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Name: Laura
Location: Texas, United States
Birthday: 4/18/1986
Gender: Female
Interests: I'm a child of the King and He is EVERYTHING. Let's see...what else? I like baseball, Aggies, movies, YOU, my dog, the BeAcH, a boy, queen-sized beds, living in TEXAS, FLiC, my family, sweaters, laughing, best friends...
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AIM:  lars41886
Member Since:
6/26/2005
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| It's been over a semester since i last wrote in xanga. that's kinda crazy. well, last semester was easy (even though i said it would be hard in my last entry). but this semester...oh man. i've never experienced pain like i am this semester. haha. but seriously...biochem with the worst lecturer of all time, anatomy with the worst lab of all time, and invertebrate zoology with...well...the worst EVERYTHING of all time. add to that a writing intensive biology seminar and a ridiculously LONG education class..and yep, i go to school from 8-5 almost every day. that's a joy. anyways, i can't complain. the Lord is good. He blessed me with an awesome service in church today and continues to help me with my studying (you think i'm lying? try it...pray over the material you need to know and give it over to him...He'll TOTALLY take your diligence and bless it immensely). spring break...one more week...i think i can make it...we'll see.
-l
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| this is a really random entry...
School has been going for 2 weeks. and I'm for sure going to have a tough year. but what can you say? i guess that's how it works. i have class from 9-5 almost every day with very few breaks. i know i sound like a cry baby, but it's ridiculous. i don't know what i'm going to do when i start work. hopefully i'll enjoy it more than sitting in botany class. I love how my education classes are always my favorite of all of them. not only are they easy, they're super practical for my career.
today i was hammering a nail in a piece of wood for a decoration for our entry way and the wood just snapped in half. so justin glued it back together. we'll see.
gumby's might be the creepiest pizza place ever. like seriously, ever. but the pizza was cheap and great. so i guess it's a pay-off.
i'm getting involved in my church this year because i don't have flic. not that i'm doing it in place of flic, just that i actually have time to breath. i'm working in the nursery and i'm so excited to get to play with babies. there's just something about being a girl (or woman, whatev) that really makes us (or at least me) crave holding little babies. that sounds so creepy. i promise i'm not creepy. but i'm so excited. justin's working in the elementary area of the kids. he's excited too. i really love my church a lot so i'm so glad that i'm going to be blessed by serving there. it's such a necessity to be plugged into the body.
speaking of those sorts of matters, the Lord's really been doing a lot in me lately. i credit it mostly to a talk with justin the other night. he just really know's how to talk to me and God has given him so much wisdom. he's a great spiritual leader and i can't wait to be fully submissive to him in a family relationship. it's so cool how God reassures me about him. not reassures me, but continues to amaze me with what an amazing man i've been blessed with. seriously. i wish i'd known him my whole life. i'm just glad he's not going anywhere. anyways, that talk really had me take a harder look at the way i was pursuing God's heart. it has already worked WONDERS.
so my education class is taught by a PhD candidate who is precious. she's probably 27 or 28 and pregnant. but the way cute kind of pregnant. she was a teacher and her husband is a history teacher and baseball coach (sound familiar??). she's awesome. she has a real heart for inner-city students and has taught for a couple years in england with her husband. i'm pretty sure i want to do that some day.
So for the past 3 weeks, i've been without a car. i just got it back on friday. and i sure missed it. i had a rental car, but there's nothing like your own car. and i realized what a blessing it is to have a car because for two weeks i didn't have anything (which was miserable). anyways, i'm glad to have my little white focus back. so happy that i cleaned it and vacuumed it today.
the aggies are 2-0. and i get to sit on the second deck. and i get to whoop. whoop. it's nice being old. not long until i'll be graduated and maybe married. woah...slow that one down. let's take advantage of these next two years. future is already coming fast as it is.
that was the most random collections of thoughts ever.
right now i'm watching eli vs. peyton. who will win??? can't wait to find out...haha
-L
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| i'm in my new house! i love it. it's fun to be in a house instead of an apartment. my room is HUGE and so is the rest of my house. AND, we have a teatherball pole in the backyard...so the first thing i bought for my house was, of course, a teatherball. My room is all decorated, cable is all done. Now i just need roommates! they should be coming in soon. and not a minute TOO soon because it's not that fun to be in a house you dreamed about with friends...alone... And the house makes weird noises and i'm not settled yet or comfy with the house quite yet. so i need people. but anyways...
