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| i didn't realize
that i'm falling
falling........
.........falling
deeper in love.
with You. | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment   |
| This past week has been wonderful .
let's start with sunday.
luke bugenske came to church, with his beautiful wife allison.
i was like wigging....
okay monday
barnes and noble with a friend.
that was good. i think it went okay.
tuesday to friday
boone '06. it rocked like nooo other. two words. manger babies.
the weather was amazing.
and i'm in love with everyone who went.
and jason gave me a book to read called dangerous wonder
saturday
hill (extended) family bonding.
thats always wonderful.
sunday
chilled.
monday
outside most of the day. i love the outdoors. especially in spring.
and today story, and i just made a deal to go swing dancing every tuesday in the summer. yee : )
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the book jason let me borrow (Dangerous Wonder) is about child like faith.
"i'm ready for a Christianity that "ruins" my life, that captures my heart and makes me uncomfortable. i want to be filled with an astonishment which is so captivating that i am considered wild and unpredictable and...well...dangerous."
The he talks about culture putting the light out in our souls. he says that "our entire culture has become dull. dullness is the abseence of the light in our souls. look around. we have lost the sparkle in our eyes....and the joy in our faith.
"the Bible names our problem: sin. but sin is more that turning our backs on God, it is the turning our backs on LIFE! immorality is much more that adultery and dishonesty it is living drab, colorless, dreary, stale, unimaginative lives. The greatest enemy of christianity may be people who say they belive in Jesus but who are no longer astonished and amazed."
"Jesus came to RESCUE us from the listlessness as well as lostness....from dullness"
We have forgotten how to dance, how to sing, and how to laugh.
...we have been stunned my mediocrity
what is passion? ALIVENESS. living with expectancy. anticipation, and enthusiasm.
what is the opposite of passion? dead living. living a life that is borrring.
i want to live that life.
excited.
passionate to know a little bit more of my wonderful God.
curious, like a child, eager to know what is next.
living on the edge of my seat.
yet relaxed knowing that its all for one amazing purpose.
my life was dull. i'm making a change to be excited. like a little child on Christmas.
or like a little child playing hide-and-seek with her father.
..when he pops out of the hiding place and screams and your terrified out of your mind, but yet somehow relaxed
because the scary man is only your father, and is going to embrace you in the next second.
i'm ready to live in FEAR, but yet ,in complete, beautiful, awe.
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| It's the way Your stars shine
Sometimes so bright I swear I could hear
It's the way Your moonlight
Falls on this mountain lake so clear
It's the way Your sunshine
Paints Your evening sky and
It's the way Your rain falls
To sing me to sleep at night and
I fall, I fall into You
God of Creation
Take my breath away
God of the Heavens
In this very space
It’s the way You lead me
The way we walk by Your waters still and
It’s the way You hold me
The way You’ve felt all that I feel and
It’s the way You touch me
The way You know when it’s needed most
It’s the way You form Your Words
On my heart while I rest in You
Carry me away
You enter suddenly and I am lost again
Inside the majesty, oh I am lost again
[i am nothing without You] | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
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Your Birth Month is July
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Introspective and intense, you tend to be a deep thinker.
You are quiet and spiritual - and you have a unique perspective on life.
Your soul reflects: Lightness, luck and an open heart
Your gemstone: Ruby
Your flower: Larkspur
Your colors: Green and red
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| ephesians.four.two .different translations.
Always be humble and gentle. Patiently put up with each other and love each other
Live and work without pride. Be gentle and kind. Do not be hard on others. Let love keep you from doing that.
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
[no ezplanation needed..] | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| i am so, positivly THRILLED to be doing livejournal again.
i get a place to write all my thoughts. because writing my thoughts
and what i've learned....plus all the encouragement, does help me grow.
as freakish as this sounds....i was stronger during lj time last year, around
this time. because of the encouraging comments and it was a reason to write and a
reason to..well, read. and btw, i love you guys so much.
okay..hmm...what i've be learning.
first of all, i'm rereading deuteronomy. i had the attitude of 'its old testament...a bunch of stories on goat sacrifices and people fighting people...' but as i read into it....it was juicy...i began to look at things in a metaphorical way.
i don't have time to say everything that i've learned..though some is wonderful, i'll only tell a few.
