January 2010
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Catcher in the Rye, RIP JD Salinger
“Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s...
Things I Miss Doing:
- Reading books recreationally (yes, for fun, not for school)
- Playing the guitar/piano/french horn…listening to classical/jazz music, something I don’t do enough…I love band music (especially when they renditions of popular songs!)
- Adobe Photoshop :( I don’t have it on the mini laptop.
- playing Flag Football w/ the sisters (even though I’m not athletically...
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Jesus as your brother
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teanut:
*** another Good New Reflection shared by my momster :) ***
All too often as adults we have better relationships with friends than we do with our brothers and sisters and parents. Family relationships are supposed to last a lifetime. God’s plan for marriage and family – as modeled by the Holy Family – is for us to be a community of faithful love even during disagreements...
Relationships take Time
“Community is built not on convenience (“we’ll get together when I feel like it”) but on the conviction that I need it for spiritual health. If you want to cultivate real fellowship, it will mean meeting together even when you don’t feel like it, because you believe it is important…Fellowship requires an investment of time.” (p. 151, Purpose Driven Life)
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I apologize friends. I haven't been a good friend...
mareyin:
I feel bad, but please try and understand…
I feel like I haven’t attempted to text you since you said you were having phone problems…but that shouldn’t have made me stop texting you (since you were able to receive, but not able to send messages). Anyways. Sorry for being a bad counterpart in Purpose Driven Life…I really am. I hope you will understand for the...
I've begun to feel...
yamesss:
2nd Tumblr post!
So, it all started after I graduated High School. Class of ‘09! Since my senior year started, I’ve been applying to every store to get a job. EVERY STORE. Except food places. I don’t want to be sued in the food industry for food poisoning.. hahaha. So, every was getting jobs, and I couldn’t… or I just wasn’t able to. No one wanted to hire me… Still, to this day, I...
How would you describe the perfect girl?
heisjealousforme:
chrisyoungblood:
She’d be an inch and a half shorter than me with three freckles that make a triangle in the middle of her collarbone. Hazel eyes would make my blood electric with every stare. Her cheeks would hit the hang up button on her cell phone and they would warrant a perfect line from a song to be dedicated to them as we dance in circles on the carpet of my living...
noelakaleon:
hey noel, are you going to any of the cfc-youth conference this year? jw. btw this is quyen :) haha
ah hey chi! maybe. i don’t know if i want to yet.
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Anything. Ask me.
lol ok. :) hi em.
Day of catch-ups
- Purpose Driven Life…supposed to be on Day 25…I think I am on day 20. *SIGH* Tried this weekend, but I guess I didn’t have much time as I thought I did or didn’t make enough time for it. Need to really buckle down…and prepare myself for…Lent? Easter? Conference? Idk, whatever it is, I really need to just turn away from idleness and really turn to God.
- Should...
Choosing your commitment wisely (devotional)
Monday, January 25, 2010 ‘But You Promised’ by Rick Warren
It is a trap for a man to dedicate something rashly and only later to consider his vows. Proverbs 20:25 (NIV)
Have you ever …
… promised to deliver by a set date and later regretted it? … volunteered for a job you had no idea would take so long? … agreed to a deal that looked great but wasn’t?...
heisjealousforme:
Love is Waiting - Brooke...
We are One Body
First Letter to the Corinthians 12:12-30. As a body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons, and we were all given to drink of one Spirit. Now the body is not a single part, but many.
If a foot should say, “Because I am not...
Camp Rock
is on…haha! I am so sad to say that I am 22 years old and still watching Disney Channel…but hey, it brings the Youth in me (I still get a lot that I still look the same from when I was 16/17 years old)! To me, that’s kind of a compliment. :)
Yep, I'm really going to do this...
I hope I don’t open pandora’s box with this link here. :)
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God bless,
Quyen
During Lifeteen mass today...
we sang, “Hosanna”…it’s not a new song and I’ve heard it and sang it million of times…but it’s different every time I sing it…
“Break my heart for what breaks Yours
Everything I am for Your Kingdom’s cause
As I walk from Earth into Eternity…”
Truly, I feel like I still have a lot growing to do spiritually and God is...
“It’s not what you do, but how much love you put into that matters.”
