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Name: Jennifer
Country: United Kingdom
Metro: Oxford
Birthday: 8/27/1985
Interests: being with christopher my boyfriend, visiting greek isles, watching sunsets, dancing, singing, the piano, the guitar, spanish, jr. highers, high schoolers, college age kids, scene it!, thrift store shopping, world traveling, mangoes and passion fruit, contemporary philosophy, movies, sleeping, great food, the beach, texas hold 'em, coffee, concerts, my family, cool people, bridge, spending hours in the library, yoga, liberation theology, africa,
Expertise: what's an expertise exactly? I'm a student of many things at the moment, expertise of none. I have two jobs, does that count as expertise? Probably not.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Nonprofit
Message: message meEmail: email me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  Chamberjp9
Member Since:
12/30/2004
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| so anybody up for seeing the world this summer?
destinations thus far:
1. Nepal (late may)
2. Ireland (end of June)
3.???
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| so since my life is a little different since I was last on here, here's a few updates: 1. i'm home from oxford/the european continent 2. i broke up with chris conway in feb. 3. i'm dating a guy named Chris Hansen and have been for almost 5 months, and yeah he's amazing, it's such a good thing. 4. I have a new job planning college short term missions trips at my church and i love it. 5. I'm living with two of my best friends, Lauren and Jess and i couldn't be happier. 6. I think I'm going to Peru in December/January with some high schoolers because we can 7. I aquired a new Toyota Prius as an incredibly loving gesture of my grandparents enormous wealth- i've never loved a car so deeply. 8. I'm graduating in May with two degrees- out of control overachieving i know. 9. I'm in the process of applying for a Fulbright scholarship to Africa- wish me luck! And I want to talk to all of you again! | | |
| Well all, it's that time. The time of the semester, for those of us enlightened folks under the semester system, where the highlight of your week is a canceled class. Where after an all nighter filled with a Kierkegaard paper, 5 integration summaries for psychology, the last church history paper, and a philosophy summary, you look back on the day and think that the best part was the free giveaways at Starbucks. Gingerbread lattes, cookies, and coffee grounds...what more could you want? At the moment all I'd like is shoes that don't give me blisters and about 5 hours of sleep. But really, all I'd like in these next few weeks, before the entire semester comes to a close and I'm on a plane to Heathrow, is to see each and every one of you. You all are amazing people. Let's do lunch. Did anybody else see Rent? Any thoughts? | | |
| I've got a hunger
twisting my stomach into knots
that my tongue was tied off
my brain's repeating
"if you've got an impulse let it out"
but they never make it past my mouth.
...this is the sound of settling
I just can't wait to get out of this country. | | |
| By the very wise Brad Onishi:
Love? or something like it . . .
Is God real?
Is love real?
Can you hide from either? How about both?
To love is to be open; it is vulnerability in the truest sense of the word. It requries an openness to another that causes one's self to be disoriented from the selfishness that consumes us so regularly in order to be present to another. Love is a giving of that self completely to another; a letting go of all hiding, all control, all hiddenness. Scary? Of course; what is scarier than than the complete revelation of your-self? Risky? How could it not be? To disclose oneself to another is the riskiest thing of all.
Sceptics might say that this is foolish--a romantic ideal constructed for another time and place--unfathomable today. Others would say that it is the only thing worth living for. The secret is to realize that love is not a liquidation of the self--a surrender of distinction that results in dependence and originates in frailty. On the contrary, love--presence--Otherness--is the key to selfhood. The one that loves finds that to be human is to be to an-other. Only in this presence, this co-relationality are we to find what it means to be alive; to be human.
How does God fit into this?
Our answer--to love, to humanness, to life--lies in the picture of relationality that is our God. His love is vulnerable. His self is open. He died. Our answers lie here, if nowhere else. This is where we find what life is for, who we are, and ultimately, why we are.
I don't really feel like I have anything to add on to this. | | |
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