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On my left arm, from shoulder to elbow, I have a tattoo. My tattoo took three hours to complete and a good chunk of my savings at the time. In script, sandwiched between roses at both top and bottom, my arm reads, "For I know the plans I have for you, [declares the L-rd,] plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Though the design is beautiful, over the following...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
G-d: In the Details
This summer has been so very full. So much has changed. I feel more fully me now than I did at the beginning of the summer. I'm closer to my "true name" now. I feel comfortable in my own skin and I feel closer to being an adult. A real adult.
One of the things that has changed this summer is my relationship status. It's impossible to make anyone else understand this but three months ago I didn't...
Friday, June 7, 2013
Vulnerability in Pre-Camp Prep
The theme for this summer with the camp I'm working at is Close Encounters. I'm supposed to think about encounters I've had with Christ and get ready to share them. The time that I've felt G-d's love most clearly was during the six months surrounding my break-up. But to share that story, I feel like it's so complicated. And if you've heard me tell stories, you know that I get long and rambling and...
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Excuses, excuses...
Hello, folks...
Long time no see, eh? For a bit, I was using my journal a lot more and didn't feel the need to use this. Then for a bit I've been avoiding writing. First because I didn't want to confront leaving Europe, leaving my girls, moving on and then because well I'm avoiding delving into my psyche. I'm sure there's a lot going on in there regarding leaving and coming back and no longer being...
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Romans 12: A Revelation
I have never fit in. It's a simple fact of my life. I was never popular and I've embraced the idea that I am weird. In fact, someone told me a few weeks ago that I was normal and I argued with him. The idea of being normal to me is tied up with the idea of fitting into a box and being a cookie cutter...
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Idolatry Today
I've been reading the major prophets for the last two months and one thing I keep coming across is the idea that Israel has forsaken G-d for the idols of the other nations. It would be so easy to glance over those verses, to ignore them.
This is the twenty-first century. We don't have idols anymore.
(source)
Our...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Photo Dump
There are a bunch of pictures clogging up my desktop so what better place to dump them than my blog?
(I took this screenshot of my stats the other day. It amused me how everything was multiples of three.)
("Good morning world" in Gallifreyan. Source got lost in the shuffle. Sorry.)
Screenshot...
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Deep in the Hundred Acre Woods...
I've been fairly stressed out the last day or two thanks to some nagging health problems (minor but irritating) and tonight was a rough bedtime shift. So tonight, I'm going to do some posies.
This is my 100th live post to this blog. (Hence the title)
Belgium is famous for French fries and there's a shop located between my family's apartment and mine that sells them for a decent price.
Caffeine...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Morning Post
I am not sure why they let me in the kitchen sometimes. And by they I mean the synapses in my brain that fire and say "This is a good idea" or "This is a bad idea".
This morning, before my alarms went off, housekeeping knocked and because I was still asleep, it took me a few moments to respond and alert them to my presence. No I do not need you to clean. Of course, I couldn't go back to sleep so...
Monday, March 18, 2013
Bittersweet Uncertainty
On the
one hand, I’m excited to go back home. I’m just so tired. I love my girls and
Kathrin is amazing. I could not ask for a better host mom. (Daniel’s been gone
a lot this month and he works a looooot so though I don’t have a problem with
him, I don’t know him half as well as I know Kathrin or the...
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Belgium: The First 36 Hours
If anyone tells you traveling is easy, I would like you to point them to this post. Even though it is not the hell of all experiences, it was a typical excursion I think and that just makes it clear that getting from Point A to Point B does not always go smoothly.
Because my host dad is in Antwerp...
Thursday, March 14, 2013
My Life Verse: Context and Impact
This
is what the Lord says: “When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place. For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you,
plans...
Saturday, February 23, 2013
"And I Thought I Grew Up Then"
A friend called me broken the other day.
They didn't mean to but the implication was there, just one short skip from words said to words meant.
Broken.
And you know what? That used to be true. But, like I mentioned back here, I taped myself together. These days, the tape has been replaced with glue. I'm not so much broken anymore.
But since this friend hasn't seen me in person in nearly 300 days...
Friday, February 22, 2013
The first of many, perhaps
I used to have some, shall we say, bad habits? (That's not to say that I have no bad habits anymore. I could do an entire post about my bad habits. In fact, one of these days, I might. Read: next week. That's just to say that this particular bad habit-which again, I'll get into another time-is in my past.)
And one of the things that helped me overcome them before I finally beat this particular habit...
Friday, February 15, 2013
The Sweater Metaphor
There's this sweater I have that I love. Or I used to love it. Lately, it seems stretched out, baggy. It's not as sleek as it used to be. I don't feel as attractive in it as I used to.
Once upon a time, I felt confident enough in this sweater that I wore it the night I knew I was getting engaged....
Sunday, February 10, 2013
One Word: Seek
I decided against a traditional resolution this year. I have monthly goals and a word that encompasses my hopes for the year. My word is Seek. I'm seeking G-d. Daily. I'm seeking His Will for my life. I'm seeking my path, my next job. I'm praying for my romantic life and that I might see the next step....
Friday, January 25, 2013
Day Five: Travel
Picture from Somewhere You've Gone
(London, 2009)
(Santa Cruz, February 2012)
(Osnabrueck, 201...
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