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Name: Leah
Country: United States
State: Indiana
Metro: Indianapolis
Birthday: 3/13/1986
Gender: Female
Interests: I love Jesus more than life and my next breath. I love being crazy and people being crazy with me! I love randomness, sunshine blue skies, my Anderson and CBC communities. My family is the second best thing in my life and I love them so much.
Expertise: laughing,
being crazy and wierd to make people smile.
Occupation: Student
Industry: being Christ-like
Message: message meEmail: email me
Website: visit my website
MSN: leahjpyle@hotmail.com
Yahoo:  fleah5@yahoo.com
Member Since:
1/17/2005
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| ChangesWell guys, I'm blogging on google's blog now. If you wanna read about my deep feelings or just about where I'm at physically, spiritually, or mentally check out leah-zeal@blogspot.com. See ya. I'm be by from time to time to visit.
Hi Kristen, just wanted to give a little shout out to my good ol' roomie there :) You know.
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| The death of someone we all know. The Passing of Larry LaPrise
With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment, it
is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person, which
almost went unnoticed a few weeks ago.
Larry LaPrise, the man who wrote 'The Hokie Pokey' died peacefully at
the age of 93. The most traumatic part for his family was getting him
into the coffin. They put his left leg in. And then the trouble started.
Shut up. You know it's funny. Now send it on to someone else and make
them smile.
Although the great man, Larry LaPrise, really did die. Thank you Sir for all the great times of Hokie Pokey in my life! Amen.
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In Her Shoes
By Cameron Diaz, Anson Mount, Toni Collette, Richard Burgi, Candice Azzara
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Alight so...I have a really crappy attitude and I can't shake it. We hang out all the time and I get frustrated ALL the time. I have my faults and so does she. I need to learn to actually love people. Sanctification is a very long process. Why do I learn so slowly. In high school I was a quick learner, except when it came to memorizing the periodical table for Chem. II. I have this horrible competitive attitude as well as the crappy one, which makes it twice as hard on my friends that actually hang out with me still. What's my problem. God who have I become? How do I change? I've also become a control freak which gets in the way of all my relationships, except for my parents. For some reason I do everything I can to achieve my satisfaction from my parents and I work hard to put them first when I'm around them and my baby sister. But why am I a rip that's totally selfish and controlling that speaks down to people as if I'm a "better person" or something?
Watching the movie "In Her Shoes" and seeing how the two sisters each have a great quality, but lack in some way as well. The one sister is smart and successful, but not very physically attractive and the other one, Cameron Diaz, is pretty, but not very smart and can't keep a job, and she also thinks that life will be given to her on a silver platter. I won't tell you the end, but one old guy takes time and patience to tell Cameron that she's smart and for once in her life she actually feels like she is. My middle sister is beautiful and my youngest sister is smart, but what about me? Responsible, not quite. Sometimes aren't we all selfish in wanting to just stop pouring into people and want someone to pour into you for once and make you feel special? Maybe I'm just being a woman...all emotional and sentimental.
Quote of the day: Why is it that while people are alive we can only bad mouth their faults, but after they're dead we only say the great things?
Why do we waste all the compliments and sentimental feelings on people after they're gone and not to their faces while it still matters?
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Let it snow! I like the snow, but only this much. I don't like driving in it and I don't like being paranoid of falling on my face in front of a ton of people and making a fool of myself. These are things I can get over though. It' beginning to look a lot like Christmas, that's what excites me the most. This semester was slow for like one day, it's totally flown by.
The thing I've been struggling with the most is my pride. I had a thought that maybe each person is made with their downfalls because if we were good at everything then we would, at least I would, be extremely prideful. For example, I've really been struggling with being an average student. I can try my best and still can't get A's. I didn't know that when I started to realize this in high school that it would be the huge thing that humbles me in my college career. Although beginning to deal with this particular area of pride has blown up in my face to uncover many other areas of my life that are FULL of pride. I'm learning this lesson the hard way and the hardest things about it is that it's going to be ongoing for the rest of my life. God is continuously showing me that He doesn't need me, I need Him. His plan and work will go on even if I don't become a missionary or go to a different country. God's work will still get done. I'm a lot more prideful than I thought I was.
I need lots of prayer with my struggle. Thanks to all the people that have been around me this semester and put up with my horrible attitudes while I'm learning to discipline myself in this area. Special thanks to my roommates who see me every day. I must act like a bi-polar person sometimes. I'm happy and excited about life one day, a crying and being frustrated the next. Thanks Tabz, Kristen, and Krista. I ask of you three to help me by keeping me accountable on this. Thanks to all Christians in my life who spur me on in my relationship with Christ. I appreciate you more than those that just go through my life being a people pleaser. Thanks to God who knows all my faults and still loves me unconditionally and never gives up on me, while encouraging me at the same time.
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| Still learning...Well, here I am again. Today is the first day of school and I've already had my first counseling session of the year. I've been ignoring God for a few weeks now simply because I didn't know what to say. Sounds pretty stupid huh? Well it was actually. Sara came to eat lunch with me at the apartment so that we could have our first good talk and well...I ended up being counseled by three of the most encouraging girls in my life right now. Kristen, Krista, and Sara gave me advice on what to do now. God is showing me that I'm a completely different person than I thought I was. Over the summer I lost two best friends, one to a car accident and one to the end of a season in my life, it was time to move on. God was right, but I was too scared to pray the prayer and not willing to hear the correct answer. God is humbling me in some huge ways. I hate them, but they need to happen. God pulled a huge monster out of me and I looked at it right in the face this summer and God's told me that I was looking at myself. That monster really did scare the crap out of me. So God is showing me so many things about myself and I'm learning and asking for accountability and working on them with the help of my friends according to Gal. 6:2. Tonight is my first class and I'm pretty pumped. I missed having homework, really I like doing it. I know I'm weird, but I get to study the Bible for my hw, how many people get that opportunity?
Lord let your mercy wash away all of sin,
fill me completely with your love once again.
I love you, I need you...I need you, I want.
I love your presence.
Can't remember it verbatim, but you know the song. For the Christians reading this: Sing it in your head, but don't lie when you say it, really mean it, and if you can't really mean it, then don't sing it until you do. There are a lot of Christians that lie during worship service while they sing the songs ya know. I'm guilty.
I'll leave you with Psalm 55:1-look it up, it'll be good for you! ;)
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