June 2010
2 posts
“sometimes…we become unable to hear God even if he were shouting at us. and...”
– the tangible kingdom
April 2010
2 posts
“i see, Lord, that you desire mercy more than sacricfice. “for i desire mercy...”
– hosea six
February 2010
1 post
November 2009
1 post
“the Lord challenges us to suffer persecution and to confess Him. he wants those...”
– tertullian
October 2009
3 posts
words are so great. they describe, they bless, they explain, they direct, they help me understand. they communicate thoughts and feelings. they help create new ideas. they get things out of one head and into another, or into as many as can hear them or can read them on a page.
i like that i don’t have to be a good writer or a good talker to use words. i like that there are words in...
September 2009
7 posts
“...whoever receives one of these little children...
passport de blue
at times or multiple times or for long periods of time, i have wanted to be estonian, russian, moscovian, ukrainian, turkish, finnish, hungarian, dutch, danish, scandinavian; african, israeli, egyptian, american, texan, jewish, venezuelan, arab, german, ethiopian, moroccan, south african, sudanese, aussie or kiwi, not necessarily in that order.
i forget a lot. because i have a bad memory, and...
“shana tova v’mevurechet ! שנה טובה ומבורכת”
“the end of all things is at hand; therefore be...
first peter four:seven.
talking to God is probably the best thing that could ever happen to me. reading this early this morning… so we’re supposed to pray without stopping, right? that’s a lot of talking, in up times and down times— so my attitude/ emotions are going to be all over the board.
but when peter’s telling me his thoughts on how we should pray… and he relates it to the time at hand....
June 2009
4 posts
a few dollars in the pocket
i study at tables in the the downstairs of a hotel lobby… when music isn’t in my ears, or when the tv isn’t blaring a soap, fox, or sports, interesting conversations happen. pilots with freebirds lunch bags in hand come almost every night; four-h participants appear sometimes, of course aggie parents and old ags cluster here for every football game and aggieland event. family groups for funerals...
convenience has become dirty word
running the other day, i found i was praying for american believers’ persecution. we have a lot of subliminal something right now, we don’t realize…
high blood pressure is labeled the ‘silent killer’, because, unless you visit a doctor regularly, your consciousness doesn’t really realize it’s there, except for feeling a slight bit ‘off’. as...
May 2009
1 post
.choice
i was driving, today, with a three-year-old i’m babysitting for the weekend in my backseat. in the middle of small-texas-town college station, i saw a kindergarten class of orthodox jewish kids walking down the street, with their tassels and kippas.
i know i’m in college station, far from israel, and not involved in the jewish community here at all. but, i think, i had a moment where...
April 2009
5 posts
i might get dreads again.
i finished a race on the streets of a jerusalem, once. i crossed the finish line with a broken leg. i never got the certificate in the mail. someday soon, i will finish a race on jerusalem streets again. this time, though, it’s gonna be on streets of gold.
my current state of life
strangely, I’m still perceived as a hippie (the girls in my class don’t know how else to classify someone that’s ‘different’ except that…’she must be a hippie or lesbian from austin’) haha, it must be because of my scarves I wear, and the bike I ride everywhere. but don’t doubt, I’m not lesbian. I don’t know where they pulled that...
July 2008
2 posts
maybe i’ll be a doctor. someday.
June 2008
2 posts
April 2008
3 posts
March 2008
3 posts
check this out...
In the past three years, I have lived in three different countries, and in each of them I have lived with a permanent mindset. I graduated high-school in Russia, where my parents worked for twelve years, knowing I was headed for the States to attend A&M. But I had no idea what to expect, because life in Russia was the only life I had really understood up until then. I found myself stepping...
February 2008
8 posts
God, protect our soldiers. open the blind’s eyes. protect their hearts. shield their bodies. i know they don’t all follow you…but don’t forget your promises to your people. oni al habirkai… show your strength in your mercy, Elohiym.
so these lepers, in 2 kings 7…they had nothing to lose. so they went ahead and did it. what the heck. and God used them. if i would just lay it all down… then i could be the same. i’d have nothing to lose. and i would always be ready to use. always ready. always ready. so…God, take it all from me? is that what i’m supposed to get from this? take it all from me,...
just an excerpt from a note i wrote about thailand… i’m short on words lately, so that’s why this is not so long. eh hem: hey!! it went really really good! i really felt like i really filled a need. i was with 13 highschoolers while their parents were in conference. they kids ranged from 10 years old to 17. so it was quite a mix. but it was good…most of them were around 14....
January 2008
3 posts
it’s great to love life. i guess it’s also good that we have ups and downs…. though i hate being on the downer. i also hate caffeine. it puts you way high…till afternoon and then you drop like a bomb.
December 2007
4 posts
“they defiled themselves by their actions and prostittued themselves by their deeds. psalm 106:39” i am born of prostitution, by a prostitute. i prostitute myself. i am a prostitute. and yet God loves me, uses me. Jesus overwrites me, loves me, marries me. overwrite me, over be me, Jesus, for Your glory. like Hosea did Gomer. like God did Israel. and then, if You want, use me beyond, like you...
and so it goes...
shalom :) yes, i’m still here. i just can’t leave…i love it. it’s been a huge semester- God has brought me through a lot of desert spiritually and back again to flowering green. i started learning hebrew, and it’s been tons of fun seeing the language whose sound intoxicated me transform into words with meaning. i love being able to communicate with people in three different ways, now. even...