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Name: Lindsay
Gender: Female
Interests: COFFEE, reading, photography, blue, hoodies, awesome music, chocolate, sunsets, sunrises, socializing
Expertise: hmmm....coffee drinking?
Occupation: Student
Industry: Graphic Design/Photography
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Member Since:
12/27/2005
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| Well I havent written in here for a while and while I would like to say that I am back because I have been itching to write a new blog, that would be not too close to the truth. I am avoiding homework. Yah, I'm taking a summer class...English. It's SO EASY!!! Anyway, I am behind in my assignments for no good reason and need to catch up on them.
Anyway...life. It's good. I would have to say that the highlight right now is going out to Covenant Cedars to volunteer a couple days a week. It is so awesome...I love it out there and miss it and the people so much! I get to see my brothers and Amy and Haley and lots of others good folks. I get to see Jr. High and high school kids make fools of themselves as their hormones rage on. Its a great time.
However, my favorite part is by far helping Bill with his work. The poor guy just needs me. :) He gets too stressed out cause he has alot of work for one person to get done. And seeing as how I love him, I don't like to see him like that. so I just like to help him be less stressed. But I just like helping him in general.
Anyway that is whats going on in the hood. :)
Later yo.
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| So, this is how things are. I am feeling good and at the same time having some unrest about stuff today. I feel good because I rode my bike this morning and mowed our lawn with a push mower this morning and read my Bible quite a bit too. It was a great half a day. God is amazing, and I'm not just saying that in a I-have-no-brain, cliche phrase kinda way. I know that it is true. I wish everyone knew.
Which brings me to the feelings of unrest. Or maybe its just a prayer request I will send out to the vast void that is xanga. I feel a huge burden for young girls today. But not all of them in general...kinda...but also the girls that I know. Like girls I work with and girls at my church. They are just struggling against their flesh. Some of them aren't not saved, but some know the truth, have grown up in it, and are just struggling to choose what is pleasing to the Lord. AND I UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY ARE STRUGGLING WITH!!! I make the wrong decisions too, many times. But I see them, and I just want to shout in their faces and cry telling them what I see and how I know that if they chose God's way, they would be so content and happy at at peace with Him. And then, I have had someone tell me that I should have a Bible study with these girls.
Its like when your playing a ball game, and you've been on the bench the whole game. You are thrilled to be on the team and you are cheering them on as hard as you can and you are just happy to be there and be supportive and see the great game they're playing. Then the coach tells you to warm up...he is going to have you pitch. And you're thinking, "But they are doing such a great job without me! I'm just gonna screw it up! What if I haven't practiced enough? There are other people in this dugout that would do better, Coach!"
That's is how I feel, God. I just don't know what to think. I am your servant, but it scares me. What if these girls who think I'm so cool start to hate me when they hear your truth. I know they all have a mean side. What if I don't say things right. What if I'm not close enough to you to lead something like this. What if I start to say something that is not of you. What if I'm not humble enough. I know I am doubting you and because I know that I'm even more ashamed and afraid.
I guess I'll just pray more.
Lindsay
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| I recently was assigned to write a paper for summer English class. The topic was three people that influenced you the most. I turned in what was most likely not what was expected but was heaviest on my heart and nearest to the truth. Here it is...
Three Greatest Influences
They are three entities but one being, and to this day I don’t completely comprehend it, but that must His will for now. I have to write of this because it is what I know to be truth. I don’t believe it because I was raised up in it but because “he called me unto himself by means of His marvelous glory and excellence.” (2 Peter 1:3) And so, I am humbly and imperfectly seeking to live a life that is pleasing to God.
I am only beginning to discover the vast qualities and characteristics of God the Father. He formed the earth and the universe with his hands in the beginning chapters of Genesis and then made himself known as the Father of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the following chapters. He is so pure and holy that He was continuously bringing judgment on the Israelites throughout Numbers and Deuteronomy because he was living among them and He had to purge the evil from among the Israelites. (Deut. 21:21) The Almighty God spoke to Job in a whirlwind challenging his small view of the Great I AM.
“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Tell me, if you know so much.
Who determined its dimensions
and stretched out the surveying line?
What supports its foundations
and who laid its cornerstone
as the morning stars sang together
and all the angels shouted for joy?” (Job 38:4-7)
This scripture leaves me breathless.
But it is because of God’s characteristic of love and grace and mercy that Jesus Christ has come into my life. Jesus Christ of Nazareth who lived on this earth as a perfect human being so that He might be a perfect sacrifice for all the sins of the world. (John 3:16-17) For my sins, He died but was also resurrected on the third day. He had to do this in order for us to be seen as perfect before God. God cannot be in the presence of imperfection and the Bible says, “No one is righteous—not even one.” (Romans 3:10) So Christ’s perfect blood was shed to cover our sins so that we could one day be present with God in heaven.
And it is because we are not yet in heaven and must live a life pleasing to God while here on earth that the Holy Spirit was given to us. When we believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, we are no longer slaves to sin. The Holy Spirit then controls us.
“Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about thinks that please the Spirit. O letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace. For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God’s laws, and it never will. That’s why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God.” (Romans 8:5-8)
These three influences are and, I hope, always will be the greatest influences in my life.
This is who I am by the grace of God and it is what I know to be truth. I just wanted to share it with you.
Lindsay
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| So I'm sitting outside at barista's ( a coffee shop that i work at) (it's the BEST) and its a beautiful day and I had a busy productive day and it was really good.
And now I am sitting here being a nerd and looking at cookbooks with my good friend Bill ( who is actually MORE than a friend) and we are google-ing cooking terms. We are weird. And later we might get around to playing our favorite board game...SCRABBLE!!! It can only be an amazing night. :)
So thats what im doing and I am happy ( but I'm really tired) But Happy!
Goodbye,
Lindsay
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| So today was a wonderful day...
i finished my last college class of the semester
my brother installed wireless internet to our house so i am writing this from the comfort of my own home
my mom bought cheez-its
i got to sleep in til 7 am
I got to see Bill
So thats basically it...I had a good day.
Lindsay | | |
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