about me, a real live person
June 29, 2008
welcome to my blog! please let me know you are here by commenting briefly.
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a little about me: i am a christian, a woman, a daughter, a sister, a friend, a student, a pursuer of community.
i am also none of these things. a naked soul clothed in the righteousness of Christ.
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i enjoy walking through the woods and mountains, writing simple songs, hanging out with my family, coffee dates, hugging people at my church, being “good tired” from exercise, and the fine art of the oatmeal cookie.
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you can listen to some of the songs i am working on here: songs.
July 27, 2008 at 11:31 pm
This could be completely random, but…just out of curiosity, does the title of your blog have anything to do with Revelation 2:17?
July 28, 2008 at 12:09 am
“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.”
well, i didn’t intend that, but it definitely could!
I didn’t have anything specific in mind, but I was thinking along these lines:
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
also, i really like this verse, I think it is related:
Psalm 40:3
He put a new song in my mouth,
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear
and put their trust in the LORD.
Mostly, though, it came out of a conversation with Mrs. Callahan about a woman’s identity lying in something completely spiritual, nothing external, not homemaking, not being a career woman, not being anything in particular. but finding rest in Christ and not having to BE any one THING.
I also am (very, very slowly) reading this Christian book (EEK!) about women called ‘Ruby Slippers’. It talks about ‘The Prayer of Identity’, the purpose of which is to
“help us remember who we are. It is a discipline for our souls, to begin stripping away the layers of our performance ability. These corsets need to be systematically stripped off, because they have tremendous sticking power. The prayer begins with negative statements designed to remove these layers one by one….
I am not a wife, a daughter, a niece, a sister (your relationships)
I am not a philosopher (your training)
I am not a writer (your job)
I am not fun, enthusiastic, motivated, organized, disciplined, creative (your gifts)
I am not bossy, demanding, impatient, stubborn, judgmental (your failures)
I am none of these.
I am a naked soul clothed in the righteousness of Christ.”