tomorrow is the last thursday. tomorrow is my last chance.

my xanga turns 200 days old today.

that means it's retiring.

goodbye, my_socks_are_better

have you ever experienced a love so great...

a love that holds you, when you¡¯ve lost everything you once held.

a love that accepts you, no matter how many times you have rejected it.
 

 a love that has known you, before you were known to anyone.

a love that waits for you, even when you¡¯ve left it behind.

a love that forgives you, when you can¡¯t even forgive yourself.

a love that you can run to, when you¡¯ve run from everything else.

a love that will never fail you, a love that will never leave, a love that loves to love you, a love that desires you to love it back.

a love that makes you stand in awe, while the rest of the world races round.

1 Corinthians 13:

   ¹If I speak in the tongues of men

   and of angels, but have not

 love, I am only a resounding gong or a

 clanging cymbal. ²If I have 

 the gift of prophecy and can fathom

 all mysteries and all 

 knowledge, and if I have a faith that

can move mountains, but have 

 not love, I am nothing. ³If I give all

I possess to the poor and 

 surrender my body to the flames,

 but have not love, I gain 

 nothing.
 

    ⁴Love is patient, love is kind.

 It does not envy, it does not 

 boast, it is not proud. ⁵It is not

rude, it is not self-seeking, it is 

 not easily angered, it keeps no

 record of wrongs. ⁶Love does not 

 delight in evil but rejoices with the

 truth. ⁷It always protects,

  always trusts, always hopes,

 always perseveres.

    ⁸Love never fails. But where there

are prophecies, they will 

 cease; where there are tongues,

they will be stilled; where

 there is knowledge, it will pass away.

 ⁹For we know in part and

 we prophesy in part, ¹⁰but when

 perfection comes, the imperfect

 disappears. ¹¹When I was a child,

 I talked like a child, I thought 

 like a child, I reasoned like a child.

When I became a man, I put 

 childish ways behind me. ¹²Now

 we see but a poor reflection as in

 a mirror; then we shall see face to

face. Now I know in part;

 then I shall know fully, even

 as I am fully known.
 

    ¹³And now these three remain:

faith, hope and love. But the

...a love so great, it can only come from a God so great.

-learning to trust in His undying love <3

wow, theres a place called Amanda, Ohio.......

and its right by Lancaster, Ohio.weirded out.

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friday: uhhh, i basically did nothing. oh, my speech-so now

 its over, yay!

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saturday: cleaned a house for our work project.

then went to the Taj Mahal to eat Indian food for dinner,
 
mmm. i like it there because they have a whole page for

 vegetarian people, yay. there was this little kid playing with

 his superhero there and i wanted to be the arch-enemy so

 bad.

mango juice=delicious.

when we left it was raining. i jumped around in the parking

 lot.when my superhero friend left, he danced in the parking

 lot in the rain, which inspired me. im always looking for

 chances to dance in the rain. it reminded me of the first snowfall

 of the year, which happened when my sister and i were at the

 Taj Mahal waiting for our parents, so i went out, naturally.

 you have to dance in the first snowfall. so i guess ive danced in

 that parking lot in all sorts of weather. 

friday i was going to post, then decided not to, so i made it

 private.

" what i need is a nice rain, to dance in.
you havent lived untill youve danced in the rain.
maybe i should use my old xanga again.
i found this poem somewhere, its only part, the
rest was sort of dumb.

Dancing In The Rain

A warm summer rain was gently coming down

She took his hand and beckoned him
To come dance in the rain with her

His eyes looked at her in amusement,
Not really believing she meant it

Come dance with me, she urged him on
As she held his hand even tighter
Head thrown back and with a deep warm laugh
He went out with her into the rain"

so you can see, i was in need of rain.

eating swedish fish and listening to the rain, does life get

 much better?

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sunday(today): church, then ministry central, where we

 planned the 6th graders moving up thing. hawaiian theme-yay.

 i did some homework on the hammock, and then my doggy

 and i went on a walk in some trees and pretended we were

 explorers discovering new land. i forgot how much fun that

 sort of thing was. i wished on every dandelion to never grow

<3 here am i, proof that the sun

sets too fast. so don't waste it,

my  love. run out to greet it, and

watch every moment of it. if you

 turn, it will be gone when you

get back. such a beautiful thing,

 the setting of the sun

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have a wonderful day.

love, amanda