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Talissyn
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Name: Talissyn
State: Indiana
Birthday: 12/21/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: freedom...truth...
faith...anything
that makes me
think. Friends,
family, kids...ice
cream. Sports,
music, hiking,
and driving.
Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
3/1/2004
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| life is interesting you know?! new things happen all the time...i'm in a season of change right now...
new friends coming into my life, old friends graduating and moving on. I'm actually moving into my first apartment next week! i'm really excited about it! it's in Chicago, a neighborhood called Logan Square. I love it.
There's a Tastee Freeze right down the street, the girl i'm going to be living with is who i've been doing ministry with all year long, and she's awesome! we've already gotten to know a few kids in the neighborhood and some adults, we go to a house church there too, which i love.
i have to buy a car, and a bike, and pay rent, and pay for insurance, and buy groceries, and have parties in my new apt. just because i can! and get to know my neighbors.
it's predominantly a Hispanic part of the city, lots of Puerto Ricans, lots of Mexicans. They're awesome! We've been playing pick-up soccer games with some of the kids that live around us for the past few weeks, it's a good way to meet people.
and then next december i graduate! but next week, once i move into that neighborhood, i'm never movin back on campus...i'm gone! i'll be a commuter student for my last 12 credit hours...crazy. and i love it. i love it a lot!
i feel like i'm finally doing what i came to moody to learn how to do...the Lord is faithful you know?! yeah...
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| man oh man! i'm back at school, at Moody, and it's mostly good. this is my last full year here...and then, who knows...
well, since i've been back (12 days now), i've had more urban experiences up close and personal than i've had the past 2 years! So...here's how it all went down.
1.) I went rollerblading w/ a friend, and i'm real bad at blading (my balance seems to be a bit off when i'm on wheels), and this homeless man in a wheelchair told me that i was bad at rollerblading and really should be wearing some kind of knee protectors or something! Ohmigosh! It was halarious, truly, i'd never been told by a homeless man that i was bad a blading, very funny!
2.) I witnessed an arrest/hold outside of hte McDonalds about 4 blocks from school. Some guy had apparently stolen something from the MD, and when i came outside, this undercover cop had the guy on his knees, was holding a gun to his back, and yelling a lot! it was very shady, and strange, and only like 3 feet away from me...hmmm...
3.) Unfortuneatly, this past week i also so an entire homeless family. there was a mom, a teenage son, and a son that was probably 5 or 6. They were at the same bus station that i was, and 2 busses had already come thru, and i thought they were going to get on the last one, but they didn't do that either...they just sat there. very dazed, and seemingly not knowing what to do...my heart broke for them...and yet there was nothing that i could do, and i thought about it a lot...
4.) I also started my PCM (practical christian ministry) this week, and it's in Logan Square, a pretty ghetto/not so great part of town. Mostly african american and puerto ricans live there. me and the girl i went w/ road the bus further down Chicago Ave. than we ever had before, and by the time we got off the bus, we were the only white people left. Then we turned down the street that we had to go down, and there were tons of people outside, hanging out, like in a movie when on nice days the people just sit on their porches drinking lemonade (or beer, or whatever else was in those brown paper bags), and kids riding their bikes in the street, and it seemed quite pleasant. And as soon we started walking down the street, you could just feel the eyes on you, watching your every move, not entirely sure why 2 white girls were walking down their street. it was interesting, very new to me, yet the epitomy of everything that i've ever envisioned urban ministry being...it was awesome! and then i proceeded to get to go hang out w/ some puerto rican high schoolers at a bible study, and the hope is that i'll be able to mentor/disciple them in the near future...
i'm stoked. i'm ready. this is what i've been training for, this is what i'm at school for, and i'm so excited that it's finally here, and i remember now why i came in the first place...this will be great.
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| welp...this is it. My summer job is coming to an end...goodbye minnesota, hello colorado! and then, hello indiana, and then hello Chi-town! it's kind of crazy all the places i'll be in the next two weeks. kind of fun too! and this summer has been a whirlwind let me tell you. so many angry adults, so many great adults. so many roudy kids, and so many fun kids! a lot of great service projects, a lot of great people at the church. not enough sleep, and not enough exercise. i told kelli yesterday that when i get home, i think i'm gonna be ready to just sleep, for like 2 days straight! and it will be wonderful...so, anyways, i'll put some pictures up soon. peace. ~T~ | | |
| well...i'm learning a lot here in minnesota, from this job that sometimes i love and sometimes i hate. i do see the Lord work, a lot, and it's beautiful and humbling, but i also see the ugly side of ministry, and the church, and where different ideas clash and don't make for unity at all, but for division. but this is something i found, posted in a restroom stall here in the church that i live in. i thought it was perfect... Today, Like Every Other Day - by Rumi Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. i'm in a whole new world with this job. it's ministry, yet it's attempting to make people happy...people who are supposed to be doing ministry. i don't know, but that seems not completely right to me. if we're here to serve, why aren't we serving? There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground... ...much.love... | | |
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