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Name: Colleen
Country: United States
State: Maryland
Birthday: 6/23/1982
Gender: Female
Interests: Bowling, starting books I never seem to finish, music (listening, debating whether or not to start studying it again), writing, dreaming, sometimes thinking too much, and well, working at Starbucks!
Expertise: Lately, my expertise has been slacking off... let's hope that little phase I'm going through right now ends soon!
Occupation: Other
Industry: Retail
Message: message me
Member Since:
6/28/2002
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Tread lightly, she is near
Under the snow,
Speak gently, she can hear
The daisies grow.
All her bright golden hair
Tarnished with rust,
She that was young and fair
Fallen to dust.
Lily-like, white as snow,
She hardly knew
She was a woman, so
Sweetly she grew.
Coffin-board, heavy stone,
Lie on her breast,
I vex my heart alone,
She is at rest.
Peace, peace, she cannot hear
Lyre or sonnet,
All my life's buried here,
Heap earth upon it.
~Oscar Wilde~ | | |
| Well, my brother came home Sunday night, and will be here through Thanksgiving.
It's kind of strange to see how much we've grown apart, but how alike we still are. I noticed that we were more alike the first few months he was away at school, when I would be at bowling events and as I was talking to some of his best friends, their reaction to something I said would be, "You know, Colleen, that's how I know you and LeRoy are related. Because he would've said that exact same thing."
Our minds have similar thinking patterns. I've noticed that my brother and I both have this uncanny ability to rationalize almost anything. (Which can be both good and bad.) Our inital reaction to a lot of things is the same. It's funny. We look nothing alike, we spend our free time doing conpletely different things. The two of us have been through a lot together, and are very protective of each other, even though we can go weeks living in the same house without really saying something to each other. It's a strange sort of sibling relationship.
Maybe we get along like this because our minds are so similar. We can usually tell what the other is thinking, or what's bothering the other.
We share many of the same political views. We share many of the same ideas of how a family should function.
We have similar beliefs.
Except when it comes to God.
Something I've been struggling with these last few weeks, since I found out my brother would be home, is whether or not to talk to him about his choice of being an atheist.
Deep down, he's such a good person, and I so badly want him to experience the love and irresistable grace of Christ as I have, to be a person who lives for Him.
But I can't tell if it's time for me to talk to him about it. I know that LeRoy's believing is ultimately between him and God, but how do I know when it's time to do my part and try to help him to the extent that I can? | | |
| "Return, O faithless sons,
I will heal your faithlessness."
"Behold, we come to you,
for you are the LORD our God." --Jeremiah 3:22
As I read this verse in preparation for Sunday night, it certainly hit something inside me. I had, at a point in my life some years ago, abandoned my faith in the Lord.
He is so true in his word. For I have returned to the Lord (especially in this past year), and I truly feel that He is healing my faithlessness. My faith is the strongest it's ever been, and it still continues to grow. What amazing love God has for us, that he will never abandon those who abandon Him. | | |
| What's with the wildlife in Anne Arundel County? It's like they're determined to scare me half to death while I'm driving. Sunday and Monday I kept getting close calls with squirrels... and just about 30 minutes ago, on my way home from an errand, I slow down to avoid hitting a deer. And whilst I was looking at it as I approached it (it was now on the side of the road), I notice it's a baby. So as I wonder where its mother is, I see movement from the corner of my eye and have to suddenly slam on my brakes as the mother darts right in front of me! 
Thankfully, both mother and baby deer are safe (hopefully I've been the only encounter tonight), but at this rate, I'll end up killing some sort of wildlife before the week is over.... 
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| So what's with the increased squirrel population lately?
Today, running my various errands, I was oh-so-close to hitting like 5 or 6 squirrels. Yesterday, the count was 3...
And everytime I see one in the road, I think of that Geico commercial with the two squirrels deliberately sitting in the road so a car swerves and crashes while trying to avoid them. And then, when I think of that commercial, that just makes me resent the squirrels.  (As if that's the real reason they're running across the road.)
Anyway, is anyone free Wednesday night? There's some cruise thing that WRNR's been sponsoring this summer, and the last show is this Wednesday... if it's not too much, anyone interested in going? | | |
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