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Name: kali
Birthday: 6/3/1988
Gender: Female
Interests: Jesus Christ! following God's call for my life! love and all its catasprophies! making things better for people I love and hate! writing! breathing! speaking! singing! playing guitar! building things! drawing things! making things! doing things! being alive! architecture! painting! saying what's on my mind! saying what i mean! saying what i shouldn't! being in love! loving my family! photography! research! thinking! exploring! hiking! scuba diving! swimming! sailing! flying! learning! reading! acting! BEING!
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| the national anthem at mule day went really well. i was nervous--as always--but my nerves were eased because i was hidden inside the announcer's box; i sing better when no one can see me.
apparently i did well, because a woman wrote down my name, looked me up in the phone book, and called me and asked me to sing the anthem at the ladies' fast pitch softball games on monday. fun stuff.
if any of you want to show up, it'll be monday evening in riverside at 6:00. hope to see you there.
i got in a wreck on tuesday. everyone's fine, but it was scary. minimal damage, praise the Lord, to all 3 cars involved. at least we were in high spirits: we had just finished 2 solid hours of ice skating. heck yes. ice skating and accident, immediately followed by a pseudo-bonfire, a terrifying trip around the world to food lion, and spooning in a living room tent....good stuff.
i may miss high school, after all. | | |
| well....i'm back.
my last entry was from Christmas, almost exactly 3 months ago. i've been busy, but not too terribly busy, so i think i actually forgot that i ever had a xanga and neglected it accordingly.
some good things that have happened to me lately:
---i've lost weight. i'm a total Hot Girl now. just whistle next time you see me.
---i was awarded the one-and-only full-tuition scholarship to Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C. I start there in August, hopefully to major in musical theatre. wish me broken legs.
---i performed in a singer/songwriter's night a few weeks ago and The Man In Charge of The Sound told me that I had a beautiful voice, that I should be in the studio. he then gave me 2 free hours of recording time in his son's studio.
---i've reconnected with best friends from my past, the three most prominent of which being Donnie McCandless, Andy Burdett, and Josh Potts.
---i got a job. then i got another job. i now work at equine medical assoc. and the henpeck market for $6.75 and $7.50 collectively. hex yes.
---i've been invited to sing the national anthem at the mule day parade/concert/weekend extravaganza this sunday. of course, none of my friends can come because of church, but whateva. i was also invited to sing the national anthem at the TSSAA championship games, as well as at various ballgames and pep rallies. fun stuff. sore throat.
things are going well with me, and thanks to all for being so patient with me. spring is when my spirits soar, so forgive me for my cocoon all winter and speak to me now that i can hear you.
love, life, to all.
-------kali | | |
| This all happened so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet would be fulfilled: "Look! The virgin will conceive and bear a son, and they will call him Emmanuel," which means "God with us." Matthew 1:22-23
Sac·ra·ment n.
Christianity. A rite believed to be a means of or visible form of grace, especially:
In the Eastern, Roman Catholic, and some other Western Christian churches, any of the traditional seven rites that were instituted by Jesus and recorded in the New Testament and that confer sanctifying grace.
In most other Western Christian churches, the two rites, Baptism and the Eucharist, that were instituted by Jesus to confer sanctifying grace.
A religious rite similar to a Christian sacrament, as in character or meaning.
often Sacrament
The Eucharist.
The consecrated elements of the Eucharist, especially the bread or host.
[Middle English, from Old French sacrement, from Late Latin sacrmentum, from Latin, oath, from sacrre, to consecrate, from sacer, sacr-, sacred. See sacred.]
I feel a little guilty just about this time of year, every year Lord. Not a BIG guilt, like, oh You know, putting You second in my life rather than First at all times (That’s something else entirely different and You’ve got my ear…at LEAST my ear… on that one). No, this is a tiny guilt thing; one of those nagging little itches that I can either scratch and have turn into a full blown rash; or I can deal with it now, the way I do every Christmas season; praying for the salve of Your understanding, the soothing ointment of Your touch on my heart and the healing grace of Your Spirit whispering over my soul. Help me work through it, just as You’ve helped me before; as You’ve done for so many others before me.
You see Adonai, I like this time of the year… uh, make that… love… I LOVE this time of the year. I love the preparation and the anticipation and the festive spirit and watching others ready themselves in such creative ways. I watch and listen as family and friends and… most everyone start to give… even before the advent is finished and the real celebration begun.
