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Name: Lisa
Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Birthday: 10/8/1986
Gender: Female
Interests: I love Jesus, Music, and Photography. (let me expand on these three subjects. I love Jesus because of obvious reasons... he's my daddy and he is the only real truth I know of, I love Music because it's an out-it's one of the things that gets me by. only good music of course, none of that music that's created by people who are only in it for the fame. I love photography.. not just any photography, MY photos, and amazing pictures that are captured at that perfect time. The time to where you think, "nobody could ever take this exact same picture ever again. That must have been an amazing moment.")
Expertise: By no means did chirst create me to be an expert at something. Because, after I master a certain thing, why would I need to depend on Him for that ever again. So of course, he's the only expert. But he DOES, however, help me understand some subjects better than others.
Occupation: Artist
Industry: Art
Message: message meEmail: email me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  IntheStormyHaze
MSN: livemusiccappy@hotmail.com
Yahoo:  nycitygal205@yahoo.com
Member Since:
5/24/2004
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| My heart pretty much hurts for this country. It hurts for people who are so blinded by society and by material things... I don't understand how people could think that God doesn't exist. That there's more to life than God. That... we can do it alone. That we can be truly happy apart from God. I am baffled. I don't get it. I want to take those people by the shoulders and shake them so hard that their blinders fall off.. and then they can see! I have many friends who don't know Christ. Who live for themselves. They live in order to gain happiness somehow... Gain it by gaining money, or gaining friends, gaining things, gaining power, gaining fame, gaining gaining gaining gaining! When... in the end...it doesn't matter. in the grand scheme of things... it doesn't matter. My money will be gone, my stuff, my achievements, my family, my friends..we'll all be standing there... practically stripped of all of our comforts and all of our excuses... We'll be naked before God. nothing to hide behind anymore... we can't hide behind religion or money or good deeds or family or friends... none of that will matter or be there to defend us... what matters is that we truly Know christ... we admit our wrongs... we praise his rights... and we get rid of self. and ultimately... we'll have to answer this question... 'Do you recognize me? Do you know who I am?' I want to say yes. without reservation. I don't want to be nervous... or scared... I want to be confident and excited! I want to know-now, in this life... that I am forgiven.. and that I am a child of God. and I want to be confident of that.
Guilt is from Satan... It's an insecurity that Satan wants us to have so that it will put up a barrier... it will make us feel separated from Christ. We are not separated from Christ. "neither height nor depth nor ANY OTHER CREATED THING can separated us from the Love of Christ" think about it. think about everything that falls under the category... 'any other created thing' hmm... that's a lot.
Let the LOVE of Christ dwell in you RICHLY!
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| I think if a certain someone became president it would be a sign of the end times. He is a socialist.
Educate yourself on the candidate's views. Seriously. Educate YOURSELF... don't watch TV in order to educate yourself... unless it's Glenn Beck. Watch that. I am so disturbed by some of the views of one of the candidates.
VOTE.
that's my 2 cents
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| This last week was awesome. first week of school... for me and for the kids! it was amazing. i am so in love with the little children that i work with... here's a couple quotes.
"Miss Lisa, do you have a prince?"
"a prince? haha, no!"
"Hmm... oh.... well, then do you have a dog?"
"I am smiling........ (long pause) with JOY!"
"This red moose cookie cutter camouflages with the red play dough!"
a boy looking up at the clouds moving... "Look! Miss lisa! The sky is moving!"
"Hey Sean, what is your favorite color?" - me
"umm... I have a transformer..." - sean
o my... these kiddo's are greatness. greatness i say! :)
God is good in giving me a job like this. wow. so good.
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| Oh, Cianfranni's! I love this coffee shop. I could sit here all day long.
Ok, so... guess what! I am out of my Starbucks job and I am living the calling. I have always known I have a special connection with children... little children all the way up... but MOSTLY little small children! So... I had been putting in applications all over the place at local elementary schools for a paraprofessional job and I wasn't getting anything. I'd get calls... but... nobody was really interested in me. Then... while I was up in Pennsylvania this past week... I got a phone call from a school that I didn't even apply at! Somebody gave them my phone number and my application and everything! So... they called me and I told them that I was in PA and couldn't come in for an interview... then they agreed to do a phone interview! SO RARE!!! They called me during the bachelorette party and told me that I got the job! And here's the job: I will be an assistant teacher in a preschool class in the elementary school.. It's a class with kids of all kinds... special needs, normal, deaf... who knows... I could get any kind of child in that class... but it's mainly special needs. I will be working one on one with one of the kids with autism and anxiety. The Lord knows me so well! He saw that my heart was crying for children of this day and age and used it! He dropped this job into my lap and basically I had no choice. I know it's what I have to do! The lord is so good! He truly does give us the desires of our hearts. :) He is so good. :)
In other news... Ashley my dearest friend got the same job as me but working with school-age kids. She and I both were getting fed-up with working at Starbucks in that environment and so we started to apply all around... A school called her shortly after I got a job and she interviewed and got the job, basically on the spot!!! So... now my bestie and I are once again... "pretty much the same person" haha. It's really exciting! :) Love it.
I love it when the lord hears my cries and my desires and my passions... and then to see him follow through and provide in all of those needs. He is just amazing. I am so encouraged these days. I have started to simplify... simplify? but you're so simple! you might be thinking... yes... but think about it. How much more can we live if we give up the things of this world. When I came to the realization that I don't need a SINGLE material thing that I have to keep me happy... then i can be truly happy. I don't need this computer... I might think I need it... but it's just because I'm used to it. I don't need my cell phone, I don't need that new shirt or shoes.. I don't need coffee, I don't need music, I don't need my camera, I don't need my long hair, I don't need all of these books, I don't need my prized possessions. I don't need it. I want it. I have tricked myself into believing that I cannot function without all of this stuff... it has become ME. How about I just realize that I don't need it so that If i ever did lose these things, it would be okay. I would be alright. The Lord is the one I need. He can be all those things to me.
I don't know if I'm making any since... but... hear this: Your identity is not found in things that you have, or your beliefs, or in your personality, or in your family, or in your habits and in your hobbies and in your friends... What is your identity? Who are you? Firgure that out. Who are you WITHOUT all of those things? Do you see yourself as boring? Imagine it. Picture it. You're alive. You're more alive. The more you have, the more you have to lose. You are NOT what you eat. :) Get to know yourself in light of Christ. If you see yourself for who you really are... then you can love those around you. then you can enjoy life and enjoy the things you have without them defining you.
man, i just ranted and raved. I have been reading a lot of Anthony De Mello recently and that is something he would have written...
:)
Have a good Sunday. I start my new job tomorrow. My identity is not found in serving children. I serve children because of Christ in me; my true identity.
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| living at home working at starbucks... that's all there is to it.
hardly.
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