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Name: Jessica
Birthday: 12/29/1983
Gender: Female
Interests: graduation
Expertise: missing the bus, tardiness, missing the bus due to tardiness
Occupation: Student
Industry: Nonprofit
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AIM:  CuteSooner
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| Well, me made it back safely alright.
I'm really just needing this week to process everything. While going on this mission trip was a joyful and beautiful experience, it was also one of the most challenging weeks I have experienced. I love simple beauty and peaceful moments; in Honduras, that's easy to find. So I feel all warm and fuzzy about all that good stuff. However, our team also faced much illness and a crisis (the roof we were building on collapsed with some of us on top of it) which ultimately bred some really stressful and frustrating moments. Thanks be to God, we all walked away relatively fine. It could have been so very much worse.
I know God was there protecting us and I know He is working and moving in that community.. I also know I'm glad I went. I just don't know what it all means yet.
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| Hey Xangan Community! I feel like I'm long over-due for an update, but considering I'm borderline sick and am swimming in the sludge of midterms, I'll have to keep this brief. (I need to go get some rest!) In general, things have been going really great. I've had a lovely couple of weeks of special times with friends who visited, being involved with a new culture and new acquaintances (yay for Colombian night & Colombians! so fun!), and I've been a pretty darn okay student. yeah! The worst part of life right now is my profound loathing of my physics class. It's to the point where I keep tally marks of my (internalized) snide remarks and negative feelings just so I can keep my attitude in check. (notice: most of this stuff never gets said outloud (hence, it is "internalized), but still...). I pray for God's help a LOT. I guess it's just one of those things you gotta get though... but suffice it to say, I really need Spring Break right now, and then I really need to graduate. Speaking of which, I'm graduating in exactly two months. Wahoo! (Applying for graduation felt SO cool.) I've got to order the cap and gown this week. Yes.... And finally, the best part: Honduras. We are leaving for our mission to Honduras this Friday. oh my word, yes! I've been so wanting this event to happen. It's been amazing how much support I've gotten from friends, and get this... Family! ...in order for me to pay to go. I feel like I've really been prepared for something, and even if this whole experience has just been about me learning to trust in God to provide and about providing a new route for me to share the importance of my church and faith involvement with my family members, then that's enough. God's already blessed me so much in these ways; I can only wonder what will happen while interacting with His beautiful Honduran community. Please keep us in your prayers so that we may travel safe and further God's kingdom. Team motto: What is our purpose? To share Christ's love.
...just a good life motto in general. peace and love
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| Oh my word! Could I be any more out of it? Yesterday, I had a lunch meeting scheduled at 12:30 to attend after my physics class got over. Sounds great. See you there. Meanwhile, I have physics II every MWF. This class starts at 12:30. Yup okay. Got it. The problem: those two bits of information were not integrated until I rolled up to my meeting place and saw a sticky note on the door which read, "We waited until 12:43 but then had to go on without you." Therefore, for a whole week... a whole week it didn't actually click in that 12:30 Monday lunch, no problem, is the same time as 12:30 class. Today, much the similar occured. Despondent from missing lunch opportunity at tasty Thai place on Monday, I followed up with a friend (we had talked last week about meeting for a meal) and we set up a time and place for Tuesday. I remembered telling him the week before I couldn't meet until 12:30, but for some reason last night, that statement no longer made any sense to me at all. Therefore, I suggested we schedule our lunch time for 11:30... to beat the rush. Lo and behold, guess what: I had class today at 11:30! It was my physics II discussion section (meets just once a week). We actually learn stuff in there! And in complete brain-dead fashion, I had no realization of the conflict of scheduling. Until about five minutes ago. On the one hand, it sort of balances out: missed lunch for class, then missed class for lunch. Yet, I feel so blonde and spacey.
This definitely confirms for me that I should never smoke pot. (I'm out of it enough as it is.) But hey, on the bright side, with my given "with-it" mental status, at least I get to take 2 tests this week.  eek! | | |
| I just was accused of being conservative!
I say "accused" like it's a bad thing simply for the fact that that is not how I understand myself to be at all. How's that addage go again? "If you are young and are a conservative, then you have no heart. If you are old and a liberal, then you have no brain." I don't know entirely what I think about that saying, but there could be some truth to it.
Alls I know is, in Oklahoma, I am one of the more open and liberal people I know. But by normal (outside of the Bible belt) standards, I'd say I'm a pretty hardcore moderate with leftward leanings.
So, I guess it's not a huge deal, but it got me thinking: why would someone think that about me? And which areas of my life where that's true. It's true - I don't like a lot of swearing, drinking or sleeping around. (All in moderation, I say! well...mostly.) But are those the things that even define conservativsm and liberalism?
Here's the bottomline / real world commentary for me:
One thing I don't like is that the world outside christiandom thinks all Christians must be socially conservative.... like being conservative is a bad thing.
The other thing I don't like is that inside the Christian realm, many participants think all Christians must be socially conservative as well... like being liberal is a bad thing.
Just Be.
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