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Name: TaKasha
Country: United States
State: Ohio
Metro: Springfield
Birthday: 1/5/1985
Gender: Female
Interests: God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit (you can count that as one depending on your feelings of the God head):) I love music, volleyball, writing, hiking, people who make me smile, hot weather minus the humidity, people who can carry an interesting conversation that isnt completly centered on themselves....oh the list goes on
Expertise: Those of you who know me, know that I am so flippin amazing that my expertise cannot be quaft into any substandard paragraph. Gosh! Actually, Im pretty well versed on all things English, children, or education related.
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  coffeeshop85
Yahoo:  staar_0303
Member Since:
8/4/2005
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| I am scared out of my mind right now! I just had an awesome weekend at Fall Getaway. I didn't feel like the teachings changed my life, but God COMPLETELY reminded me of some amazing things that I had forgotten through worship on the last night. His first commandment to us is not that we serve Him (or anything Him) with all of us****** but its that we LOVE Him with everything. Love Him with all your heart and strength and soul, and then of course you want to serve Him and whatnot. I have been feeling like I have been running after Him because so much of my time is spent serving Him, but thats not what He wants for me. He doesnt want me to serve Him without Him. He wants to be with me so badly and i NEED to be with Him. with all of that said- i have felt like God is calling me to be so much more than i am right now. to be so real with Him and to be chasing after Him. Tonight I was at Grounds with my friend Chelsea and we discovered that we both have had a hard core desire to be involved in BG high school. (They have had an OUTRAGEOUS amt. of suicides and attempts in the last 2 years.) We are going to pray hard core about what that desire means and what in the world God could possibly want us to do. *pray for us.* Life is amazing. God's grace is AMAZING. "If i were one ounce more stupid, I would die of nauscious- making ignorance." (~TaKasha Smith) but God uses me in amazing ways in this church. He wants us to do amazing things for His kingdom, and as scary as that is to me right now....i know that if we are faithful and follow Him with everything we have, we can change the world for Him. | | |
| hello peeps i adora!
super quick update....Life is all kinds of sweetness! I have a little separation depression coming back to the real world after lt. the real world contains classes that have nothing to do with God and college guys who are jerks, but it also contains super young Christians who God puts in your life so that you both can grow, and churches that you can serve in and help make a difference. ......the real worlds alright;)
classes are......400 level education classes....enough said. All my profs seem pretty cool this semester, so that's a plus. I am leading the Spring with 3 staff members from my church, which is a bit intimidating (which is saying a lot b/c i am not easily intimidated). but its been awesome, and I am super excited about what God is doing here.
lesseeee- that's life in a nut shell. I miss you kids....redunculously!
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| wow!!! that is the word. The summer is almost over. Tonight is the last LT meeting. we are leaving next saturday and driving straight through to get home. Life has been mui loco, but awesome. It has really been the most fun i have ever had in such a short amt of time.
I went to my first professional baseball game. Cardinals Rockies. the cardinals got smashed. it was so much fun. Vicky came which was just awesome. (He is an international student who is just flipping awesome) I drove 5 people and Grubb drove another 4, plus there was a group of ISU kids. lots of fun! go Denver go
For project day last week we went camping. It was really good! we ended up coming back for a couple hours that night to go to the question answer lt time (which made me horribly uncomfortable...but you'll have to ask me about that) which was good. then we drove back to our campsite (the most beautiful stars i have ever seen) We played hotseat......yeah...... the next day we spent in solitude, fasting, and prayer which was AMAZING! i have never spent that much consecutive time with God.....it was awesome.
then last sunday was the begining of gma here. (Gospel Music Association) They have been here all week having their music conferences. Sunday was Chris Tomlin and the David Crowder Band. it was the best concert i have ever been to...amazing! Then we went straight from the concert to Grubbs going away party-lucky man. i want to go home monday sooooo badly!
