"It often has seemed to me that most people instinctively protect themselves from being touched too closely by the suffering of others. They turn from it, and they make this a habit. The tabloids with their presentation of crime testify to the repulsive truth that there is a secret excitement and pleasure in reading of the sufferings of others. One might say there is a surface sensation in the realization of the tragedy in the lives of others. But one who has accepted hardship and poverty as the way of life in which to walk, lays himself open to this susceptibility to the sufferings of others."
--Dorothy Day

Let me tell you a few things about myself:
I am becoming more and more comfortable being free in the woman that God has created me to be.
I plan on surviving off of nothing for a living.
I want to feed people far before I ever give them a Bible.
I don't see myself ever working in a church.
My plans for my life don't currently include anyone else but myself and Jesus...so they will most likely change.
My heart is with a little boy named Amani Kenga who lives in Malindi, Kenya. Both of his parents died when he was one year old. There are over 12 million children just like him, and there will be over 18 million by 2010 if we don't do anything about it.
I see world poverty as inexcusable, and mostly our fault. With great privilege, we have been given great responsibilty. God has sent people straight to hell for ignoring the cries of His children.
This quote will define my marriage: "A perfect love is a world without hunger." (Caedmon's Call)
I am seeing more and more that these qualities that God has placed in me, things that the world tells me aren't meant to be in a woman, will honor my husband more that I know.
I am in love with Jesus, and am completely understood by Him. He knows where I have been, who I am now, and where I am going, and thinks that is utterly beautiful. I can't believe He died just so that He could be with me now.
I am in love with my Creator.

You are beautiful, my sweet, sweet song.