i am a twenty-three year old darling girl.
i am not married, i have no children, and i didn't graduate from college. but..
i draw birds and robots; i read books; i laugh till i cry; i love until my heart bursts; i sometimes paint my face or arms with stripes if i'm bored; i create; i play guitar.
i am not impressive, but i am me.
i am addicted to Jesus Christ. He never stops loving, never stops giving, and there is always more of Him. He is the perfect addiction. no one else can satisfy.
These are all just mostly vague details. If you want me, come find me. But, I promise, at the very least, you'll think I'm nice.
things i like
(and i like a lot of things).
museums.//
theme parks.//
zoos.//
aquariums.//
road trips.//
naps.//
reading, and lots of reading. especially in unconventional places.//
being silly.//
going to goodwill to find hidden treasures.//
traveling.//
new things.//
vintage things. record players, records, old cameras, old radios, vintage clothes, etc.//
learning new things.//
exploring new places.//
building forts out of pillows and/or blankets.//
getting mail.//
finding new ways to stay organized.//
old books that smell like yummy old books.//
the smell of colored pencils, and crayons.//
the internet, for without it, i might not have some very great friends that i love so dearly.//
squirrels.//
musicals.//
live plays.//
daisies, and trees.//
thai food.//
laughing.//
socks.//
people you meet that are so amazing they make you strive for greatness, not in competition, but just out of the pure fact that you've seen potential, and was found to be wasting yours.//
living a simple life.//
holding hands.//
the rare moments in life where i don't feel self conscious.//
watching home videos.//
hideabeds.//
thrift stores the size of target.//
target for that matter.//
poking people in the nose and saying "beep" at the same time.//
candles and lanterns and kerosene lamps.//
cupcakes.//
showers, washing my hands, and brushing my teeth.//
sitting on rooftops.//
the feel of new shirts.//
warm, summer nights.//
making things for people.//
old shoes from friends.//
macaroni and cheese.//
having great times of talk with God.//
organic, antibiotic-free, preservative-free, artificial flavoring/color-free, no refined sugar or grain food. (just the way God intended.)//
love.
things i listen to
currently:
death cab for cutie. feist. animal collective. modest mouse. owen. iron & wine. mother mother. eisley. her space holiday. school of seven bells. dear and the headlights. the weepies. arcade fire. the format.
and when my heart needs to beat t-pain. rhianna. jay-z. kanye west. flo-rida. ne-yo. justin timberlake. (all hopefully edited.)
things i watch
when life slows for a moment.
the office. my boys. saturday night live. arrested development.
cinema light
that makes my heart glow
the royal tenenbaums. dedication. juno. stranger than fiction. hook. eternal sunshine.
garden state. empire of the sun. caddyshack. ghostbusters. jurassic park. closer. iron giant.
turner & hooch. an affair to remember. eagle vs. shark. lars and the real girl. pineapple express.
the life aquatic. (500) days of summer. the hangover. up.
and in all honesty, avatar in 3D was pretty amazing.
paper and ink
with feelings and thought
cars & trucks & things that go - richard scarry
little bear - maurice sendak
the giving tree - shel silverstein
the quietest cricket - eric carle
there is a monster at the end of this book - grover
crazylove - francis chan
awake - erwin raphael mcmanus
seizing your divine moment - erwin raphael mcmanus
the journey towards relevance - kary oberbrunner
no compromise - melody green
but you can't raise boys to be scared of life.
You got to brew some recklessness into them.
The Lord has always been the One who stirs hearts to give of their resources and primarily I am asking Him to stir up those who will financially sow as partners with His kingdom advancing in and through my life.
Please take time to prayerfully consider becoming a monthly financial partner, allowing the Lord to pour through you, as He is the Source of all provision.
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this is a topic that i don't talk much about because it's too frustrating and too many of you would think i'm insane. but i've reached my limit. a child is going to die unless something is done. *gasp!* you say. are they in the hospital? what can the doctors do?
that's the whole point. the hospital and the doctors are killing them. no, i'm not talking about abortion. i'm talking about society being brainwashed into the medical model and being taught backwards truths, just like how people joked that the German's were taught that the holocaust didn't happen. this is like the holocaust. this is millions of people dying, and people making millions of dollars off of it.
i don't believe doctors are inherently evil -- i don't. my sister is a nurse, i have multiple medical family members. but i do believe that there is ANOTHER way besides what we've been taught. and it's hard to hear because it's what we've been told, what our parents have been told, what their parents have been told, etc. and they were wrong. we were wrong. and it's costing us our lives.
