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Lauren paints the sun red.

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About Me

My utmost passion is Jesus Christ. I love him with all my heart. I like to sit in nature, and watch the sunset. I have a deep desire to be a missionary. God is fufilling that desire in me by sending me to Mendoza, Argentina working with Compassion with Action Foundation. I am staying in Argentina for a year, working in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the city. It has been the most incredible experience of my life and i am falling deeply in love with the children here. I love people and think they deserve to know how very much God loves them. I enjoy having deep conversations that challenge me to reach farther to find the answers. I will probably fail you at least once...but i'll make a point to tell you i'm sorry. I like to smile..a lot. I sing anywhere and everywhere. I adore children. Sometimes it's great to have a heart like a child. ___________________________ I await anxiously for Heaven. A place where warmth and love abound. Where smiles and laughter lift up in an explosion of joy in each moment. Where pain is no longer a word, just a memory of what used to be. Where everyone is free to dance and to sing without judgement or ridicule. A place where there are no shadows...because the Light outshines any darkness. A place where creation can praise the Creator. Where beauty is found not in what we are, but in who we were created to be and what we were created for. A place where God's glory is displayed brilliantly through the work of his hands. A place where true peace exists with no burdens or distractions, just pure tranquility. A place for sinners...who have accepted a free gift of love...and now have a home for all eternity and a family that stretches far and wide. I long for home more than my heart can express.--from my own journal ___________________________ We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart. --Cotvos ___________________________ If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. --Annie Dillard ___________________________ Those who believe they believe in God but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself. --Madeleine L'Engle
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Anyone really. Cant wait to meet God and Jesus (the first love of my life). Moses seemed pretty amazing, Paul from the bible, Peter from the bible (he messed up a lot and i think we could relate), C.S. Lewis, Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr., Darwin, Jamie from TWLOHA, and the future (second) love of my life- my husband.I like meeting new people, different people, free-thinking people, passionate people, dull people, interesting people, sad people, happy people, lonely people, hopeful people.

My Blog

Something I have been thinking about a lot lately.

I was doing a part of one of my Bible studies yesterday and i came across this in one of the "Challenges" at the end of the lesson. It said, "Be sensitive to the stressful circumstances of someone ...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:33:00 GMT

SING MY LOVE BY KIM WALKER

SING MY LOVE By Kim Walker, Jesus Culture MusicWords could never sayThe way he says my nameHe calls me lovelyNo one ever seesThe way he looks at meHe sees me holyWords could never holdThis love that b...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:12:00 GMT

The Inevitability of Hardships vs. The Prosperity Gospel Message

Many of us have seen the preachers on T.V. You know the ones. The "feel good preachers", "the world is peachy keen when you get saved" types who teach that everything is rainbows and whistles when you...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:28:00 GMT

Emerged into the ocean of my soul, you will find a storm unrelenting.

You light a candle in my soulBring the truth i need to hearYou burn into meYou quench the flame Remove all disgraceYou make me holyNo sin to findAll left to dieYour blood shed for meAnd when i doubtYo...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:18:00 GMT

I discovered during my morning walk that...

God exists quietly in the midst of the day, in the wind on a cheek and in the sun's warm rays. He exists in the winter's chill that steals your breath away, and in the summers heat among children who ...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:45:00 GMT

Thoughts across a Continent.....

There is that all too familiar feeling. It sneaks up on you like an old friend in the quietness of night, like a pang in your heart. I am so overwhelmed in this moment. I cant even describe it in word...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:41:00 GMT

Weary in the Waiting.

I've watched "A Walk to Remember" three times this week alone. There is just something about that movie that pulls at my heart and just really makes me weep. Like tonight after i watched it, my heart ...
Posted by on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:58:00 GMT

Evolve.

Here i am in the darkbruised and crushedbruised and crushedon my kneesHold tight to this lielet it runlet it runcome undoneI've promised so many thingsthat fall throughand i'm holding onto the airas i...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:08:00 GMT

What we lose when we gain electricity.

I have spent the last week in literal darkness, groping for flashlights, and lighting lanterns, candles, and tea-lights. No television, no movies, no internet, no air conditioning, no hot water, no st...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:06:00 GMT

God’s Purpose for Hurricanes.

I found this amazing. It was written by a guy i used to know who is from Tomball. _______________God's Purpose for Hurricanes by Jeff Medders. Hurricane Ike is massive.  There are have been many ...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:45:00 GMT