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Name: Lindsey
Birthday: 12/12/1986
Gender: Female
Interests: Spending time growing closer to God, reading-especially historical novels and biographies, spending time with my friends, watching movies-especially Cinderella Story, the Patriot, Emperor's Club, shopping-espcially Weathervane, politics-helping with campaigns, going to concerts in DTP and Holland, watching hockey games~GO RED WINGS~...and lots of other things!!!
Expertise: Mashed potato taste testing, Chinese jump roping, knitting (well, I'm learning), gangsta dancing
Occupation: Student
Industry: Other
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Member Since:
9/9/2005
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| "The law code started out as an excellent piece of work. What happened, though, was that sin found a way to pervert the command into a temptation, making a piece of "forbidden fruit" out of it. The law code, instead of being used to guide me, was used to seduce me.
But I need something more! For if I know the law but still can't keep it, and if the power of sin within me keeps sabotaging my best intentions, I obviously need help! I realize that I don't have what it takes. I can will it, but I can't do it. I decide to do good, but I don't really do it; i decide not to do bad, but then I do it anyway. My decisions, such as they are, don't result in actions. Something has gone wrong deep within me and gets the better of me everytime.
It happens so regularly that it's predictable.
The answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does. He acted to set things right in this life of contradictions where I want to serve God with all my heart and mind, but am pulled by the influence of sin to do something totally different." Romans 7....
I came across this verse today and it could not have come at a more opportune time. Why can I never seem to do what I want to do and always do the thing I do not wish to do? "It happens so regularly that it's predictable." These verses go perfectly with a song by Steve Fee 'Conflicted' that has been on my heart for the last week or so: "I'm conflicted by what I want and what I need. I predicted a different kind of me. I'm convicted of the crimes I need to pay. I'm addicted to the guilty dirty stains." I predicted a different kind of me. I'm turning into someone I despise. Or maybe it's the way some people see me. I feel like I'm allowing my failures to define me and drag me down into a kind of despair. I feel like I'm under water, desperately trying to swim to the surface, but someone has grabbed my head and is holding me under water. I'm craving a breath of fresh air, but I'm madly pawing and thrashing at nothing, getting nowhere. And all I want is to breathe. I think I've finally found the answer tonight that I've been seeking. Furious Rest. By refusing to slow down and bring things to a halt we are telling God that He is not enough for us. Furious rest is not about doing nothing. it's about doing everything we do with the quiet confidence that our lives, families, relationships, and dreams are in his hands. It's about declaring this moment to be "Sabbath"- the place where I pry my fingers off the circumstances and people I am trying so desperately to control, the place I discover that life really does work better in His hands instead of mine.
Quiet confidence. I like that. That's who I am. I'm not loud, overtly opinionated. But I do know who I am. In Christ, I am His, and that is all that matters- failures, mistakes, insecurities disappear. Quiet confidence.
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| Everything is different. I can't explain it. The day is brighter here with You.
I AM the center of everything
I AM running the show
I AM the same everyday, forever
I AM the owner of everything
I AM the Lord
I Am the creator and sustainer of life
I AM the Savior
I AM more than enough
I AM inexhaustible and immeasurable
I AM God
I am not the center of everything
I am not in control
I am not the solution
I am not all-powerful
I am not calling the shots
I am not the owner of anything
I am not the Lord.
I AM. This is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation. ~Exodus 3:15
I thank God I am not, but HE IS
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| Instructions: bold everything that is true about you.
01. I have a cell phone. 02. I am addicted to diet coke. 03. I'm the youngest child. 05. I like getting lap dances. 06. I like hair better unwashed. 07. I like techno rock. 08. i share secrets with only one or two people. 09. I can't live without lipgloss. 10. I can't live without music. 11. I want to be famous. 12. I spend money i don't have. 13. I'll be a kid forever. 14. I've seen the Backstreet Boys 2 times. 15. I get annoyed easily. 16.I eventually want kids. 17. I wish I had more friends. 18. I have more than a couple horrible memories. 19. I watch Pay-Per-View movies late at night. 20. I am a person. 21. My first kiss was in middle school. 22. I want to go to art school. 23. I love taking pictures. 24. I enjoy girls who are fake. 25. I can be mean when I want to. 26. My dreams are bizzare. 27. I paint boys' nails. 28. I have way too many purses. 29. I've seen Fight Club at least 478614235 times. 30. I dress how I feel when i wake up. 31. I like being visited. 32. Sometimes I cry for almost no reason. 33. I hate when people are late. 34. I procrastinate. 35. I love winter. 36. I have too many clothes for my closet/dresser. 37. I hate to sleep. 38. I think I am smart. 39. I'm afraid of dying. 40. I hate drama. 41. I am unconventionally sexy. 42. I love my hair. 43. I like to scream only sometimes. 44. I love the beach. 45. I had the chicken pox. 46. I'm excited for the future. 47. I wish i could take control of my emotions. 48. I can't wait till New Year's. 49. I am wearing a fake gold ring. 50. I love my friends. 51. Christmas is my favorite holiday. 52. I can be very insecure sometimes. 53. I have been to one or more lifechanging concert(s). 54. I hate what racist people believe. 55. I hate computers. 56. I love guys that play the guitar. 57. I state the obvious. 58. I wish I was at summer camp. 59. I love to dance. 60. I love to sing, even if i can't. 61. I hate cleaning my room. 62. I tend to get jealous very easily. 63. I love cute underwear. 64. I am thirsty. 65. I cry when I see animals/people getting hurt/abused. 66. I want to go to Greece. 67. I don't like to study for tests. 68. I believe in my God. 69. I hate food. 70. I have a horrible sense of direction. 71. I love high school. 72. I broke my leg once or twice. 73. I'm tired. 74. I love kisses on my forehead and neck. 75. I like the color PINK. 76. I love to sew. 77. I have blue eyes. 78. I have a crush. 79. I would love to travel the whole world. 80. I become stressed easily. 81. I wish on stars. 82. I like comfy sweatpants 84. I love dancing in the rain. 85. I love my family. 86. I wish I was cooler. 87. I don't like myself. 88. I always wanted to learn to play the acoustic guitar. 89. I hate the feeling of failure. 90. i'm a dork, and i love it. 91. I would love to have my own fashion line. 92. I can be quite selfish. 93. I still act like a little kid. 94. Above all, I wish you liked me. 95. I love pictures. 96. I wish I was more motivated when it comes to school. 97. I love getting stuff in the mail. 98. I have problems letting go of people. 99. I hate the feeling of being alone.
