Elevators should all be equipped with emergency lights...

It seems as though my life (as well as the lives of my friends) has become comprable to a sitcom.
Last Monday there was a situation involving ducks, BB's and overzealous cops... but thats a different story that I will let another tell. I want to talk about my almost-but not so traumatizing experience.
I have decided that all elevators should have decent emergency lighting. The one in my University library does not. I know this because I got stuck in it, by myself, in the dark. Yeah, and apparently there is no emrgency phone either... just an intercom that is connected to campus security that has an obnoxious habit of shorting out when you are on the verge of a panic attack alone in a pitch black elevator. Ok, I admit I am ephasizing the alone and very dark part, but I should be honest... after the first few minutes of feeling around and banging on buttons ( which does not work by the way), I called out for help and after some people heard and Laughed at my precarious situation (JERKFACE) my friends figured out where I was (God bless them) and while security was working on prying me out of my super dark solitary confinement, the whole thing became extremely funny. I know that the fact that I was actually stuck on an elevator like that was most of the amusement... but its now a fairly entertaining story to tell and I can have another adventure to add to my "crazy, tragic, sometimes almost magic, awful beautiful life".

"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." -- Aldous Huxley



Doug, thanks for commenting, I apprecitate it.. you too Mike who faithfully comments every time :).

In a strange mood... here is what surfaces during odd moments like these... thougths that enter your mind, not always making sense, but at the same time... very much so.


"But I will sing of your strength,
in the morning I will sing of your love;
for you are my fortress,
my refuge in times of trouble." Psalm 59:16

"Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail. " Lamentations 3:22

"Love is needing to be loved." -- John Lennon

"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained." -- C.S. Lewis

"Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?" -- GK Chesterton

"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."

"Many are the woes of the wicked,
but the LORD's unfailing love
surrounds the man who trusts in Him." Psalm 32:10

"The Sovereign LORD is my strength;
he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
he enables me to go on the heights." Habbakuk 3:19

Hannah Hurnard wrote Hinds Feet in High Places...
she writes "I have been told that if you really love someone you give that loved one the power to hurt and pain you in a way that no one else can...But it is so Happy to love. It is Happy to Love even if you are not loved in return. There is a pain too, certianly, but Love does not think that very significant."

[God gives the promise of loving us always even when we don't love Him in return, knowing Love, I may have a small insight into how might feel when we choose to take Him for granted, in all the busy-ness of my day, the very LEAST I could offer is 15 minutes of my time... You will always find time or the things you love...]