the current medical healthcare system looks like this: something hurts -- you tell the dr. -- dr. prescribes you medications -- meds give you side effects -- you take more meds for those side effects -- more side effects -- more meds, etc. etc. until it snowballs out of control.
or worse. something hurts -- let's just remove it! you get scheduled for surgery and it is removed but yet, it doesn't fix things. things still hurt.
let me put this in a way that makes more sense. the spine and spinal nerves are the main headquarters for running things. they get orders from the brainstem, who gets orders from the big boss, your brain. so if your brainstem has pressure from misaligned cervical vertebrae, or you have a reversed curve, then your brainstem is throwin' out some wonky orders. bloodflow can be cut off and circulation to your brain can even be damagingly slowed. now, that doesn't sound lovely does it? doesn't that seem like a spinal thing you'd like to fix? get adjusted and back into proper alignment? but that's not what happens. your brain loses blood flow to a certain area, and let's say it's your emotional part of your brain, the subcortex. that would make you depressed. and you think to yourself, "well. i'm just not happy anymore."
..i wouldn't be either if i had some bad subluxation in my neck.
but you go to the doctor, you tell him you're sad a lot and he gives you a medication. now, does that seem like the sensible way of fixing things? to makes and medicate a SYMPTOM instead actually fixing the source of the problem? that's like walking around with a pebble in your shoe and thinking that your options are: wearing more socks so you don't feel the pebble as much, taking a medication to numb your foot so you can't feel it entirely, or hopping on one foot so the other foot doesn't have to feel the rock.
... wouldn't you just TAKE OUT THE STUPID ROCK?
it sounds humorous, i'm sure. we laugh, "ha ha. that's so silly." but yet, this is exactly what happens every day.
let's say your oven, microwave, refrigerator, and kitchen light all went out at once. a sensible idea would be to go to the fusebox (master controller) and replace or check the fuses. not go out and buy new appliances. but this is how things work in the medical world. they ignore the problem and head for the symptoms. but of course that's how things work. there is no money in health. there is only money in sickness and disease.
now, what if i told you that fireman were the third leading cause of fires. wouldn't you just say, "excuse me, i'll just do fine on my own thanks." it's a ridiculous idea to even mention. but it's FACT.
we get excited when we build new wings of hospitals, or children's centers. shouldn't it instead break out hearts when we have so many sick children that we have to build them their own center? why do we get excited over disease and death? wouldn't it be better to hear that hospitals had to shut down because we had an epidemic of health?
there is a child in the hospital suffering from a multitude of heart problems. doctors are doing everything they can, and everything they know to do to help save the boy. i know they are. but they're failing to look at the source. prescribing adult doses of medications to an infant won't solve things. the vagus nerve is in the upper brain stem area and it supplies the most important organs in the body, and God has designed it to carry controlling impulses from the brain centers to the organs with a high degree of protection.you can have that nerve impinged upon and that vagus nerve goes throughout the entire network of the body - it goes to every detoxifying organ. so, imagine if someone has a pinched nerve on the vagus nerve, every detoxifying organ for the most part is diminished in its ability to function.and yet, somehow drugging the child, or doing surgery, or anything else is the option we're given. this child is going to die if something isn't done. and it's been breaking my heart all day, and i've been in prayer all day. and i still trust that God will heal him. God is always in the process of creating health, wellness and life. He is a God of goodness, health and life! The opposite is death. God is not about death, God is not about pain, God is not about bad things - those things do happen. The rain falls on the just and the unjust alike. but if there was something different you could do to solve the pain, wouldn't you?
let me ask you a question: do you believe God created you to need a drug to be happy? do you believe God created you with drugs in mind for your wellness?
NO! of course not. God didn't just whip you together in a hurry and then go "whoops... they're missing extra fosamax. thank Me for doctors." NO NO NO. we are FEARFULLY and WONDERFULLY made. STITCHED together by the loving hands of God! but why is this SO radical and SO extreme to think that there might be another way? and wouldn't you want to exhaust all of your resources finding out every possibility? if not for you, then for your children? isn't life worth it? isn't it important?
