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Name: Kristen
Birthday: 3/8/1987
Gender: Female
Interests: smiles, all my friends, letters & e-mails, LoVe<3, text messages, all kinds of music, old movies, funny people, spending time w/ my family, seeing God's works, nicholas sparks' romance books, doodling, taking pictures, working out, cuddling :)I want the FAIRY TALE--Julia Roberts
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  KristenDeAnn87
Member Since:
12/17/2003
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| wow, i can't believe how long it's been since i've posted on here. i'm moving to nashville on august 18th for school. it's official. i'm going to be a nashvillian!!! :) life's moving semi-slow right now. i don't have a job (yet) so time is creeping. but hopefully if victoria and i can get things figured out, we'll have a job soon! haha got to go to Julie's wedding...it was great!! got to stay with beccah and see emily and megan as well :) i miss all of them!! i wish my friends all still lived around here...but life changes, i know that. glad i get to see them when i do. just finished my second reading of Undressed....seriously, best book ever. read it. trust me! that's all i've got. love to everyone, kristen | | |
| So I think I might have found a roommate for Belmont (that is, if I get accepted---fingers still crossed!). ALL thanks to the beautiful Abigail Hews! Wow, God is seriously SO good. I don't even know why He is to me at all, but He is simply amazing. That is all. :) | | |
| THE NUMBER FOUR (I stole this from Angela...who I LOVE and MISS so much!!) A)Four Jobs I have Had In My Life:
Office Assistant at Bowie-Cass
Peer Advisor at LeTourneau
My mom's assistant in my papaw's office
Taught golf lessons one summer
B) Four movies I would watch over and over:
Diary of a Mad, Black Woman Tommy Boy
Step Up
The Holiday
C) Four places I have lived:
Until I was about 2, I lived in a house in Domino, TX.
My house now in Bloomburg
Longview,TX
D) Four TV shows I love to watch:
Friends
Grey's Anatomy
The OC
One Tree Hill
E) Four places I have been on vacation:
Steamboat and Durango, CO
Destin and Orlando, FL
Branson, MO
Broken Bow, OK
F) My favorite foods:
anything chicken (fried chicken, chicken parm, bbq chicken, chicken fajita quesadillas...you name it)
steak (especially from TX Roadhouse)
casseroles (broccoli and rice, potato, sweet potato...basically anything my mamaw touches is wonderful)
salads (if they are really good & fresh)
G) Four places I would like to be right now:
Nashville, TN
Bahamas
On a cruise to the caribbean
Heaven
H) Friends I think will respond:
probably no one | | |
| PRISON IS AWESOME.
That's right. It is. No, I don't want to do any time in there or
anything, but the ministry in prisons is amazing. I got the
pleasure of ministering to a dorm of 54 women in Dawson State Jail in
Dallas this weekend. I was scared to death at first is the least
I can say. I've never been inside a prison before, and so I was
pretty afraid. But once we got in there and started some small
talk with the inmates, it was so cool. They don't react to you
like you think they would. They are dying for visitors and
someone BESIDES inmates to talk to. We had platform speakers and
musicians that came to share their testimonies with them, and wow, they
were awesome! One lady who spoke was a recovered cocaine addict
who was abused as a child, in relationships with 2 controlling &
abusive men, raped, gang raped, left for dead, arrested 52 times, and
sent to prison 4 times. Her fourth trip to prison, she turned her
life over to the Lord. Needless to say, she had a heck of a
testimony for those girls. A man who spoke was a bodyguard to a
huge mafia leader in Brooklyn, NY. He also helped smuggle in
drugs from Cuba. He had several illegitimate children, and he was
put in prison for many years, where he also met Christ. The women
absolutely loved them. It touched their hearts so much. It
was so neat to be able to sit there with them all day long and listen
to their stories. A lot of their problems that sent them to
prison rose out of family issues. You know, not feeling good
enough, getting told their whole life that they were never going to
amount to anything, & more horrible lies from their family.
Many of the women deal with guilt for having to leave their children to
serve their time. They are so worried their kids won't forgive
them for what they have done or that they won't be able to forgive
themselves for what they've done. But I got to share with them
some things I have learned through having 2 recovering drug addict
parents. And that is, their kids may not know what is going on
with them, but if they see that they are making an effort to do better
& come back home to them, they WILL forgive them. All it
takes is rebuilding that relationship. Eventually, they can learn
to forgive themselves. Many of the women were already Christians,
so I felt like my place there was to just encourage them and let them
see that they AREN'T nothing. They are SO beautiful. And so
strong.
Our weekend verse that I made them remember is Song of Solomon 4:7
"You are altogether beautiful, my darling, and there is no flaw in you."
It was exhausting by the end of the day, but it was so worth it.
If you ever get a chance to minister to women or men in prison, take
it. All you have to do is be willing to go, and God will bless
you for it tremendously. :)
--Kristen
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| i don't know if any of you have experienced death in your life before, but when i used to think about losing someone close to me, it was way different than actual reality. i thought it would cause me to completely change the way i live. learn how to treat people better. not take things for granted. say "i love you" more or just how i really feel, for that matter. i thought my fantasies about life would get snapped back into the real world. i thought people would be careful around me and considerate. i thought they would be kind and sympathetic. mostly, i thought my family would learn how to treat each other right...and have no regrets. reality tells me that death doesn't always change a person. the human side of you still urges you to not tell people how you really feel, because, why put yourself out there to get hurt or to lose someone again? death doesn't take away the fantasies and desires you have about life...in fact, they seem to be stronger than ever, as a way of escape. people aren't careful or considerate. they speak of their family members with an ungrateful attitude instead of appreciating what they do have. people still disappoint you. they're still cold and hateful. and let's face it...families will never be perfect. most of them don't even learn from their own experiences. they still fight, they still say mean words, and they still forget to say "i love you" every day. HELLO REALITY. | | |
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