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Name: Melanie
Gender: Female
Interests: Reading, especially fantasy; writing; math; foreign languages; singing; running; puppetry
Expertise: Whatever they've taught me in high school (which is of course limited)
Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
5/26/2006
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| If anyone's still following this blog after two years of no activity, you might be interested to know that I just started a new group blog with the other members of Francis, my Torrey group. It should be fun. You can check it out at www.TheWanderingFranciscans.blogspot.com.
As you can tell, Xanga's pretty much gone off my radar. Not that many people still followed my blog, and I didn't enjoy the archiving system (Clicking on "Prev 5" repeatedly is not my idea of a fun way to find something I posted near the beginning of this blog.), so to get people to read what I wrote, I posted notes on Facebook instead, and I always figured if I wanted to really blog again to any significant degree I'd use Blogspot because Google normally does things right and seems to have done so there. I don't expect I'll post much more here. But I may well be posting stuff on The Wandering Franciscans. So enjoy.
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| Let us celebrate with quotes!
"It would be more fun if we had more people to pass the moon to, actually." -LJP
"Well, that explains a lot. People from Washington are on the moon." -LJP
"I have moon dust all over my hands, actually." -LJP
"Smart people never die. They simply move to the moon." -SJP
"You're not Cleopatra, are you?" -Kate, to Sam
"I am crazed! I'm so excited!" -EDS
"It's more containerological." -Dr. S
"I'm slowly erasing the cosmos." -Dr. Y
"Could Adam have made a mistake? Like here comes a snake, and Adam names it a wombat?" -Dr. S
" 'Bitey?' 'The last one was Bitey.' 'All right, Bitey Two.' " -Dr. S, speaking as Adam and God
"What about the god of Bobby the Philistine?" -Dr. S and ETF
"The Sonless God and the Sonful God can't be the same person." -Dr. S
"It's not a swamp of nasty idolatry, it's just a channel toward the real God." -Dr. S
" 'The universe wanted me to have this.' 'I got some bad news for you, lady. The universe doesn't give a rip about you. It's gonna grind you under its mechanistic heel.' " -Dr. S, describing his (internal) reaction to a woman in a bookstore
" 'Here's the nightly God broadcast.' 'Yeah, and it's equally available to all human beings - both human beings - on earth!' " -SAW and Dr. S
" 'Do not eat that tree.' 'The whole tree - don't eat it.' " -ETF and HCA
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| Why is it that when people list the blessings God has given them, they hardly ever think to mention the gifts of nature? The earth? Food? Colors? Sunsets? Trees? Cats? The sun? The beach? (Well, maybe they remember food.)
They're hardly trivial things!
Nature is no small part of the demonstration of how lavishly God loves us! Not only did He send Jesus to die for us, He also gives us roses. Lots of them. Living and growing.
I think the only reason we forget to mention them is how very freely He gives them. We see the sun every day and so forget what a gift it is. Well, it's a gift, and a great one.
(Oh, and yes, I'm still alive. Hello again, everyone!)
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| Yay for Easter Vacation! Yay for sleep! Yay for novel-reading time! Yay for time to catch up on all those nice little projects for school!
Ah... sleep... how I have missed you... my old friend... nice to get reacquainted...
...and I feel the same way about novels.
Fruits Basket 19 is really good! ^___^
Christ is risen!
We had really superb timing in Torrey. We just read Athanasius On the Incarnation, about why God would do something so drastic as sending His Son to die. It's such a great book, and so appropriate to the season.
So yeah, thanks for the prayer. I'm OK now, and more than OK. I do still have paper to write and such, but I should be able to do that now. Do make sure to celebrate Easter properly!
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| Prayer would be appreciated. No, nothing too serious, just complete exhaustion starting to break me down. I've lived through this kind of thing before... but I can feel myself going, and I'm not nearly done with everything I wanted to be done with, and I'm having trouble focusing and working because I'm so tired.
Thanks be to God that He does give me rest and so many unexpected blessings... but He's also letting me be pushed to my limits. Please pray that I wouldn't break, that somehow I'll get things done, and above all that under this stress I won't snap in a way that hurts anyone else.
Just seven more school days till Easter Vacation...
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