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Name: Dorcas/:DEE Birthday: 6/28/1985 Gender: Female
Interests: Serving my GREAT God*All my belovded friends*singin in the sun, rain, snow, perty much anywhere*VOLLEYBALL*mUsIc MuSiC mUsIc!*workin with my students/my favorite people :)*Photography* *Parties!!!*lil tiny cute adorable babies*and just livin life... Expertise: *yacking*partyin*and everything else in between lol (not quite) Occupation: Teacher!! :)
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11/3/2004
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| The newest addition to the Nice family <3 Isn't he just precious!! <3 I just love being able to cuddle him!! On a different note ... lately I've been shocked to see so many believers giving up values and teachings that come straight from God's Word. I've heard many excuses (which Satan is more than willing to provide) like "there is freedom in Christ and we need to stop living in bondage" or "we need to focus more on the principle" and many others! I'm not saying that these things aren't true I just don't think that God means for us to stop living the Kingdom life. I've been reading Matt. 7 and it's been personally convicting me also making me think about the things going on around me. I feel like I have new resolve about the life I choose to live. As I read through and got to the verse about the narrow way I tried to look at it from a different direction than what I've always thought it meant but there is really no getting around it. God really wants us to understand that being connected to Him and having Him flow out of us will set us APART from the way those around us live. Matt. 7: 13"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. I have to wonder how many times I have convinced myself that living in "the middle" is an ok way to live. Why is it so easy for me to live apathetically and without passion? Is it because there isn't really a pressure against apathy? I tend to shy away from passion...but isn't that the tendency? I am a bit sick of people trying to fake passion as well...not that I haven't done it myself. (maybe that's why I dislike it so much) It's one thing to talk passionately and to say all the right things and its a whole different story to live passionately. Lets just say that disciplined living or the lack thereof is easy to spot. Matt. 7:15"Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them. Sadly as I write this I have to say that I have this little sick feeling in the pit of my stomache...I'm convicted. I know that all too often I have talked the talk and not walked the walk. I realize too that before I expect anyone around me to be passionate I must learn to be just that. I must live closely connected to the vine. I guess this is a confession of sorts. I am tired of trying to "look" passionate and only "sounding" that way. I'm tired of telling people what to do instead of letting Christ work in my life and doing what He says I should. I want to live on the narrow away, allow Christ to work in me, I want to bear the fruit of Christ in my life, and I want to build my life on a firm Foundation. "Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. Matt. 7:24-25 | | |
| This song had been on my mind a lot lately. It made me ask myself how many times I don't recognize a message from God or don't give credit where credit is due. Our Father loves us so much and wants us to know that. He tries to tell us in different ways. I think way to often I've dismissed it as coincidence or just a pleasant moment rather than thanking God and being grateful for His love. I don't want to miss these "God hugs" in my life. God is speaking to me through the events in my day...am I listening? Are you? God is speaking ~ what is He saying to you? God Speaking - Mandissa Have you ever heard a love song, that set your spirit free? Have you ever watched a sunrise and felt you could not breathe? What if it’s Him. What if it’s God speaking? Have you ever cried a tear that you could not explain? Have you ever met a stranger who already knew your name? What if it’s Him. What if it’s God speaking? Who knows how He’ll get a hold of us? Get our attention to prove He is enough. He’ll do, and He’ll use whatever He wants to. To tell us, I Love You. Have you ever lost a loved one Who you thought should still be here? Do you know what it feels like to be tangled up in fear? What if He’s somehow involved? What if He’s speaking through it all? Who knows how He’ll get a hold of us? Get our attention to prove he is enough. He’ll do and He’ll use whatever He wants to To tell us, I love you. His ways are higher His ways are better Though sometimes strange What could be stranger than God in a manger? Who knows how He’ll get a hold of us? Get our attention to prove He is enough. Who knows how He’ll get a hold of you? Get your attention to prove he is enough. He’ll do and He’ll use whatever He wants to, To tell us I love you God is speaking, I love you
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| How many of you know that feeling when you finally get the hint...the one that has been lurking around and you just didn't want to face it. Maybe it's not so much "getting the hint" as much as it is accepting it. I would say that it's almost the same thing as facing reality but not totally. I don't know how to describe it but it feels like resigning or giving up the fight. There's a will inside that wants to keep fighting and ignoring that little "thing" that keeps popping up around you. For a while it's not hard to just push the little booger aside and keep plugging away but then there is that moment when you realize that nothing has really changed. You no longer can ignore it and inside you simply lose the drive to ignore it any longer. I hate the feeling... I recently had to deal with the feeling in more than one case. They were all very hard pills to swallow but the one has left a pit in my stomach. I just had to face the fact that I'm not a young girl anymore... that time has brought changes and more than likely NOTHING will simply go back to how it once was. I'm not so against change really but the realization that you have lived 23 years and those years are long gone and the memories are fading faster than you would like... it leaves me grasping for memories that I can't pull out as fast as I could before. I look at choices I made, some small and others life defining, and I wonder if I would do the same thing again. How do we face this reality...the "grown up world", the never stopping clock, ...age. My new resolve in this area is to think...ETERNITY. I don't know what I'll do with some of these other "realizations" but I will say that it feels SO wrong to simply resign my heart and let go of the will. It feels like defeat. I will search for new resolve but until then I think I will not resign or "just get over it"...no matter how stupid I feel... or look for that matter :) | | |
| I've got my memories Always Inside of me But I can't go back Back to how it was I believe you now I've come too far No I can't go back Back to how it was Created for a place I've never known
This is home Now I'm finally Where I belong Where I belong Yeah, this is home I've been searching For a place of my own Now I've found it Maybe this is home Yeah, this is home
Belief over misery I've seen the enemy And I won't go back
Back to how it was And I got my heart Set on What happens next I got my eyes wide It's not over yet We are miracles And we're not alone
And now after all My searching After all my questions I'm gonna call it home I got a brand new mindset I can finally see The sunset I'm gonna call it home
Now I know Yeah, this is home
I've come too far And I won't go back Yeah, this is home
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| the fading sun, the rising moon are fighting for the afternoon the day gives in, gives up its light the stars wake up, to keep the night
and as you glory fill the sky, I wonder how could you consider me so much more than all i see cause i am not have never been beautiful like this
my weary words, and broken lies are set beneath, your summer skies what's worn and wrong, what's good and right I laid before, my eyes tonight
but you make all things new Jesus, you make all things new I'm beautiful in you, oh, oh, oh
that's how you could consider me so much more than all i see redemption mends a brokenness it heals our wounds removes our sins your purest love was humbly spent to bow our hearts and draw me in where i become whole again I'm beautiful like this I'm beautiful like this
what can wash away my sin nothing but your blood oh Jesus Thank you, Thank you Jesus
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