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@anne-of-lothlorien

Oh Anne, this made my day. Seriously, this meant a lot.

I went through years of the same thing, and my closest sister is actually six years younger than me as well (and since you’re into AOGG, you’ll understand this completely, but her personality is Marilla’s and mine is Anne’s).

Oh my, I am so sorry to hear that. This year after coming back from music camp, one of the hardest parts about it is knowing that I will never again see some of the people who came to mean so much to me, and the pain of missing them, wishing that I didn’t have to say good bye. I can understand that… I tend to not worry so much about people dying or getting hurt (which is odd because both of my parents nearly died in the past five years, as in they were either minutes away from it, or was in the ICU in the hospital, really, really sick), but I think I’m more afraid that they’ll leave me, or somehow they’ll leave my life, and I’ll have to go through grieving losing them, which has happened in the past.

I got a kick out of your answer to martial arts/self defense. I could have written that. Every word of it, and it would be utterly true. Skype class maybe?? XD I’m going to be learning cello online until (if God leads me that way) I go to college, then I’ll take lessons there.

Amen and amen. Can I give you the hug that I have am known for? (Basically I nearly knock you over because I’m way to tall and give bear hugs, it’s called a XXXXXX Hug [sorry, not using my real name]. My friend Lydia told me it basically means I’m flat as a board and then collapse, I quite often throw people off balance with it). Once more, I had to agree with just about everything you said. Those are my music types!!! I’m the gal who knows more classical than pop. Swan lake… OMW!!!!! Give me a good old hymn book any day over a praise and worship song that I can’t sing with because it sounds like a concert, and SOUNDTRACK!!!! Right now, the soundtrack piece that I’m in love with is actually the Peter Hollens version of Now We Are Free from Gladiator. I’ve never seen the movie, but the song is insanely gorgeous, trying to learn how to sing it. HTTYD!!!!! I haven’t seen the movie or heard the whole soundtrack, but the pieces I have heard were soooo helpful in finishing out the rewriting of my book… The last bit of it I listened to Romantic Flight over and over and over while writing it. The beginning of This Is Berk has me falling out of my seat. If you love AP, then do you love The Wingfeather Saga?? I haven’t read the last book, but I have read all the others twice, and the third one nearly made me cry, which never happens hardly ever in books. I love Yurgen’s Tune and My Love Has Gone Across The Sea, oh gracious… I love those songs!!! MLHGATS is one of my current piano/voice things I’m working on. I’d love to make a cover of it someday.

Once more, I have to agree pretty much. Those are the best colors… I do occasionally wear soft yellow, but it has to be just the right shade, and often times, it has to be a dress or skirt, but not very often. Reds… Not very often either, pink is a little more common, evidently pink is my other color (not by choice). I get a lot of comments that I should wear it more often, but it has to be spaced out… wearing blacks, blues greens and the rest.

Pride and Prejudice, Anne of Green Gables and a few others of that nature, but never ever make me watch anything like When Calls the Heart. I’d rather go outside and watch the sky from a fencepost.

Yes, that is encouraging to see that too, still, what I really love is seeing people who made it past the starry-eyes season, the middle season, and then made it to the end are, like you said, more in love than at first. I think it’s so sweet.

Thank you all you awesome people!!! Heels are evil, despicable things. @wordsmith. What. That. Is. Odd. You’re the second guy to say he hasn’t worn heels in a while, and I’m sorry but I just have to look at you funny and wonder what on earth? That’s hilarious!! The last time I wore heels… They were on the sharing table at church… And so I put them on and stumbled around to show my family members that I was about six foot.

Thanks so much Anne, this post has seriously made my day, this past week I’ve been pretty down about it… Especially one girl in particular, it’s hard because I want to be there for her, but she is acting in ways at certain times around certain people that make it really hard for me to help her. I understand that there are things that are very, very hard for her, and I want to help, but it’s hard… I don’t really want to go into the whole thing, but also just… She knows better. I’ve known her for years and she’s changing a lot, which is hard to watch… Then I love a lot of people, know a lot of people, and I know they love me back, but it’s hard because I can’t talk about things the way I can here or with one particular friend I have. It seems the friends that I can really open up with and share my heart with I hardly get to see them and be with them. Especially the one that I talk about that I got close to at music camp… I call her my nithen, the elvish word for sister. Even with my family, it can be hard to find the time to open up and know how to talk about things. I’m closest to my mom in my family, which I’m so glad about, but sometimes it can be a while before I get the chance to sit down and talk to her. Music helps so much to be able to “talk it out/cry it out”. I’m not afraid to be different, and I’m actually a hard person to change. I’m not at all worried about myself, I’m confident of who I am and that Christ in my is my worth, but I am saddened when because I’m a little different from the crowd or whatnot gets in the way one way or another and I feel very alone. Thank you so much, I really appreciate everything you said, it means a lot.

@ashira

Have you ever read Foxe’s Book of Martyrs? Oh my… Chilling, chilling book, but so, so good!! I love the stories of martyrs, and actually Perpetua is one of my favorites!! Just wondering, have you ever read Pearl Maiden? Fantastic book, I highly recommend it!!! Just make sure it’s the centennial edition. 😉

Isn’t music the best?? My crying song for years… When we left our church, when my horse died, all of it, I would play Hold Me Jesus by Rich Mullins and it was a huge blessing.

@wordsmith

No worries, I often go off into weird rabbit trails… 😉 I hope that whatever is going on it will go well, thanks for answering all the weird questions, and taking part in the ramblings, it’s been fun. I just have one odd question… When you said it all went under the guise of a Reformed Baptist Church… When I mentioned the church we left, it was actually a Reformed Baptist Church. It wasn’t a cult or community, but it was… well, first of all there were some problems with the leadership, and finally they made some changes that were against what we believed, and because we couldn’t agree with it, and they did not handle it well, we had to leave. If you don’t want to answer this or don’t have time, it’s fine, but I was wondering if you were saying that the community was bad (which I am not questioning at all) or Reformed Baptist theology was bad. I totally understand being hurt by a RBC, it was extremely painful, but I still would be a Reformed Baptist by what I believe in some areas (I promise I am not starting anything, I was just not sure, and even though I haven’t been through a cult, I do understand some of the pain of that, I can feel for you there. I hope that wherever you are now you can look back and say that God is faithful and can be trusted even when it is hard).