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GodlyGal
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Interests: I like speaking Spanish with a lisp, pretending that I have time to read the books that are on my monster-sized "must read" list, hanging out with friends, watching non R-rated movies, and praising the Lord for the wonderful life He's given me.
Expertise: I am Queen of All Things...Okay, so that's a lie. I would like to think that I'm Queen of All Things Cooking and someday I want to be Queen of All Things Domestic, but we're working towards that one step at a time.
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  GodlyGal365
Member Since:
6/15/2004
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| I JUST FOUND OUT THAT I GOT CAST IN A COMMERCIAL!!!!! haha Be praying for me; the shoot is on Saturday night and I'm kinda nervous!
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| Oh! Xanga looks different in the little type-y page! Neat!
Hi everyone.
Yesterday I had my first candy pumpkin of the year, which means it is
officially Autumn. Granted, I live it Florida and we don't really
have a fall season, but I'm surrounding myself with rich fall colors
and have tabbed every fall-y picture that I have in my photo albums.
haha
For all you Hanover people, I pray that school is going well for you
and that your IS-es, organizations, jobs, relationships (with God and
people), and other various activities are seeing you blessed and
walking in the favor of God. For the rest of you, I hope that
you're doing well and adjusting to life away from HC.
Update on me (which means you'll owe me one on you!): Life and
work are going well. I've started a couple new part-time
consulting jobs at Disney. One of the greatest perks of this is
that I happened to be in the right place at the right time last weekend
such that I got to live out one of my lifelong dreams--I actually got
to try on a Belle costume!!! I'm waiting on Mom to find out if
I'm allowed to post the picture here or not, but let me tell you--I
felt so lovely and princess-like. It was absolutely wonderful!!!
I got invited to a Hootie and the Blowfish concert tonight, but decided
not to for various reasons. I am, however, going to be going on
an outreach tomorrow night to some of the homeless community in
downtown Orlando. I'm psyched, let me tell you.
This morning I was reading in Judges, particularly the chapters that
talk about Gideon. So much from all of those sections stood out
to me, but one verse in particular blew me away:
the KJV says in 6:34--"But the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon and
he blew a trumpet..." Seemed pretty normal to me, until I found
out what is meant by "came upon." A more literal translation is
"the Spirit of the Lord clothed Gideon with Himself." Wow.
I was pretty excited about that. At any rate, I had forgotten how
cool this whole section of the Word is, and was happy for the great
reminder.
I'm going to stop here because I know people don't like long
posts. Just wanted to say hi to everybody. Make sure you
keep in touch, and please have patience with me while I'm trying to
figure out how to get jobs done, do stuff here and maintain
relationships the way I need to.
Love you guys!
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| Okay, for real...
I need a teleporter and I need one now. Or a really fast plane
that doesn't require any fuel to run and that is free to me and the
people that I love that are miles and miles away. Or a
billion-magillion dollars so that I wouldn't have to work and could
travel whenever I wanted to places like Hanover and Zionsville and
North Carolina and Salem and Haiti...you get the point.
In the meantime, I suppose I will settle for not getting blow-ded away
by Tropical Storm Ernesto...dum dum DUM!!! I'm going to be at
work tomorrow all day, provided the storm doesn't begin and they send
us home. And then I'm going to be at home--by my lonesome--all
tomorrow night while Ernie huffs and puffs.
I'm kind of excited...and sort of not all at the same time. I
think I'm probably more excited than not, but let me tell you: if
T.S. Ernie blows out my electricity--even temporarily--and I lose all
the roasted peppers, chicken, sausage, soup, chicken stock and other
assorted items that I have stocked up on and wrapped individually to
store in the freezer I will be a very--VERY--unhappy little
Floridian.
P.S. I made tomato soup the other day. For those of you that hate
tomatoes...I sniff at you. For those of you that like
tomatoes: I would send you a bowl of my most wonderful-est tomato
and roasted red pepper soup...but it would likely leak all over the
mailman and make him sad. And then it would probably make your
tummy sad, what with the high temperatures in mail places and mail
vehicles. :( schnarf
I believe I am finished for now. Love, love, love!
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| There is a Christian singer named Jason Upton who wrote the song
below. The younger music pastor sang this at our youth service a
few weeks ago and I was breathless. I wish you could hear the
song--maybe try to get on Jason's website because you can listen to it
a little there (though I like Vinnie's voice/version a little
better)--but I think the lyrics are still very poignant, so here goes.
The whole song is lovely, but the part that I love the most is the line
"We better trash our idols if we wanna be in the army of the
Lord." So very true. Enjoy...
"Dying Star"-Jason Upton
You've got your best man on the front side
You always show your best side
And evil's always on the other side
You say this is your strategy
But son I hope you take it from me
You look just like your enemy
You're full of pride
We better trash our idols if we want to be
In the army of the Lord
And the greatest idol is you and me,
We better get on the threshing floor
When will we learn that God's strategy
Is giving glory to the Lord?
We better trash our idols if we want to be
In the army of the Lord
Star how beautiful you shine
You shine more beautiful than mine
You shine from sea to shining sea
World-wide is your strategy
But shinning star I hope you see
If the whole wide world is staring straight at you
They can't see me...
P.S.--I'm well. Work is going well. I miss you guys lots, but I'm
starting to meet some people slowly. Now I'm heading off to the
gym because I really like working out now. Love you all.
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| I think that part of this is because you have been on my mind lately
from looking through pictures (I seriously printed off, like, 100 to
put into rotation in the frames on my desk), but I think the other part
is a Spirit thing:
I have felt such a burden for all of you of late. In between the
random wandering of my mind I keep coming back to your faces and little
flashes of the past, mixed with still shots from what I can imagine of
your future this next year. You are heavy on my spirit and
ever-present in my mind, and while part of it feels like cutting a new
wound, I'm thankful for the priveledge of knowing you and being able to
intercede on your behalf.
"We are going to change the world." That's the other thing that
keeps echoing in my heart lately. We are world-changers, and
while it may seem impossible that a group of us would all happen to
have gone to the same school, destined for such a fate, that is the
greatness of our God's plan.
My vision for each of you and for Hanover College this year is that you
would think huge. Surrendering the campus is necessary, but our
vision can't stop there. I hate not being there with you, and yet
I believe that I'm to sow this separation as a seed of faith:
when we all go off into our corners of the Midwest, of the country, of
the world, we are going to see mountains moved, lives changed, the dead
come back to life and our faith shaken. God is with us. God
is with you.
My prayer for each of you is that you would catch that vision and step
up. You may not know yet which direction that next step
is--right, left, up, down, diagonal, etc--but that's not the
point. The step is a heart thing; it's a move made with and in
willingness, not in something spatial. Be ready to wait.
Hurry up to get to that place of divine waiting, and then abide in
it. Better even, abide in the Spirit in it. Pray for that
sense of Spirit and pray for a deeper sense of need and desperation for
God. If you don't feel desperate for Him now, pray that He fill
you with that fire and then start speaking or singing the lyrics to the
song that says "I-I-III, I'm desperate for You...ooo" ("Breathe" is the
song title, methinks).
I don't know what God's waiting for or how He's going to use us in His
master plan, but there is a reason we all came into each other's
lives. I feel an ever-growing electricity in the Spirit
surrounding our future as individuals and as brothers and sisters in
this body, and I can't wait to see how God is going to use these broken
vessels and willing spirits of ours for His glory.
Hallelujah!
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