I'm just this girl.
Beauty: How beautiful I move
and make gestures. How
beautiful that sometimes I believe in them.
-- Michael McClure
Firstly, I love my Lord God. He saved me from myself and is teaching me every day what true love and beauty are. I live my life with honesty and simple wonder and am often saddened by this world. My little girls are my joy and some of the biggest tools God uses to shape me into something better. I have a great thirst for learning and crave time to be by myself with a good book and a cup of tea. I am often cold. I used to play D&D in school and sorely miss it. I love multicolored hair of every hue, creative outfits, romantic poetry, singing loudly, dancing in the kitchen, raving about food, taking pictures, warm showers, scented candles, and getting into my bed at night. I drive the speed limit and won't go faster even if you tailgate me. I'm told I don't have social graces, and sometimes my honesty and excitement about sharing things I've learned can be offensive. (Say what?) I do mean well, though. I have no hidden agendas and not a whole lot to hide. I love surprises, people who are forthright and don't play games, and people who delight in embracing their creative self. Christmas makes me happy. I think everyone ought to have a Discover card because I've already gotten hundreds of dollars worth of free books in the last year just for charging stuff on it. I find abortion, lying, and anyone who values money more than people extremely upsetting. Johnny Depp is the only actor who really knocks my socks off (and always has). I never meant to come on MySpace, but now that I'm here it's kind of cool. I don't have any pets and don't need any other creatures to clean up after, thankyouverymuch. My soul is happiest when I am reflecting on God's amazing goodness, or when I can sneakily give something to someone without them knowing it. Giving is a big part of who I am. Love it, love it, gotta do it. Anything else you want to know, just ask.
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What I Believe: The Nicene Creed
I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made.
Who, for us men and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; He suffered and was buried; and the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sits on the right hand of the Father; and He shall come again, with glory, to judge the living and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.
And I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life; who proceeds from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; who spoke by the prophets.
And I believe one holy catholic and apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.
For much more detail, see The Larger Catechism .
“Let love be without hypocrisy.†That is, let your love, your actions of love, your demonstrations of love, be genuine, be authentic, be believable. Hypocrisy is fraudulent. It is a sham. It’s play-acting, and the Biblical word here means play-acting. Don’t let your love be a kind of play-acting.
You know, Christians get a reputation that I’m afraid is all too deserved for coming across to the world as being plastic, as being syrupy. You know, where you’re constantly saying to people… you fall into patterns where you say, “Oh bless you, brother. God loves you.†And we use these phrases without thinking about them. They’re supposed to be loving, and it makes people sick. It turns them right off because people see it as merely an outward façade, a play-acting, like we’re on a stage, and they don’t sense from us authentic love. They don’t want to hear clichés. They don’t want to hear Christian jargon. They want us to relate to them in a way that shows genuine love.
And so let’s be careful. We’re called to love. Love is a top priority in the Bible. It’s by this that all men will know that we’re His disciples, that we have love one for another. We know the importance of love. We know the central thrust of it. And so that’s why we want to make sure that we communicate to other people that we’re loving. But the love that we’re to communicate to other people is to be real. It’s to be honest. Not phony. Not sugary, saccharin, syrupy words, but real love. Real concern. Let love be without play-acting.
-- R.C. Sproul
"I think of the conferences and seminars that we do and have done over the years at Ligonier where we have people who use American Sign Language to communicate the messages and so on, and the words of the hymns, to a group who attend who are deaf. And it’s always amazing to me to see their response to the words, to the contents, and the way they use their hands and their shoulders and their facial expressions to communicate with each other in a soundless world. And I thought, what a tremendous, tremendous burden it would be for the human person to lose their ability to hear altogether, because sound plays such an important role in our daily lives."
-- R.C. Sproul
Here is me and my husband being all piratey. Arrrr!!