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My life is not my own, for I belong to Christ.

It is because of God's grace and for His glory that I "live and move and have my being."

I am currently back in Indiana, studying English Education at Purdue University, far from the home I've come to know and love in Victoria, Australia

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Thursday, March 24, 2005

I went to Jason Coghill's concert last night at our church. I enjoyed it a lot. He is a very good singer and does it for God's glory. What more could you ask for?

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

// posted by Charity @ 4:58 am

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