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Country: United States
State: California
Gender: Female
Interests: Everything is interesting.....sometimes..it just depends........I love just being a good friend, taking long drives, watching the sun set, watching the stars, walks on the beach, taking pictures, hangin w/friends, goin to the movies....oh ya and watching tv!
Occupation: Other
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Member Since:
2/7/2005
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| For my gals
So, I got this forwarded email, and it almost made me cry. I know that I'm not exactly the best at keeping in contact, etc, but you all mean so much to me and I would not be who I am today w/out my friends who have inspired me and been there for me. I love you gals...lots and miss you pretty much all the time. May you be as blessed with this as I was:
THE GIRLS IN MY CIRCLE
When I was little,
I used to believe in the concept of one best friend,
and then I started to become a woman.
And then I found out that if you allow your heart to open up,
You will be shown the best, in many friends.
One friend is needed when you're going through things with your partner.
Another friend is needed when you're going through things with your parents.
Another will sit beside you in the bleachers as you delight in your children and their activities.
Another when you want to shop, share, heal, hurt, joke, or just be.
One friend will say, "Let's cry together,"
another, "Let's fight together,"
another, "Let's walk away together."
One friend will meet your spiritual need,
another your shoe fetish,
another your love for movies,
another will be with you in your season of confusion,
another will be your clarifier,
another the wind beneath your wings.
But whatever their assignment in your life,
on whatever the occasion,
on whatever the day,
or wherever you need them to meet you with their gym shoes on and hair pulled back,
or to hold you back from making a complete fool of yourself ...
those are your best friends.
It may all be wrapped up in one woman,
but for many, it's wrapped up in several...
one from 6th grade,
one from high school,
some from the college years,
a couple from old jobs,
on some days your mother,
on some days your neighbor,
on others, your sisters, cousins, and on some days, your daughters.
God determines who walks into your life....it's up to you to decide who you let walk away, who you let stay, and who you refuse to let go - [Shelley Schneider],,sw | | |
| Well, um...HI!!! I thought i hadn't been on here in a while, so decided "what the heck!", so that's why i'm writing this. I'm currently in Houston doing some more fundraising and staying w/my friend Cat (oh, well her real name is jessica). We hung out w/the SOE last night b/c they are on stateside here, it was fun. We went to Barnes and Nobles/starbucks and Old Navy. I got some new black flip flops b/c 1. they were on sale and 2. my other sandals are so thin, i stepped on a branch the other day and it went right through them and poked my foot hard! Oh, and I started reading "wicked" which is a very scandelous book, and where I was sitting to read it was a very scandelous section! no joke! But, i still want to see the play, it looks good and i do like the storyline. Anywho, i'm still fundraising a little and hope to be back at the base and not leaving again by next week! love you all! ps. i have this song that i'm listening stuck in my head! if you havent heard it, you should check it out, its one of my favs!
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| Wow, I have definitely fallen into that category of people who have abandoned their xangas...so sorry guys!
I have been waaay busy for the last few months (in case you couldn't already tell). I finished my SOPA just a few weeks ago and am now hanging out with the Woods in San Antonio. In case y'all don't already know, I am planning on staying with YWAM Tyler and working with AWAM (Arts With A Mission), the performing arts department. I am definitely really excited about it! I cannot believe that i'm only a few months shy of being @ ywam for 2 years!!!! Gosh, time flies! I love what I have decided to do with my life and I couldn't be any happier and honestly cannot imagine doing anything else! God has totally brought me up and prepared me to do this! It's seriously so exciting! Of course, I still have a lot of work to do and will probably work the hardest that I have ever worked in my life (oh wait, the past two years have been like that already!), but it's totally worth it! God is worth all of me and my entire life and I have no regrets at giving that to Him!
So to all my friends not living in Texas, I love you all and will be home to visit probably for Christmas so I hope to see y'all then!
ps. I have an opportunity to go to Jamaica this next month, so please please keep me in your prayers and all.
I love you guys,
G
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| This week and last week our speakers in class have been talking about redeeming the arts and living lives as life artists. I've seriously had the most revelation about the arts then I have ever had and all these things in my head and dreams I've had about the arts...have now been put to expressable words! It's really exciting to see and hear God's heart for the arts, like I've always known it, but now my heart knows it as well. Kinda like head knowledge vs. heart knowledge??? Anyways, I seriously wish I could write down and explain all that I've learned and what I think about it and stuff, but I really don't have the time (I'm actually supposed to be creating some art work right now...hehe), so I decided instead to just write down some of the quotes that I've gotten over these past few weeks and hopefully they stir something within you:
"Art has the ability to take what is familiar to us and through the artistic process, recreate it so that it looks unfamiliar."
Psalm 19 "...unspoke truth is spoken everywhere (His creation speaks)
"Christians are obligated to excellence because God himself is superbly excellent"
If you have a creative gift, God has placed it there
Isaiah 62:10 "Go through, Go through the gates. Prepare the way for the people. Build up, build up the highway! Remove the stones. Raise a banner for the nations!"
