pamjane

i think mine is the gift of mercy. i did one of those spiritual gift tests before, too, but i don't remember exactly what i got on it. then i did a study kind of like what rocks did, and figured out that i was mercy. the list of abuses was very helpful! i think the study i did was from a bill gothard's basic life principles (it belonged to my roommate, so i don't have it with me). edit: i just found it online... Spiritual Gifts Inventory

at this point, i agree with Jedi that it's good for some people. i just think not for me.

you guys are hilarious!!! i might let my future children begin dating when they are 16. maybe. hopefully by that time they'll be at a point where they realize they shouldn't date until they're ready for marriage. thought: why have we only been talking about teenaged daughters? why not do the same for teenaged sons?

thank you dwinkjr! she only has one brother and one sister, so hopefully that's an indication that she's not mormon. oh, i hope, i hope, i hope that she loves Jesus!

oh, how beautiful!!! question: can you lick the ice caves? quitman is in south middle georgia on the florida line, about halfway between atlanta and orlando, fl. it's the county seat of brooks county. just between thomasville and valdosta on this map:

oh, GymRose, i have a taker?! i would gladly trade quitman for australia for a week (or month? )! and the beautiful winter weather y'all will be having...sigh . i'd just have to go visit again during the summer when i can visit some coral reefs.

i just talked to my older brother (25:20) tonight and he's excited about a girl he met a couple of weeks ago. they seem to have really hit it off when she visited her friend, his neighbor, for the weekend and they've talked a lot by phone since then. he's coming home from atlanta and she's coming up from florida this weekend to spend some time together and so she can see his hometown and meet some of his people. during the conversation, JD mentioned that this girl's "religion" is a important to her and that her parents "go to church all the time". i'm not sure of it, but it's therefore a possibility that this girl has a relationship with Jesus (although i don't normally agree with missionary dating, i think i'll let it slide if it's a christian dating my brother). so, hip hip hooray. if this girl is a christian, maybe JD can see her faith and the realness of a relationship with God. as far as i know, i'm the only christian he ever has contact with.

hi josh! some good rap artists to check out (linked to their websites): B.Reith Cross Movement Grits KJ-52 rock: Switchfoot Thousand Foot Krutch Sanctus Real Skillet Blindside Pax 217 Jars of Clay Spoken Relient K Sarah Kelly Poor Old Lu Lifehouse praise and worship: David Crowder Band Enter the Worship Circle Delirious? there are SO MANY awesome christian artists out there. you can download a lot of free, legal music from indie christian artists from places like Grassroots music. check out the ChristianRock.net boards for more suggestions and the online Christian rock and Christian hip hop radio stations. have fun searching! in Christ, pam

one place i've frequented is the Christianrock.net boards. there's a lot of talk about music, but there are separate categories for theology discussions, prayer, and random stuff. *edit* ach! the subject/verb agreement in that first sentence is killing me, but i can't figure it out.

i'd love to trade houses with someone on vacation. especially if you live anywhere near florence... anyone up for a visit to quitman?

...double post, my bad...

i think i may have seen demons before. when i was a kid, any time i'd get afraid in the middle of the night, i'd run into my parent's bedroom, which was directly across the hallway from my own. on most occassions, i would have to pause in my own doorway before going through because there would be these four beings coming towards me from my parents' bedroom. these beings looked like my parents, my brother, and me in size and appearance, though i could see through them. although they appeared 3D, they looked more like shadows than like anything i could touch. their scariest feature was their red, dimly glowing eyes. yeah, it was spooky. so anyway, i'd have to pause in my doorway and close my eyes shut really tightly. then, when i opened my eyes again, the things would be gone. once when i was about 8 or 9 years old, i suppose i finally got tired of having to wait for them to disappear. so, i shut my eyes really tight and ran straight at them, yelling the whole way. i ricocheted off the corner of my parent's open door, flew up onto their bed and scared them half to death. however, i apparantly defeated these things too, as they never reappeared. a couple years ago i found a sight that talked about sightings of these "shadow people", as people called them. people had even drawn pictures of these things, which looked eerily like what i remember seeing. so, yeah. scary. since then, i haven't physically seen any demons.