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Name: Kate
Birthday: 12/2/1983
Gender: Female
Interests: Have i mentioned that i cook a whole lot??? yep, think that's pretty much it. Oh, and I'm taking a Greek class and trying to figure out all those letters!
Expertise: I spend a lot of time cooking at camp....and I've helped with a lot of weddings lately (3 last year and another one this year).
Occupation: Food Service Director
Industry: Christian Camping
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AIM:  KatieBoo3721, SunshineAg06
Yahoo:  kanderudasill
Member Since:
1/3/2004
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| Merry Christmas to all of you who may still read this sparse and sporadic blog. I hope you all have a blessed time with your families and that you will all take the time to truly consider why you celebrate this season.
For the quick update:
1. I moved to Grapeland, Texas at the beginning of May and started full-time at Frontier Camp.
2. I survived my first summer on full-time staff and have loved being here and serving in this ministry.
3. My sister, Elaine, got married at the beginning of September. That kept everybody pretty busy throughout the summer.
4. I'm busy packing and trying to get moved into my new house (on camp property). For the first time in six years, I've actually been able to paint the walls!!! Very excited to have some color again!
Other than work and visiting friends and family through the fall, there really hasn't been too much else going on. I'm looking forward to a break the next couple of weeks and getting to hang out with family and do some cooking. I'm not traveling as much this year as usual and I'm really excited about that!
I rediscovered again today how sad it makes me when I realize the loss of a once close friend. Not by death, but simply by the busyness of life. It makes me want to work even harder and devote more time to the close relationships I have now. That seems to get harder and harder the longer I am out of school. I'm grateful that the Lord sometimes uses our lost friendships to teach us to cherish our current ones.
Again, Merry Christmas to you all and hope you have a very Happy New Year!  ~Kate
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| Just wanted to let all of you out in Xangaland know that my sister, Elaine is GETTING MARRIED!!! Yep, that's right, she's getting married! And for all of you who are wondering - the girl who for years said that she wanted to just elope is actually having a wedding, planned of course by yours truly! Please keep Elaine and Jason, her fiance, in your prayers as they plan and make decisions about the next couple of years. Still some debate about where they will live and when they will be going overseas again to continue their work as missionaries. Also, Jason will be leaving mid-May for a month in Africa (Senegal to be exact), so please pray that he will have safe travel and that the separation will not be too difficult for either of them. | | |
| Please remember my dear friend from high school, Jennifer (Spurgean) Liebrum, and her husband, Micheal, in your prayers. They were expecting their first child, a little boy, and lost him this past week due to complications with the pregnancy. Jennifer was almost eight months along. Weston John Liebrum - January 31, 2007 Amy Carmichael, quoting Rutherford:
" 'You have lost a child' wrote old Sauel Rutherford. May his words
bring comfort to someone as they brought comfort to me. "Nay, he is
not lost to you who is found to Christ; he is not sent away, but only
sent before, like unto a star which going out of our sight doth not
die and vanish, but shineth in another hemisphere. If his glass was
but a short hour, what he wanteth of time that he hath gotten of
Eternity; and you have to rejoice that you have now some treasure laid
up in heaven. ... Your son was a part of yourself, and you, being
as it were cut and halved, will indeed be grieved; but you have to
rejoice that when a part of you is on earth, a great part of you is
glorified in heaven. ... 'There is less of you out of heaven that the
child is there.' " | | |
| "waiting" - to remain or rest in expectation; a period of pause, interval, or delay I find myself lately playing the waiting game a lot. Waiting for various events that will be happening over the next few months; waiting for the holidays to get here; waiting until the end of next June to move to camp full-time and finally get going there; waiting for the "right" guy; waiting to finally be out of this transitional time of my life; and the list could go on and on. This past weekend I found myself being consumed by frustration and driven to distraction by the endless cycle of waiting. I'm tired of waiting. I'm tired of being stuck in this same emotional and mental place that I've been stuck in for the last 6+ years of my life......just waiting. And not even knowing what it is specifically that I'm waiting for; just having the constant feeling that I'm traveling down this path and maybe eventually there will be something just around the next bend in the road. I don't know what that "thing" is, but subconsciously I think that it might be the thing that will point me in the right direction or bring me happiness and emotional peace. I feel like I'm running down that road but something has tied me to this spot so I'm not getting anywhere. The Lord has called me to be patient and content in the place He has me in right now - today, in Austin, Texas, going to school and working at a job that is not always that enjoyable....And yet, while I'm so grateful for the blessing of being able to go to school and having a job that is helping me pay the bills, I'm just so tired of waiting. And I hate it when I get so wrapped up in these feelings because it makes me wonder if it's just going to be like this for the rest of my life. Am I always going to be looking forward and just waiting for the next thing to come along? Am I ever going to get out of this transitional stage and settle down and be content with staying in one place for more than a year at a time? Am I ever going to truly be content in my circumstances or always searching for what else might be out there? Or is it constantly just going to be moving from one thing to the next with long (or short) periods of waiting in between? "expectation" - eager anticipation; wishing with confidence of fulfillment; the feeling that