God, You know how I love it. I’ve written about it, I’ve sung about it, I’ve decorated and given about it.
And that’s the thing Master. I think, in my deepest thoughts and the secret (not so secret now!) place in my heart that I now hold up to You, I see that I love Christmas Time more… than Easter Time.
What am I telling You that You don’t already know? What does this say to my family and friends and the people who read along? Is it wrong to be amazed in this time of adoration; Your coming to earth in human form; Your willingness to endure a life of servitude starting with the very purest of innocence, as a new born? Is it distasteful to revel in the events surrounding Your coming into the world over those of the season of Your glorious triumph over death?
Easter Time, Yes, I love Easter too, especially after the “Lent Thing”, wow what a relief to be absolved of that penitence and discipline period; and in such incredible miraculous God planning fashion! Oh yeah, Easter Time’s great too… but, is it greatest?
And that’s where You stop me. Humble me, educate and nurture me in the silliness of my questioning. You show me the “Times”; the antics of others who seem more bent on arguing the right to recognize or not to recognize the name of Christ… faces fixed on words of law and civil liberty rather than on compassion for one another. You expose the ugliness of terror aimed at the death or submission of anyone who would disagree with factionalism or some preferred tyrannical culture. You shine a cold light on my own inadequate efforts to serve. And there I would give up, except that at no “Time” have You given up. So… as instructed by You, I watch the “Times” more acutely…
…Your gifts of hope and faith to a world torn by warfare and poverty are revealed to me in the hands of others willing to give of themselves at levels that even a hurricane cannot diminish. And even there You have only begun to awaken me…
The energy of Your joy, Your desire to worship wantonly with anyone willing is flooded out in waves that no church building or institution can hold.
And Your Love… the very thing that began it all, surrounds it all, propels it all, touches and tingles within me. Forgive me Father, I don’t intend to diminish the trials and the torture and the sacrifice Your Son had to experience. They are also a part of these “Times”. But it’s all in the timing.
Christmas Time, Easter Time, all Time is spelled out in a moment and I suddenly realize why I embrace Christmas as MY favorite Time. It’s because Christmas is the birth of all of this and I have not… can not now or at any Time in the future experience the death of it. My resurrection happened the moment Mary’s last pain of labor ended…“Time Out”!
Your arrival was and is the most perfect of sacraments. Sacrament is after all born of sacrifice. All of the other things that happened or will happen beyond that portal, the life walk, the cross, the death and the final victory were and are already ordained to be; Eternal, past the reach of “Time”.
Each year Lord, I love Christmas all over again, because I believe You love it too. I believe that “Christmas Sacrament”, not “Christmas Time” is really what it’s all about. It’s about You First my God; always and forever about You First. But it’s also about us; the “us” that includes me, and all those I share these words with and it’s about those who have no clue what these words mean and it’s even about those who don’t care or possibly don’t know these words exist. You chose to become one of “us” for all of us.
Baby Jesus, Counselor, Prince of Peace, I guess what I’m trying to say is that the thing I adore most about Christmas is the most sacred thing of all that You gave us; that is the opportunity to “be”; to exist together, each for the other’s pleasure, both for the love of one another, in this moment, and forever if I so choose. As I write these words I think of all the lives I’ve encountered over the past year. Have I shared You with them? Have they seen (do they see) You in me? If not, my bad, not Yours Lord. You’ve done Your part. Now it’s my turn to continue; to SHARE with glad tidings what I believe to be the true meaning of the Times and all Times from birth to death to resurrected eternity…
So to all, friends, family, and any who receive this message; I wish and pray you find the Time with me to experience the same blessing in the sacrament of a child’s birth that I do…
Merry Christmas to all, and to You my King, honor and praise! | | |
| so shoot me.
i've been away from xanga for far too long.
myspace has eaten my will to choose,
and ACTs and college applications and calculus exams and Christmas shopping
have compromised my will to live.
today is Christmas
and i hope you are all enjoying your family time,
basking in the love that God has blessed you with.
merry Christmas to all
and to all a good night.
p.s. leave me lots of comments because i'm leaving for mexico until january 3.
i want to feel the love, even if it is delayed and foreign. | | |
| does anybody have an ACT prep book I can borrow until post-December 10-sometime?
thanks in advance.
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