I listened to this on my way home from my second to last final and it made me smile.
Jeremy and I are doing so well and it makes my heart so glad. Marriage is amazing.
The other day, I drove past that baptist church on Bashford Manor and their sign read
“Jess Loves You”
And I’ll have you know, I felt so loved. :)
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconnquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how straight the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
-William Ernest Benley (1849-1903)
