him he fills us with more than we need! 

For Lent (although not so much for my spring break that just ended) I have been waking up at 7am every morning to spend an hour with the Lord, praying and writing and reading. It has been SO encouraging and refreshing to wake up that early (well, it's early for me - I know one of you "gets to work at 7") and be intentional about falling in love with my God. I know you can spend that time at any part of the day, but the early morning for me has just been perfect. I'm currently in love with a song by Brooke Fraser (actually, her entire CD is great, you should buy it) (and I don't know how many more parentheses I can fit into this paragraph) and the chorus reads:

speak to me in the light of the dawn

mercy comes with the morning

i will sigh and with all creation groan 

as i wait for hope to come for me

And that's how I feel about the past few weeks waking up with God. His mercies are new every morning, he speaks to me, and I have a longing to be with him - and so I wait for that hope to come with expectation and excitement. So I pray that you, too, will be encouraged: that we have a hope that has been promised to us. If we find that nothing in this world can satisfy, it's because we were not made for here...and soon enough, we will be reunited with our savior. 

chocolate frosting

I've recently created a new dessert. It's called animal crackers dunked into a tub of chocolate frosting. 

You might recall something like this from your childhood called "Dunkaroos" but I can assure you my creation is better. And better for you! And instead of that measly dollop of frosting, you get the whole tub.

Well, faithful readers, you may or may not know that I have been accepted to Dallas Theological Seminary and will be attending in the Fall!

The Lord has been so good to me. 

question of the year

Why does string cheese taste differently when it is pulled off than when it is just bitten into???

Also, I flew a kite yesterday: