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Name: Carol and Christy
Country: China
State: Shanghai
Birthday: 4/10/1980
Gender: Female
Interests: Eating, cooking, sleeping, reading the bible, running, SWIMMING!!!, nai-nai, growing, belly-dancing, going on missions
Occupation: Unemployed/Between Jobs
Industry: Other
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Member Since:
8/22/2004
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| My crewMy sister, jamie, and her roomate, jen, came to visit this weekend. So did grace and jeanne. They all came on wednesday. After exploring nyc and eating at tons of different restaurants jamie & jen departed sunday and grace & jeanne yesterday...which left me with a hole in my  ...as well as probably a few pant sizes larger. i'm getting soft. when carol left i was really bummed too. i  my old friends....and of course mi familia. it kind of reminds me of my favorite quote that i use as a signature in all my e-mails "we find rest in those we love and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us." | | |
| Hello!Hi everyone. Wow, xanga has changed its look a lot since the last time I was on. Interesting. Well, I wanted to ramble and facebook just sometimes isn't as conducive to that. Today is Easter Sunday! I really enjoyed worship, and PK's sermon about "beyond death's door". He presented it simply but in a thought-provoking way. I like the way he really thinks through everything. He talked about Near Death Experiences, not to prove to us that people go to hell when they die if they don't know Jesus, but just to get our minds thinking about the question, "What does happen to us after we die?" To get the sermon, go to www.cfcberkeley.org/english. The sermons are posted several days after they are given.
What else is there to say? I am on spring break, so just relaxing. I am writing a literature review for my master's project (hoping to graduate in May). So this week I'm going to crank out 15-20 pages worth of stuff. I am also very grateful that God is good though we are not. He is faithful, though we are fallen. We can't get ourselves out of the mess we are in, the sin nature, but Jesus saves us! We need Jesus. I need Jesus.
I wonder where I will be 10 years from now. I think about where I was 10 years ago, and where I am now. Well, hehe, pretty much haven't moved. Still in the same location. But walking with God is such a great adventure. Life brings trials and struggles. I've been through "a lot", though not compared to some people. But still, enough to make me think. Sometimes I feel shameful about the ways in which I am lacking and immature. And I wonder how God will get me there. John 15:5 says "I am the vine; you are the branches" and talks about abiding in Christ. I think that is the key, that I can't try to be great or good. I am not good. God is good. I think of a chapter title in a book that I read recently, called "celebrating our smallness". I think I tend to celebrate my "greatness", when I think I'm doing great ministry for God. But the chapter about "celebrating our smallness" was about how we only have one purpose, which is the "believe in Jesus Christ, whom God has sent", and God is the one who works in us and through us; He is the great One. Being humble before God is hard; it hurts. However, it gives us freedom from ourselves and our egos. When we receive the grace of Christ and are found in Him, and not in ourselves and our "greatness", that's when we will be able to love others more. God is good, all the time. All the time, God is good.
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| went to maryland this weekend for the cmda conference. i had low expectations going in...and even after the first night i had low expectations, but it was really good. God's plans are better then ours...what i got most out of it was from a sermon given on saturday night. Basically he was describing how God was calling a person, and whenever he responded to the call (whether willingly or coerced) he grew and was blessed. And i had to ask myself if I ever heard God's call, or did i not make room to listen to His voice in my life? Or if i did hear it, did i act in obedience? asked a muslim, friend of mine today if i could borrow a koran to read, i don't know, i think she probably thought it was wierd and doubted my abilities to take care of it properly. This was after we were talking about it and she told me i wasn't supposed to put it on the floor or get it messy with food. She ended with, "well, you treat it like any other religious book, with respect." and i was like "ooh, but when i read the bible, i still eat and sometimes i put it on the floor, too." (i didn't add the part "right before i fall asleep") maybe i'm not treating the bible with enough respect. -christy | | |
| I ChingI was trying to read the I-ching today, Book of Change...the foremost chinese classic with origins that date back from the Zhou dynasty (~1000BC). Let me tell you, I didn't get very far...first of all, exposing my ignorance, i didn't know it was a book on divination. I just thought it was a compilation of wise sayings and teachings. It sort of is, but actually it's used to interpret the present and predict the future. People still use it today for this purpose. There is a list of 64 hexagrams that each symbolize the laws or principles of change, which help you to understand what is and what will happen. It got kind of weird for me when it started talking about using yarrow sticks and coins to divinate. So it was quite interesting at first, but i quickly got confused and lost interest. I didn't even make it up to the first hexagram, gave up during the intro and explanation. There were parts where i was thinking, what in the world???? And i wondered if this is how confused non-christians are when they start reading the Bible. Maybe i'll have another go at it another day. -christy | | |
| Who's the baddest boy in town? Hamful Hamiford the III. That's who...but he's so cute...when he's not trying to scratch my face off.    
He is ALL about grandpa.   
He must get his badness from the most baddest fobs ever:  
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