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Name: Staci
Country: United States
State: Illinois
Gender: Female
Interests: Spontaneous road trips, hanging out with A-MAZING friends, tumbling, hanging out with the coolest people ever...aka tumbling team, missions, shopping, reading, music, Asbury (not the school part, but the social part!!), big cities, beautiful days, deep conversations with people, nosing people (...not getting nosed!!), tumbling (did I already say that?), dressing up and going out with friends to dinner, late night Taco Bell runs, skateboarding, eating, star gazing, family, naps, watching the sun set, missions, worship, and most importantly...spending time with Jesus!
Expertise: What expertise? ...I think I'm an expert at being a student now...since I've been in school my whole life!!!
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  Smusicgal19
Member Since:
4/17/2005
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| (I wrote this entry a few days ago but I'm posting it now)
One word to describe Passion= A-MAZING!!!
If you don't know what Passion is, its this conference that is taking place in Nashville with about 18,000 college students.
Things I've found amazing so far:
1. "The Invisible Children"- if you have never heard of these children there's a documentary on them that 3 college students filmed while in Uganda. Its the story of how children are abducted in the Congo and forced to learn how to fight and kill for 1 man. Hundreds of children escape to the borders of the country at night, or should I say flee, to camp out for the night. They have no parents, barely any food, just the clothes on their back, and there's hundreds of them!
I don't think there was a dry eye in the whole place! I'm talking to a representative and hopefully, we'll bring the movie to Asbury to show our campus. I have such a huge heart for the world and I love people who are willing to go out and make a documentary on true stories to show people in the rest of the world. Sometimes we are so blind to what is going on all over the world...we need to take our Passion for Jesus and go!
2. Louie Giglio-amazing speaker! Tonight was our last night session. Louie talked about the universe and how small we are and the planet Earth is to the rest of the universe and galaxies. His point was to show us how big God really is!!! Ask me about this sometime cause there's so much to say that I can't type it all...or just ask me if you want to borrow the cd on this session.
3. Jesus...guys--Jesus is incredible! I've fallen in more and more in deeper love with Him...He is so BEAUTIFUL!!! Before this conference started, I was praying for brokenness. This past semester I've been calling myself an idiot for how stupid I've been and far I've grown away from God. Some people would never have guessed...but I hated myself for it! I knew what I was doing and I kept getting farther and farther away from God as I did what I wanted. I was only looking to make myself happy and how wrong was I. One of the most important things I've learned is that I can't satisfy myself. I can only be satisfied in God and once I'm satisfied in Him then I will be satisfied with myself.
4. To go along with the one above, worship! Its so amazing to be able to look out at an arena of 18,000 college students just worshiping our Father, calling out to Him, lifting up our hands...worshipping as we've never worshiped before--from the bottom of our hearts! Tonight, I bawled! I couldn't stop crying because of how beautiful Jesus was. I didn't want the night to end...I just wanted to keep worshipping Him right then and there. but, in all reality...it doesn't end there...its a lifestyle! We don't need Chris Tomlin to worship the Lord but we do it with our lives and what we choose to do!
Guys...this is our generation. There's a whole world out there that doesn't know Jesus. How sad is that! If we claim to be believers...why don't we do something about it!!! Let's stop living for ourselves and start living for the one that matters!!! What are you going to do???
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| Someone asked me the other day if I missed my friends at school...to be really honest...I don't. Its nothing against my friends but I haven't really had time to sit around and be bored. I mean, I miss hanging out and everything with them but I hate the school part! Usually, after a day or two I'm ready to go back to school cause I'm already sick of my family and being home. But, its different this time. I've been working over 40 hours a week...which means getting up at 5:30 in the morning and not getting home until after 6pm. That part sucks, but its easy work, I like the people I work with, and good money. By the end of break I don't think I'll miss work...I'll miss the money...and I'll be READY to go back to school!
On a lighter note, I only have one more day left of work and then I get a week off!!! I'm headed on a roadtrip to see friends all over the place. First stop: I'm headed down to Cinci for a wedding...Meg and Grant are going with me...should be a fun car ride...and I get to dance that night...well I can't really dance but I'll try! ...Its going to be a fun night! Next stop: After the wedding I'm driving by myself to Indianapolis to see Walt and Gentry, two of my best guy friends..spending New Years there...its going to be crazy times! Stop 3: Down to TN to Adam's house to watch the VT bowl game...go VT! Stop 4: Nashville for 4 days to the Passion conference...get to go worship Jesus with some of my best friends...its going to be incredible! Stop 5: Louisville for the day to see Beth! Last stop: Home!
Its going to be a lot of driving...but I'm excited!
Happy New Years everybody! | | |
| Here are the pictures I said I would put up from things through out the semester...
Night on the town...
Cold Stone stop...the boys...downtown...fun times!!!
Paula and Andy's wedding...
Artist Series...don't we look hot!
really good friends...Gentry and Walter...Applebees...(Amanda and I practically live at Walt's almost every night...) these boys have been a lifesaver in helping me with my car problems
Asbury Halloween roller skating party...yea, I defiantly have not skated since middle school-it was interesting!...me and Amanda as cats and Kara as the crazy cat woman! It was so much fun!
Crazy friends...Braddy as the fat ballerina and Melissa as a hippie | | |
| Wow...It's been sooooo long this I last updated!!! Sorry guys....I've been a slacker or should I say way too busy!
Well, the semester is about half over. This year has defiantly been different, but it's like that every year. There have been so many good/fun/crazy times!!! I switched dorms about a month into school and I'm loving it!!! I'm with all my friends and I'm now a Glide-Crawford girl! What's good about this year is that my friendships with some people have gotten so much deeper. I've really gotten to know one girl who just transferred in to my class and we just connected right away.
But, not everything has been great so far. I'm really missing some people from last year who either graduated or just didn't come back to school. I hate not being able to talk or see them all the time. This reality is starting to hit me really deeply. I keep thinking about in a year and a half I'll be graduating and how I won't see a lot of my friends for a long time. Seriously guys...its so sad! The friends you make in college are incredible...their all so amazing! But, that's enough depressing stuff...heck, I still have so much more time left! Believe me...I'm in no rush to leave school...well maybe the school part...not the social part!
Well this part weekend I went home for fall break. It was so good to just go home and relax. Amanda went with me and we went into the city one day. I have one thing to say about the approaching winter....cold=not happy/miserable me! Every winter just makes my decision about moving somewhere where its warmer after I graduate a whole lot easier. That's just my feelings on the cold!
I hope this update makes some people happy...I finally got around to it!
Well, here are some pictures throughout the semester:
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| So, today I was in kind of a down mood most of the day. That was until my roommate made me play soccer in our room at 12:30 at night...talk about fun!!!
We had a class block party last night...had a huge slip in slide that I actually did! Yea I know...me!
So I would love to have some visitors this year...any takers??? It would be worth it!!! | | |
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