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Name: Megan
Birthday: 11/7/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: ok....it is time to change my interests because they have changed....alot. they r pretty simple it goes something like this : 1) God/Jesus/Holy Spirit 2) family/friends 3) my cat ....yeah i think that sums it all up
Expertise: im workin on it.....
Occupation: Student
Industry: Other
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AIM:  cherriesandlife
MSN: nutmeg8403@hotmail.com
Member Since:
8/30/2004
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| "If you, O, Lord kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness; therefore you are feared. I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word i put my hope." Psalm 129: 3-5 "The first to present his case seems right, till another comes forward and questions him." Proverbs 18:17 "What a man desires is unfailing love; better to be poor than a liar." Proverbs 19:22 | | |
| "Those who say that they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear him, do not in fact believe in him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, within an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God." -Miguel De Unamuno | | |
| Some pretty nifty quotes from the book "The Four Loves" by C.S. Lewis.
So i guess i am kinda speaking to myself along with other women at the same time when i post these quotes and what registered in my head. Something to note: Lewis refers to love between a man and a woman as Eros. Got it? k, good.
About a man just falling in love or Eros.
"A man in this state really hasn't the leisure to think of sex. He is to busy thinking of a person." (So those good guys you girls want...they are thinking of you, not sex. Good to know!)
"...Eros enters him like an invader, taking over and reorganizing; one by one, the institutions of a conquered country. It may have taken over many others before it reaches the sex in him; and it will reorganize that too." (In other words love REALLY does change everything, even how we think...about anything!! For Christians you will also recognize this happening as you get to know God better.)
"Sexual desire, without Eros, wants it, the thing in itself; Eros wants the Beloved."
"Without Eros sexual desire, like every other desire, is a fact about ourselves."
(Sexual stuff without love is one thing: selfish. ouch. Love just wants you.)
"(The thing means that...) He 'wants a woman'. Strictly speaking a woman is just what he does not want. He wants a pleasure for which a woman happens to be the necessary piece of apparatus." (...speaks for itself.)
"Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman." (Tru dat!)
"Eros, without diminishing desire, makes abstinence easier." (God made us to love...duh.But Love, Eros is self-less)
Lewis notes the importance of love and laughter...its all from God.
"For i can hardly help regarding it as one of God's jokes that a passion so soaring, so apparently transcendent, as Eros, should thus be linked in incongruous symbiosis with a bodily appetite which, like any other appetite, tactlessly reveals connections with such mundane factors as weather, health, diet, circulation, and digestion. In Eros at times we seem flying; Venus (Lewis refers to our sexual drive as Venus) gives us the sudden twitch that reminds us we are really captive balloons. It is a continual demonstration of the truth that we are composite creatures, rational animals, akin on one side to the angels, on the other to tom-cats. It is a bad thing not to be able to take a joke. Worse, not to take a divine joke; made, i grant you, at our expense, but also (who doubts it?) for our endless benefit." (K, now read it again...let it sink in. Its ok to laugh now and to be excited to love/laugh.) | | |
| You know, it happens in fantasy movies alot. Where the main character has to stop looking for the answer/solution for the problem to actually find it. Or when young heros have to make a unselfish move to be able to complete their journey. Reminds me of what God has been showing me lately, and last nite at Steve's Cru (haha, u like that?) Amanda reminded me of it as well. We have to be disciplined and make an effort to be unselfish in "what we want to do for God". Because when we start listening to teh distractions around us then God becomes harder to hear. Its in the Bible too: "In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires." Romans 6:11 "Since you died with Christ to the basic principles of this world, why, as though you still belonged to it, do you submit to its rules: Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!" Colossians 2:20 There are alot of verses about this sprinkled all over...probably so we dont forget. | | |
| "Yet if we know God and for other's sake tell what we know, we must try to speak of His love. All Christians have tried, but none has ever dont it very well. I can no more do justice to that awesome and wonder-filled theme than a child can grasp a star. Still, by reaching toward the star the child may call attention to it and even indicate the direction one must look to see it. So, as i stretch my heart toward the high, shining love of God, someone who has not before known about it may be encouraged to look up and have hope." -The Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer | | |
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