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Name: Eden
Country: United States
State: Tennessee
Birthday: 6/6/1988
Gender: Female
Interests: praising Jesus, watching the Elizabethton Twins play!, colorguard (captain!), dancing, basketball, kids, french horn, and just being with the greatest friends God could ever give a person!
Expertise: I'm pretty good at love loving Jesus! And solving everyone's problems...but my own.
Occupation: Student
Message: message meEmail: email me
AIM:  ETreadway41
MSN: eden_treadway41@yahoo.com
Member Since:
9/3/2003
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| EDIT: Not leaving TN. Still here. Hit me up.
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| Hello, loves!
As some of you may know or have heard, I will be
spending the next month (June 8-July 6) at a Young Life camp in New
York called Lake Champion. I will be working in the air conditioned
office typing information, answering phones, sorting mail, filing
papers, and finding out camp secrets  . I will also be exposed to
nearly 1,600 high schoolers. At times I will be sweating, quite
literally, for the Lord, trying to show others the love He has shown
me. I hope to be an example to kids as well as adults. I'm going to
come home probably a slightly different person than I am now. I will
have lifelong friends, experiences, and memories. I would love to hear
from anyone who has a chance to write! Here is the address:
Eden Treadway
Summer Staff
Young Life's Lake Champion
247 Mohican Lake Road
Glen Spey, NY 12737
I
will miss my boyfriend's birthday, my boyfriend in general, the first
E-Twins game, my family, my co-workers at the good old House of Fire,
my sister moving back to East TN, the 4th of July (and fireworks!), and
more! But...I will be serving Christ, whole-heartedly, with all that I
am, being exposed to a whole new environment and new people. I will be
doing what I was put on the earth to do- serve people, and love and
worship the Lord!
In Christ,
Eden Marie =) | | |
| BLLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I HATE SCHOOL. THE END.
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| God works in wonderful, RANDOM, ways...and I have proof!!!I will begin this story this way:
My freshman year of high school during spring break I wasn't cool
enough to go on a big vacation or anything...turns out I should thank
God for that. So Kari, my best friend, and I stayed home. Kari and I
live about 5 houses apart, so we had planned on meeting in the middle
of the road and hanging out all week. Kari's neighbor is an elderly
lady, and her family lives in New York. The first or second day of
break we see a van, a couple of women, and two boys that look about our
age and also a younger one. So Kari and I, being the 14 year olds that
we were, were too afraid to talk to the boys. But the first or second
day of break Kari and I strategically and purposefully made ourselves
available for conversation by playing basketball in the driveway. After
a while, the two boys come up and ask, "Hey, uh, can we play some
bee-as-kiet-ball with you guys?" Immediately we realized they were not
from here. Of course we said yes and we began playing ball with Alex,
Cory, and Grant.
Little did we know then that we would spend every waking moment of that
week with those boys. Alex and Cory were our age and Grant was 9. Alex
and Grant were Kari's neighbor's grandsons. They came down with their
mom and her friend, who was Cory's aunt. There are 10 children in
Alex's family. Each spring break his mom brings 2 different kids down
to see their grandmother because they obviously can't all come at once
(The following spring break we met Jill and Julia, the 11 year old twin
girls).
The day they left was heartbreaking for Kari and me. We had become best
friends in a week with a couple of private christian school
northerners, but it felt like they had grown up right beside us. By
doing the math with the kids in Alex's family, we knew it would be 3
years, our senior year spring break, before we saw him again. But come
time last year for him to come down and visit his grandmother, he was
busy playing baseball and couldn't make it. Kari and I were devastated
really. Now we really didn't know when we'd see him again...if ever.
This past week has really taken a toll on me mentally and emotionally.
School has been kicking my butt and I've been working a lot and my fall
break plans fell through bllllaaahhh I'm just ready for a break.
But Thursday night Kari calls me up and tells me that Alex and two of
his friends drove 13 and a half hours in one day to Paris Island, SC to
see one of their best friends graduate basic training camp. They were
going to go straight on back to Rochester but Alex decided to take a
detour because he knew a couple of people in Tennessee that he just
wanted to see and that would have a place they could stay for the night.
Kari, along with Alex, Luke, and Dan, surprise me and show up at work
on Friday night after we had closed. I freaked out, didn't know what to
do. Now, here, after 4 years of not seeing one of your best friends,
they show up randomly. Wow. The 5 of us, along with Sarah and Nick,
stayed up very late and spent the night at Kari's house. We got up
early this morning because they had to get on the road and Alex's
grandmother wanted to cook us breakfast.
After 4 years, not a thing had changed. Alex is still fun and crazy as
ever. His friends are amazing. We immediately clicked like old times.
This was exactly what I needed to make my life better right now. I
can't explain to you how much my faith in God has grown through this.
Of course saying goodbye this morning wasn't easy after only seeing
them for not even a day, but it's okay because I know now that I'll
never have to worry about IF I'll see them again...I just have to wait
until the day comes.
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| Goodbyes, goodbyes, Parting is not so sweet after allYes, this is also on my myspace and facebook. I need to study but I just need to get some thoughts down.
*Some people come into your life for a short while, but leave footprints that will last forever. Some people can walk into a room and light up your face. Some people will be here shortly, then leave, never knowing when, if ever, they will return. You learn to trust someone, allow yourself to break down the walls you've been building around your heart. You feel open and comfortable with them, feeling safe and at home. Those people are the kind of people you never forget. You look back on your life when you're 80, married with kids and grandkids, retired after 40 years of hard employment, and remember the times you spent with them and always smile. The ambiguity of relationships seem to not matter. There are people you try to prepare yourself for the moment they leave, and always eventually realize you could never have prepared enough. You could never have imagined it would hurt so much. The reason is unclear. The odd string of events that occur that allow you to meet people is unsatisfying. The questions of what is to come is unsettling. The wonder of if they will remember you is emotionally painful. The uncertainty of whether they felt the same is undeniable. The impossibility of everything makes life unhappy. It is frightful to try to comprehend the impression you leave on someone, or the impression left by them. We take risks, we have no regrets, we keep secrets...why? Maybe the answer is uncertain, but there has to be a reason. There are people that can physically cause your heart to ache. You say goodbye and your heart feels 1000 pounds. There are people you learn to love, in so many ways, the physical distance matters not. Of course you wonder, of course it hurts. But the hope and excitement that each day is another day closer to seeing them again is amazing. People take pieces of your heart and leave it unwhole, but knowing it is in a safe place is comforting. The only thing to do is wait. Others think you're crazy, maybe in too deep and just plain weird. Others don't understand.
I like to think there are only so many tears you can cry. And then I prove myself wrong...everytime.* Sigh, I feel better... Or not.
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