All I Ever Wanted

This blog took a very different turn from what I'd been normally writing about exactly one year ago today. I decided I was going to make a note of the songs that I wake up with stuck in my head, and use each as an embarkation point for posts. I think it is poetic that, after 366 days of blogging, I have very much the same topic as I did for the post when I started this exercise. I had no idea where this blog was going to go (or where my year would take me for that matter), but I have enjoyed looking back at the posts that have happened and the adventures I've lived since. What a list it is!

Wouldn't it be Loverly

We R Who We R

Nothing's Bigger than Love/I Dreamed a Dream

We Can Do It

Toreador

Till I Hear You Sing

Who Am I?

Meteor Shower

Seize the Day

Not Over You

Brand New Day

These are the Nights

Joy to the World

Call me Maybe

My Eyes

White Flag

Tattoo

Somebody that I Used to Know

What Do You Do With a B.A. in English?

Payphone

Part of Me

It's Possible

Lights

Dark Blue

The Fortunate

Fine, Fine Line

Love You Like a Love Song

Me Without You

We are Never Ever Getting Back Together

Gloria (My Savior Lives)

Check Yes or No

Adelaide's Lament

Good Morning, Beautiful

Set Fire to the Rain

Titanium

Everybody Talks

With Wond'ring Awe

That's How You Know

Some Nights

Les Miserables

My Paper Heart

A Tisket, a Tasket
One More Night

Such an odd collection! I hope you've enjoyed these as much as I have enjoyed being able to write and share with you. Don't worry, I'm not quitting, I just thought that this is kind a major milestone to hit and I should acknowledge that.

Sweet perfumes of incense

Graceful rooms of alabaster stone

All I ever wanted

Poor Moses: in this portion of the Prince of Egypt, his world has pretty much been torn out from underneath him and he is trying to decide what it means to him to be himself. At first he tries to find himself in the things surrounding him.

Here among my trappings and belongings I belong

and if anybody doubts it

they couldn't be more wrong

How easy it is to try an identify yourself through the world around you! I can see that a lot of my own personal identification comes out in which car I drive, what I do for fun, where I eat, what I wear. There is so much more than that though! My understanding of who I am is so much more deeply rooted. I know that the things that are in my life are wonderful, but that life would still be wonderful without those things.

I am a sovereign prince of Egypt

Son of a proud history...

I have high expectations and great visions for my life as a child of God. Every aspect of my life which is in my control is an opportunity to grow towards greatness. Sure, there are lots of little things that I want: to do well in school, to get a degree, to get a job, to have a family, to go new places and see new things. I want all of these things, and I am working towards them. BUT, even if they don't happen in my life, I know that I can and am living in a way that is in line with and pleasing to God, and, really, that's All I Ever Wanted.