Slow Dance

 

 

 

 SLOW DANCE

 

Have you ever
watched kids

 

On a merry-go-round?

 

Or listened to
the rain

 

Slapping on the ground?

 

Ever followed a
butterfly’s erratic flight?

Or gazed at the sun into the fading
night?

 

You better slow down.

 

Don’t dance so
fast.

 

Time is short.

 

The music won’t
last.

 

Do you run through each day

 

On the
fly?

 

When you ask How are you?

 

Do you hear the
reply?

 

When the day is done

 

Do you lie in your
bed

 

With the next hundred chores

 

Running through
your head?

 

You’d better slow down

 

Don’t dance so
fast.

 

Time is short.

 

The music won’t
last.

 

Ever told your child,

 

We’ll do it
tomorrow?

And in your haste,

 

Not see
his sorrow?

 

Ever lost touch,

 

Let a good
friendship die

 

Cause you never had time

 

To call
and say,’Hi’

 

You’d better slow down.

 

Don’t dance
so fast.

 

Time is short.

 

The music won’t
last.

 

When you run so fast to get somewhere

 

You
miss half the fun of getting there.

 

When you worry and hurry
through your day,

 

It is like an unopened
gift….

 

Thrown away.

 

Life is not a
race.

 

Do take it slower

 

Hear the
music

 

Before the song is over.

Do Hard Things

About Brownies and Pies

I was making a pie yesterday and middle-way-through it seemed like it would be a total flop,a terrible disaster.And for me, that is quite a terrible thing to happen: I am always very touchy on the subject of … baking flops.When I bake something,I quite naturally want it to turn out like the pie , or the whatever-it-is-in-question, on the picture in the book.

I have the luck of having one of those moms that can do anything.When I get that sinking feeling,that uncomfortable suspicion that my pie is going to flop,I call my mom to the rescue.And most of the time she can save it.I don’t exactly know how she does it or what she does,although I always pay attention..she just kind of … saves my pie and thus consequently my day.

So yesterday I made a pie that didn’t turn out like I wanted it but everyone said it was good except that the bottom was a bit soggy (yes yes,I know it’s soggy,just eat it and be still) and I was quite content because I hadn’t even made mom rescue it…couldn’t, since she wasn’t home.

I afterwards made brownies that did turn out just the way I wanted them and since there isn’t a picture for that particular recipe, I had no doubt that they looked just like they would have looked on the picture if there had been one.

And that is just the way it is with God,too.If we make a mess of our lives,He can help us out.Yes,there will be consequences and all that,but He’s always there for us.

(yes,I am aware of the fact that the creations on the picture have hideous colors for food,and furthermore and also I am aware of the next fact, this one being…they are muffins and not brownies,but I thought it would be more encouraging then if I put a picture of the brownies on…. you might get depressed if your brownies don’t turn out as nice, which they most likely won’t,and if they would,you would get to proud.)

Here’s the brownie recipe…It is scrumptiously good,and truly scrumptious!

Chocolate Brownies

 ingredients:

40gr flour

60gr cocoa powder

400 sugar

120gr chopped pecan or walnuts

250 gr pure chocolate,chopped

250 gr butter,melted

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

4 eggs,lightly beaten

 preheat the oven to 180°c. Grease the baking pan (about 30 cm x 20 cm)and put a baking sheet in it.

Sift flour and cocoa in a bowl and add sugar,nuts if you like them,I never put them in,and chocolate of course! Stir and make a little hole in the middle.

Pour in butter,vanilla extract and eggs and stir everything very well.Pour in baking pan,smooth it over and put it in the oven for 50 min.

After you take it out,leave it to cool of for 2 hours.

Cut in squares,eat,and don’t eat to much!

(makes about 24 pieces)

2sec shadow If u please

I would like to have an angel walk 2 seconds in front of me so he could make shut up just before I say something and make me think first.

I say something and 2 seconds later I regret it. And I say something I regret twice in one thousandth of half of a second.

Then,after I said it and regretted it, I feel perfectly stupid,dumb.