Deuteronomy 30:20-
love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life
another translation says that HE is life and that we should EMBRACE HIM. (yes, embrace)
okay this is my favorite-
Deuteronomy 10:21
He is your praise; he is your God.
HE is OUR PRAISE. ohh snap.
alright. so let's put the peices together. God is our life. He is our praise. okay. so pretty much. OUR LIFE IS PRAISE. it should be praising God. all the dang time. aaaaafrickenmazing.
more later. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| whhooaaa......lj.
long time to see.
as soon as i get .5 seconds of free time in my life, i'll be sure to update about my life....and what i've been learning. kd;fsajfsa
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| OKAY. so i love how God teaches me through nature. this is only a small one because if i went on how God teaches me through othe things, such as flowers, i would be here for DAYS.
thunderstorms.
you're inisde.
but you're still really really scared. you know your're safe, i mean, you HAVE shelter, but still you look out and you're scared. like with God. He's your shelter but you're still scared, like you don't have faith or trust to belive that everything will be okay. or, another thing, God is the thunderstorm, you know you're safe and its going to be okay, but you still have some sort of fear running inside of you. but you know you're going to be okay.
wait....or maybe the only people who are scared of thunderstorms are just the people who have a problem with trusting. or having faith.
scared to give their all to God.
hmmmm.....
nature is here merely so that God can teach us many things
through....
the sun (sunsets, sun rises...the hot sun)
water (rain, snow, ice, ponds, the ocean)
plants (flowers, trees, grass)
its crazy. jks;dajfask; | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| ok i sucked it up and got a myspace.
well its getting there....kates like doing it for me.
i'm telling her what i would like. i love her
OKAY. i wrote this like last march when we had MAJOR unity throughout the youth group.
"Those of us who are strong and able in the faith need to step in and lend a hand to those who falter, and not just do what is most convenient for us. Strength is for service, not status. Each one of us needs to look after the good of the people around us, asking ourselves, "How can I help?"
That's exactly what Jesus did. He didn't make it easy for himself by avoiding people's troubles, but waded right in and helped out. "I took on the troubles of the troubled," is the way Scripture puts it. Even if it was written in Scripture long ago, you can be sure it's written for us. God wants the combination of his steady, constant calling and warm, personal counsel in Scripture to come to characterize us, keeping us alert for whatever he will do next. May our dependably steady and warmly personal God develop maturity in you so that you get along with each other as well as Jesus gets along with us all. Then we'll be a choir--not our voices only, but our very lives singing in harmony in a stunning anthem to the God and Father of our Master Jesus!
So reach out and welcome one another to God's glory. Jesus did it; now you do it!"
(Romans 15:1-7,13)
[i love this passage because its talking about serving one another in the body as Christ, because He did it, and we were called to do it...]
{{{Paul is saying that those of us who are strong in our faith need to lend a hand down to those who need help and are weaker than us. we don't need to just do what is convient for us. we need to look after the good of people and ask ourselves "how can i help?". God gave us strengeth to help others. not just to sit around while everybody admires it. Jesus did exaclty that, so we need to!. He didn't make it easy for himself by avoiding people's troubles, but stepped right up and helped out. "I took on the troubles of the troubled," is the way Scripture puts it. Paul was saying that even if it was written in Scripture long ago, it is still concerning us. God wants the combination of his steady, constant calling and warm, personal counsel in Scripture to come to characterize us, keeping us alert for whatever he will do next. Christ wants our love for Him to be steady and warmly personal so that we can get along with each other as well as Jesus gets along with us all. the message restates verse six as this, "Then we'll be a choir--not our voices only, but our very lives singing in harmony in a stunning anthem to the God and Father of our Master Jesus!" So we need to reach out and welcome one another to God's glory. Jesus did it; now, its our turn}}}} | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| [Theres so much I've felt I should say
But even if your heart would listen
I doubt I could explain]
this old scarlet letter won't keep Me from holding you
and there is nothing you can do..
