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Name: Brooke
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Birthday: 5/24/1985
Gender: Female
Interests: Jesus. Writing about Life. Friends. Traveling. Books.Photography. Art. Living Life as an adventure. Coffee Shops. Penguins. Trying to think outside the box.
Expertise: Getting Lost wherever I go. ;)
Occupation: Writer and Barista
Industry: Nonprofit
Message: message meEmail: email me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  brooke24ekoorb
Member Since:
1/27/2004
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| This is something deep that will settle in like the fall
Warm and safe into winter months
growing with new life in the spring
bursting with heat by summer
I think maybe you are a place I can rest
despite the world always changing around me
All through my life people have
changed like maple leaves
melted like snow
been pulled out like weeds
dried up like grass
They've come in and out like the tide
sands always shifting over my heart
But a hope's been planted and it's beginning to sprout
(I didn't plant it. My own fear tell me to rip it out. But I can't)
Maybe.... this will last.
Maybe..... our love will be like a tree
Growing stronger as the years go by.
Maybe... my hope will not be deferred this time. | | |
| beautifully. :)
Since I last wrote, so much change has come into my life. Stuff has been accelerated a bit. I thought I was lost, jaded, unsure and just confused in general.
Now, I am bathing in the grace of God. My skin is soaking, being renewed, but it goes beneath my skin.
I feel like my eyes have been opened, all over again, and I am seeing things for the first time.
My words fail, but this time, I don't give a damn.
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| This summer I am going to be living in Central Asia, teaching English
and working with youth. The details are still being worked out, but I
am really excited to see what's going to happen!!!
I put together a collection of poems, called "All Things Are Becoming
New" It's 75 pages of thought provoking, encouraging original poems.
It's $10 plus shipping, and about half of that go to me, towards the funds for this summer.
To purchase it, click on the link below.
https://www.createspace.com/3371465
I hope this book is an inspiration to you, thanks for checking it out and being a part of what I am doing.
Grace and Peace,
Brooke
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| It's a new season, as always. My life is always changing and moving which is fine, actually it is necessary cause i go crazy in one place. Since the new year started, I went all over the east coast, met some amazing homeless people that changed my perspective, saw what was really possible when the Holy Spirit leads the ministry. Said Good bye to my wonderful DTS kids, whom I love so deeply, then went on my random west coast vacation. Saw my best friend in Colorado, spent time with my aunt and brother in northern Cali near San Francisco. Went down to San Diego and spent time with some more amazing people. All in all, it was an amazing trip. Besides nearly killing myself blacking out snowboarding, I went wine tasting with my aunt, played in the park with my nephew I have never met, and explored caves by the beach in SoCal. Went to my first ATF since the tour, and it was some what of a closure in the awkward love/hate relationship I have had with Teen Mania. God is good.
Now, I am in New Hampshire for six weeks. Three days a week I am taking care of a lady with Cerebral Palsy, I start tomorrow, actually. I've been editing my poetry book, it's the third and final draft, so I am hoping to have that out soon. It's terrifying and I can't believe I am actually doing it.
I going to spend all summer in Central Asia. Crazy. God has been preparing me for this, all of it.
I am in such a weird place when it comes to relationships. Marriage seems so alien. I guess cause it's so foreign to think of their being a guy actually right for me. I am not being vain, or insecure. It's just reality. I know I am not going to "settle down," and sometimes I want to, but then there is this thing in me that goes insane, and I don't know how to tame it. I have always fallen for guys who are really nice and sensitive, but part of me thinks maybe I need to be with someone a little... tougher? Stronger? I don't know. It doesnt even matter right now. What matters is, what God has called me to, and it is so strongly beating on my heart.
I think what scares me about all this, is my passion. It has never been so intense. I don't even know what to do with myself sometimes. It's like at times I can channel it into things, (hopefullly my writing) but at times, I just don't even know how to do that so I am just overwhelmed with it all.
But it's ok. God understands me, even if no one else does, even if I don't understand myself, and even if no one ever really will. I don't know.
I am going to be 24 soon. I have always wanted to be 24. I have always imagained it being my prime age, like when the best stuff happens. Luckily, I have aloud what I thought of as "best stuff" to change.
I am not cut out to be some suburban house wife.
I need to be out there, with the dirty and dying people. I come alive on the mission field. Lately I have been thinking, maybe it wouldnt be bad to be like a Mother Teresa. Just completely devote my life to live with the rejects of society and love them and learn what love is from them. That's what I want right now.
I want to leave everything and go to Krgzstan and have a group of girls I teach english too that I just mentor and love on. I want to write songs and be able to play my own music.
I want people to read my poems and see God a new way.
Man, I wasn't expecting all this too come out. That's what happens when I just let go and start typing. It's so healing for me. I haven't had a laptop since September and it's been hard... but, in a few days, I am gettnig a Macbook in the mail!!!!!
So, random post, mostly for sentimental little me that reads xanga like a journal... I love clicking back to see my posts from 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 years ago... It's amazing how you grow up, yet you are still learning the same lessons... in a new way.... I love life.
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