This is how we take over the world.: and here you are.

Aaron & Rachel

Project 52

1.Add items to long term food storage
2. Blog 12 times (1/12)
3. Buy and hang a new magnet board
4. Buy an external hard drive and save pictures and important documents
5. Clean out and detail my car
6. Clean out closet and donate clothes I don’t wear
7. Comment on 5 different blogs a month (7/60)
8. Complete 21 day on CLEAN
9. Complete more goals than last year
10. Consolidate my student loans
11. Donate blood
12. Earn a dual teaching credential
13. Find a new job
14. Find a new way to do my hair
15. Finish Aaron’s mission scrap book
16. Get a massage
17. Get studio teaching license
18. Go 30 consecutive days without carbonated drinks
19. Go on a bike ride with Aaron
20. Go to 2 pro sports games (1/2)
21. Go to a shooting range
22. Go to Catalina Island
23. Go to Disneyland 10 times (1/10)
24. Go to the dentist
25. Go to the Getty Museum
26. Go to the temple 10 times (0/10)
27. Have family pictures taken with Chelsea
28. Make 5 home made gifts and give them away (0/5)
29. Make 5 things found on pintrest (0/5)
30. Make going to the gym a habit again
31. Make my own decorations for 3 different holidays (0/3)
32. Memorize all 13 articles of faith (4/13)
33. Move closer to Aaron’s work
34. Organize and clean the garage storage
35. Organize my scrapbook supplies
36. Organize under both beds
37. Learn 3 new recipes (0/3)
38. Print pictures and put in a photo album
39. Put my profile on Mormon.org
40. Read 15 new books (0/15)
41. Read 2 non-fiction books (0/2)
42. Read both General Conference Ensigns
43. Read D&C cover to cover
~~44.Reread Jane Eyre~~
45. Scan mine and Aaron’s Patriarchal Blessings
46. Score a goal in a hockey game
47. Send out Christmas cards
48. Sew something for myself
49. Take the History CSET
50. Teach Chelsea 2 new tricks (0/2)
51. Visit 3 new places with Aaron (0/3)
52. Write in my journal 24 times (0/24)

and here you are.

In 1990 Voyager 1 took this photo nearly four billion miles away from earth. I can't help but look at it and have an overwhelming feeling of the insignificance of not only my problems, but myself.

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds...

-Carl Sagan

Faith is something that's incredibly personal, but at the same time incredibly confusing. I have a hard time explaining it to people I trust, because it doesn't make any sense to much of myself. In fact, it's almost embarrassing and ridiculous. Half of me talks to my hands at night while I'm on my knees. Half of me feels comfort and love from something far greater than empirical explanation. There's a constant struggle between the admittedly sparse, yet indelible, spiritual moments which provided greater clarity to my life than anything else I've experienced and the grey matter in between in which I'm left to my senses to make it through this place. I have a feeling navigating this unfortunate balance is what life is about. That, and finding the perfect pizza.

Posted by Aaron at 8/11/2009

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