Then monday night was the last intern time. so sad. intern time was by far my favorite service this summer. i cant wait to bring back some of those elements to fusion. which brings me to the fact that i am muchos excited about ministry at home! i cant wait for the spring (and the well too) and i cant wait for fusion planning to start back up. i cant wait to see what God does this year.
so yesterday was my last project group. we did the high ropes course in the morning(my arms are soooo sore right now) and it was soooooo awesome!!!!! i was really proud of myself -the last time i did a high ropes course i fell on the third element and they had to rescue cut me;) we had one girl who had a really hard time cuz she has a pretty irrational fear of heights. but it was pretty awesome. plus we got to do it with the cheese puffs, which is sweet because they are just some of my favorite people ever.
last night was the women's time that chrissy planned. it was really nice and im glad it went well, because she had SUCH a hard time planning it. nothing worked out the way she wanted it to, but it was really good. the speaker linda was pretty awesome and i enjoyed her a lot.
today is my day off (proof that God loves me and doesnt want me to go insane;) i have a comp night tonight so i am about to go to my lodge room and edit the video for my project group, get some rest, some solitude, and no dorm-ness. yay for that
Tk loves you all! | | |
| hello world!!!! thought i would take a minute to say whaddupdo!
life is sweet(death is sweeter, but lets not mince words) This last week has just been outright fun- which is a pretty necessary development. The night before last we celebrated Jeff and Stephens birthday at Chuck-e-Cheese's....yeah....we were all at least 21.....and that was the most fun i have had in a loooonnng time! (check out some of the pics) anywho- i needed that so bad, just a really fun time.
Christy (my friend from BG) is in town and so this morning we went to the Big Thompson and hiked the whole river. that was a lot of fun and its GORGEOUS there. it was awesome just to be able to chill and talk with her. then we made it to the pondo just in time to eat lunch with my food service peeps. which leads me to where i am now
so whats goin on?.....last week we were supposed to go back to Boulder to evangelize, but there was nothing about my spirit that was at peace with that. a lot of us were in a bad place (thats when 3 of our friends were missing on Long's Peak) and we needed something else. the speaker the night before talked about how to hear from God and the importance of our quiet times so thats exactly what we did. we met in the morning to eat breakfast and then we went to the staff rec to talk about our evangelism time last week. then we had life groups and some seriously needed quiet time. then we met in town and went to this awesome restaurant for dinner together. it was a really laid back but necessary day, and i was really excited about how it went.
okay, this post is getting way longer than i would like it to be, so i am going to go, except i have to say last night was the best sermon that i have heard this summer.(i dont know how accurate that is, i just know it was awesome and i needed to hear it so badly) so for the last few weeks i have been hearing a lot of awesome messages. i honestly have just been growing in my understanding and knowledge, but last night was AMAZING. i def. learned. i looked at some familiar scripture in a way i never have before, but more than that, the speaker made me excited.
Why do we do EVERYTHING that we do? To glorify God. the same reason God does everything He does. the only time i am happy or content or peaceful is when i am glorifying God, so of course i am going to seek to do that ALL THE TIME. We are going to spend eternity glorifying God and it wont be boring because God is THAT good. i am excited to glorify Him here, because i know that perfection (heaven itself) is going to be all about praising Him to His face. Oh my goodness!!!!
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| hmmm....real update....
life is amazing, but it is hard. This situation isn't reality. I wont be asked in any normal ministry situation to lead a flock for 3 months with a complete stranger. Even if i go on staff, you work with people that you have known for years. I love my project group. Me and Bryce lucked out that we got awesome dynamics between our peeps, but it is soooo hard for me to lead with him. We are super honest with each other about our issues. we went into town and got coffee yesterday to just get to know each other and talk about yesterdays project (which i honestly thought went pretty bad) I am learning more about communication, respect, and leadership than i probably have in the 21 years prior to this.
so last night we had our coach meeting, which i was dreading (cuz project was pretty awful) but it went really well. I realized that there isnt one person on my team that i learn in the same way as. that seems like it could be difficult....
after the coach meeting we had worship in hyde. I needed that sooooo badly. Just to be broken for Christ. wow...seriously, I spend so much time working for Him that i forget to just....remember. I dont know if that made any sense to you at all....but it was beautful. We went an hour over last night.....oh amazing worship!
lets seeeeee....what else is up? the very first night we were here, we got the relationship talk (this summer is the perfect summer to think about nothing but God, be single) i thought that it was funny that they started the summer that way.....and now i understand why;) they put 115 twenty something year olds who love God more than anything in one camp. we eat together, we work together, we sleep together. I dont know about you all, but the MOST attractive thing to me in the world is a man worshipping God- a man who lives his life to do so.......there are 55 of them here........ uh yeah......lets be honest....I'm picking out a china pattern lol _______IM JUST KIDDING________ please no one go crazy;)
alright...thats all the openness and vulnerability i currently have....love you all
btw. EVERYONE who has a leadership role in the church should read the book above | | |
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