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aslansveritas
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Interests: God, family, reading, theater, music, art, (science
and math since my 5 year old loves them)
Expertise: instilling mess making merriment, life loving boldness into my little genius' empowering them to shoot for the stars.
Occupation: Education/training
Industry: Nonprofit
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Member Since:
3/28/2006
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| n's away again.
i' a single mom again
the girls miss him horribly and so do i
friday cometh!
home again, home again, jiggety jig!
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| another week as a single mom. n's been traveling for the past four weeks. so i've been on-call 24/7.
i'm just weary. my patience thin. my heart breaks when i loose my temper over some foolish thing that the girls do that i typically wouldn't even bat an eye over. i hate myself this way. so here's to another week of little sleep.
i'm working on an dramatic adaptation of dawn treader. it's em's favorite adventure inn narnia, so that keeps me busy. there doesn't seem to be enough interest to do a play this year, so i might end up canceling that. that's depressing. i look foward to the stress and the late nights. i look foward to the light charts, set design, etc. i'm passionate about it, but not many other christians in our church give a care whether we do it or not. most of my actors don't want to put in the time this year to put on a high-quality production. of course, i insist on that. wouldn't put my name on anything that was high quality. i still have christmas, but it's not the same. all i do for that is set design. that only took five minutes to draw up in my mind's eye. i wish there were other artsy christians around. why are christians so afraid of the arts especially theater. i've been lucky. pastor allows me to pick the play, so the only religious play that i've done is lion, witch and the wardrobe. basically, lewis is my favorite author and i helped out with it in school when my friend, erin directed it. since i had never directed anything in my life prior to LWW it seemed like a good idea to stick to something i've seen. after that i branched out to unknown territory, but always wonderful. but now my typical cast members want a year or more off. sure a few went to college, so i can't do anything about that. it's the others. it drives me insane. "i'm tired. it's too much work"
etc... oh, shut up. if you were at home you would just sit in front of the tv and do nothing. so why not do something that's fun. (ok it's not fun when i'm ticked off, but it is when they are doing well and i'm happy.) it's fun to build set and design a light show. it's fun when all comes together. and trust me it always does.
well the girls have found my hiding spot. so the rant and pity party are over.
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| this weekend we celebrated the life of our precious maddie. three years of spirit, joy, wonderment, love.
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| It's only for a moment
that you are mine to hold
The plans that heaven has for you
will all too soon unfold
So many different prayers I'll pray
for all that you might do
But most of all I'll want to know
you're walking in the truth
And if I've never told you
I want you to know that
as I watch you grow
I pray that God will fill your heart with dreams
and that faith gives you the courage
to dare to do great things
I'm here for you whatever this life brings
so let my love give you roots
and help you find your wings
May passion be the wind that moves
you through your days
and may convictions keep you strong
guide you on your way
May there be many moments
that make your life so sweet
but more then memories
I pray that God will fill your heart with dreams
and that faith gives you the courage
to dare to do great things
I'm here for you whatever this life brings
so let my love give you roots
and help you find your wings
It's not living if you don't reach for the sky
I'll have tears as you take off
But I'll cheer you as you fly
I will give you roots and help you find your wings
mark harris
tears stream down as i read these lyrics.
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| i never thought i would be spending large portions of my day searching for crickets and grasshoppers in my backyard with my little girl, but alas, that's exactly what i've been doing for months now. i never thought i would learn about God's provision and his love via a super-sized flying cricket, but alas, today i did.
i caught a mammoth flying cricket. (by pure luck it land right in front of me and my net.) but it escaped from the insect habitat when i tried to free a another cricket. emmy forgave me, but she was disappointed and asked me to catch another one. well, if you've ever seen one of these things you know that they are difficult to catch. afterall, they can fly. so after a half hour of searching, i half-heartedly prayed for a stupid cricket to fly into my net. guess what happened a minute after i prayed. yep, an enormous cricket flew right into my net. oh me of little faith!
emmy was thrilled to have a winged pet cricket. and i was thrilled to tell her that God does hear us and answer our prayers even when they seem ridiculous. God gave her the cricket. her response, "wow, so God told the cricket to jump into your net?"
"absolutely."
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