Brenna - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I love Jesus... or I'm learning to love Jesus and be loved by Him. I'm an INTJ on the Myers Briggs . If you don't know what that is, you should take the test... it'll force you to be accountable for yourself. I'm a learner. I'm one of those crazy Christians who works for free. I find cooking therapeutic and dancing necessary.
I love... running alone. sunshine. pure & simple everything. little old people. 'atmosphere'. geeks. chill music. kiwifruit with the skin on. fog. long coastlines. strong coffee. russian literature. bookstores. polka dots. disrupting eery silences. creating awkward silences. thai food. african music. silent retreats. irishmen. language. people who say what they're thinking.
I just realized I said silence three times. Hmmm.
I hate (relatively)... peach fuzz. rap. flowery perfume. breaking my 'a' string. passivity. mayonnaise. sugar. lipstick. stilettos. flirting & other obligatory social customs. self-help books. when melon touches the good fruit.

My Interests

Dance, bouldering & rock climbing, travel, culture, finding the best red wine, coffee & dark chocolate, obscure languages, old used bookstores, art galleries... on and on...

I'd like to meet:

Anyone I've already met in person. Who knows... maybe I'm just old fashioned.

Music:

Yeah, I like music. :) At least, I really enjoy good, original or somehow meaningful music... I hate poppy mainstream crap. I could make a list a mile long that would have everything from classical to jazz to a plethora of rock, punk and indie forms. I have a soft spot for most unique ethnic folky forms of music like turkish folk rock and celtic music. I am not a huge fan of country, rap or hip hop but can appreciate genuinely good artists. I love discovering new stuff...

Movies:

indie, classics, musicals, foreign, mockumentary (if it's not raunchy). I shouldn't admit this but I also like the two extremes: movies where stuff gets blown up as well as the hopeless romantic flicks like BBC Jane Austen. Oh yeah... and movies about dancing.

Television:

Arrested Development, Ugly Betty, The Office (on DVD or the web... I don't have a TV licence so no tele for me!

Books:

Bible, The Great Divorce, The Problem of Pain, Blue Like Jazz, Captivating, The Heavenly Man, The Cross and the Switchblade, Red Moon Rising, The Virginian... bla bla bla... too many books. Authors though... that's a little easier-- C.S. Lewis, A.W. Tozer, John Piper, Philip Yancey, Donald Miller, Jane Austen, George Eliot...
And hey... if you'd like to buy me some more reading material, you can visit my U.K. Amazon Wishlist !

Heroes:

Jesus, Paul, Isaiah, John Knox, C.S. Lewis, A.W. Tozer, Pete Greig, R.C. Sproul, Ravi Zacharias, Mike Oman in Northern Ireland... AND... My Family :)

My Blog

Not in Portugal...

This is life. I'm not in Portugal holding orphans right now. I'm not helping homeless street kids... I'm sitting at home reading classics, watching 'Planet Earth' and messing about on the ...
Posted by Brenna on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:13:00 PST

for what rings false our thoughts remain unspoken&

"At present the same thought filled both their minds and dominated all else& But neither of them dared speak of it, and not having expressed the one thing that occupied their thoughts, whatever they ...
Posted by Brenna on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:34:00 PST

Update

Okay, plans for the summer! Hurlach, a DTS leadership gathering I was intending to go to at the end of July, was canceled due to too many people emailing them and asking if they could attend a ...
Posted by Brenna on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:32:00 PST

in this together

Well, if you have found yourself here, chances are you received an email, a phone call or something of the sort from Sarah or myself... or someone else close to Steve. This page is dedicated to ...
Posted by Brenna on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:03:00 PST

thoughts on onions and pain

Lynn Green came to Seamill a couple weeks back and used an analogy of an onion to describe how God digs deeper and deeper into us. I had heard this before... but it struck me in a new way. ...
Posted by Brenna on Wed, 30 May 2007 12:21:00 PST

Festival of the Nations

Cancelling tickets, no more WetPaint. God provides. Flying to Frankfurt and having 3am soup with Christina. Eight hours on the Autobahn. Germany is BEAUTIFUL. Asking for directions at petrol sta...
Posted by Brenna on Tue, 29 May 2007 06:19:00 PST

em, wow?

I am so impressed with the new MacBook. They have one now that is a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo black 13 inch with 2GB memory 200GB hard drive and a double-layer SuperDrive. Not to mention the new Paralle...
Posted by Brenna on Sat, 19 May 2007 07:23:00 PST

Lee's Birthday!

This is a private page, really, for my friend Lee's Birthday. If you've been linked here, you know what to do!...
Posted by Brenna on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:06:00 PST

Faith

Face 2 Face was& well it was what God intended it to be and it was refreshing in a totally unique way& and it was fun. I hang on to the promises of God from this week& but my real struggle is to hang ...
Posted by Brenna on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 09:04:00 PST

a new kind of human...

The last couple weeks have been sufficiently difficult... They have served as a shock... or a slap in the face... or however one would categorise a divine wake-up call. I have been so violently ...
Posted by Brenna on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:35:00 PST