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MaryKale84
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Interests: Jesus Christ, who has saved me from the depths of hell, thrift stores, live bands, painting-walls & canvases, photography, helping people, traveling, volleyball, t-shirts!!!!!!!!! Target, feeding the homeless in deep ellum
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  mkdirknash
Member Since:
8/24/2004
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| So I think I am a lot more human these days, as opposed to a couple of years ago. Even though pain sucks, it is nice to join the rest of the human race in some areas of life. I feel that I have so much more to offer other people when I have been beaten around.
2Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. 3You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. 4So don't try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way. James 1:2-4
So I went to my home church's youth retreat this weekend. And this 8th grade kid said the most simple and profound thing that I keep thinking about. He said: "If you don't take risks, then you can't learn from your mistakes."
It is my nature to be cautious, but I have realized that sometimes you just have to let yourself really experience life and allow yourself to make mistakes, because the real growth seems to come when you are week.
Over the past year my heart has developed a softness that is so refreshing. It is so freeing to know that I don't have all of the answers.....
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| It seems that I am an magnent for wrong number phone calls, just got another one that makes two today, and five this week. yay. But I am getting them on my dorm room phone, and cell phone. no this is not Brittany, Katie, Ms. Love, or Andy.
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| So I'm getting back into the swing of things. YAY!!! I'm so incredibly blessed to be able to go to a school like Baylor, and have such wonderful friends. This semester is going to be really good.  My classes are all really cool., and most of them I have friends with. Here they are in no particular order:
Art History, Theatre Appreciation, Astronomy, Servant Leadership, Poverty in Waco, Christian Scriptures, and Public Relations
I'm really excited about Astronomy, because I have always loved space, when I was a kid Apollo 13 was my favorite movie , and I would check out books from the library about planets. lol. I loved the magic school bus goes to the solar system book too. Also the class is in the new science building, and it is absolutely gorgeous, so that will be fun...
The Poverty in Waco class should be really cool too because it is taught by Jimmy Dorell, the pastor of Church Under the Bridge, and the director of Mission Waco
Tonight is our first intramurral volleyball game. I'm decent I guess , but the only thing I can do is pass. Luckily we have Jenny who plays club volleball, she is amazing.
The song that is playing is by the Dutton Band, they play at UBC when David Crowder is on tour. Yep they are amazing, I think I might even like them better than David Crowder.
I love all of you guys. 
Kelcy, so everyone on my hall is asking for a copy of the CD's you made me. lol, hey look ------>  it's the guy with the really really big smile. hahahahah.
And now I leave you with a verse, I'm pretty sure that I have been telling everyone this verse lately, but I love it so much, it reminds me that nothing in the world can separate me from God's love, and that he is so much more powerful than my sin.
Psalm 103:11-12
11As high as heaven is over the earth,
so strong is his love to those who fear him.
12And as far as sunrise is from sunset,
he has separated us from our sins.
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| Molly is watching White Christmas in the other room, and I can hear it, that is one of my favorite movies of all time.
Yesterday was the high school girls New Years Eve party, and it was a
blast. We had an amazing race, and lots of other fun stuff. I took a
lot of pictures, I'll post them later.
I miss Waco so much right now. I literally feel like a part of me
is missing. When the break started I thought it wasn't long
enough, but now I'm wishing it would spead up. Weird right?
It just that you get used to living with your friends, seeing people
everyday that encourage you, support you, and make you laugh. I
don't know, but I never knew that it would be so hard to come home once
you have been away. I mean I still have friends here, but things
change when you don't see them. I thought not having a job over
the break would be awesome, but not so. I miss the friendships
you have at a job, feeling accomplished, and the extra money.
Lessons learned I suppose.
I really can't stand getting close to people and then having to leave
them. That's what sucks about growing up. People move,
change jobs, change schools, get married, and some you will never see
again. It's really hard for me to handle that, connecting with
people and then letting go. I guess it's encouraging to think
about being
reuinited with friends and family in heaven one day.
This is going to sound really cheesy, but a couple of weeks ago, I was
coming home from Wal-Mart, and there was this awesome sunset. I
drove real fast to the top of this hill down from my house, to take a
picture without houses in the way, but my camera wasn't in my purse
where I usually keep it. So I rushed to the house, grabbed my
camera, and drove back to the top of the hill. Even though it
probably took like 2 minutes to do all of that, by the time I got back
to the hill the sunset had shifted in a different place, so I was drove
some more trying to get a good look at it, but within a minute the
whole thing was gone. It just kinda made me realize that I need
to enjoy where I am right now in life, enjoy the beauty of life that
God blesses me with, enjoy the right now. What he gives me today
might not be there tomorrow, and the blessings that God gives me as a
21 year old are going to be different from when I'm in other stages of
life.
So enjoy the people that are around you right now, and make the most of the time you have.
And another thing, I wish I could eliminate jealousy and insecurity
from my life, because those two things absolutely kill friendships, and
potential friendships.
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| So how did everyones Christmas go??? Mine was great, though I'm ready to step away from the family for a little bit now. I got a lot of cool stuff. The highlights were a new camera, and Saved by the Bell on DVD!!! I totally was not expecting the camera, but it's awesome cause my old one kept breaking. Me and my girl cousins had a Saved by the Bell marathon last night, way cool. Ok here are some assorted pictures for your viewing pleasure.
These are from Molly's medieval Christmas concert:
That's Molly and her choir teacher.
Molly with Matt and Noelle
That's my cousin Natalie trying to get her eyebrow up like mine.
**Ok, now for some Christmas Pictures
This is one of my favorite ornaments cause I think it's really funny, I mean the angel part is so big, and then Molly's face is so little.
My stocking
These are Chistmas at Grandma's house.
Cousins and Mom getting ready to pray before we eat.
So my Grandma decided that we would have to draw numbers to see what table we would eat at. lol. I don't know why. But that's my brother and he got to sit at table one.
unwrapping presents
My aunt Meg working the video camera
So Grandma gets a lot of presents from ebay, and sometimes she doesn't take them out of the boxes they are mailed in. That is my cousin Grif with a present wrapped in a moist and meaty dog food box.
Grandma gave Dad a frog rain gauge. So he can meaure the rain of course.
Me and my awesome cousin Grif!!
That's Grandma waving goodbye
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