Heaven's Halley's Comet

I'm so terribly sorry for not having written in over a year. Since my last blog, I've had two Thanksgivings, two Christmas', two ________, and about a year of schooling under my belt, too. I've served as an SSP (Support Service Provider) for Deaf-Blind individuals on various occassions, I worked on the W.O.U. paint crew last summer (summer 2011,) have lived in the Harriet House for not quite a year and a half, have completely been transformed and am a TOTALLY different person than what I was when I moved in September 2010.

I will honestly try to blog a bit more regularly, time permitting, but I really want to try what my dear friend Ashley Wells (check out her blog: http://ashleybriannewells.xanga.com/weblogs ) and write about what is on my heart and mind, things that matter most, things that I feel are worth saying that I feel the need to share with those who are/may be reading this.

So...now that ya'll know that I've not dropped off the face of the earth, here is something I want to share.
Story goes:

Yesterday, I was reading to Meghan [one of my roommates, one of the "newer" ones who moved in after about half of the house moved out from my first year here,] - we read one "thought" a day, roughly, from a book that I have, which I have read before and loved - and after I read the thought of the day, I felt lead to share it with a dear friend, and after I shared it with her (via email no more than 10 minutes ago) I felt the need to post it for others, but not on facebook or twitter or myspace or _______, but to post it in a place where it would matter most; so here it is:

Heaven's Halley's Comet

You are the only you God made.

   In their book Behavioral Genetics, Robert Plomin, J.C. DeFries, and G.E. McClaren declare: 

Each of us has the capacity to generate 10³⁰⁰⁰ eggs or sperm with unique sets of genes. If we consider 10³⁰⁰⁰

possible eggs being generated by an individual woman and the same number  of sperm being generated by an 

individual man, the likelihood of anyone else with your set of genes in the past or in the future becomes infinitesimal.

     If numbers numb you, let me simplify. God made you and broke the mold....Every single baby is a brand-new idea from the mind of God.

     No one can duplicate your life. Scan history for your replica; you won't find it. God "personally formed and made each one" (Isa. 43;7 MSG).

No box of "backup yous" sits in God's workshop. You aren't one of many bricks in the mason's pile or one of a dozen bolts in the mechanic's drawer. 

You are it! And if you aren't you, we don't get you. The world misses out.

You are heaven's Halley's comet; we have one soot at seeing you shine. You offer a gift to society that no one else brings. If you don't bring it, 

it won't be brought.

- from Cure for the Common Life 

found in: You: God's Brand-New Idea: Made to Be Amazing

by Max Lucado