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Posted on Friday, January 27 th, 2012 at 8:12 pm by Christin WalkerPlanS
My dad sent me this in an email today, and it’s definitely worth remembering. Seeing as how my family is going through a pretty rough time and I feel like I’m just surviving day by day, this brings me at least a little bit of peace. It’s a devotional written by Michael Raypholtz, and it’s taken out of The Upper Room. Jeremiah 29:11 — “I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you h...
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Bye Bye Buddha…
Background information: I have been sick since last summer. It’s been a constant battle between my stomach and the food I eat. I’ve had dengue fever (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengue_fever) thanks to a mosquito. I’ve stepped on rusty nails and had to get tetanus shots. I’ve had headaches. It’s always something… A few weeks ago, my friend Alyse mentioned something to me that I hadn’t thought about at all. She said, “You know, maybe you’re a...
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Home is where the heart is…
Well, the much-anticipated airport “movie scene” was kinda ruined thanks to me missing my flight from Atlanta to Asheville (‘preciate that one Delta…BONK). So, instead of arriving in Asheville at 6pm, I got there at midnight, and Eric found me waiting on a curbside bench beside my luggage being emo. (Surprise, surprise.) So maybe all that didn’t end up the way we imagined, but that first real life (post-Thailand) hug and kiss will forever be a favorite memory. Gah, ...
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Beauty.
beau-ty [n.] – the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations, a meaningful design or pattern, or something else. What is beauty? What makes something beautiful? Is beauty really in the eye of the beholder? What does that even mean??? Why do people put so much emphasis on beauty anyway? Am I beautiful? To me, beauty is a sunset behind the Bangkok cityscape that looks like God Himself painted...
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Posted on Thursday, September 02 nd, 2010 at 11:16 am by Christin WalkerChat Chat Chat It Up.
Ok, so the BFF-Madre told me that my lovely father already knows about all my tattoos, so I’m just gonna throw this blog post out there in hopes that a) she’s not joking, b) he’s forgiven me, and c) Jesus smiles at me on days like today. P.S. Shout out to David & Mollie Wiley…yall are gonna love this one! ;) So, I just got home from my usual massage place. I just love those ladies there. They call me “Teacher” because they know that I work at BCC…I m...
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Posted on Sunday, August 29 th, 2010 at 9:09 am by Christin WalkerAwake, O Sleeper.
I’ve fallen asleep lately. I’ve just been going through the motions of everyday life, and I feel as though I’ve become numb to everything surrounding me. Perhaps the monotonous tune of the mundane has been lulling me to sleep. It’s like a song stuck on replay, everyday–wake up, work, go home, sleep–of course with an underlying harmony of Skype playing throughout the number. This week, I’ve made a conscious effort to get out of my apartment and actually h...
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Posted on Saturday, August 14 th, 2010 at 4:36 am by Christin WalkerBKK Holiday.
Thank God it’s a 4-day holiday. Happy Birthday to the Queen of Thailand…thank you for being born so I can get a couple days off of work. You know, I can admit that my students are slowly convincing me to fall in love with them, but I needed a break. Mid-term progress reports just about killed me! I for sure had to write about all 120 of my students and figure out grades and blah blah blah. Honestly, I’d much prefer to be the student TAKING the mid-terms than the teacher GRADING...
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Living off X’s & O’s
Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion’s starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don’t see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often, it’s not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it’s always there – fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, ...
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Storytime with Cwalk.
9-13 But in the end, does it really make a difference what anyone does? I’ve had a good look at what God has given us to do—busywork, mostly. True, God made everything beautiful in itself and in its time—but he’s left us in the dark, so we can never know what God is up to, whether he’s coming or going. I’ve decided that there’s nothing better to do than go ahead and have a good time and get the most we can out of life. That’s it—eat, drink, and mak...
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Lucky.
The world always looks brighter from behind a smile. -Author Unknown << Some of my 6th graders. This week has been unreal, and I’m pretty sure I’m the most blessed person on the planet. Though I was forced to fight through insomnia and my students were absolutely insane all week, I can still say that this has been one of the best weeks I’ve had since I’ve been back, and that’s something to be thankful for. For some strange reason there’s just been ...
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