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Name: Lindsay
Birthday: 3/3/1991
Interests: Okay..ummm so...my interests..well..JESUS!..of course-definately like my main focus in life, good conversations,laughing:), arguing-haha I know..im weird but if u kno me pretty well then u pro'lly kno that it's SO true, helping people with their problems-otherwise known as being a shrink for people, SOCCER!!!, piano, singing, plays/musicals(drama), basketball, eating :)..especially pop tarts o:), Bright Yellow Jeep Wranglers, Auburn University, the show Overhaulin'-the best show ever guys! I love it!..hehe, VA. Beach, Young Life, starbucks-hehe, I love that place!, summer!, ice hockey-like the best sport ever and I wish so bad I would have grown up ice skating so I could play b/c it's so freakin' awesome!, live football. hockey, or basketball games, pretty much all music-my fav would pro'lly be Dave Matthews Band and Jack Johnson..
Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
4/29/2005
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| okay, so maybe u don't care. But I thought I'd share...
Today is pretty much the best day ever!!!!
One, because I'm excited that my most INCREDIBLE friend Laaaauren is coming to live with me for the next couple days :)
second, because I don't have school tomorrow.
third, because I just got some new CD's that are freakin amazing that I've been singing just about 24/7
~ Earth Wind & Fire: The Essential- EXCELLLENT!!! I love this band!
~MIKA - I love it!!! :) makes me smile and want to dance
~Gnarles Barkely- just overall really really good!
fourth, because my brother is home and it's been AWESOME!
and last, but certainly not least....
IT'S EASTER!!! The day of my Lord and Savior's resurrection. And I have to say that today we had one of THE best church services I have been to.
I haven't stopped smiling all day.
hope y'all's day is going as good as mine!!
love to you all!!!
HAPPY EASTER!!
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| My Best shouldn't be enough for HIM...but it isRecently I've been thinking alot. I've been sorting out
alot of things in my mind-or atleast, trying to. I have alot of
decisions that I'm gonna have to make in the next couple years. My
graduation year is coming faster than I ever realized it would and my
parents and everyone are starting to bring up that question about where
I want to go, what I want to major in, if I'm gonna play soccer or
basketball in college; all that stuff. I don't know what I want to do.
But you know, until recently I had basically convinced myself that if I
didn't figure out what I was gonna do with the rest of my life QUICK,
that I was gonna have alot of trouble coming later for me and that it
would be alot harder than I needed it to be.
One of the things
I've been trying to make a decision about is whether I'm gonna play
sports or not in college. My soccer coach has told me several times
that if I put the right work into it, that I could bring myself a long
way. The question for me was how hard I wanted to work. About a year or
two ago I had made the decision that I wanted to play D1 soccer and
that I was going to work as hard as I possibly needed to to achieve
that goal. I woke up every morning before at 4am!! I went for a run,
did soccer drills, and reached for that goal. I was so determined!
Until my brother asked me why I was even bothering and how a mediocre
girl like me could never make it onto a D1 soccer team. Immediately I
was convinced. I still played on the soccer team at my school and I
still worked hard on the field, but the same determination that I had
before to be as good as I could be was no longer there.
I still
don't know what I'm gonna do when it comes down to deciding what I'm
gonna do sportswise for college. But, I had a conversation with my
coach the other day about all this and he told me one thing that's just
been wandering in my mind. We talked for a good 30 minutes about
everything I wanted and everything I've done and what I had been
convinced and just how I didn't know what I wanted to do. We talked
about for a good while and he ended our conversation by saying this:
"Lindsay, I have brought you this far. YOU have to bring yourself the
rest of the way and decide what you want to do."
I still don't know
what I'm gonna do. And I probably won't until I graduate. But I do know
one thing. I am on a team right now. And just like everything else in
my life, I'm playing on this team for God. And for me to be on this
team and not be the best that I could be and not give everything I have
for that goal I used to have isn't glorifying God for what he's worth.
I don't know if I will play soccer in college-maybe I won't. But either
way it is my duty as a Christian to worship and represent him by giving
everything that I have-all the way through-and if I DON'T play in
college...I can promise you that that won't be time wasted and that God
will give me an opportunity to use every thing I have experienced or
learned in life. And, thinking about it, that goes for everything. I
know I haven't tried my hardest in everything recently! In fact, my
entire class just got a lecture about this the other day from one of
our teachers about our schoolwork. It's not easy to keep going and
going and trying your very hardest. Whether it's schoolwork,
relationships with people, your job, your duty on a team, whatever it
may be we are to worship GOD through it and to give it everything we
have.
I don't know where I'm gonna go to college, I don't know
what I'm gonna major in, and I have no idea whether I'll be playing
soccer or not. But I have made one promise to myself that I pray to God
I will stay faithful to! And that's that from now on I WILL give
everything I have! But not for my glory. For his. | | |
| THE most incredible weekend...ever!!