With a world I try so hard to leave behind
To rid myself of all but love
To give and die
To turn away and not become
Another nail to pierce the skin of one who loves
More deeply than the oceans
More abundant than the tears
Of a world embracing every heartache
All said and done, I stand alone
Amongst remains of a life I should not own
It takes all I am to believe
In the mercy that covers me
I look beyond the empty cross
Forgetting what my life has cost
And wipe away the crimson stains
And dull the nails that still remain
More and more I need You now
I owe You more each passing hour
Battles between grace and pride
I gave up not so long ago
So steal my heart and take the pain
And wash the feet and cleanse my pride
Take the selfish, take the weak
And all the things I cannot hide
Take the beauty, take my tears
My sin-soaked heart, make it Yours
Take my world all apart
Take it now, take it now
And serve the ones that I despise
Speak the words I can't deny
Watch the world I used to love
Fall to dust and thrown away
I look beyond the empty cross
Forgetting what my life has cost
Wipe away the crimson stains
And dull the nails that still remain
Steal my heart, take the pain
Take the selfish, take the weak
And all the things I cannot hide
Take the beauty, take my tears
Take my world apart....i am broken on my knees
i miss you guys. a lot.
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| I LOVE STOWE PERRY.
holy FRICKEN i miss him so much. he danced with me and dipped me.
oh my word
i'm in love with him.
i secretly can't wait until he gets married.
tonight was exciting. i'm glad its finally a break.
i love you guys a lot.
goodnight. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| i agree with kate.
i don't want to update anymore. i might if i feel like it and/or i'm bored.
if you want to know about my life. then ask me.
i hope wednesday night went well. i miss fpc. and its just been a week.
yeahh davis is right we (i) turn there too much with our(my) problems.
when i need to turn to God.
but in reality, my relationship with God is like...well there isn't much of one.
i need to read more. i say its because 'i'm busy' but whatever. so what.
He gives me all the time i want but i give Him nothing. fj;akfjds;a
i'm ready for a dang break. gahhh. too much stupid school work.
debate tournament saturday in columbia. oh joy. i have 0 self confidence. this is greattttt. : ( whatev.
thats like my attitude on life now it seems like - "whatever"
i get like this when i'm worn out from my life.
i love cold weather
i love fall weather
i love the smells
i love the airrrr.
i love the leaves.
i love all the little holidays off from school.
i love love loveeee fall for crying out loud.
i think i have a d in about 3 of my classes or more. this is great. great. GREAT. bravo stephanie. BRAVO.
alegebra pop quiz wednesday. she handed it out. i took one look at it. rolled my eyes. then went to sleep for 45 minutes. woke up. had a huge line on my face. but i thought it would be good to attempt one problem. so i did. i hate school. then i got a 40 on a chem quiz. that rocks. i quit school.
buttttt i'm almost done with my 8 testgrades 25 page math project!
and the only thing done for entertainment was this week was trying to find studly smart guys in jeopardy with my mom. i guess we were bored.
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| "i think 'bush's intelligence' is an oxymoron." -my mom.
HA.
In open fields of wild flowers
She breathes the air and flies away
She thanks her Jesus for the daisies and the roses
...In no simple language
Someday she'll understand the meaning of it all
He's more than the laughter or the stars in the heavens
As close as a heartbeat or a song on her lips
Someday she'll trust Him and learn how to see Him
Someday He'll call her and she will come running
And fall in His arms, and the tears will fall down and she'll pray:
"I want to fall in love with You"
i can't wait until church tomorrow. i love you guys.
[[[my heart beats for You.]] | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
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