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Name: Kimberly
Birthday: 10/11/1983
Gender: Female
Expertise: I am a master crocheter...and that is about all I got. Some may say I am a 60 year old trapped in a 20-something body, but I am okay with that.
Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
12/2/2005
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| I have been skimming through past blogs...noticing it has been again a long time since I have written on this crazy thing...so I thought I would say hi to all my xanga friends...I'm still alive, married and working a full time job....that has been an experience...and I have come to the conclusion that I am not meant to sit in a cubicle for the rest of my life :) Which I don't think any human was meant to do...as my favorite hoops & yo yo say..."I'm in a cage!" that's what it feels like sometimes! However I am still enjoying marriage...and I think we are still in the honeymoon stage even after a year :) We are approaching our second to Christmas and I am getting more excited about it than I have in the past recent years....not because of presents (although those can be fun) but the anticipation of God fulfilling his promise to send a Savior! - I'll finish this later...my husband is waiting to go to bed :)
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| So...it has been quite some time since I last wrote...and no I will not make this a chapter book on my life since January! I wouldn't read it and I wouldn't expect anyone else to so really it would be a useless entry  I am sitting in the library (what is new there!) during spring break on an absolutely gorgeous day...luckily I get off at 1:30 and plan to spend the rest of the afternoon soaking in as much sun, warmth, and spring air I can! I absolutely love the spring! I think it is because all of the trees, grass, and bushes that seemed dead suddenly come alive! It is fantastic to watch! I could be cheesy at this moment and say that it is the same way we have to die to ourselves to be made alive again in Christ....but really who would say something like that  okay I would! It is so amazing to see a mirrored image of what we do when we accept Christ into our life and what we will continually do throughout our lives in Christ. We can't die to ourselves once and call it good, we are called to continually die to our selfish, sinful, prideful, deceitful, adulterous, vein, and may I not forget ungrateful self over and over and over again. God's refinement of us doesn't just happen in a day it is a lifetime of continual change and renewal in Him. My biggest pet peeve is a "soft sell" of the Gospel. The "What God can do to make your life better" gospel. God does not promise us a better life here on earth...He promises a better life in heaven. Any joy, wealth, happiness, gifts, etc. we get here on earth is by the grace and mercy of God not because we believe in him. Many "rich" people do not believe in God. God sent is Son to redeem us so that we might glorify HIM, not to glorify us....that would be a rather sad glorification...and rather hopeless to.....Thank you Lord that your Son was not send to glorify me...how hopeless we would all be.
Okay, I will stop now....that is just something that has really been wearing on me now the more and more I hear the preachers on TV and radio (not all our this way but a good sum). Oh that we wouldn't settle for a gospel that is self serving...that we would seek after the One true God and worship him with our lives...whatever He has granted our lives to be.
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| So...laddy-da...i am sitting at work testing programs on these crazy learning lab computers and I must say they are quite frustrating. Computers are so finicky and the must annoying thing is that you can get as mad as you want and they don't care...they just sit there with an error message blinking at you...or they freeze..whatever they feel like doing. Now my husband has explained to me that computers don't have feelings, that they are just machines..but after "fixing" them so many times and working with them a lot, they take on a character, and I believe they all have plotted to make my life miserable for no apparent reason. After college I hope to never have to work with computers like this again...accept my own. So that was my vent...computers at this point in time are the vain of my existence. Bah BAH on computers!
Other than that life is quite enjoyable :) Right now I must say Shane and Shane have to be one of my favorite bands, I love acoustic and the use of scripture in their songs. It makes my soul sing with them. I don't know what that means exactly but that's what it feels like. One of my all time favorite songs is there "Hosea" from the Psalms Cd so I thought I would share it with you:
Come, let us return
he has torn us into peices
he has entered us
Come, Let us return
To the Lord
He will heal us
He wil bandage our wounds
just a short time he'll restore us
just a short time he'll restore his church
so we, we might live
we might live, in his presence
in his presence
Oh, that we might know the Lord
Oh, that we might know the Lord
Oh, that we might know the lord
Let us press on to know him
let us press hard unto him
And as surely as the coming of the down
He will respond
He will respond
Anyways...I think I'm done...Enjoy the snow!
Kim
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| It has been quite sometime since I have written...and I think that is how almost all of the last xanga's I read from friends started...I don't' even remember what I wrote last time and didn't take the time to try and figure that out before sitting down to write this! I don't really know what I am going to write about...
Life is going well, marriage is fun :) I am preparing for the my last semester at UNL and am finding little motivation to do anything really...But am excited for the end :) What I will be doing after that..I do not know...but I am starting to look in to that crazy thing called a career in the real world. I think leaving college will be bitter sweet. Whatever that means...so I don't think I have any inspiring thoughts to give. But I guess that is a mini-update...okay bye :)
Kim
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| So it has been quite some time since I last wrote...and just a little bit has changed...such as I am now married and a Mrs. Whenever someone uses that when addressing me I feel old...However I LOVE being married! Some may say it is the "honeymoon" stage, whatever they call it, I don't care cause I am lovin' it! There are those weird moments, especially since I live with a boy now...which is strange on so many different levels!
(by the way right now I am avoiding studying for an econ test...bah BAH on econ!)
What has been interesting for me is to watch as two of my very dear friends prepare for their weddings in a few short months and knowing exactly what they are going through and realizing what an amazing time that was, however I never want to plan a wedding again! At least my own :) The day was amazing and wonderful..but the planning is rather stressful and alot of it not worth it....I don't mean to put a damper on any young woman who is eager for the day she can plan a wedding...but I say it to make a point....the wedding is not the point of getting engaged...the marriage should be the focus. The wedding day is just that...a day. one day that will fly by so quickly that you won't even remember if the ribbon sat just perfectly across the chairs...all you will remember is that you walked down the isle to an amazing man and had this enormous blessing in beoming one with him and the picture that depicts of Christ in the church to the world! How amazing is that and how insignificant is that ribbon now! It is hard to keep this perspective in the midst of planning, because decisions have to be made and 99.99% of the time it has to be made by the bride (no offense grooms but according to me groom he didn't have a "strong opinion"). So it is not a bad thing to make the small decisions but don't lose sight of the bigger picture, the marriage that is being prepared for, for a lifetime! Not until "love stops" but till death do you part! How daunting is that? But at the same time an amazing commitment that only by the grace of God is acheived.
Now obviously I have only been married about oh...2 weeks :) my knowledge of true commitment is limited but my my expereince in preparing for marriage is as thorough as it is going to get....so whoever reads this...i pray that it rings some truth in your heart, don't forget who your focus must me on no matter what you are going through:
1Therefore, since we are
surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off
everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let
us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. 2Let
us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who
for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and
sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. 4
Hebrews 12:1-4
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