Why can’t I just stop and think before I say something?

Well,today I decided that was that. I was going to count to 10 when I wanted to say something and then if I still thought it would be fine to say it, I would allow myself .

I know, If you know me you probably don’t believe that I could actually do such a thing, but believe me, I really had quite a new years resolution today! (ignore the fact that it’s kind off late for new years resolutions)

 I felt quite self-disciplined.I am in general, you know. Why, I can resist to read instead of study for 5 minutes! Of course , after such a long time, I always feel like I really earned half an hour of reading.

And I do have to say, when I am vexed I have the patience to give a long sermon to the person who vexed me, which is really very charitable towards the other person, don’t you think?

It gives them the chance to repent,apologize,better their life, better existence itself!

Ah, immortal thoughts of the smart soul! How I smile upon thee with fondness.

Anyway, so here I go, quite positively enthusiastic, but halfway through the day I had not said several things that I did want to say but I waited so long to say them that by the time I had actually gone through the whole process of ‘editing’ them , it was to late and the conversation had gotten ahead of me…I was about 23 subjects behind.Why, they actually had the imprudence to be right in the middle of the 24th subject already,without me having had the chance to say a word.And the conversation would have been so much more edifying and interresting if I could have given my positive opinion on the matters,whatever they were. As it was,I am sure those who were participating in the coversation felt very unsatisfied a the end of it.And they wouldn’t have been if…

do tell me to shut up!

Needless to say, there went my beautiful resolution. It just up and flew away… I was very unloyal so I have the sensibility to forgive the poor thing.

Maybe next new year I will make another resolution.Although I usually don’t.Just out of pure niceness,you know.

Meanwhile, I might just talk less.

Or think more.

Or both.

Or…

Grow up?

But will I ever?

I think I’m quite hopeless, really.

The life of a girl

Tomorrow I have exams. Very right, what on earth am I doing , blogging the day before my exams?

I figure if I didn’t study enough by now, I never will have.

Yesterday I did study myself to death though, so don’t worry. Well, not to death, because I am still alive to tell you about it.

I sat in my bed, listened to Sugababes and Handel, also Chitty Chitty Bang Bang soundtrack, and more such things, and studied.

Then I decided  I needed a break and so I went for a bike ride. The weather was perfect; quite cold but not to cold, and no rain.

And after sitting inside all day it felt so good to be out in the cold.I biked to the bakery and got candy and fanta…like I told the sales lady ‘when one studies one doesn’t have to think about being healthy’ and she agreed with me so I felt quite justified.

I then went in the little road that passes right beside the bakery, I always want to take it but never actually do it, and it is so cute!

Just an adorable little road, when you go left it becomes even cuter,and , although it hardly seems possible , when you take a right after that…it’s just perfect. You pass a delightful old farm and that’s the last house on the little darling road. I know, by now it is a different road and a different name but never mind (in Belgium usually don’t look at road names..they always disappoint me.They are always fearfully everydayish.)

Anyway, when you go past that last farmhouse, there is a tunnel ,and I stood looking at it, deciding if I would dare go through or not. On the other side, the road went on , a little darker because the fields on either side of it are higher, and there are trees bending over it, but behind that I could see the sun shining.

I went through (expecting to be kidnapped any moment,it felt so frightfully far away from the civilized world,so lonely)

And came out and gosh how pretty!!! To my right there were fields and houses far away, trees, church towers, clouds in the sky, cows in the fields…and right in front of me the little road kept going on and on…and to my left there was…the highway.

And therefore realized I was still in Belgium, and biked back home, (flying through the tunnel)scowling at every Belgian I met.

Today I worked and did not study…

And now I am going to watch a movie to soothe my troubled spirits.

*note: I did not get kidnapped when I went back through the tunnel and arrived back home safely*

Somewhere over the rainbow

This is such a wooooooonderfull lovely beautifull song, and he has a perfect voice, which makes me come to this conclusion: you just have to watch it!

