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Name: Beckysang and Rachelsang
Country: Djibouti
Birthday: 5/31/1987
Gender: Female
Interests: chemistry, bowling, salad, rock climbing, bad mitton, burying mummy ants, modeling, big booty, watermelon game, writing, and lots more
Expertise: the art and technique of discipling and embalming egyptian ants.
Occupation: Military
Industry: Textiles
Message: message me
AIM:  Beksnum2
AIM:  raekeung
Member Since:
2/11/2004
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| This is SO WORTH THE XANGA POST!
Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong."
2 Corinthians 12: 8-10
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| Do our fellowships look like this?
Acts 2:40-47, ESV
And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, "Save yourselves from this crooked generation." So those who received the word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need. And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
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| Read this over about 20x and if you still don't understand read it over again. Once you get it...tell me you don't want to just screeam how amazing God is.
"We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body. So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you."
-2corinthians 4:10-12
it's so masterfully written and beautifully said.
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| A story
...I looked up and saw the very last thing I expected: a huge lion coming slowly toward me. And one queer thing was that there was no moon last night, but there was moonlight where the lion was. So it came nearer and nearer. I was terribly afraid of it. You may think that being a dragon, I could have knocked any lion out easily enough. But it wasn't that kind of fear. I wasn't afriad of it eating me, I was just afraid of it-if you can understand. Well, it came close up to me and looked straight into my eyes. And I shut my eyes tight. But that wasn't any good because it told me to follow it.
...At last we came to the top of this mountain there was a garden-trees and fruit and everything. In the middle of it there was a well. I knew it was a well because you could see the water bubbling up from the bottom of it: but it was a lot bigger than most wells-like a very big, round bath with marble steps going down into it. The water was as clear as anything and I thought if I could get in there and bathe, it would ease the pain in my leg. But the lion told me I must undress first...
...So I started scratching myself and my scales began coming off all over the place. And then I scratched a little deeper and, instead of just scaled coming off here and there, my whole skin started peeling off beautifully, like it does after an illness, or as ifI was a banana. In a minute or two I just stepped out of it. I could see it lying there beside me, looking rather nast. It was a most lovely feeling. So I started to go down into the well for my bathe.
But just as I was going to put my feet into the water I looked down and saw that they were all hard and rough and wrinkled and scaley just as they had been before. Oh, that's all right, said I, it only means I have another smaller suit on underneath the first one, and I'll have to get out of it too. So I scratched and tore again and this underskin peeled off beautifully and out I stepped and left it lying beside the other one and went down to the well for my bathe.
Well, exactly the same thing happend again. And I thought to myself, oh dear, how ever many skins have I got to take off? For I was longing to bathe my leg. So I scratched away for the third time and got off a third skin, just like the two others, and stepped out of it. But as soon as I looked at myself in the water I knew it had been no good.
Then the lion said...'you will have to let me undress you.' I was afraid of his claws, I can tell you, but I was pretty nearly desperate now. So I just lay flat down on my back to let him do it.
The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart. And when he began pulling the skin off, it hurt worse than anything I've ever felt. The only thing that made me able to bear it was jut the pleasure of feeling the stuff peel off...Well, he peeled the beastly stuff right off-just as I thought I'd done it myself the other three times, only they didn't hurt-and there it was, lying on the grass, only ever so much thicker, and darker, and more knobbly-looking than the other had been.
And there was I smooth and soft as a peeled switch and smaller than I had been. Then he caught hold of me-I didn't like that much for I was very tender underneath now that I'd no skin on- and threw me into the water. I smarted like anything but only for a moment. After that it became perfectly delicious and as soon as I started swimming and splashing I found that all the pain had gone from my arm. And then I saw why. I'd turn into a boy again.
"What do you think it was, then?" asked Eustace. (asking about the lion)
"I think you've seen Aslan," said Edmund.
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| I apologize for Jack Xu...never let him use your computer.
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