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Name: Jessica
Country: United States
State: Kentucky
Metro: Louisville
Gender: Female
Interests: living for and with Jesus, being crazy, scrapbooking, hugs, the Bible and lots of other books, India, taking pictures, missions, people, exploring, music, the world.
Expertise: being me
Occupation: seminary student
Message: message meEmail: email me
AIM:  quatchima2
Member Since:
9/26/2002
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| So, I'm definitely not saying that my Xanga is out forever, but I'm making a little transition, I believe.
Since I got a digital SLR (I have a Canon Rebel xti, in case you were wondering) last year around this time... I have really been growing in my love and understanding of photography. I have the beginnings of what I need for equipment and definitely have the desire to make a little more out of my photography hobby.
So, I'm launching J*Grace Photo.
Hopefully one day soon there will be a more fully fleshed website available, but right now I am going to be blogging some pics (and probably other things) at
http://quatchima2.wordpress.com/
Add me to your google reader!
And, as always, I post almost all my pics (in their original size, so you may download them) at
quatchima2.smugmug.com
So, in the meantime, I am available for hire to do things like engagement pics, family portrait sessions, senior pics, baby photos, and event photography in the Louisville, KY and St. Louis, MO areas. Tell your friends!!!
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| Dr. Miriam Adeney, a Christian anthropologist, tells her students that they “will never be able to go home again ... they will probably always leave part of themselves behind, and thereafter will be split ... and home may be in more than one place. But that is the price they pay for the richness of having experienced more than one culture deeply.”
I'm grieving, I think. Part of me is in Africa.
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| From my journal 04.26.08
“Am reading R.C. Sproul’s The Holiness of God and am gaining great insight from it- namely in regard to holy justice, sin, and God’s punishment of sin.
“Our usual perspective on the OT is that it is a record of the harshness of God—lists of great length of sins that are punishable by death. We think some of them a little bit ridiculous—feeling that the punishment doesn’t equal the crime. We look at Nadam and Abihu who were killed on the spot for offering ‘strange fire’ and we ask ‘Is God not just?’
“The truth, as Sproul points out, is that the OT law was a great, amazing example of grace. The list of sins that were punishable by death was greatly reduced from the original list in writing the Law. The law of creation is that every sin—all sin—is punishable by death. God said to Adam and Eve, ‘If you sin you will surely die.’ When they sinned, God delayed his enacting of justice so that his plan of patience, grace, mercy, and redemption would have time to work itself out.
“If we are tempted to think God injust for punishing ever sin with death we’ve not rightly understood what sin is. Sproul writes, ‘The slightest sin is an act of defiance against cosmic authority. It is a revolutionary act in which we are setting ourselves in opposition to the One to whom we owe everything. It is an insult to His holiness. We become false witnesses to God. When we sin as image bearers of God, we are saying to the whole of creation, to all of nature under our dominion, to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field: “This is how God is. This is how your Creator behaves. Look in this mirror; look at us, and you will see the character of the Almighty.” <p110>
“Hans Kung says that the most mysterious aspect of the mystery of sin is not that the sinner deserves to die, but rather that the sinner, in the average situation continues to exist.
And to that—I say Amen. Thank you Lord for your Law which was the first evidence of Your grace, your slowness to anger, your patience with us. And then, once we failed to keep the Law—thank you for your sacrificial grace in giving Your Son, and the inheritance promised to those who believe by faith.
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| I think sometimes I forget that this fact is really true. I have a few extra minutes today, so thought I'd get you a couple of pictures. Check out the bottom right hand corner of this clock. Do you see that-- 136 degrees! The very coolest that I could get the temp down to out there at that moment was 119.
And... this is me on a camel. He was a little angry this day. Camels are rather strange animals... and they have a whooole lot of teeth... like some coming out of the insides of their cheeks. So I tried to behave myself and sit pretty because I didn't want to make this guy mad.
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