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Drea

About Me

i am a recovering perfectionist. i proofread my blogs for spelling and grammatical errors. i am trying to re-learn the proper use of the comma. i enjoy adding new words to my vocabulary. truly, this is a sickness. i love being alive. i am learning how to love people well. if i didn't know jesus, i would be a stalker, or a groupie, or a stalker/groupie.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

people who recycle.

My Blog

other

This was my other blog. I blog regularly at www.xanga.com/agarnergirl. For awhile I tried to keep up with both and contribute different entries. Then I started posting duplicates. Why? ...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:15:00 GMT

torn

Just finished co-hosting a free screening of the documentary film A Closer Walk. It's probably one of the most powerful depictions of the AIDS epidemic that I've ever seen. This was my third vi...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:49:00 GMT

loan

No costume. No party. I am strangely okay with that. Instead I managed to shove a 7.5 foot fake Christmas tree into my tiny Honda Civic (with the help of four strangers, two of whom are employed by Mi...
Posted by on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:16:00 GMT

chase

I love to sing this song. It feels real to me right now. i'm sitting here, burning, yearning, twisting, turning for your love/i'm waiting for you, i'm waiting for you i'm standing here, searching, fin...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:49:00 GMT

news

Overflowing. Joy, fear, anticipation, and wonder colliding and spilling over. I've been formally invited to join InterVarsity staff in St. Louis. Papers will be signed in two weeks and then I can sta...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:17:00 GMT

gift

The past two weeks have been really full. My phone interview with the InterVarsity folk happened on the 16th. It was grueling. I felt silly afterwards. Silly and like I suck at the things they probab...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:04:00 GMT

reign

Dallas was lovely. I heard such rich teaching from a Catholic man. His words about the kingdom of God made me weep. I'm a sucker for good context. Knowing the Greek meaning of a New Testament word jus...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:17:00 GMT

test

My car passed his emissions test with flying colors. I was so nervous that he would fail. I fear failure even when the thing failing is not a reflection of me. I don't like being found lacking. The tr...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 12:24:00 GMT

adventure

It's been a while. Thought it time to send a bit of an update out into cyberspace. Change is in the air. I am in the middle of the application process to go on staff with InterVarsity in St. Louis. Cr...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:30:00 GMT

retreat

At 3 PM, the Franciscan Renewal Center will become my home for the next 48 hours. When I think about the word 'retreat', I picture armies on a battlefield and when the call is sounded, one of the armi...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:27:00 GMT