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Name: Marj
Gender: Female
Interests: wow! where do i start? i love... my Jesus-my Rock and my Friend, my dear husband--and spending time with him, hanging out with friends, being with my family, playing with the 12 neices and 3 nephews in my life! Starbucks coffee, poetry, classical music, singing, mountains, waterfalls, the Chattooga River, campfires, camping, hiking, backpacking, soul-searching books, listening to boys sing their hearts out in Chuckwagon, evenings with no plans,volleyball, traveling, reading, sunny days, and lots of other stuff.
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6/2/2005
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| Like a little child on Christmas morning. That's me right now. I should be packing and doing a bunch of other things, but I'm excited enough that I just had to let the world know. Christmas is only three days away! The boys go home this morning, which means, Mark will be off for 7 days as soon as the last boy has left, which means, a trip to Pennsylvania and time with family! And how I look forward to it! I'm excited. Add the possibility of a white Christmas, and it's a jolly good feeling! It will be so good to be able to spend time with Mark where he grew up and with the family and friends that have been so much a part of his life and are so much a part of our lives now.
I can't help but be thankful for all that we have been blessed with in our families and friends, knowing that so many people around us don't have that. So much that we've been given. May we celebrate the Greatest Gift of all this Christmas in Jesus and share Him with those around us. Merry Christmas! | | |
| so much that's run through my head lately. there's so much i have that i don't necessarily deserve, and yet i expect. a roof over my head, a paycheck on a regular basis, family, friends. i am blessed. i can take in the smell of rain as it comes, feel the wind when it blows, hear the thunder as it rumbles in the distance, and watch the clouds as they roll in. so many little ways that my Father lavishes His love on me through my senses. How is it fair? that's probably the wrong question, but i have thought it, knowing that there are millions of people who have lost so much, who need so much. i have questions, but He doesn't need me to understand all of this. all He wants is my trust, and my devotion, and my life. | | |
| Spring is almost here! Wildflowers give one last mighty heave and burst right through all the brown stuff in the woods around here. Good stuff! I love this time of year! Top it off with celebrating Easter over the weekend and life in and through the Son of God and I know that I have to the most blessed person in the world! This last week it really struck me again that the only reason I can hope and have life is the fact that my Jesus came down from Heaven to do His Father's will, lived the perfect life here on Earth--drawing people to Himself and giving us an amazing gift of God in human flesh--and then died a horrible death to make it possible for me to be redeemed and to have a relationship with the Him. But don't stop there, He rose again! Defeating Death and Hell, giving me the promise that I can live with Him forever and ever in Heaven! It was a really good weekend and was special too, because I got to spend most of Easter with Elvin and Gin, some dear friends from a whole other era at Camp! Next up, FLORIDA! I'm thrilled to think about taking a few days and spending time with my sis and her family! Gotta go make sure that little Lela knows she has an aunt and spoil her and the rest of the kidders for a few days! Mel, I only wish you'd be there too . I have a confession though. I'm realizing in getting ready for this trip, I'm experiencing a feeling similar to what a mother may feel when leaving a child in someone else's care; the sad part is that I'm feeling this way about my phone and my schedule book here at my desk. It is time to get away and let go of a few things! | | |
| Funny how something as random as the weather back home can make you sorta homesick. I've just been hearin' about all the snow up north and thinking it would have been so much fun to be there and do all kinds of fun snowed-in kind of things! But, I can't complain, today I had the privilege of settin' up shop on the back porch of the office, since it was absolutely gorgeous and I was looking for a diversion. Let's just say the laptop came in handy and the long cord on the phone worked out great while I chipped away at the mountain of articles! Not sure what the moral of this post is, I just felt like posting | | |
| As I sit here attempting to post for the first time in many moons, I have this mental image of a caveman stepping onto the streets of say, New York City, for the first time, and though this may be a stretch, I have a bit of the same trepidation that I imagine he would feel. I'm basically out of my comfort zone right now and maybe I should be writing in the Budget instead? Yesterday was church and Check, Choe's, Chon's, Chunior was there. Oh, and the neighbors all moved; not quite, but sort of. :) CHRISTMAS! boys baking cookies, singing carols, reading the Christmas story, unwrapping gifts, dressing up in their best for banquet; it was all pretty special! And then I got to spend an absolutely wonderfully Christmas day here plus spend a good weekend with my fam at home in OH. Side note: I also experienced a major crisis that involved a sewing machine. Let's just say that I was pretty sure that there actually was a SMAM (Sewing Machines Against Marj) conspiracy happening while I was trying to finish my Christmas craft for staff gift exchange. It'll take a lot of therapy for me to try sewing again, but I do have hope, because since then I've actually taken up something that involves a needle and a thread. Wait, you'll never guess....crocheting! I confess that I find it enjoyable and a good thing to do with my hands, though I could be a bit obsessive compulsive about it, just one more stitch. SNOW! I had the chance to walk through a winter wonderland right here at Camp. One evening we had probably 4 inches of the white stuff. It was awesome! I got to help make a snow man for the first time in years! and yeah, I felt like a kid again! SPRING! Winter has felt long at times, both literally and figuratively. There've been a few times that I didn't have much hope that it would end, but I have hope! It's coming! The daffodils are blooming and there's so much evidence of new life just waiting to happen! There's days when the sky is so blue and the sunshine so warm that I have the let the outside into my office and I can have the door open and the windows too! It's a wonderful thing, this thing called spring! Oh yeah, you can call me chore girl too. I have had the privilege at various times over the past months to care for 9 goats, 3 cats, 1 quail, 2 dogs, and a hamster. Goats really aren't too bad, as long as you can grab 'em by the horns and move them where you want them to go! That's all for now! | | |
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