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Name: Shelby
Location: Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Birthday: 8/26/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: Lots of stuff... climbing rocks...pretending i'm a runner(run real fast when people drive by) wink wink... and I have much more to say... but i'll save it for later.
Expertise: I am a brillant weed puller, tree climber, knife thrower... dancer lol wink wink... and I make excellent fried chicken!
Occupation: Student
Message: message me
AIM:  littlerk17
Member Since:
9/30/2005
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| Hello dear friends... it's been a short while but things have been sooo busy... Most of you know that I am headin up the youth over the summer because the youth leader is leaving, which has left me very busy planning many trips... I went home at the end of May to see Logan Graduate and my new neice come into the world, and along the way my wonderful car princess who has been all over with me finaly (this word looks weird to me right now) died. So I had to ride home two hours with this strange redneck man... makin conversasion was actually hard for me... anyways, that time was awsome and I was like man I cannot wait to move back home, what a relief it will be. (Besides all of the problems that are occuring in my family, they do the best they can though with what they have to work with and i'm proud of them.) Then two days before returning to ARK Tom Corson the director of SIFAT calls me and asks if I would be interested in moving to BOlivia for 6 months to a year... and of course I was like sure why not... however I have been having a hard time deciding... He needs me there right now, however i'm a little busy until the end of August... no way can I leave the country till my precious friend has your precious little Shelby... and I was just so excited to go home... so I am really trying to rely on the fact that God will supply and he will show me what is next... A lamp to my feet means only can we see each step... we can see the way as we go... it's not a flash light, it's a lamp... the importance of those two words, anyways. I am tired cuz I just had my middle school lock in which I don't think i'll be doing any time in the future. but ill admit was cute to be sitting there watching Ice Age with all my kids asleep around me. Ned... my little short 6 grader kept kickin me in the hip... lol I felt like a mom, it actually make me thankful for where God has allowed me to be... I know those of you who have talked to me alot know the hard time i've had, but I have started to see some of the harvest of my efforts... not so much harvest, but just blessings. I"ll continue to give what I've got left, and I leave here July the 28th I think. I love you all... Kourt I need to talk with you soon girly.... I love you and I hope all your plans are going good!!!! | | |
| I NEED A GOOD GIRL CRY YOUR EYES OUT NIGHT!!!! lol Oh get behind me satan... I don't need a pity party, I just need some stinkin chocolate... oh well... one day we will all be together again, it maybe in like heaven... but at least well all be lookin our best. Just in case.... I love you all very much, and words would never explain what all of you girls mean to me... and whats so great is I don't even have to say your names, you just know!!!!! | | |
| Today... I leaned down... touched my pawpaw's cold hand and told him that I loved him and that I was sorry I could not make it down to see him before he left us... I started to loose it slowly but surely... but then I looked around the room at all the people... and I realized the joy that I had... and I know everyone says these kind of things... but I truly have a peace that so many people may never have. I was able to stop in that instant and thank God for his surpassing love and grace... my mom reminded me that we really learn about our relationship with the Lord when our world starts to fall apart, which I've always known to be true, however today, I stopped and realized why I wasn't going to fear or cry anymore. Because I have more to live for... and there is more than death. It's almost as if I knew some great secret... something no one else really knew about. So many people know the truth... but don't walk in it... and I'm so thankful to have experienced the real touch of God in my life..... To really experience peace. I woman of virtue is a woman who in the midst of chaos walks in the stillness and confidence of the Lord. Not there yet... but I am praying god would make me into that woman. lol IT will take all my life. I know so many people are struggling... so many of my friends... seek God and find him... he can make bitter moments change to precious ones... moments where you realize that you are not alone and you never were!!! | | |
| It's been a crazy weekend. I have lived with two different families and played mom for the past week. NOt gettin much sleep... cuz my little 8 year old likes to drive me crazy, but it's true i love the kid... then last night the people I lived with went out of town, which means i'm responsible for there 18 and 20 year old, basically makin sure they don't get into to much trouble. Ben calls and asks if he can have a few people over and I was like sure, just keep it small. I drive up last night and there are cars lined up the block to my house... you should have seen the look on my dear face. I open the door to my house and some guy steps up with a beer can in his hand and says "welcome to my house" lol I was like no welcome to mine... So as I made my way through all the people every where all I could think was BEN BARNETT.... I finally found him... lol poor thing was as freaked out as I was, he really did only ask a few people over, but you know how that stuff gets... so we were trying to figure out how to dump all these people... lol I was very flustered by the whole situation. Finally he said all juniors out, only seniors. That got us down to 15... then when the boys started playing beer pingpong... I decided to go watch sex in the city before I had a nervous breakdown... I just told them that a few could stay over if they would settle down a little. lol I didn't sleep much last night. WOke up this morning... headed to church. Have a big event at church tonight and had a girls reunion dinner planned for tomorrow.... mom called me and told me that pawpaw was losing his breath... he told mawmaw he loved her and that he wouldn't be home tonight... I sat and church today and tried not to think about those words... but my eyes were still full of tears... so I left and drove around for the morning. I am preparing now for our marshmellow wars... however I cannot ignore anymore that I miss my dear sweet pawpaw, and I do not think i'll make it home to say goodbye... pray for me... my heart is breaking like it does in these situations... I love you all... Pray for my family!!! OH gosh by the way I got the new bethany dillon cd... and this song has been my encouragement... The orphan clings to your hand, singing the son of how he was found. The widow rejoices for her oppressors are silenced now. You sit at the table with the wounded and the poor, you laugh and share stories with the theif and the whore. When you could just be silent and leave us here to die, still you sent your son for us, you are on our side. The runaway falls at your feet, you are what he has searched for, the rich man is broken, when he stands beneath a sky full of stars. | | |
| I was sitting watching the news today... the horrible story at VT... and they had this thing that people were signing... and someone wrote Love never dies... It's easy to say, but you wonder how true that can be... I watch my beautiful grandfather strive for life.... only because of my grandmother.... who constantly burns the beans... repeats the same question hundreds of times... yells at him and calls him a mean man because he want let her do certain things that will hurt her... like drive a car.... she doesn't even remember my name, i'm just a nice young lady. But I watch him look at her... kiss her on the forehead and then try to answer her question for the hundreth time....Love lasts through the harshes illness.... when we should throw our hands in the air and scream, it's still there. We felt it in the presence of our Lord... even now though he isn't here in flesh... and we know it is there through those who choose to live as Christ. He is laying in his hospital bed tonight... and I know that he would leave in a heart beat because he just can't leave my mawmaw alone....if the movie the notebook were a person I would say "eat your heart out" But I think through these times God reminds us of his love for us... how he strives to make his love known... how he gave it all, even when we are angry at him and think he is going to try to hurt us like my mawmaw think of pops, he continues, because the truth is LOVE NEVER FAILS... and though we try not to see it... and feel ourselves with doubt and bitterness... it is all to true. And even in the most heartache I have seen it to be true. PLease pray for my grandfather... I love you all very much... | | |
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