How Can I Keep From Singing?

While I'm working through the last few (read: crazy) days of the semester, here's a hymn that I dearly love:

My life flows on in endless song;
Above earth’s lamentation
I hear the sweet though far off hymn
That hails a new creation:
Through all the tumult and the strife
I hear the music ringing;
It finds an echo in my soul—
How can I keep from singing?

What though my joys and comforts die?
The Lord my Savior liveth;
What though the darkness gather round!
Songs in the night He giveth:
No storm can shake my inmost calm
While to that refuge clinging;
Since Christ is Lord of Heav’n and earth,
How can I keep from singing?

I lift mine eyes; the cloud grows thin;
I see the blue above it;
And day by day this pathway smoothes
Since first I learned to love it:
The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart,
A fountain ever springing:
All things are mine since I am His—
How can I keep from singing?

Beginning again

I've had lots of blogs in the past; I used Blogger, then Xanga, and now Blogger again. My old blogs seemed to get stuck in a rut of "this is what I did today," which no one really cares to read about. This blog is intended to be about me and the things I care about: my family, my faith (Catholicism), college life, and my quest to be a domestic, feminine woman in spite of (or perhaps because of) my women's college education. Let the adventure begin!