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Tina

It's not soaring that makes me a bird...but birds soar.

About Me

FYI...if you know anyone who wants to lose weight, send them my way via www.tinacoaches.com. I can help!AND...if you are interested in making some extra money (or liberating yourself from punching a time card), let me know. I know a couple, David and Stacy Whited, who have helped over 40 people in the last 12 years earn three figure incomes.This testimony video is of Stacy Whited's parents.
Former YWAM missionary trying to figure out how to live in the ordinary world and still experience the extraodinary. Spontaneous, outragous, creative, and really tall for a girl.As corny as these little quizzes are, they are surprisingly accurate, so...
YOU ARE CHINESE FOOD
Exotic yet ordinary.
People think they've had enough of you
but they're back for more in an hour. What Kind of Food Are You?
YOUR PERSONALITY PROFILE
You are dignified, spiritual, and wise.
Always unsatisfied,
you constantly try to better yourself.
You are also a seeker of knowledge
and often buried in books.
You tend to be philosophical,
looking for the big picture in life.
You dream of inner peace for yourself,
your friends, and the world.
A good friend, you always give of yourself first. The World's Shortest Personality Test
...a little marathoner humor for ya! This layout is from iloveyourspace.com

My Interests

faith in Jesus, other cultures, revelatory music, organic artists, a good bottle of wine, scenic landscapes (especially the last two together), driving with 'Brio's top down on a sunny day in the winter, and running!

I'd like to meet:

Nashville neighbors, Jesus worshipers, David Wilcox fans, long lost treasured friends...

Music:

most any guy or gal with a guitar in a packed out coffee shop, creative, radical worship, atmospheric stuff that makes a good soundtrack to my life, smooth jazz, fusion experiments, birds chirping, waves crashing, trees rustling, the percussive rhythm of kisses

Movies:

Billy Elliot, A Knight's Tale, Where the Heart Is, Love Actually, Coach Carter, White Oleander, Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, Spies Like Us, Gladiator, The Piano, The Breakfast Club, Monte Python and the Holy Grail

Television:

Starting Over, Cold Case, Missing, Dr. Phil, CSI, CSI, and CSI

Books:

Windows of the Soul, The Sacred Romance, Captivating, Waking the Dead, A Divine Confrontation, You Have Not Many Fathers, Galatians, Secrets to the Millionaire Mind, my journal, Olympic National Park Impressions, 48 Days to the Work You Love, For Women Only, the ones I will write someday

Heroes:

Jesus...my covenant partner, bridegroom, king and friend, my dad, my mentors: Peter and AnneMarie Helms, Gerben Grooten and Rene Peit, YWAMers, David Wilcox, overcoming underdogs, healthy married people, anyone who successfully plays cupid on my behalf

My Blog

i’m happy to stop dating

You know, I didn’t get my heart broken for the first time until I was 34.  Wow, huh?  Lots of people ask why on earth I am still single.  The simple answer I give usually goes som...
Posted by Tina on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:23:00 PST

kiss the son

When you've been broken, broken to pieces.And Your heart begins to faint'cause you don't understand.And when there is nothing to rake from the ashes.And you can't even walkonto the fields of praise.Bu...
Posted by Tina on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:51:00 PST

end of story?

Today I am wanting to write myself into a fresh hope.  It's one of those mornings when I can see so clearly the price I am paying for some mistakes along the way.  Probably the more acc...
Posted by Tina on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:47:00 PST

a consecrated july

my roomate moves out on the last day of june and my house will be all mine once again.  couple that with God's recent move in my life and in my church, and you have a woman hungry for God and a w...
Posted by Tina on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:45:00 PST

theme song for the season

Broken relationships are painful.  If not for the Lord's voice and tokens of affection, I fear that my broken heart would have turned into a wounded heart.  But the Lord has dealt gently and...
Posted by Tina on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:49:00 PST

the wisdom of time

the wisdom of time is a mystery to one who is unconcious to its post tick pragmatism and pre tock optimism silent chimes an illusion of peace in the dormant as the absent tension of where one's been...
Posted by Tina on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 04:10:00 PST

how happy this heart for thunder

gray mistakenfor gloomis weighty with rainrefreshingproducingfeeding a vibrancybirthed from the unseeninto the land of the livingsoftening what is hardoffering a sufficiencyunto bloomhow happy this h...
Posted by Tina on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 06:47:00 PST

the bit in my mouth

Isn't growing kinda hard?  I've been crying out to God for months for something new because I just need to be growing all the time.  And dangnabbit, if I didn't get a school of lessons all a...
Posted by Tina on Sat, 08 Jul 2006 04:53:00 PST

can you please put some skin on

the aloneness tonight feels almost unbearable.  there's nothing like feeling afraid and weak, and feeling alone at the same time.  it simply is another one of those moments when the bur...
Posted by Tina on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 07:22:00 PST

gladly, the routine has been interrupted

There is a shift in my world these days.  Gladly, the rountine has been interrupted.  New thoughts have taken my mind captive in my idle moments.  There is a magnetic pul...
Posted by Tina on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:42:00 PST