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Name: Carol
Country: United States
State: Minnesota
Birthday: 9/4/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: writing - coffee - the bible - music - climbing trees - being outside - That 70's Show - friends - family - art - wicker park - millenium park - oak park - jazz - laughing - Third Eye Blind - Camp Omega - IYC - chopsticks - espanol - sports
Expertise: losing things
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AIM:  jazzygurl20
Member Since:
4/9/2004
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| The Ultimate UpdateWell I haven't posted in close to a year, but I still read everyone's post's when they get emailed to me. Everytime I read them I think, oh, I should put up something short and sweet about what I'm up to...and obviously it has taken awhile for me to actually do so. This summer has been going so fast and it's like I haven't even done anything! But, it's not that I haven't done anything, it's that I'm used to doing just one thing (working at camp), and instead I have been doing a "hodge podge" of activities as I have been telling people. So far I visited CA for Irvine's graduation, started learning Japanese, got a job as a part time waitress, spent time with family and friends and sorted through everything in my room. Also, I just got back from a two week LCMS world missions training and a Harstad 50th anniversary reunion. I have now been painting our house green for the last week with my mom, which has been quite exhausting. Next week I have a Becker family reunion in Kansas. I'll leave it at that for now. Hope you are having a great summer, Carol | | |
| For everything there is a season I think I grow to love fall more and more each year. At first, I saw the season as a time where everything was dying. Now, I cherish the red, orange, and yellow colors that slowly emerge from the green leaves, swishing through the sere leaves on the ground, and cuddling up under a blanket with a hot cup of tea. While I was at Irvine, I realized the beauty of the changing seasons because for them, there is a time of rain or no rain. Though most of us here in midwest through the bleak of winter could not fathom a downside to sunny California, I’m going to say that there is. It gets quite mundane to have the same weather day in and out, and the sun loses its brightness. So often, I would be the only one enjoying the rays outside by reading a book. Overall, the beauty of the seasons is only so beautiful because they are so unique from each other. So what is the point of my little speech about the seasons? Well...all my thinking about the changing seasons has helped me understand a little bit more about life and I wanted to share it with you.
The season of life many of us are in right now may be a cold month of winter, a time of re-growth in spring, a bright joyous summer day, or transitional peak of fall. Just as the beauty of the seasons is found in their changing, the beauty of life comes from change as well. Imagine the joy of a family that finally holds their first baby in their arms, or a young child who finally reads their first sentence on their own, and the peace that one feels after a storm. In all these things, it takes a change of season for us to fully appreciate its beauty. Read Ecclesiastes 3:1-14 and I will give you verse 11. It is the passage about how there is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.â€
Dear Friends, I have experienced loneliness, uncertainty, serenity, joy, and so much more. Without my times of loneliness, my times of happiness would not be as complete, without my times of sorrow, my peace would lose its power. And dear friends, this all comes from our Savior who though we may not have a clue in the world why the snow is falling on our head, or leaves flittering to the ground, He assures us that he knows best how to control the seasons which ebb and flow in our lives. How amazing that through even our darkest days (like half the year in Alaska) he can bring us immeasurable joy in the hope we have through his son. I pray you may know this comfort in all your seasons of life. In Christ, Carol | | |
| I saw Wicked tonight downtown Chicago with about 200 others from Concordia. So that was pretty sweet. My favorite line from Elphaba was "If I'm flying solo at least I'm flying free."
Tomorrow morning...well this morning now... I'm running in a 5k so I need to get to bed. | | |
| my paradoxshun me
for i am full of pride
despise me
for i am full of lies
hate me
for i am full of sin
love me
for i am a child of God
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| Road Trip Anyone?So...I am thinking it would be way fun to road trip to MN to see what will be an intense series game between the sox and the twins on Saturday the 29th. We can stay at my house and have tons of fun Friday and Saturday night and drive back on Sunday. My mom is an amazing cook, we have a hot tub, and a big screen TV so it will be fun even if you don't like baseball a whole lot. Besides, road trips are pretty much the best. Let me know! And you MN people, if it works out, and I am thinking that it will, you should come too. | | |
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