Tomorrow is my last official day of high school. Friday we take two finals and we leave. Monday we leave for the senior trip to Boston Massachusetts area. We come back on the 17th. I go to school for special meetings, graduation practice, miscellaneous things...
I can only say this about my year.
Sometimes an experience is only cheapened by putting it into words.
I dont know how to describe the past several months. It has been an awesome year. I am very sad to see it come to an end forever.
Today in my Christian Worldview Class, my teacher, (his last day with us) challenged us. He told us about when he was in highschool. There were people he knew he should have invested some time in. He told 3 stories, one being of his best friend, one was murdered, one commited suicide and the other was killed in a farm accident. He will never be able to see these people again. I may be getting more on the "Biblical" side of things, but thats ok.
He also played a song at the end of the hour. Called Seize the Day by Carolyn Arends. I'm going to post the lyrics here. It brought a tear to almost everyone in the class. Even though its a sad time of moving from highschool to college, a different life in a way, its also a very happy time. I'm extremely excited to see what life has for me. I know there will be trials along the way and times where hope seems thin. I know I'll get through it just fine.
After today it really made me think. How have i been an influence to the lives of my classmates?
Seize the Day:
I know a girl who was schooled in Manhattan
She reads dusty books and learns phrases in Latin
She is an author or maybe a poet
A genius but its just this world doesn't know it
She works on her novel most every day If you laugh she will say
Seize the day Seize whatever you can
Cause life slips away just like hourglass sand
Seize the day pray for grace from God's hand
That nothin' will stand in your way Seize the day
Lai de dai de dai Lai de dai de dai da dai
Lai de dai de dai Lai de dai de dai da dai
Well I know a doctor A fine young physician
Left his six figure job for a mission position
He's healin' the sick in an African clinic
He works in the dirt and writes home to the cynics
He says we work through the night almost every day
As we watch the sun rise we can say
Seize the day Seize whatever you can
Cause life slips away just like hourglass sand
Seize the day pray for grace from God's hand
That nothin will stand in your way Seize the day
Lai de dai de dai Lai de dai de dai da dai
Lai de dai de dai Lai de dai de dai da dai
Well I know a man who's been doin' some thinkin'
He's as bitter and cold as the whisky he's drinkin'
He's talkin' bout fear 'bout chances not taken
If you listen to him you can hear his heart breakin'
He says "One day you're a boy The next day you're dead
I wish way back when someone had said..."
Seize the day Seize whatever you can
Cause life slips away just like hourglass sand
Seize the day pray for grace from God's hand
That nothin' will stand in your way Seize the day
Lai de Dai Dai Lai de Dai Dai Lai de Dai Dai-e-i
Well one thing I've noticed wherever I wander
Everyone's got a dream he can follow or squander
You can do what you will with the days you are given
I'm tryin' to spend mine on the business of livin'
So I'm singin' my songs off of any old stage
You can laugh if you want He'll still say
Seize the day Seize whatever you can
Cause life slips away just like hourglass sand
Seize the day pray for grace from God's hand
That nothin' will stand in your way Seize the day
Lai de dai de dai Lai de dai de dai da dai
Lai de dai de dai Lai de dai de dai da dai
Lai de dai de dai Lai de dai de dai da dai<
I can only say this about my year.
Sometimes an experience is only cheapened by putting it into words.
I dont know how to describe the past several months. It has been an awesome year. I am very sad to see it come to an end forever.
Today in my Christian Worldview Class, my teacher, (his last day with us) challenged us. He told us about when he was in highschool. There were people he knew he should have invested some time in. He told 3 stories, one being of his best friend, one was murdered, one commited suicide and the other was killed in a farm accident. He will never be able to see these people again. I may be getting more on the "Biblical" side of things, but thats ok.
He also played a song at the end of the hour. Called Seize the Day by Carolyn Arends. I'm going to post the lyrics here. It brought a tear to almost everyone in the class. Even though its a sad time of moving from highschool to college, a different life in a way, its also a very happy time. I'm extremely excited to see what life has for me. I know there will be trials along the way and times where hope seems thin. I know I'll get through it just fine.
After today it really made me think. How have i been an influence to the lives of my classmates?
Seize the Day:
I know a girl who was schooled in Manhattan
She reads dusty books and learns phrases in Latin
She is an author or maybe a poet
A genius but its just this world doesn't know it
She works on her novel most every day If you laugh she will say
Seize the day Seize whatever you can
Cause life slips away just like hourglass sand
Seize the day pray for grace from God's hand
That nothin' will stand in your way Seize the day
Lai de dai de dai Lai de dai de dai da dai
Lai de dai de dai Lai de dai de dai da dai
Well I know a doctor A fine young physician
Left his six figure job for a mission position
He's healin' the sick in an African clinic
He works in the dirt and writes home to the cynics
He says we work through the night almost every day
As we watch the sun rise we can say
Seize the day Seize whatever you can
Cause life slips away just like hourglass sand
Seize the day pray for grace from God's hand
That nothin will stand in your way Seize the day
Lai de dai de dai Lai de dai de dai da dai
Lai de dai de dai Lai de dai de dai da dai
Well I know a man who's been doin' some thinkin'
He's as bitter and cold as the whisky he's drinkin'
He's talkin' bout fear 'bout chances not taken
If you listen to him you can hear his heart breakin'
He says "One day you're a boy The next day you're dead
I wish way back when someone had said..."
Seize the day Seize whatever you can
Cause life slips away just like hourglass sand
Seize the day pray for grace from God's hand
That nothin' will stand in your way Seize the day
Lai de Dai Dai Lai de Dai Dai Lai de Dai Dai-e-i
Well one thing I've noticed wherever I wander
Everyone's got a dream he can follow or squander
You can do what you will with the days you are given
I'm tryin' to spend mine on the business of livin'
So I'm singin' my songs off of any old stage
You can laugh if you want He'll still say
Seize the day Seize whatever you can
Cause life slips away just like hourglass sand
Seize the day pray for grace from God's hand
That nothin' will stand in your way Seize the day
Lai de dai de dai Lai de dai de dai da dai
Lai de dai de dai Lai de dai de dai da dai
Lai de dai de dai Lai de dai de dai da dai<
