Dreams

This is esentally an acompanment poem to Tuesday's post.

Tonight I’m tired 

I’m tired of being tired

I’m tired of a dream 

That I never thought I would be 

I love making words flow 

I love doing this 

But I didn’t realize it meant this 

The light night exhaustion

The days of giving up things 

The pushing through the haze 

This is not what I thought it would be 

But somehow I love it anyway 

I am tired of chasing my dream 

But even through the exhaustion

I feel the joy of the journey welling inside of me 

I get to chaise my dream 

I have the privilege  

To chaise my dream 

I get to work late at night 

I get to choose what I do 

God helps me push through the haze 

God gave me this crazy dream 

And now He’s helping me chaise it 

Sometimes it’s not 

The dream I thought it would be 

This is the part where dreams 

Meet the pavement 

But I’m not stopping 

Oh not tonight 

I’ve got a dream 

And I’m chasing it 

Where Dreams Meet the Pavement

My Monday posts have kind of morphed into Tuesday posts. I wish I could say this was on purpose, but this mainly has to do with my crazy schedule. 

This month has been mainly filled with Camp NaNoWriMo. My goal is to edit my novel, Flight from Kelar. This is turning out to be a much more time consuming project them I thought. I finished the really fun part, getting to mark it all up with highlighters and make notes. Now I'm onto the harder task of putting these notes in the compter and typing them up. I'm currently way behind on my goal. But you know what? I'm loving this. This is where the dream meet pavement. 

Aside from editing, I've honestly have not been up to much. 

I have been working very slowly through my stack of books from the library and enjoying every minute of it. Seriously, now that reading time is harder to find, I'm craving it like crazy. After two months of not buying books (I was trying to break a bad habit of stress buying) I finally got a couple new books. I decided to get all books I had never read so I bought two books to finish off a series I love and a midle grade book a lot of my friends recomended. 

So yeah, that's a little update on my life. How are your projects going? Tell me what your reading!

I realize this is a rather disjointed post (Mostly due to the fact that I'm writing it WAY to late at night) but I felt like I owed y'all an update. 

Future

Future

It's a rather ominous word 

Its a hopeful word 

It holds everything we will be 

And everything we will do 

Future 

Its unattainable in a way 

But also you are living it 

It is what you dreamed of 

Yet it's not 

Future 

It's where God already is 

He is in your present 

He promises it will all be 

For your ultimate good

Future 

Leads us nearer and nearer 

Always one step closer 

To eternity with Christ 

It is all building towards then 

Future 

Is endless 

But we must build it 

Store up treasures for it 

Build relationships for it

Future 

Is forever 

And it is held by the One 

Who took the nails 

So you could spend it with Him

This is probably one of my favorite poems I have written all year.

The 777 Writing Challenge

Deborah over at The Road of a Writer tagged me to do this challenge and it looked really fun, so I thought I'd give it a go! 

Rules

1. Open your WIP to the seventh page

2. Scroll past the seventh line

3. Copy the next seven paragraphs and paste them on your blog for THE WORLD to read

4. Tag seven people

Now I actually do not have any books I am writing right now (I'm editing) so I did this for two books I wrote last year. 

Andrea's Star

“I need you to trust me.” He said quickly. It seemed like it had been stored up inside so long it just burst out without him even trying.

I didn't respond. With mom, I knew what to say, with dad... it just ran too deep to say anything anymore. 

“Katie, I know I've hurt you...”

My heart skipped a beat as I gripped the arms of the chair “Don't call me that.” I hissed. I never wanted to hear that name again.

I fixed my gaze on my lap, but I heard my dad sigh.

“I want to be there for you.” His voice was gentle.

What I've Become

Jerold put his hand to his forehead and touched blood, no doubt from his run in with the rocks. He gritted his teeth, “Its nothing.”

“Clearly it is something.”

Jerold schooled his features as best he could and shrugged. Not wanting to talk any long, he turned and walked briskly around the building. Not responding to the older mans sigh from behind him.

The evening air bit at his bare hands as he pulled his cap low over his eyes, protecting him from the unwanted stair of strangers. He balled his fists and put them in his coat pockets.

