summerrr.

99 days till i walk across the stage of the civic center and receive that piece of paper that declares me a high school

graduate.

finish: to complete and perfect in detail; put the final touches on; to perfect (a person) in education , accomplishments, social graces, etc; the end or conclusion; the final part or last stage; to overcome completely; destroy or kill; finalize.

senior quote:

"the term is over: the holidays have begun.

the dream is ended: this is the morning."
-aslan

and this summer is going to be ridiculously splendid :)

these Days...

only four sets of Weeks with seven Days
with twenty-four Hours that hold 1440 Minutes
left till that something we’ve been waiting for;
that something it seems we’ve waited for so,
so long for. but now,
that same Time flies by us…

we never expected it to happen to us,
for those Hours that lasted for Days
to zoom past faster than Minutes.
like that shooting star you look so intently for
that comes only to run away in a hurry, these Months are so.
we realize they are valuable now…

"there’s no changing things now,"
we think, wondering how we got so much laid on us:
homework, new responsibilities, weighty decisions that bog down our Days;
the clouding, cluttering stuff we’ve piled up absorbs our Minutes,
but, this is what we signed up for;
and we know the end will prove the work it took to get us there…so…

as these Days get steadily longer and the air warms up, just so,
we live in the here and now,
examining the road before us,
planing out our spare time to make the most of our Days,
getting closer to friends, making sure not to waste these few minutes,
knowing what they are really for…

we’re discovering what this has all been for,
that the sum of all our Time and effort really means so,
so much more than we managed to recognize, but now,
looking back we see it was all to make us just that: us.
all the Days,
all the Minutes…

they are now built into who we are, each of the Minutes
spent. no, invested. invested into becoming better people for
the chance of improving our future so
we could look back one day at who we are now
and be proud of us,
knowing we made the most of these Days…

and suddenly, the Days are gone; even the Minutes
till that Day we’ve been waiting for, so excited,
it’s finally here now; and the end of the story remains left to us…

(ap lit assignment :))

the countdown begins...

so, i just mailed off my scholarship acceptance letter to troy university which will be my school in less than 8 months...i am kinda getting ready for it :)

life moves incredibly fast these days, but it's exciting.

8 months until college
7 months until my 18th birthday
6 months until graduation
5 months until prom

hold on tight. i can do this with His help :)

no one.

"no one is as lucky as us
we're not at the end, but
oh we already won
oh no, no one is as lucky as us"
-paramore

so this song is definitely not written about the Lord, but when i hear it, that's just what i think. i mean, we've got this awesome love that we don't have to wait until the end to get. we can receive it now. and also, we have the victory sealed, set, done with, over. it's already won for us.

aching heart.

this is my brother, henry grady williford, but as i call him, buddy.
he is nineteen and will be turning twenty in four months, he's growing up too fast :)
he is for sure one of the coolest people you will ever, EVER meet in your life.
he is currently living 121 miles away from me, and i miss him greatly.
he has taught me so much by just letting me watch him live.
he is truly an example of the transforming power of Jesus.
he allowed Jesus to grab him and he now lives everyday affected.
infected.
alive in Christ.
dead to himself.
i mean, he radiates Jesus for crying out loud.
he inspires me.
and...deep down i'm pretty sure i've always wanted to be

just. like. him.

this is my exuberant, thoughtful, deep and insane BESTfriend, miss kasey taylor.
she is my partner in crime, if you consider worship and fun a crime :)
her life is a juxtaposition:
she is hyper yet calm
loud yet soft
rambunctious yet gentle
spontaneous yet careful
broken yet powerful
completly dead, but more alive than most of the world that passes me by
the least, but will one day, i have no doubt, be the first.
she carries the presence of God and inspires yo to love Him more.
she loves without restriction.
and she calls me her best friend.
i am sometimes worried that these next few years will bring us further away from each other, but i doubt that will ever happen. we're pretty much glued together.
but recently i have been missing her, though she only lives 5.5 miles away.
we're getting older and more busy, but i am confident that this friendship won't end.

cause we're a three stranded chord.

we can't be separated.