something is about to happen I think the hardest thing for me with waiting is having expectations about/for what I'm waiting on. When things don't happen or haven't happened the way I think they should in the timeframe I think they should be happening, I get sad or depressed. We are taught that this is the normal human reaction to being let-down; but don't you ever just get sick of that cycle? The anticipation and expectation and then the disappointment? Wouldn't it be so much better to either not have the expectation or to have a different reaction to it? While my optimistic mind/heart would love to think that everything I'm expecting is going to turn out exactly the way I think it should; in reality, I know that's not the case. So it comes down to either not having expectations at all or not being disappointed when those expectations are not met or finding the balance between those two things. I don't want y'all to think I've become this self-centered, over-emotional wreck who only thinks about myself and my feelings and am spending all my time dwelling on this stuff.....but I have a lot of thinking time right now, so when I start thinking about something, it's hard to get it out of my head until I've got it somewhat worked out. And this is one of those instances when I just can't work it out. I don't see a good balance. I'm blinded by the frustration and the monotony of waiting and have lost the patience and contentedness I once had. I want the patience and contentedness back. I want to be reassurred that I am here because the Lord really wants me here and that I haven't strayed off the path He has planned for me and that He knows my heart and can see the pain that is buried there because of past disappointments. And I want the hope back; hope that the future is a bright one and that life isn't just an endless cycle of waiting, but a chance to be taught by the Lord and grow in faith and that life is a constant treasure hunt to find out what He has in store for me. I want to be able to stand before the Lord knowing that I took the opportunities that He gave me and that I didn't waste any chance to live for Him. This might all just sound really depressing to you and if it does, I'm sorry. Just know that sometimes I have to get everything out in words for me to be able to really see what's at the root of the issue. I hope that if you have ever felt this way or feel this way now, that you find comfort in knowing that you aren't the only one out there feeling that way. I hope you know the love of Jesus and know without a doubt in your mind that the Lord never gives up on those who seek His face. I'm reminding myself as I type all this out that the Lord is the strong tower and our place of refuge in the storm and that He gladly gathers us into His embrace during the times of despair. All things ARE possible with Jesus! We just have to trust in Him. Normally much easier said than done, but so grateful that He is willing to help us trust in Him! And that's something we all need to be reminded of everyday! "Trust in the Lord with ALL your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight." ~Proverbs 3:5-6 | | |
| Okay....so very rarely would I ever go about posting my political opinions on a blog that lots of other people read because it's just not normally worth it to have to spend hours trying to defend my views to people who don't agree with me....that being said, this is going to be a post about politics, so if you read it and it makes you mad or disgruntled or whatever, know now that I will not be arguing with you about it at a later date......you've been warned! I don't really like politics. I think they are a necessary evil, but I don't like them, mainly because it just irritates me how some people get so wrapped up in all of the hoopla. This past week though, politics as a whole has just really gotten on my nerves. And not just the opposing party, but all of it. If you haven't heard yet, John Kerry made a comment last week about education and how it you don't make the most of your education, you will end up "stuck in Iraq." He later "apologized". This is what a guy from Florida commented with on a Facebook group and I thought it was brilliant. Jordan Messer (Jacksonville, FL) wrote on Nov 2, 2006 at 7:36 AM "Just as predicted, John Kerry strode to a microphone yesterday and attempted to apologize for saying those who didn't study hard and get an education would wind up in Iraq. Here is how he said it: "I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform, and I personally apologize to any service member, family member or American who was offended. As a combat veteran, I want to make it clear to anyone in uniform and to their loved ones: My poorly stated joke at a rally was not about, and never intended to refer to any troop."
Now...to properly understand Kerry's apology, you will need an interpretation. Here is what he really means:
He regrets that his words were misinterpreted. What he really means here is that if anyone thought he was insulting our troops abroad, that means they're an idiot. Remember, no one is as smart as John Kerry...and if you don't know what John Kerry meant, then that means you're just not qualified to pass judgment on The Poodle. Only if and when you become as intelligent as The Kept Man will you ever know what he truly meant. Translation: it's all your fault.
As a combat veteran...his comment was never intended to refer to any troop. Translation: hey...John Kerry served in combat for a few months, milking it for several purple hearts and medals...ribbons? Ok, medals. By saying only dumb people wind up in Iraq, he didn't mean the troops. He meant....well, he's not sure. But it wasn't troops...because, hey...he's been there. Oh .. and his words must have also been "misinterpreted" last year when he talked about our troops "terrorizing women and children" and several years ago when he compared them to the rampaging hoards of Genghis Kahn.
At the end of the day, the basic thrust of Kerry's "apology" is that anyone who thinks he meant what he meant is not as smart as he is. Typical elitist, leftist condescension....and part of the reason he was blown out in the 2004 election." Just thought I would share. I wish sometimes that we always had interpreters for our politicians. Maybe then, we would actually know what they were really trying to say! | | |
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