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cakemaking.
my mother was a cakemaker. she, probably entirely unintentionally (adverbs are cool), passed that glorious talent and trade on to me, her daughter who once was very much overweight due in part to the fact that i spent a good 40% of my childhood eating tupperware cups full of leftover icing with a spoon.
cakemaking.
tonight i have been cakemaking. (more…)
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http://darinandkacie.wordpress.com
woohoo!
we’re getting married!
and Jesus likes it!
because he loves us!
and he loves love!
woohoo!
i made a pound cake tonight. it’s been a long time since i have actually put my hands into a bowl-full of ingredients and cranked something out. here’s why:
x. i had a ridiculous schedule, completely undue to boundarylessness. we have gone 24/7 with our second prayer room and i have been commissioned as a prophetic singer there (thank God; it was soooo about time). (more…)
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okay, so please don’t come unless you get an invitation or explicit permission, but feel free to click here.
oh, if only…
funsies.
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soooooo….
i’m engaged.
on february 13th, darin robert damme took me out to the west jetty on longview lake–which happens to be the very first place we ever spent time together as friends two years ago and a place we have not been back to since that day–and in the freezing coldness of the missouri morning, got down on one knee and asked me to marry him.
and i said yes.
then he asked for my hand because i had it in my pocket due to the freezing coldness and after i produced it, he slipped the most beautiful, practical, and perfect-for-me ring i’ve ever seen onto my ring finger and we watched the sun rise over the edge of the lake and horizon of town until it got too cold to stay any longer.
i’m going to be a wife in 95 days.
may 31st, my friends. may 31st. bless the Lord…
and Godspeed the day.
i love him. yes, yes i do.
that is all.
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pre-entry sidenote: i don’t much care for wikipedia, but on small-town affairs, sometimes it just does the trick.
alright. if you have any sort of relationship with me beyond that of “hey–how’s it going?”, you know well that i’m from north carolina and i hail from a really productive region–we have our own brands of what you non-southerners like to call “pop” (eyuh… i shudder at the word), our agricultural contributions are astounding (an absurd amount of tobacco is produced and packaged somewhere in the piedmont or “central region” of my state), and the world’s best bbq hails from my hometown (yeah. take that, kansas city. you don’t even know.). oh, and we are completely responsible for all things dale earnhardt and krispy kreme (glory).
in addition to these things is something that i hold ever so dear to my heart. if you’ve ever heard me talk about being home and the things i love, you’ve heard me talk about livermush. (more…)
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rarely ever do i look at my blog stats.
i just don’t give a rip if i have readership or not, to be honest, but on a more practical level, i’m hardly on the computer long enough to check my email, my bank account and debt stats, sometimes post a blog entry, and i’m done. checking stats for a blog i barely keep track of in the first place doesn’t interest me much.
but tonight i clicked on the link out of curiosity. (more…)
they do exist.
just not in kansas city, for some odd reason. trust me, though, friends–barbecue fritos are delicious. all other fritos are sub-par.
if all goes according to plan, i should be receiving some of these tasty morsels in the mail this year for christmas, also on the way: a far side calendar (fingers crossed!) and some really cheap and crappy christmas cookies that i also can’t get anywhere but back home (i tried to find a picture and failed… they’re that podunk, but awesome).
i love being alive. just thought i’d say that.
i also love Jesus.
and snow. (more…)
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i’ve had a travelling wart residing in my hands for years. it moved from one hand to the other, finger to finger, as it pleased, and has done so since some time in seventh grade, i believe.
today i realized that it was gone. completely gone. not even a ripple in my flesh where it was last. and no beginnings of its next place-of-residence. (more…)
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it is good to be thankful. i should be more thankful more of the time. yes.
i am learning that to be thankful for all things in every circumstance is to really trust the Lord and submit to his leadership. sounds strange maybe, but it really is true. when i thank God for what he’s doing, what’s he’s given, who he is, i am really just saying “hey God, you’re pretty good at doing what you do and being who you are–i can put my trust in that. i can give my life to you and know i’m going to be okay.” it’s a heart posture.
1 chronicles 23 talks about the levites, which is basically the same role in the house of God that we are undertaking as intercessory missionaries at IHOP (we keep charge of the sanctuary and behold and bless the Lord). verse 30 is to me in my life right now akin to a two-year-old youngster jabbing his finger into my arm with wild and uncontrollable laughter (it’s funny, but in that “you’re cute and small and yet slightly disturbing” kind of way). it goes:
“they were also to stand every morning to thank and praise the Lord… to do the same in the evening…”
