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Name: Jamie
Country: United States
State: Tennessee
Metro: Johnson City
Birthday: 9/3/1985
Gender: Female
Interests: I like reading, hiking, playing tennis and a couple other sports, although am I not good, I work with toddlers and I love it, I love doing community service, and I just love being with my friends and hanging out.
Expertise: I am not cool enough to have an expertise.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Other
Message: message me
AIM:  jmeshibby101
Member Since:
6/30/2005
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| Just one week of school left!!! Dance dance dance, I am so excited!! I know it has been for-stinkin-ever since I updated but I have just not had much to write about. Still don't really unless you wanna read about Social Stats and Biology. Yay right? I am so excited to be the newly elected Vice President of Service for Alpha Phi Omega, woot woot! I am also excited because we shall be heading down to Orlando to work with give kids the world for a week after finals are over, and then it is off to UB which I am so so so excited about. I love Upward Bound, it is the greatest program ever and George Bush sucks for trying to cut our funding!!! I am so excited about the people I am working with and seeing how much my kids have changed!! It is an amazing programs that changes lives and I am thankful to be a part of it. Other than that, this semester is basically almost over so I will just be working my butt off to get stuff done and then celebrating it being over!!! Leave me a comment and let me know your summer plans... | | |
| Guess who is graduating next May...if you guessed me you are so right! I got my graduation check back and found out what classes I need for graduation and I just need six more classes and I have two semesters left. Now do that math and you realize that I think I can fit it all in. Yay.... So I think there is only one class that I am going to have to put off till the spring, so I get to pick alot of electives to take so I am excited, yay yay yay...never thought I would see that day that I would graduate from college, to think that I will have a degree is crazy ha ha. But, now what I need is some recomendations for electives to take, I am thinking maybe some business classes just in case I decide to get an MBA one day, maybe some more early childhood classes because that is my minor, maybe some psych. I would like to get like ten more degrees if I could but I don't think I can do anymore school....oh well, I just excited to be able to see how close I am to being done. YAY!!! | | |
| I have been thinking alot lately about the world and about how much I have and how much I take for granted that other people don't. Did you know that there are countries in the world where the number of physicians per person ration ranges up to 30,000:1. Did you know that one in five people live on less than one dollar a day, that there are countries where half the population doesn't get daily adequate nutrition. Even worse, there are 6,600 people that die from AIDS in Africa everyday, leaving thousands and millions of children orphaned. Even in our own country one in eight people live in poverty. We may as individuals think that there is nothing we can do to help any of this, but it is so untrue. There are so many organizations and groups that promote awareness and advocacy, I want to encourage you all to go check out some of these websites and put some serious thought in to all the gifts God has given you and the opportunities you have to show love toward your fellow man:
http://www.data.org/whyafrica/issueaids.php
www.povertyusa.org
www.one.org
Another point to keep in mind is education and what an important part it plays in our futures. It builds our futures and determines, for the most part, what job we are going to get, how much we are going to make, our standard of living for our children, and so many other things. This brings me to president Bush's budget for 2007 and the programs he has made the decision to cut. Lets look at them shall we....Upward Bound, Talent Search, and Gear Up. Now I just want you guys to realize that the government standards for a "successful" program and what is not are very bad and we are going to be loosing a great thing if these programs disappear. That is it for today though.... | | |
| Through forgotten convictions
Misplaced affections
I'm losing the sound of Your voice
I've been chasing after emptiness
Trying to tidy up this mess
I swear I’ve been down this road before
I want to get back to where it all began
When I would long for only You
Like a child I'll take You at Your word
As these mountains of doubt, they fade away
I'm longing to trust and love You more
So for me this is beautiful
A brand new thought, and a brand new world
Can I stay here forever here with You?
I've lost sight of what first drew me
To the love that pursued me
The joy that inspired my song
The friendship that was all I knew
The arms that I would fall into
Seem miles and years from where I am today
I got to get back to where it all began
When I would wait for only You
Can I stay here forever
Here with you?
Surrounded by Your mercy
Clothed in Your truth
Always, I'll stay
Always here with You
Can I be here forever
Here with You?
Can I know what it's like
To deeply love You?
Always, Lord, let me stay
Always, here with You
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| Another exhausting weekend...so I have been having some interesting conversations with some of my friends and I am starting to realize how different your life changes as you go through college, and then after you graduate, and then when you get a real job. I am realizing that we all eventually become responsible adults, yeah, it will be a while for me. It just kinda weirds me out to see my friends getting married and having kids and being responsible, owning a home, having full time jobs. It is so weird because I still feel like a student, hanging out with my friends all the time and working part time jobs to get by. And then I think, wow, I am graduating next fall (tentatively) and I think can I really be an adult. Am I ready to grow up. I don't think I am. I am not ready for long term commitments, I am not ready to settle into the rest of my life, to make anything final. I want to stay free spirited, to be open to whatever comes along, to be able to pack up and move if I want, to have no strings attached. Then I look at my wants and I think, well why do I want a boyfriend, why do I want to get married, why do I want a family, and this is the conclusion that I have come to. God knows my true heart, he knows how to separate my wants and needs. He knows that I want a man and a family, but he knows what I need is time to find myself and develop my relationship with him. He knows that I am not ready for the restrictions and responsibilities that come with long term commitments. He knows that I am still growing up and he is withholding from me the wants that I have until I am ready for them. Isn't he an amazing God. Seriously, if I got everything I thought I desperately needed I would ruin my life and many others. It is crazy to think, yeah God thanks for making me be single, but I think the true test of faith falls when you can thank God for your time of singleness and all of the amazing things you will discover during that period of your life. To know that out of the billions of people in this world, all the people that have lived, that do live, and that will live, that God has taken the time to search my heart and separate my needs from my wants. I know that if I really wanted to I could find a date, I could go through the motions of a relationship and pretend the problem is solved. That is not what I want to do though, I really have a desire to see God at work in my life and to align my will with his, so I am choosing to let go of the steering will and hand it over to God. All I can really think to say is what an amazing God! | | |
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