– Mother Teresa (from Purpose Driven Life reading)
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Dear Marianne
I am really, really behind in Purpose Driven Life…for I am only done with Chapter 15 (and today/yesterday was Chapter 18)…So I am THREE DAYS BEHIND!!! Arggh. I know we’re supposed to read daily and text/e-mail each other every day. However, I have kept little notes to what I think about each Chapter, so once you get texting again, we’ll continue our accountability thing. I...
Mo Money, Mo Problems!
I used to not understand why people said, “Mo’ money, mo’ problems!” But seriously, money is the issue of many of my problems:
1.) I am dependent on my student loans for tuition, books…as well as gas, credit card bills…supposedly my financial loan is disbursing…soon (like tomorrow)…I’m excited, but at the same time, I know it’s going all...
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Heightened sensitivity
I feel like I am an extremely sensitive person, and I do not know why I have become this way. My mom would refer to me as the crybaby, the girl who did not get hit but just yelled at and would simply tear up. Don’t get me wrong and assume that I am depressed. But yes, I do have my fair share of complaining or whining.
I believe the reasons I am sensitive is that: 1.) I want the approval of...
Noteworthy
- I think I pissed off my co-worker by doing one of her tasks, because it messes up her communication line with the artists we need to contact (I did it because my boss said that we need to e-mail the artists soon and it doesn’t hurt to see their availability and their costs—the concert would be in April or May and we cannot contact them just one month or two months ahead) I e-mailed...
Busyness vs. Idleness in the next few months
BUSYNESS:
JANUARY: - Planning/marketing UWB’s Winter Quarter dance (it’s still under wraps, so I can’t tell you guys the cool theme!) which is on the 29th.
- Have a speech/presentation due on the 21st!
- Having to find a school/place to work around teenagers (in a non-religious way…it could be at a church, but no bible studying, etc…)
- Still trying to hear back...
“1. Naturalists - inspired to love God out-of-doors, in natural settings.
2....”
– - From Sacred Pathways by Gary Thomas (quoted in Purpose Driven Life)
I starred #5 because I feel like I am called to act in love to fight against evils of this world (sounds cliche/hero-ish, but this is the truth)…I feel like I have a little bit of everything though otherwise.
He said, "Son/daughter...do you know I still love...
When I first heard this song, was a brother in the CFC community sang this on Karaoke…and it sounded like an old Christian song…but the words are so powerful, and gives a vivid image. As we have a great and awesome God and although we are traitor and we have spat on him and left Him…He still forgives us and calls us back into his home (heaven)….As I keep striving for...
“Today is 011110! Binary Day!”
– (via ellephantastic) (via kbcdefg) (via dearmary) (via arianesantos) (via lilmisstetel)
LOL too bad it’s not tomorrow so I could discuss about it in my Concept of Number math class -_-…nerd status.
sin slowly creeps into our life
cjvillarosa:
screw cursing, screw drinking, screw getting high, screw giving the finger, screw gossipping, screw lust, screw selfishness, screw disobedience. screw it all. nothing but pointless crap that take’s people over blindly without their discretion sometimes.
The reason is you...Jesus
A song I’ve always liked is “The Reason” by Hoobastank…
and as I read Purpose Driven Life, I kinda feel like this song is my love song to Jesus…that I’m not a great person or even a good person…until I make my life about Him instead of always being self-centered…
I’m not a perfect person There’s many things I wish I didn’t do ...
“Whom have I in heaven but you?
And there is nothing on earth that I desire...”
– Psalm 73 (via heisjealousforme)
My favorite psalm.
40 days? Minor adjustments
So I noticed I haven’t been able to fully stay off Facebook or Twitter, and have looked at my Tumblr account since my 40 days blog…
I want to say that I will not make personal statuses/updates about myself. The reason why I am doing this is because I feel like that’s the only way I communicate to people, when I should talk to people as individuals rather than an internet mass...
40 days
Going to give up Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter for personal use (other than work) for the next 40 days (except Sundays)…Why? To really connect with others in non-internet ways and really live and do other productive things besides whine, get bored, or random mindless surfing…Must focus on school and personal relationship with God.
“I love you for what you are, and what you do and how you try. I’ve seen your...”
– (via raindropsonredroses)
This is what I want someone to say to me… one day.
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That’s how God sees us everyday! :]
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Heh! This is a Buffy the Vampire Slayer quote! Awesome:)
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AYYYYY-men. :)