Today, God weeps over the terrible distortion of His gifts.
We need to weep before God
Our tears should lead to prayer and prayer to action
The arts, if we're called, are a part of our destiny.
If you don't have a broken heart over this distortion, how can God move us into those areas...
When we have a picture of God's holiness, we will have the fear of the Lord, thus the hatred of sin.
We need to hate the sin and what it does to God
Proverbs 9:10 "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom"
We need to allow God to cleans our gifts so that they are pure and can be used for His calling
A story is a dwelling place. The more you live in it, the more it lives in you & influences what you think and do.
Our story is teh Word and each of us needs to know our story.
How big is your story?
It is said that if a story moves you, you want to become part of the story -- We have the GREATEST story in the world!!!
Restoration
Christ takes the life of a people in His hands. He renews & reestablishes the distorted & deteriorated. He feels each thing, each word, each practice with a new meaning & gives it a new direction.
The arts challenge - they don't just accept the status quo, they challenge the way people think (this is why they are often seen as negative or bad) The arts is a place where ideas can be exchanged (give up lies for truth) - Art is not the same in every language, there's a vagueness & indirectness to it. It suggest things - the artist & audience can meet together and in that place they can interact and God can actually bring revelation through that
2 Corinthians 5:18-20 - God in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. reconciliation = harmony = to bring into harmony. Our world today is out of harmony & God sees that, He hears that and it hurts Him.
He has given to us the ministry of reconciliation. It's His ministry and He invites you and I & allows us to be a part of His ministry. Everything you do is reconciliation ministry.
Therefore, we are his ambassadors - we are a representation of God, we stand in place of our leader, we represent the King of Kings. Ambassadors speak what their King, their Lord, wants to speak
Be reconciled to God! - this is what we say to the world. Because reconciliation is His ministry, it is our ministry
Love you all...will write more when i have time again | | |
| Hey everyone!!!!!
Ok, so first off, i'm soo sorry that i never finished my other blog from like, weeks ago! I didn't end up getting a ticket, but did get pulled over and got a warning for going 5 miles over the speed limit! i thought that was ridiculous, and i did let the policeman know that....he was like "do you know how many millions of dollars a year is spent on those signs that say 70 miles per hour?" and i said, "do you know how many of millions of other people are speeding way faster then i was, and they aren't getting pulled over?"......ya i know, i'm horrible!!! i felt as if i justified myself by saying that and he just walked away and told me to have a nice day. Then, a little while later, i thought how about how horrible it was that i said that to a cop! someone who God placed in authority...and i wanted to go find him and apologize, but i guess asking God for forgiveness is really even better. so...ya, i didn't get a ticket, i just was being a brat to the cop.
Well, SOPA is going really good. I don't usually have time to write a blog because my schedule is so busy/crazy! Seriously, on a typical monday this is my schedule: wake up to work out at like 5:30am. Pray/intercession at 8am in the prayer chapel. Class at 9:15 in the classroom. Lunch at 12:15. Music/Songwriting at 1:15 in the prayer chapel. Class at 3:30 in the classroom. Dinner at 5:15. Work duty (cleaning the front office) from 6-8. And now we have outreach team meeting/intercession at 8pm. Plus, i usually have some type of homework. I'm not complaining about the schedule though. I really do love it and i am seriously learning so soo much! It's crazy how all the experiences I have had in the past and all the things that i have learned are really coming out while I'm here. It's so random too! But its so cool to learn about music (and actually pay attention), and write songs, and sing songs (ya, i have to sing all by myself in front of the class!), and dance all types of different dance forms (including ballet! ha...and i even own tights now! crazy!), and do really creative things like painting and collages, and mosaics...its amazing! i can't think of any other place i could be that would allow so much freedom....and the greatest part about it is that I get to use these gifts and develop them even more...all for Jesus!!!! That is seriously like the icing on the cake...really...i love it.
Before I end this blog, I want to ask you all for prayer. First off, I still need a lot of money for tuition, and outreach is coming up real soon. It is really hard to live "by faith" but I know this is what God is having me to do, so i completely trust Him in the area, so please pray with me regarding this. Second, for continual unity within our school and outreach team. God's brought us far...if only you knew all the little stories, and I know that He wants to unite us even more so. Third, for His strenght and peace in this time because our schedule is so busy, we don't always get enough sleep or even rest sometimes. It's rough, but seriously its only by the grace of God that i can even get up and give my all everyday (especially in ballet!! haha)
Wanna hear something cool though??? Ok, so we had to write a page of goals at the beginning of the school. And one of my goals was that I wanted to be more flexible and even possibly do the splits....well, I'm not there YET, but....i am SOOOOO close to doing the splits, its not even funny!!!!
Aight, well, I love you all so very much and am thankful for each and every one of you!!! | | |
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