Happy Thoughts.

The title of this post reminds me of, in the A&E version of Pride and Prejudice, when the married Mr. Collins proudly shows Elizabeth some shelves that Lady Catherine de Bourgh recommended he install in a closet of his "humble abode." 

To his home improvement she says with an amused smile, 

"Shelves in the closet? Happy thought, indeed."

Today was lovely.

Yesterday was lovely.

Tomorrow--because I will make it so--will be lovely!

Happy thought, indeed. ;)

This last semester I was introduced to a beautiful arrangement of the hymn, "Savior, Redeemer of my Soul," which has, since then, become a favorite of mine. There are a couple lines of the song though, that I absolutely love.

It says, 

"Never can I repay thee, Lord.

But I can love Thee, thy pure word.

Hath it not been my one delight?

My joy by day, my dream by night."

I had never considered the Word of God to be my dream by night...

When I think of dreaming at night, I think of dreaming of far away places and thinking up fun stories as I fall asleep.  But I had never thought to think of and find sleepily happy comfort in the Word of God, in my Savior. I thought that was such an interesting, but beautiful idea. Don't you?

Here's the whole song, including a narration at the beginning. I love listening to the narration before the song because it helps put the song into a context, and in a way, it makes the song that much more beautiful.

I love this.

What a blessing the Gospel of Jesus Christ is.

On other, random planes of thought, 

I got my two top wisdom teeth extracted on Monday!

Recovery is going well, and I am not very puffy, thank goodness!

I am also grateful I never have to experience that again.

I was fully awake the entire time, though I did have a good dose of Novocaine. You've seen Brian Reagan's stand-up comedy sketch about "pressure," right? Well I felt plenty of that... 

But it was pain-free, thank goodness!

I've been eating my fair share of ice cream though. I never thought I could have my fill of the stuff, but I think I might be nearing that point. :)

Today for lunch I had four pudding cups... I anxiously await the day I can eat "real" food again!!

Someone reading this might think that I should make misself a smoothie or something and take a healthy route, but honestly... who wouldn't take advantage of an excuse to enjoy a temporary diet of pudding and ice cream? ;)