Loni - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I love Jesus, and my family, and laughter, and music and silence. I love my friends, and light, and writing, and movies and big dogs. I love beauty, and reading, and life, and kids and ice cream. I really truly believe that if young people around the world encounter God and see that He is who He says He is, then they will stand up and change the world. And there really are alligators in my pond.

My Interests

Laughing. Smiling in general. Dancing. Making Abbie laugh (you have no idea -- i found out in England). Wearing a Superman cape in the office. Singing along with the oldies station with the sunroof open and people staring. Going crazy in my own way. Loving on purpose. Being over generous. Crying from too much happiness. Getting Justin to talk passionately in defense of the significance of GI Joes. Being caught outside in an East Coast warm cloudburst of rain (not to be confused with the horrible "cold" kind of rain). Turkey Hill ice cream. Making Ryder say something is "precious." Waters on a starry night. Sunshine in general. Feeding Ahns soap on bagels. Taking in so much beauty that I'm not hungry anymore. Finding out who God is and what love looks like. And then loving like that :)

I'd like to meet:

People who change the world. They're a little bit crazy, and crazy people are fun to be with.

Music:

Ian McIntosh
Brian and Jenn Johnson
Mew
Muse
Mute Math
Pilot Speed
Eisley
U2
The Listening
Ratatat
Joy Electric
Radiohead
and anything oldies of course...who doesn't love oldies?

Movies:

Anything that moves me or makes me think or makes me laugh out loud. Meet the Robinsons (!!!), The Oceans movies, Braveheart, the Star Wars movies, Minority Report, DeJaVu, Gladiator (William Nicholson is the man), Man on Fire...I'm pretty sure I could quote to you the entire Lion King movie, and the dances Ian and Ali and I made up to go with it were a sight to behold (particularly with the lights off, since we were covered in glo-in-the-dark paint)...

Television:

I don't have time for TV, but I was a big fan of Saturday morning cartoons back in the day...

Books:

The Goose Girl
Enna Burning
(way to go Shannon Hale)
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Wind Singer
Slaves of the Mastery
Firesong
(William Nicholson IS the man)
Seeker, Jango and Noman (3 separate books)
The Torch and the Sword
Emily's Quest
Rose in Bloom
A Little Princess
Developing the Leader Within You
Hiddenness and Manifestation
Towards a Powerful Inner Life
The Silmarillion
A Wrinkle In Time
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Crafted Prayer
Beholding and Becoming
Living in Dependency and Wonder
(Graham Cooke is awesome!)
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Many Waters
The Blue Sword
The Book of Three
The High King
Other Prydain Chronicles
A Call To War
the William Branham series (you know which ones)
The Secret Garden
The Way of the Heart
Phantastes
Let the Trumpet Sound
AND looking back through the list, I see that almost all the fiction are children's books...oh well!

Heroes:

MLK Jr, Bill Johnson, my Mom, John G Lake, Rebekah (yes, the one in the Bible), Lou Engle, Kathryn Khulman, Maria Woodworth-Etter, William Nicholson, Heidi and Roland Baker...

My Blog

The Candidates Standard

This is the first blog I've posted in awhile. It isn't very polished, but I felt the need to respond to some things I've been hearing pretty prevalently lately. I'd love to hear your responses -- whet...
Posted by Loni on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:58:00 PST

paint me living

don't paint my life in shades of graymy soul requires vibrancywith subtle threads of blinding goldby touch and eye and hairi do not careif blacks and whites persistand mix, but only in their place.ple...
Posted by Loni on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:58:00 PST

I know more than the winter sun

without a pangI wrap the winter sun'sthin warmth around me,holding me.its promises are falseand ring withsoothing cobwebs, butarguments are muffledby whispers of spring.she hopes to lure meinto hope, ...
Posted by Loni on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:24:00 PST

God Says: Yes!!

It seems like every time I ask God for direction I get a question in return. "What do you want me to do?" I ask him. "What do you want?" He responds. In the midst of stressful situations, especially i...
Posted by Loni on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:45:00 PST

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!! here we go!!

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! I am officially going into hibernation. I will not be writing on anything other than my not-so-top-secret-Ana-project. I want to be finished with the first draft by Encounter. I ...
Posted by Loni on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:56:00 PST

results of a white night after a really really good prayer meeting

i love you simply, withno thought or questionof saving scraps of dignityto wrap around my shouldersin the nighti love you in the way thatdancing is like falling into greater and greater motionwithout ...
Posted by Loni on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 01:20:00 PST

more england!!!!

So the guy with the shoulder who you all want to hear more about! His chest pain had just gotten healed and Mom went to pray for him. He had been in pain and with limited arm mobility since his should...
Posted by Loni on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:03:00 PST

england update

So here we go. I'll just jump right in with what you all want to hear about.It was amazing! We had so much fun! We were in four different cities (towns -- I guess they can't officially be called "citi...
Posted by Loni on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:19:00 PST

A Good Day to Die

Highland warriors throughout history were commonly viewed as being at least a little bit crazy. They would enter battle outnumbered and overpowered and would fight like wildcats for their homeland, th...
Posted by Loni on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:17:00 PST

Goats!!

I sent this bulletin out yesterday, but not many got to read it and were asking about it later, so rather than tell everyone individually about my goat encounter, I decided to post it here. Enjoy!I wa...
Posted by Loni on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 06:15:00 PST