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Name: Kaylynn
Gender: Female
Interests: traveling, running, rafting, hiking, writing poetry, singing, coffee drinking ;) huge music and movie buff, Russian history, avid reader, kickboxing, lover of God's awesome creation!
Expertise: massage therapy, muscles, coffee, quoting movies, worrying --ha!
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Member Since:
9/15/2005
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| Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him. Romans 4:7 & 8 ...He was raised to life for our justification. Therefore since we have been justified through faith, we have PEACE with God through our Lord Jesus Christ through whom we have gained access by faith into this GRACE in which we (I) now stand. And we REJOICE in the HOPE of the glory of God. Romans 4:25, 5:1 & 2 I'm so thankful and humbled that God's grace and mercy saves me and gives me hope of eternal life and knowledge that I am His daughter. Just had to share that reflection today as it hit me anew this past Sunday. Praises! | | |
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I just wanted to throw this out there: is anyone looking for something to do this summer? You can be a camp counselor in eastern kentucky for 2-9 weeks. I'll probably be doing one week at camp shawnee. We at CAP also have camp andrew jackson. So if you are interested please check out www.christianapp.org for more information or send me a line, ok? | | |
| Fall is so beautiful in Kentucky!! I am so incredibly blessed, loved, and taken care of here! Next week I'll be in West Virginia for Thanksgiving with Andrew and his family. I get to go home, praises for cheap plane ticket!, for two weeks at Christmas. Can't believe it will be a full year since I've set foot on the Kansas plains. I tell you what you don't know how to truly appreciate home until you've spent time away. I have experienced it before in my travels and schooling, but not on this level where I can't drive home on the weekends! I have officially started my second term of service with Americorps and CAP. My hours were completed two months early so I've just signed on for another go! I feel very content with that decision. I'm not ready to say goodbye to my ladies, my grandmas and certainly not my fellow housemates, friends, and this place. I am still amazed that I found family, real community here so far from where I grew up. It's awesome and I thank God for it! Happy autumn to my friends and hugs all around. | | |
| Where has all the time gone?? Seems like I've been waiting for the colors to overwhelm me with autumn goodness that somehow the summer ended and I can't believe it is almost November. But guess what else is almost here??? The AMAZING RACE!! I'm excited. Let's see this past month has seen chock full weekends--went caving and camping, rock climbing and camping, volunteer retreat, my family visited and we went to Cumberland Falls, and now this weekend I'm "camping" at a couple of the other volunteer houses (2-3 hours from my house). Another really good friend has left my house and that's been weird. Hard to say goodbye and find time to do so when so much is going on. We are having a Thanksgiving dinner for our elderly from six counties in two weeks and that's a really big deal. I'm looking forward to it. I am also planning on going home to Kansas (and how 'bout them Jayhawks) for two weeks at Christmas if I can work it. Yea!! My year is officially up in Jan but I'd like to extend for a few more months. All in all I have had such a wonderful experience here in the bluegrass state and haven't felt any leading to move elsewhere. Tonight I'm going contra dancing which is kind of like square dancing mixed with lines and switching partners and spinning. We saw the moonbow at Cumberland Falls last night ( a rainbow made by the mist of the falls with the full moonlight). Beautiful!! I love fall, I tell ya. Praises, God! | | |
| Hi all! The summer is winding down; we've finally had a break from the awful humidity, but still have the heat. I'm ok with that as a western kansas girl. It feels like the summer has flown by and some of the trees here are already turning, can you believe that? Johnson House sure is going through the changes and some of them have been tough. I've had to say goodbye to some beloved people and I'll have to do it again next month. It's hard to watch them leave and have others come in to take their room. I was reminded of the two weeks I spent in Belarus a few years ago. I had just finished seeing off the busload of teens that I had come to love and the tears were just pouring down my face. I didn't know how I was going to get myself together to do it all over again the following week. One thing about it, I'm such a softie and it's hard to make such heart connections with people only to have them leave. I'm not explaining it well, but I remember having the conversation with Lavonne on having compassionate hearts that allow us to love deeply, even when it hurts us more, too. So it's that greater sensitivity that I'm drawing on as I try to stay open to making more relationships as new volunteers come and trusting God as old ones move on. | | |
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