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Rachel

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About Me


Not much to say here. Have wanted to be a missionary since I was seven, so that's pretty much what drives me. I love God with my whole heart and look forward to serving Him with my whole life....
Have you suffered, starved and triumphed,
groveled down, yet grasped at glory,
Grown bigger in the bigness of the whole?
"Done things" just for the doing, letting babblers tell the story,
Seeing through the nice veneer the naked soul?
Have you seen God in His splendors,
heard the text that nature renders?
(You'll never hear it in the family pew).
The simple things, the true things, the silent men who do things --
Then listen to the Wild -- it’s calling you.
They have cradled you in custom,
they have primed you with their preaching,
They have soaked you in convention through and through;
They have put you in a showcase; you're a credit to their teaching --
But can't you hear the Wild? -- it’s calling you.
Let us probe the silent places, let us seek what luck betide us;
Let us journey to a lonely land I know.
There’s a whisper on the night-wind,
there’s a star agleam to guide us,
And the Wild is calling, calling. . .let us go.
-Robert Service
While women weep as they do, I'll fight;
while little children go hungry as they do now, I'll fight;
while men go to prison, in and out, I'll fight;
while there yet remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight;
I'll fight to the very end.
-William Booth
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Frank Sinatra. Audrey Hepburn. Jim Elliot. Gregory Peck. But I think they've all died so it's a little impossible.

My Blog

What if we only went for walks on sunny days?

It's a common practice here in Seattle that whenever we get a sunny weekend, every person is required (I think by law) to get outside and enjoy it (preferably through some means of exercise, and appar...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:30:00 GMT

Loneliness

Loneliness is watching your friends reconstruct their lives so that you're not a part of it anymore, and knowing you can't do a thing to change it. Loneliness is realizing that though they'll miss th...
Posted by on Fri, 30 May 2008 09:49:00 GMT

Nobody knows

When will we go where the lonely wind blows? All I know is that nobody knows Where the low stars dance on the moon's silver path Traced in the shadows of new-fallen snow Where dreams stretch as wide a...
Posted by on Wed, 21 May 2008 09:17:00 GMT

Apart

Skies apart and hearts between Held at bay, away, not seen Told the truth and ruthless cold Hope is fought and lost yet bold It cannot be, you see, this dream In which I fight for light. I deem What I...
Posted by on Wed, 21 May 2008 09:15:00 GMT

A Day without You

A day without you I embrace as my victory Independence is mine to have and to claim But when I review the long day's history A day without you just isn't the same Mild-mannered, reserved, and in cont...
Posted by on Wed, 21 May 2008 09:10:00 GMT

Darfur

(starving girl in Darfur, Africa)     For those of you who think you're having a bad day.  
Posted by on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:49:00 GMT

Love

Love "bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  Love never fails." (1 Cor. 13:7-8a NKJV) Bears the trials and well as the pleasures, the failures as well as th...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:42:00 GMT

Passion

My definition, as pulled from three different journal entries: Passion- Recklessly abandoning all thoughts of personal gain, comfort, safety, and satisfaction to fight for someone or something, seeing...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 07:54:00 GMT

Waiting Room and Sanctus Real

Lately I have found myself going through some challenging times (in some ways, harder than anything else I have ever experienced), and I felt more than anything I needed a song to just play over and ...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 10:31:00 GMT

Turn Your Eyes

Today, having run out of other things to play on the piano, I decided to pull out the old hymn book and see if I couldn't learn a few before I went out.  Because I didn't recognize the majority o...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:25:00 GMT