I'll have to write about it later.
...........I have ALOT to write about
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| What kind of people do u like to be around? A person who
is complaining or mad and upset and just moping all the time? Or would
you rather be around someone who is smiling and cheerful and excited
about life? I'm not gonna sit here and give ANOTHER lecture about being
happy. And u kno, sometimes we can't help it too much. But like I said
in my last blog, it's really the way we deal with it or approach the
matter. Anyways, I'm not gonna make this one too long. But, next time
you're down about something, ask yourself if the thing ur upset about
it is truly that detrimental and really a reason to be unhappy? Also,
think about how you're affecting other people!! Like I said, would u
rather be around a happy or unhappy person? Obviously, the happy one.
So don't be one of those unhappy people that no one wants to be around.
Lift your spirits, crack a smile, and trust God. Here's one of my
favorite quotes that really goes along with this GREAT:
"A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive
without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the
memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he
cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made
rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen,
for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given
away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of
yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give." | | |
| Everyone has their own standards, laws, rules, or simply ideas and opinions of their own that make a person WHO they are.
The other night I had a discussion with one of my friends about morals.
And why people have those morals or why they don't have those morals.
Often times we put down or look down upon others for maybe not having
the same morals that we have, ourselves. Or maybe there's a situation
where you put down for someone for acting a certain way or making a
statement that you don't quite agree with. All these things I think are
sins. Perhaps not the opinion itself, but if we fail to correct
ourselves with these ideas and not approach them with the right
attitude, these things ARE sins.
How often do you make judgements in your life? Whether it's about a
PERSON about a CLASS about some ACTIVITY about some SITUATION going on
somewhere..WHATEVER! I guarantee you almost all of you make judgements
about every couple HOURS of your day. The judgement itself I don't see
to be wrong. In fact, I think it's very important and crucial for all
of us TO make judgements. We obviously need to know the right from
wrong and be able to identify those in day-to-day situations. So, like
I said, the judgement itself is NOT wrong, but instead, the approach.
So how should we approach such things? Well, it's different for
different situations. But a couple examples are just-putting urself
into someone else's shoes and seeing where they're coming from or
simply just asking questions of why this thing may be, in an as much
unslanted view as possible. Or seeing how this thing could be for the
good or useful or beneficial in some way.
One of my biggest pet-peeves is when people go into situations with
horrible attitutudes and expectations of something a negative way
before even really TRYING to experience it or have a good time. One of
my most favorite verses, and basically the verse that I LIVE by, is
Romans 8: 28: "And we know that God causes everything to work togethe
for the good of those who love God and are called according to his
purpose for them." This verse simply explains how God has a purpose for
EVERY situation. A REASON for everything! Even the bad. And where you
are, who are you, what you're doing, who you're with, even the TINIEST
thing...is all put together into one huge picture by God that if even
the tiniest thing were removed would destroy the entire picture. All
things work TOGETHER. This is sometimes one of the hardest things to
grasp and really hold on to and believe in your life. I have no doubt
that alot of you are probably going through some hard times right now.
And even if you aren't, I'm sure everyone can think back to a time when
things weren't exactly a walk in the park. Well, when we're at our
lowest and feeling just UPSET, is that really when we want to sit there
and be like-this is GOOD! God wants this to happen! And this is all for
the good. OF COURSE NOT! I know I don't. But that's exactly what we
should be doing every time! And to have that trust in God that
everything will workout and that it all IS for the good. Another one of
my favorite passages that I just ran into the other night during my
devotians is Ecclesiastes 3. And yes, I'm going to put the entire thing
on here because I really think it's important for us all to see it and
know what it says.
Ecclesiastes 3:
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under
heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time
to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a
time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and
a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a
time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to search and a time to
give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a
time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love
and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. What does the
worker gain from his toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on men.
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. I know that there is nothing better for men than to
be happy and do good while they live. That everyone may eat and drink,
and find satisfaction in all his toil—this is the gift of God. I know
that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to
it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him.
Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before;
and God will call the past to account. And I saw something else under the sun:
In the place of judgment—wickedness was there,
in the place of justice—wickedness was there.
I thought in my heart,
" God will bring to judgment
both the righteous and the wicked,
for there will be a time for every activity,
a time for every deed."
I also thought, "As for men, God tests them so that they may see that
they are like the animals. Man's fate is like that of the animals; the
same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have
the same breath ; man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is
meaningless. All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust
all return. Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the
spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?"
So I saw that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work,
because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will happen
after him?
So now, just try to live your life to the fullest. Be happy, love
everyone, and just realize that whatever happens has a reason and is
for the good. | | |
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