KALE CHARIS

Strivin' tagged me so here's my list of things about me for each letter of my user name.  

K-I still have the Kaleidescope I got when I was eight and I can 
still stare into it for a very long time.  
A- My Anscestors are mostly from Austria, France and Germany.
L- I'm Loved by God.
E- I get Excited a lot. On im I have a smiley that's "mine." It's a blue guy jumping up and down.  I call it my "Yay" smiley.  

(And since Kale is short...)

C- My family has a blue Calico named Gracie and she has the softest fur in the world.  
H- I've never celebrated Halloween.  We always make doughnuts instead.
A- Right now I'm doing Anylitical Geometry. I like except for the graphing part.
R - Romans is my favorite book of the Bible. 
I - I feel like I is a very self absorded letter.  
S - My Sanity is safe in the sanity box.  

I didn't do it exactly how I was supposed to,  but oh well. Anyone want to guess what Kale Charis means?  I'll give you some brownie points if you get them right.   I'm still looking for the place where you can exchange brownie points for brownies though.  

Picture

We had snow a few weeks ago and I took this picture.


I'm sorry it has been so long. I've had some hard things happen lately, but anyway I'll try and make a real post soon.

Heh, you all should see how hard it is raining. We have a miniature river flowing down our driveway.

My Bucket List

I'm really tired right now. I just got home from a celebration of the things God has done in my church this year. It's amazing how he does the impossible every time. I'll stop now, because otherwise I would be tempted to ramble about it all.

We had a speaker on Friday night who was encouraging us to write out a "Bucket List" (There's a movie by the same name that has this in it) of things we want to do before we, well, "Kick the Bucket." Things that include God and things that we just want to do. So anyway, I thought I would share some of mine with y'all.

(Note that I'm not putting them in order of importance :P)
1. Be part of at least 100 people coming to Christ.
2. Live in a foreign country for at least a year.
3. Write some kind of book.
4. Visit every continent (with the possible exception of Antarctica).
5. Change the world.
6. Hang glide.
7. Drive through the Chunnel.
8. Graduate from college.

What's on your bucket list?

Red Scarf Girl-Ji li Jiang

I just finished reading this book and I was really shocked. It was about a girl during the cultural revolution in China ( I believe it was circa 66). It was interesting because I had never really learned much about the cultural revolution and I was shocked.

Throughout the whole book awful things were happening to Ji li and her family, but she never realized that they were wrong. The people had been so brainwashed by the communists that they thought it was fair for them to suffer even when they hadn't done anything wrong. The devil really had a hay day. I thought it was interesting how she eventually was forced to choose between the communists (which she had been taught all her life were good) and her family and how hard that choice was.

Reading this book made me even more grateful for the privilege of living in a country where there are those checks and balances so one person can't ruin life for everyone else. It really opened my eyes to what those people had to go through and caused me to realize how much I should be praying for the people of China.

ArT

I went with my mom to the art museum today. My dad had cheerfully volunteered to stay home and install a new faucet on the sink :) I had never actually been to an "Art Museum" before, or at least not that I remember. Heh, I guess I didn't really believe the things people say about modern art. Some of the artwork I did when I was 5 was better than that stuff.

I did really enjoy the Roman exhibit. It was fascinating to see what the people from my history book and even the bible had really looked like. By the end I was done looking at statues And busts. I can only take so many lifeless eyes glaring at me. I do wonder what it was like for them to have someone make a statue of them. I bet they never imagined it would be in an art museum thousands of years later with so many people shuffling past it. Seriously...an art museum would be the perfect setting for some kind of horror story. It all made me think of Night at the Museum. I would not want to be there when some of that stuff came alive. I can imagine the sheer terror that would ensue.

I was really there to look at the Renaissance art and was disappointed that they only had about 10 or 15 paintings from that time period, but they were interesting nonetheless. It was cool how the paintings varied by what country they were from.

I'm back at long last.

Well, I seem to have neglected posting on here for quite some time, but I won't lie and say it was an accident. I've been busy and I think I've grown up a little bit.

I went to camp last weekend and God really met me there in a new way. Something I thought was cool was that I'd been struggling with things and every time one of the leaders would pray for me they would pray and it would be for the exact thing I need. There was no way they could have known and it just seemed like it was God's way of saying he loves me. He really gave me a faith that's mine...it's not my family's faith or my parent's, but it's really mine and I've never really had that before. It's so weird now because I feel so confident in him. I'm not so shy about things anymore and I really feel like he has given me a new sense of freedom.

Oh, and Y'all wanna know the coolest thing? God dances! He does! He picks me up and spins me around!

Do you see what I see? A star, a star, dancing in the night..

Well long time no post, Eh? (No, I'm not Canadian :P I just like saying "Eh") It really doesn't matter because no one reads this anyway, but still...

I'm really excited for Christmas right now. I know it's not for a while, but I cannot wait! Yesterday I helped make cookies for something they're having at church and it just seemed so much like how Christmas is supposed to be. My mom and I and and my friend and her mom frosting peppermint cookies while listening to Krystal Lewis's Christmas cd (We must've listened to that cd at least 5 times!) and talking and laughing. It was so cool because it was like Christmas, but without the busy feeling you get or the worrying about who's coming over or what I'm getting them. I never thought making cookies could be so exhausting, but it was the good kind of exhuasting. It's good we don't do it too often because I ate a lot of cookies and candy yesterday :D Another thing...I love Christmas music right now. I've been playing it all the time :P