http://edensgarden.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/senior-year/ generating thoughts...creating ideas...and using words to share them Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:40:41 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://edensgarden.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/senior-year/#comment-44 Matthew Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:25:26 +0000 http://edensgarden.wordpress.com/?p=22#comment-44 I know i'm like double commenting on the same post, but whatever. I just wanted to say that I know how it feels to know nothing about what's gonna happen next. I mean, how do you think I felt during the whole waiting for an MIT decision process? I was terrified, and it wasn't that I might not get in. It was that I had to wait. I hate waiting. I know that your confusion is a bit different than mine was, but I think you'll learn to handle it. Maybe the safe route IS for you. Maybe it ISN'T. The problem with God is the human box we put him in, so don't expect him to work out answers like you are used to seeing. I mean, God's answer for me was "Wait...some more." In waiting, he's shown me the right decision. I may not even stay on the MIT waiting list I'm almost that sure, but that confidence took a lot of time. I mean, decisions like this take time and prayer, however corny or cliche that sounds. And if anyone knows what God's odd ways are, then you do. I mean, through your series of pains, he's worked. Through things neither He, nor I, nor you wanted to happen, he's made you a better person. So through some unnecessary (or necessary, depending on your viewpoint) discomfort, you might just learn something that will change your mind about your future forever. You'll do fine, Eden, whatever happens. I promise. I know i’m like double commenting on the same post, but whatever. I just wanted to say that I know how it feels to know nothing about what’s gonna happen next. I mean, how do you think I felt during the whole waiting for an MIT decision process? I was terrified, and it wasn’t that I might not get in. It was that I had to wait. I hate waiting. I know that your confusion is a bit different than mine was, but I think you’ll learn to handle it. Maybe the safe route IS for you. Maybe it ISN’T. The problem with God is the human box we put him in, so don’t expect him to work out answers like you are used to seeing. I mean, God’s answer for me was “Wait…some more.” In waiting, he’s shown me the right decision. I may not even stay on the MIT waiting list I’m almost that sure, but that confidence took a lot of time. I mean, decisions like this take time and prayer, however corny or cliche that sounds. And if anyone knows what God’s odd ways are, then you do. I mean, through your series of pains, he’s worked. Through things neither He, nor I, nor you wanted to happen, he’s made you a better person. So through some unnecessary (or necessary, depending on your viewpoint) discomfort, you might just learn something that will change your mind about your future forever. You’ll do fine, Eden, whatever happens. I promise.

]]> http://edensgarden.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/senior-year/#comment-43 Matthew Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:59:20 +0000 http://edensgarden.wordpress.com/?p=22#comment-43 Eden Brown, this is more or less a comment on the three most recent entries. I just finished reading them, and I was nigh tearful. Heck, I was way tearful. I love your passion and am grateful for having been a part of your life for 12 years. When I read "Things Meet and End," I couldn't help but think about not seeing people next year that I've lived with for so long. We've discovered another flaw in private schooling: severe emotional attachment. Your dad might have told you I got put on a waiting list at MIT. That basically means there's a 2% chance I'll end up there...yeah. Probably not happening. Today was about me coming to grips with that fact. Thank God that I chose today to check your blog. I admire your will to help people, and as always, your taste in music (hehe). Have a great spring break. Eden Brown, this is more or less a comment on the three most recent entries. I just finished reading them, and I was nigh tearful. Heck, I was way tearful. I love your passion and am grateful for having been a part of your life for 12 years. When I read “Things Meet and End,” I couldn’t help but think about not seeing people next year that I’ve lived with for so long. We’ve discovered another flaw in private schooling: severe emotional attachment. Your dad might have told you I got put on a waiting list at MIT. That basically means there’s a 2% chance I’ll end up there…yeah. Probably not happening. Today was about me coming to grips with that fact. Thank God that I chose today to check your blog. I admire your will to help people, and as always, your taste in music (hehe). Have a great spring break.

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