He kept his gaze on the familiar sidewalks; he knew every inch of them from having walked with his head down so much.

Soon he came to the part he knew better than them all. Jerold lifted his head enough to unlatch the pealing gate. Paint chips came off onto his hand as he did.

 From the porch a girl, not much younger then himself, came flying down the path and threw herself into his arms. Her brown hair was tucked into a loose braid that fell all the way to her waist. 

Well, that was fun! If you want to do this tag, feel free to, and please link your post below so I can see it!

One Hour

Photo by ALP STUDIO on Unsplash

One hour

Tick tock

Does it really make a difference

Tick

Did I do anything worth speaking?

Tock

Did I spend the time well?

Tick

Or will I learn after all

Tock

That I wasted it?

Tick

I don’t want to live

Tock

With a mind set on things of earth

Tick

I want my heart to be set

Tock

On my eternal home

Tick

I’ll be there in a blink of an eye

Tock

But for right now

Tick

One hour is more important

Tock

Then I had ever thought before

Tick

Was what I was doing really worth it

Tock

And will hevan be better for it?
Tick tock

Just food for thought.

June Highlights

Hello! I know this post is late, but I thought better late then never! ;)

I finally finished watching Five Mile Creek. I have to admit, I did not like the last season at all, and the ending was very disapointng. =/

My dog an I went on a couple adventures this month. Mostly we chaised sunsets, and enjoyed the summer solstice. He's a really good gaurd dog, so it's nice to have him along for walks. 

I got my haircut. This is the shortest I've ever had it and i'm liking it, but also missing long hair.

I began a new round of edits on Flight from Kelar which involes me pulling out all my highlighters and marking up the printed pages until they look like a rainbow. It's been going surprisingly well.

A church just down the road is having a movie party every week, so I've been biking down. It's been pretty fun. So far none of the movies have been incredible, but I love hanging out with people.





Willow City releesed their new album! I was really excited about this, since we were part of the kickstarter campain. =D

I watched "I can Only Imagine." Wasn't overly impressed, but I did like it.

I reviewed my one and only Beatheny House book. Yep, they just changed their reviewer program, and I didn't bother re-signing up because I wasn't seeing a lot that I wanted to read anyway. Anyway, I am now in search of another reviewer program, so if you are a part of one, drop me a comment about it.

I drowned my phone. Like it sat in water for about twenty minutes drowned. But somehow it survived unscathed (Praise God!). I also drowned my sisters phone. It survived to.

I was in Sam's and they had a vending machine where you scanned your club card and you got a free candy sample. I got so excited. XD

The Cortship of the Vicers Doughter was my favorite from this month and Together forgever was my least. 

Verbs Burning Youth
Of Broken Things Writing is Life
Window Fellow Stories by Firefly 
Sweet Summertime Totally Graced
Your Life Matters Lauren Elizabeth 

(Don't) Walk Away A Purpose and a Promise

When an Overachiever Rebels Adventure Awaits

My June was pretty awesome. Not perfect (Like always) but good. 
What was your favorite book you read in June?

A Child's Dream

As a kid I would lie awake 

Wondering what my life would be like 

In ten or so years 

When I was almost twenty 

Funny how perfect life looked 

Though the eyes of a child

I planned on being 

Worlds best teenager 

And be working 

At worlds best job 

I would be confadent and kind

Everybody's friend 

Always ready to help 

Insted I'm here 

Ninteen years old

Far from the girl I planned to be

I am no perfect teenager 

I have faults just like the rest 

I still have not kicked my bad habbits 

I am not working a job 

There are so many things I could name  

That I did not live up to 

Those standards were a childs 

Who belived anything was possible 

As I grew older I realized 

I could never live up to those ideas 

But I have no intention 

Of letting those dreams go 

They may be impossible to me 

But they are not with God 

Its funny now looking back 

How important those dreams are 

In shaping who I become

This is for my nineteenth birthday Thursday. Also, the job I wanted most as a kid was to work for NASA, thus the shirt.