Why I love Because of Winn-Dixie

Like some people already know , and like I have already said, I love children’s movies.                                            

                                              

You know, those innocent childrens movies in which nothing really happens but very much does happen anyway!

“Because of Winn-Dixie” is one of those.

                 

It’s about a little girl, India Opal, whose mother left her and her dad when she was just 3 years old. Her dad is a preacher and doesn’t give her very much attention. He is, like Opal says ‘just like a turtle, hidin’ inside it’s shell, not ever lookin’ out into the world’

They move often,and they have just moved again to a little town ‘Naomi’ (smile)

There are a lot of sad people there; Gloria says the people in Naomi have forgotten to share their sorrows, Opal says they have forgotten how to share their joys.

That summer Opal finds a dog, and she names it Winn Dixie. That summer she brings the people in Naomi back together and Winn Dixie brings her and her dad together again.

I love it because it’s so sweet.

                          

 A lot of people have forgotten how to share their joys and sorrows. People just live for themselves, work to get rich, buy a fancy car…but really, is that what life is about?
I’ld rather be a little poorer and know how to share my joys and sorrows with others , then be rich and care only for myself.

And just be glad about the little things in life. Enjoy it…together,not just alone!

Sweetie Pie (Elle Fanning) and Opal

Annasophia Robb, who plays India Opal, does a great job…like always…

http://www.annasophiarobb.com/

Celeste in Belgium.

We had a lot of fun, and also some unfun,when Cel was here.We brought her to the airport this morning…said an untearful and cold goodbye and got in the car…

Veerle banged on the windows, ‘I don’t want Celeste to be gone’ and for the rest no one said a word for almost an hour.

She will be missed.

Doesn’t that sound funeralish?

I do wish I had painted my nails red again..I was planning on it… ‘cry’.

I know,I’m dreadfully silly…get over it…that’s just me.

So what else can I say…ow yes…we had a lovely time in town…Celeste actually got her ears pierced.

She insists that we made her do it but that is not true.She was planning  on doing it anyway, and we just pushed her in the right direction a bit.

You know, a person has to move on in life. That’s unavoidable. And the only reason she tries to blame us is because she is a bit insecure and needs to believe someone made her do it to be more secure.

Now that is what I call pure naomical logic. And mind you…that’s just the kind of logic a person needs in life.

A person also needs another thing in life. relativational laughable logic which means you relativive things in life,or just life itself I guess,and laugh your troubles away.

One does need one vital ingredient for this,though, and that is: friends.

That’s just why Celeste came…so we could all do that together. It always goes better together then just by yourself. When you’re by yourself … sometimes you tend to start thinking about your troubles… and feel sorry for yourself… so,

the solvent to this problem is: friends.

I love friends…

although sometimes I do feel like killing some of ‘em …when they leave me out, or when they don’t take nearly enough videos and pictures of me.

Or when they laugh at me.

So now I shall go to my room so I can properly feel sorry for myself.

I greet thee, whoever thou art, in the name of laughter, relativation, misspelling, and sorrynesses.

~naomi the terrible~

Something to remember!

You really should read this post….it’s something I and maybe you,too, need to be reminded of constantly!!

In the Father’s Hands

I looked on google images ‘in the Fathers hands’ and these are some of the pictures that came on:

                          

                                                                                   

When you feel uncertain, just know that you are in the Father’s hands.He is right there for you…and you can just hold on to Him, trusting, like a little child.

Sometimes life is hard and confusing…but don’t give up, just hold on to your heavenly Father’s hand!

 Even when it seems like everything is going wrong, or when it seems like life doesn’t make sense:

 Don’t forget God stopped the sun for Joshua and moved it back for Hezekiah.He opened the sea and the river for His people.He’s still here for us.We might not get to see miracles like that, but the miracles He does today are still as special.

 Awhile ago I felt quite ‘inspirationless’ and I asked God to just let me know He’s still there.When I was reading in my bible with a devotional book,He just assured me He’s right there beside me,and when I saw those pictures they just really expressed how I felt!

God is in charge of everything,everywhere…never forget and always remember