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Name: Angela
Country: United States
State: Texas
Birthday: 11/1/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: culture -- bookstores -- foreign languages -- all kinds of music -- laughing -- singing --TAPIOCA -- making new friends -- what is love? (baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me) <3
Occupation: Student
Industry: Communication and Chinese
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AIM:  ialmondbuni
Member Since:
5/24/2004
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| When someone or a group of people you truly care about have sinned (or you feel have sinned against you), it is then you grow more and more with God. I think through this miscommunication experience God has allowed me into his heart a teeny tiny bit. The other important thing is he has allowed me to understand what the churches in China feel. The churches in China grew exponentially because they were persecuted, tortured, forcefully brought down by the Chinese government, yet it was at this time that they grew the most. That's amazing, because I know exactly how that feels. | | |
| I got two of my wisdom teeth pulled yesterday night. It wasn't so bad when the dentist was going at it, doing his thing, but after the anesthetics wore off - now that was a great feeling. I went to sleep at 2:30 AM, because I couldn't fall asleep for the life of me, and I'm eating rice gruel for every meal. I also feel a slight fever and immense pain in my mouth coming on as the time to take my antibiotics get closer. I should probably take advil in between my antibiotics. The pain itself isn't unbearable; it's the constant feeling of discomfort that I can't stand. When I came to work, my coworkers visited me in my office, and one came in and asked, "Where's the bread?". referring to my swollen mouth as the bread. It's huge, and it's sticking straight out. I think it's the gums that they had to cut through to get to my teeth. It's nice to think that somebody sewed my gums together. What helped me get through the minor surgery was the fact that getting your wisdom teeth pulled is nothing compared to other things, say, getting murdered? Lol, jk. It's a heck of a lot better than giving birth, even though I'm not sure how that feels (and I won't know for a long time, thank God). If Jesus (hung on a cross) and a missionary (gutted) can endure what they endured, I sure as heck can endure this little pain in the ass. Ouch. | | |
| I wish with everything I am that I wasn't ashamed of my strengths, my outspokenness, my thoughts, my headstrong personality, my desires, my passions...and I keep everything inside me for fear of ridicule, of judgments. What kind of guy likes this kind of girl? But I am wrong. I have SEEN these kinds of girls - they are the apple of many a guys' eyes and the envy of many a girls' hearts. What is then wrong with me? "Who, surprised and horrified by the fantastic tumult of her drives (for she was made to believe that a well-adjusted normal woman has a...divine composure), hasn't accused herself of being a monster? Who, feeling a funny desire stirring inside her (to sing, to write, to dare to speak, in short, to bring out something new), hasn't thought she was sick?" - Helene Cixous, Laugh of the Medusa | | |
| My first ever small group leader, Yvonne, called me today. I was surprised she had time to call me, because she's at NYU Law School. I told her I was considering law school, and she said that she wished she had a mentor, and if I did decide to pursue law, she could help lead my way.
I was really starting to lose my faith, because the majority of the people I meet are definitely not like her. I remember when she was my small group leader, she would always call us if we didn't show up - she pursued us. I would sometimes be soooo stressed out (I didn't realize then that...HELLO....she's the one in accounting with 4.0) that I really didn't feel like going, but when I went, she would have cookies or snacks for us. I didn't realize then what a wonderful blessing she is, and what kind of an impact she had on my faith. The kind of person she is and the life she leads gives me faith and makes me believe.
I know this sounds corny, but she is a great role model.
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| "To live in high spirits but not recklessly, to be lighthearted without swaggering or rampaging, to show trust and truthfulness but not unconditionally and not naively, and to face uncertainty with imagination instead of fatalism - this is the art of living."
"One of the most interesting lines to be drawn is the one between innocence (happiness that comes at a cost of being gullible, or less fully awake), and ingeniousness (satisfaction achieved by astute manipulation of effects)."
"Of that which you are not certain, do not speak." Yet --- "If only certainty gives the right to speak, I for one would have little to say. Uncertainty may be a sign of importance. The most important things about being human - such as love, spirit, mindfulness, goodness - have expansive and elusive meanings that far transcend attempts to reduce them to the rigorous specifications of logical certainty, or proof of any kind. Nevertheless, we have every right to go on thinking and talking about them." | | |
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