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Thursday, March 24, 2005
Sunday night there was a joint service at 2nd RP with all the Indiana churches to listen to Pastor Andrew Quigly (sp?) from Ireland. He preached on one of my favorite Bible passages - 1 Corinthians 13. Why do I love this passage? Well, duh, in the King James Version, it has my name all over it! (haha just kidding, if you didn't guess ;-)) I love it because it's such a beautiful passage with so much meaning, but it's also so, easy to say and so hard to actually apply. I tell my friends and family I love them, but if I am truely speaking about the absolute, true meaning of the word, I am far from a perfect love. In my quiet time Sunday night, I took each characteristic of love and wrote a spacific way I could apply it to my life. Now, don't you love it when you get all excited about applying a Bible verse to your life...but then get disouraged when at your first chance to demonstrate it, you totally blow it? Hmm...maybe that only happens to me...(but I'm willing to bet that I'm not the only one.) So, I guess I'm sort of asking for prayer in this area and encouraging you all to look at that passage and really think about applying it's meaning. I'm not going to try to 'catch you up' on my spring break last week because...well just because. :-P Instead, I'm going to use this post to do something neat I saw on a few friends Xangas. **Make a list of things that end in the number of the last two digits of your year of birth** This could definitely take a while so if you don't read it all, I'm going to be verrrry disappointed in you! (heh, I'm joking...sorta :-P) EDIT: Read it again...I fixed a few mistakes and added a couple things... 1. I am a Christian 2. My name is Charity Ruth Blackwood 3. I was named after my great-grandma Ruth and my great-great grandma Charity 4. I was born and raised in a Christian home 5. I have 3 brothers and 2 sisters 6. I love them all 7. As hard as it is to believe, we don't always get along 8. I was born in Pittsburg, PA 9. When I was around one, we moved to Evansville, IN 10. My dad was the pastor of the RP church there 11. In 2000, the church closed 12. That summer we moved to Indianapolis, IN 13. This is where my dad grew up and close to where my mom did 14. I was homeschooled K5-1st grade 15. I went to a *tiny* Christian school in Evansville 2nd-4th grade 16. I was homeschooled 5th-6th grade 17. I went to Greenwood Christian Academy grades 7-8 18. I am currently a freshman in highschool and am homeschooled 19. I take some classes with other homeschoolers 20. I have several Christian friends who I love dearly 21. Last summer, I got to go on an ECHO missions trip in Florida 22. I made several new friends 23. I try to be friendly with everyone 24. But I know I often fail miserably 25. I have about 7 cats 26. They're 'technically' Maria's (my sisters) 27. At least two of them are pregnant 28. I like them better as kittens 29. I have one dog 30. Allen recently bought 2 rats 31. When we got them the pet store lady said... 32. "Now, you know what's going to happen since you got a boy and a gi'rl?" 33. My favorite color is blue 34. My mother has had three brain tumors 35. The first one was a little over a month before she got married 36. The second one was when she was pregnant with my youngest brother, Benjamin 37. The third one was about 7 years ago 38. Thanks to prayer from many, many people (some who didn't even know her) and God's grace... 39. She is healthy now 40. But she has some balance trouble 41. And has lost some feeling in her right side 42. My parents were married on Christmas Eve 43. They've been married 20 years 44. Do the math 45. My oldest brother, Allen, is 18 46. Zachary is 16 47. Maria is almost 14 48. Tamara is 12 49. Tamara and I share a birthday 50. We're sorta like twins...three years apart 51. Benjamin is 10 52. I love writing 53. That's probably evident, considering I'm taking the time to type this list... 54. My dad would like to live in Australia 55. If it were up to me, we'd stay here (in Indy) for...well for a very long time 56. I started blogging when I was 13 57. I never knew what a blog was before then 58. Anna P. was kind enough to inform me 59. I was such a nerd when I was younger 60. I'm hoping I'm not one now... 61. But I'm sure in a few years I'll look back and say the same 62. I like a lot of different music 63. That's probably thanks to Allen 64. Country is definitely in that list 65. I love how country songs tell a story 66. And a very high percentage of them are clean 67. Have I said yet that I got to Southside RP? 68. I would possibly like to be a teacher 'when I grow up' 69. I love you Anna, Grace, Mary, Mary, Ellie, Ellen, Laura, Lydia, Bekah..annnd all you other wonderful people!!! (happy now? ) 70. I have taken piano lessons since I was six 71. I absolutely love shopping!!! 72. I love staying up late with friends doing 'stupid' things 73. I think I trust other's pretty easily 75. I am in a "Little Women" play 76. I am playing the part of Meg March 77. Two of my best friends are going away for over a week 78. I am really gonna miss them 79. They better call me 80. I wish I could see people who live far away more often 81. Although, I love staying in Indy... 82. I guess I wish they could come visit ME more often 83. *cough cough wink wink nudge nudge...Laura!* 84. I enjoy making my family, especially, laugh 85. I love having phone conversations about nothing in particular 86. But I also love deep conversations about important things 87. I've had some great late-night ones 88. I could spend hours at a time on the computer 89. I love sitting in my room late at night thinking or reading 90. I don't plan to date/pursue a relationship with someone of the opposite se'x until I am ready to pursue marriage Wow...that list was over before I knew it! Got a little bored in the middle of it, though... Song of the post~Psalm 32 sung by Jason Coghill This is just a sample of it from his site. Charity | 4:58 am Comments-[ comments.] |
My life is not my own, for I belong to Christ.