Sara

I generally like people but am more of an introvert...I don't get mad very easily, but I hate unfairness and injustice.
I love Jesus, but not so much religion. I think cultural and personal ideas not aligned with the character of God often become embraced as "religious beliefs." I don't want to be the type of Christian who turns people away from God. I want to share love and make the presence of God in my life evident to those around me. I have a heart for the broken.
I don't vote because I think a "righteous politician" is a contradiction of terms. The power elite will always rule until the proletariate unite and revolt, which will probably never happen. :)
I love corresponding with old friends, though I don't always respond to email as quickly as I should.
Raised in a small Southern town (Wartburg, TN). Went to TN Wesleyan, then MTSU...Got my BS in SOC...Married my best friend, Dereck, "from the internet."...Finished my MA in SOC while working as a GA...Moved to SC...got a house...got a dog/princess...currently working in social work (adoptions) full-time and part time as an adjunct professor...work with middle school youth group...just helped start a thrift store to raise money for missionaries and local ministries
Some quotes:
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin......All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind." -The Savage from Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World."
"I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feeling that I've got something important to say and the power to say it--only I don't know what it is, and I can't make any use of the power." -Helmholtz from Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"
"Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both." -C. Wright Mills "The Sociological Imagination"
"I had once believed that we were all masters of our fate--that we could mould our lives into any form we pleased....I had overcome deafness and blindness sufficiently to be happy, and I supposed that anyone could come out victorious if he threw himself valiantly into life's struggle. But as I went more and more about the country I learned that I had spoken with assurance on a subject I knew little about....I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone." -Helen Keller
"Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat." -Will Rogers
"The history of a nation is, unfortunately, too easily written as the history of its dominant class." -Kwame Nkrumah
"But queer that Alphas and Betas won't make any more plants grow than those nasty little Gammas and Deltas and Epsilons down there." --Lenina from Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World."
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." -Winston Churchill
"Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart." -Proverbs 3:3
"There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift those around us a little higher." -Henry Van Dyke
Tenderheart Bear
You are thinker, organizer, peacekeeper, and leader all in one. You have a power to command attention and people listen to you. However, you are often so concerned about not hurting others' feelings that you don't tell them what they need to hear and this gets you both into trouble. But you always have loyal friends to help you out.