laterain's Xanga

nostalgic thoughts at 4:51am

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:52:09 GMT

sometimes, when I come here and see that I am still getting "footprints", it makes me nostalgic for Xanga and wondering if I just should've stayed here--

but my new home treats me well, and who was it that said "you can't go home again?"

so come see me, okay? http://laterain.wordpress.com, in case you are hover-challenged. (new made-up word?!)

hey college bloggers! $10,000 blogger's scholarship

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:16:09 GMT

I'm stopping back in here to share this with all of you--a BLOGGING SCHOLARSHIP!

oh, to be 21 again . . .

ps come visit me here . . .

The Jena Six

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 02:20:29 GMT

Please visit this website to read more about this situation, and please spread the word . . .

I'm blogging here these days, but this one was important enough that I wanted to cover it in both places.

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Sun, 27 May 2007 01:32:58 GMT

seriously . . .

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:04:18 GMT

don't you miss reading my meaningless rants? come visit me!
(hint: click here ^^^^^)

I hate to admit it . . .

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:19:47 GMT

. . . but I think I'm going to convert.

http://laterain.wordpress.com/

catchy title, anyone?

my troubling Sunday evening

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:58:56 GMT

. . . this is all I can "say" in response:

"We are never told to declare anything to God. You will not find anything about "declaring" in prayer in the New Testament. Jesus Christ is Lord and we are His servants. A servant does not "declare" to his Master. Can you imagine a slave telling his master what to do? Can you picture a servant going before his king and ordering him to act? If Jesus Christ is Lord, then He IS Lord and we are his children, his servants. We do what He wants done, not what we want. We submit our desires to His will (1 John 2:17). We can ask, seek and knock but always, always according to His Word and will. Jesus Christ prayed "Thy will be done". He taught us to pray that also and His disciples demonstrated that principle over and over again (Mat 6:10,26:42; Luke 11:2; 1 John 2:17,5:14,15; Ps 40:8; Heb 10:7; Rom 8:27; 1 Pet 3:17; Col 1:9, Jam 4:13-16). We can ask for a person's healing in faith (James 5:14-16), but it is still up to God whether to heal. We must realize that He may also leave people sick, disabled, persecuted or allow them to die for His name's sake. Don't forget that Paul was allowed to remain sick in Galatia and because of that many were saved (Gal. 4:13-14). The early Christians were allowed to die so that the Gospel could be spread. Would that modern "Christians" would be willing to die to preach the Gospel in the Moslem countries today!" (Sandy Simpson, C&MA Endorses Word-Faith Theology, 9/30/03)

Oh Lord, please give us eyes to see Your truth!

what does it mean

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:31:57 GMT

if I have this sudden and inexplicable craving for pork chops?

(and I am looking for an explanation of the "vitamin deficiency" variety, NOT something perverse, please.)

oxymoronic cough syrup

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:34:58 GMT

no, that is NOT the title of a spam e-mail that I received . . . it is how I feel about my cough syrup, which contains both an "expectorant" and a "cough suppressant". now, which is it? are we trying to expectorate, or to suppress? and how does it do both?! do the two forces war with one another?

either way, I'm still hacking and wheezing, so I think it's not working . . .

from the "only Lorraine" archives . . .

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:49:40 GMT

so tonight I went to visit my friend in the psych hospital. (the psych hospital can be a lonely place, and unlike the medical hospital, people seem to avoid visiting . . . but that's another blog entry.)

so I was waiting for my friend to come back from her room, and this patient started talking to me . . . and (THIS WOULD ONLY HAPPEN TO ME!!!) he was TOTALLY flirting!!! and I'm not trying to be a snob and say I wouldn't date a psychiatric patient (that would be hypocritical, to say the least--although said psychiatric patient would have to be substantially better-looking than this guy was--but that's not discrimination, because I would've said he was ugly if I saw him in the supermarket, too),

but his pick-up line was, "they might be letting me out in a couple of days". SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! did he think I was going to say, "oh, that's great, we should get together and have dinner to celebrate!"

seriously. I am CERTAIN that I am the ONLY human being on this earth who has had a guy flirt with her in the hallway of a psych hospital.

now if only I could get some interest from those boys on the outside . . .