I just got back from florida. my favorite place in the WHOLE world is St. George Island. it's the most relaxing place ever. i want to take my children there when i get older and actually have money of my own. but now i'm back in texas which is good because i missed my beau. should i call him that? i kinda like it. it's like old-fashioned or something. anyways. short for now. i'm going to go enjoy my beautiful room. adios.
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| I feel like summer's almost over. But, really, i have almost two months left. but this phase of my summer is almost up.
My kids take the TAKS a week from today so my job is almost over. I'm so worried for them. I have a friend who looks down on me partly because I don't work during the school year and partly because he thinks my job is not important. But hello?!?! What can be more important than 45 kids who won't have a future if I don't help them? I'll tell you something, I've never felt more useful in my whole life. I've never felt more USED by the Lord. I know this is what I want my life to be about because I can't get enough of it. I love my kids and I love what I'm teaching. Two weeks ago one of my girls sat and talked with me for an hour because she had just found out she was pregnant. She came to ME for advice and encouragement. So me of all people sat there with this 17 year old sweetheart and encouraged her. I told her what the Lord needed her to hear and the next day she came in actually EXCITED about her pregnancy. Now, obviously, it wasn't any of my doing but you have no idea how exciting it is to get to see the Lord work through you. I mean, he used me and my job (which in itself is a God send) to help a girl choose to keep her child. WOW. I mean, wow. What an impact! The Lord has shown me so much about selflessness by watching these kids and giving to these kids. I'm so excited for the rest of my life, it's unbelievable. God is just so good! Unless you know Him, you probably think i'm crazy. But He is indescribable. i have no words for how good He is to me in my life and how He works ALLLLL things for His good. I can't even begin to tell you my love for Him. Wow.
I'm done with my class already so it's only a week until I go away from College Station for a while. Which kinda stinks. Actually, I'm pretty sad. Don't get me wrong, I love my family and I love my grandparents and I love Saint George Island. But none of that feels right without my justin. I'm such a super cheese ball, I know. I'll spare you the rest...so you don't gag at my cheesiness.
I move into my house on August 1st!!! Get excited!!!!
Alright, I love you.
-l
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| What is real satisfaction? I know I can find it in the Lord. But do I let myself? I've been reading the old testament and numbers and leviticus are reminding me that I have it so good. I don't have to follow all of these rules and regulations to be close to my God because He allowed his Son to die for me. I've been thinking a lot about Moses too. He had a really good life before Israel took ahold of him. He had a wife and children and a job and a home. Then God sent him to Egypt where he then spent the next 40 years wandering around in the desert with a TON of sinners that God punished repeatedly by not allowing them to go into the promised land. Then, God got so mad at the Israelites (not even moses at all) and forbade Moses from going into the promised land. Ever. Moses threw away his life for these people and in the end, they were the only reason why he had to die in the desert without seeing the land of milk and honey. How junk is that? But he was SATISFIED in the Lord. He was content with all that was around him and was joyous because of his God. I haven't had to wander the desert with a bunch of unappreciative jerks. I haven't been taken away from my family. And yet I'm allowing the world to get in the way of my satisfaction. Not anymore. It's my prayer to be truly satisfied. To look at my relationship with my Lord and be content and joyous about where I am. It's not that I'm greedy or I feel like my life isn't good, because my life is beautiful. But as anyone can tell you, this world doesn't satisfy. Only my Savior. I don't know where you are in your life....you may be thinking that there's nothing to look forward to when you wake up. You may think your future looks like years and years of junk. But you know something? I know someone who can turn that all around. I know someone who can make your life beautiful and make you sigh a breath of satisfaction when you think about it. He's Jesus...
Anyways...I'm happy. I'm satisfied. And even though i've been a Christian for years and years, the world still tries to steal my attention. Copeland is an amazing band that has a song about this. Just reminding the Lord (and yourself) that He has your attention. And that's beautiful. It goes like this:
Quiet now, your voice seems miles away
It’s somehow I here your song resound
A little bit softer each day
And from my tired heart, a little bit farther away
I’ll sing along
The whole day through
Just do your best to hear me
It’s all you can do
You have my attention
Like you’ve had all the while
Since that first day when you made my heart smile
With loving eyes and tired sighs that flow
You have my attention
Like you shout through an empty sanctuary
Speak but a whisper
I’ll hear a summer
I’ll sing along, the whole day through
Just do your best to hear me
It’s all you can do
I’ll sing along, the whole night through
While you sleep safely
I’ll be thinking about you
You have my attention
I love you. That's all i've got for now. | | |
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