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| They came first for the Communists
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist
Then they came for the Catholics
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant
Then they came for me
and by that time there was no one left to speak up.
~Martin Niemoeller
On this day Hitler declared the extermination of the Jews as the Final Solution. This has always been a period in history that has deeply touched me. I have had people ask me "why are you so fascinated with this? Why do you care so much? Is it because you're Jewish?" I do not know if I am Jewish. My mom was adopted and it is believed that her biological father is Jewish. I often wonder if the atrocities that occurred during the Holocaust happened to my own family, my own people. Even so, I may not be Jewish, but as a member of the human race, these horrible acts did indeed happen to my own people. And that is why I care so much.
I believe silence is the greatest sin of all. One of my favorite quotes is "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for enough good men to say nothing." For this reason, and as a matter of respect of
human life and dignity, it is imperative that the remembrance, history,
and lessons of the Holocaust be passed to a new generation. Deuteronomy
4:9 states: "Only take heed, and keep your soul diligently, lest you
forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from
your heart all the days of your life; make them known to your children
and your children's children." The Holocaust did happen. It is a dark period in history where few people had the courage to stand up and stop the genocide of an entire people based on their religion and ethnicity. I refuse to remain silent. I will not forget the lives brutally taken, the families cruelly ripped apart. I encourage you also not to forget. Do not remain indifferent to cruelty. If you do not speak up, who will?
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| I want to start it over
I want to start again
I want a new beginning
One without an end
I feel it inside
Calling out to me
It's a voice that whispers my name
It's a kiss without any shame
Something Beautiful
Like a song that stirs in my head
Singing love will take us where
Something's Beautiful
I've heard it in the silence
Seen it on a face
I've felt it in a long hour
Like a sweet embrace
I know this is true
It's calling out to me
It's the child on her wedding day
It's the daddy that gives her away
Something Beautiful
When we laugh so hard we cry
Or love between you and I
Something Beautiful
After my last entry, I feel really bad for posting it. Life is something to be cherished, bad days and all. But life is Something Beautiful! I found a couple of pictures for my apartment yesterday when I went shopping with Vanessa that completely remind me of how Beautiful life can be. They're just pictures at a beach in black and white, but I don't know why, they're just so peaceful and just make me think that God holds all things in his hand. He created beauty. The lyrics to the song above is something that I've had in my head for a while. God's love is perfect, it creates beauty. It's like one of my favorite quotes says, "Beauty speaks. Beauty invites. Beauty nourishes. Beauty comforts. Beauty INSPIRES. Beauty is transcendent. Beauty draws us to God." It's all the little things that make life worth living. And it is God who made beauty such an enjoyable thing. So a few weeks ago I made a list of all the things that I love. (You all know how I love lists) Now I just look at it and realize that there is so much to appreciate, so much to enjoy. Like the mist rising from a lake in the early morning when the sun is just coming up ~ Something Beautiful. Like the first snowfall in December when the trees are covered with a thin layer of white and the ground is perfect and untouched~ Something Beautiful. Spending time in the summer up at the cottage, jumping in puddles during a downfall, watching the stars, sunsets in all it's brilliant colors, walking through the woods during a fall evening when all the leaves have changed color, the taste of sparkling grape juice that makes your mouth feel alive, the smell of dryer sheets, bonfires~ Something Beautiful.
Me and Vanessa also talked about the song Stand in the Rain. We both agree that it touches something in everyone. I love the rain and being outside in it. Sometimes I think God sees us like we are in the rain. Everything washes away and we are left standing there as we are. Hair dripping, no makeup...it's like I'm saying, "This is me. Just me." No "face" to hide behind. I think we all long for someone to see us exactly how we are. That is why the rain appeals to me so much and the song Stand in the Rain. This is me, this is where I feel real.
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