maybe this is worth mentioning, to realign our vision: God has blessed us all with the incredible power to heal. God is a powerful God. trying to measure the power of God is like..well, you can't even begin to measure the power of God. the prophet Isaiah said it rhetorically: "who can measure the waters in the hollow of his hand, who can weigh the mountains in a scale" - isaiah 40 goes on to talk about the power of God - it is just so immense that we can't even begin to comprehend it. so, once we understand who God is and how powerful and magnificent He is, we realize it is God who simply spoke and the earth was formed. He spoke and the heavens were created. He spoke and everything we know came into existence. He created you and me. The bible says on the seventh day He rested. it doesn't say God quit! it says God rested. That means that on the eighth day He went back to work. He has continued to create and sustain and that creative power continues to this day. every time we hear a newborn baby cry, or whenever we see a budding flower, or new life created, we can be reminded that God is real and He is truly in the creation business! so, let's put that on one hand and let's put our problems in the other hand. let's say we have the most horrific problem we can think about, such as terminal cancer. the doctor says your dying. first of all, as i have said before, the doctor doesn't really know when you're going to die - only God knows that. but, let's say the doctor has given you that diagnosis. let's put that on one side of the scale and then let's put the power of God and His Word on the other side of the scale. God's side of the scale says you can say to your mountains move and they will move; that scale says "ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened", that scale says "all things are possible, if you only believe." is it possible that the power, which created you, has the power to heal you. is it possible that the power that put all those cells together that continue to replicate to the point that you came into being - is it possible that power could eliminate the cancer growth or tumor - regardless of where it is? i completely believe the power that created you has the power to heal you! and He has placed that power WITHIN YOU. if you cut your finger on a piece of paper, you don't need to take a drug to make your blood clot. your body does it naturally. if you break your arm, yes, the doctor is great for putting a cast on to hold it in place, but you don't need to take a drug to make your bones fuse back together. God has placed that miracle inside of you. it's AMAZING.
stop to think about it. no, seriously. stop to actually think about how AMAZING our God is, and how WONDERFULLY you were created.
so please. ask questions. always keep seeking answers from different paths. don't TRUST anyone. not doctors, not me, not even chiropractors. do the research yourself and find those answers.
and if you do find that you want to escape the medical model, look to chiropractors for help. granted, not all of them are there really with your best interest in mind. find one that does CBP - chiropractor bio physics. they're the ones that are on the look out for the dangerous subluxation. not the ones that just think a simple crack in your neck will suffice and then send you packing. that's as good as masking a symptom with a drug.
for more information on various articles, go to my (work) website and read these .pdf files. chiropractors aren't just for car accidents and sports injuries. -they're for newborns who were squished and crunched being born and yanked and twisted by doctors. MOST problems are caused from birth trauma. (even if it wasn't "traumatic") -they're for kids who have food allergies, ear infections, sleeping problems, acid reflux. -they're for teenagers who are having growing pains and puberty issues. (yes, even cramps, ladies.) -they're for adults who are have depression, high blood pressure, anxiety, fibromyalgia, fertility issues (YEPP.), and of course, back/neck pain.
i've seen ALL of these and more helped by proper spinal alignment from adjustments.
PLEASE. PLEASE. PLEASE. for the sake of YOU. YOUR SPOUSE. YOUR CHILD. YOUR FAMILY. get your spine checked! this is as serious as i can make it.
and yeah, you might think i'm crazy. but how many people think that christians are crazy when they go off spouting "radical" ideas about God and all this "crazy nonsense."
and beware the medical community. the doctors should stick to what they do best, which is emergency care. the and the hospitals excel in it. if i get into a car accident and my arm is lying all the way on the otherside of the street, naturally take me to the ER. there isn't anything a chiropractor can do about that. the medical system EXCELS in emergency care. but not in health. not in wellness.
please. spend the time and the money getting yourself and your family looked at. you could help avoid cancer, heart disease, heart attacks and a myriad of other terrible, agonizingly painful problems.
all my love, and all of my prayers that you will seek wellness out, Jeska.
also, if anyone is near or in sioux falls. let me know. i'd love to set you up an appointment in our office. dr. rall has done amazing things.
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read it back to me, pietro.
good reads or good websites.
Team Van Voorst - Paige updates her life as wife, mom, and general frugal lady!
LG & Brian Alsbury - LisaGrace writes about being a new wife, matters of the heart, budgets and goals, and general awesome things.
SmittenKitchen - Seriously some of the BEST recipes i've ever come across. SO awesome.
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rare bird finds. - a collection of unique items. fredflare! - a shop full of fun and functionality. [etsy] - if you want anything handmade or vintage, look here. mighty goods. - an updated collection of fun things. threadless. - tshirts designed by everyday people. raygun. - formerly smash, this is an independant shop in des moines that specializes in awesome shirts.
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other good websites.
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