It's Like a Rainbow Vanishing

To me that means a good thing. For example, after a bad storm, then there's a rainbow and once it has vanished, you can go on with your day (or life).

The Shack

I finished reading The Shack.

Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter Missy , has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence thhat she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend.

Against his better judgement he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternnoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will changge Mack's world forever.

In a world where religiion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant THE SHACK wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You'll want everyone you know to read this book!

for more info go to www.theshackbook.com


Love,


Jen

My Life in Movie Format chapter 3

I started to feel what a celebrity must feel. There was lights and music and people all the time. So, I began to party like I was famous. I moved around a lot. One of the first places I went to was a room that a friend from high school rented. He and his friends introduced me to acid. The first time I tripped was unreal. Me and my friend took the acid in the room and just as it was kicking in, we got a ride from some people.

That night brought us to many places, physically and emotionally. My favorite part was when we were peaking and we were sitting on a bench at a baseball field. It felt like it wasn't the ground that we were on but water. I could feel the bench floating and then I flicked a cigarette into the field and looked like the "water" put it out. That night started a short love affair with acid. What I loved most about it was the people it introduced me to.

I also started going to college at Mass Art during that time. I felt truly free. When I finally settled somewhere it was because a professor of mine knew something was going on with me. The fact was that I was homeless and out of money. As fate would have it, she had enormous pulling in the housing office. I was in my very own dorm room that day.

I met a guy named Gus in the dorm and we started drinking together almost every night. One night I had just bought a pair of roller skates at the thrift store and I was skating up and down the halls of the dorm. It was funny because we shared the dorm with M.I.T. students. We would hear them clacking away on their computers and I'm sure they could hear us partying.

On my birthday I started going out with a friend named Dan. I was truly in love. We enjoyed all the same things and he was really funny. We continued to party that year and the next year in the dorms and the following year in our apartment in Allston. It was there that I saw a movie that changed my life.

Stick To Your Guns

I saw a shirt today that said "Stick to your guns". It made me realize that I can't do that because I don't have any guns. I give up on everything and I don't really stand for anything. I'm 32 years old. I need to find my guns.

55 Word Story (Spoiled)

She always asked them for a new outfit. They always said yes.

She was a spoiled girl. She wanted to be an only child. She actually has four brothers and three sisters.

Every person finally got fed up with her greed. She eventually lost every penny.

And now she is getting what she truly deserves.

Panic

Look in the mirror
Imagine the result

Let thought run and travel

Fear building
Concentration dwindling

Panic is here

My Life in Movie Format chapter 2

The first time I officially got drunk, it was a real mess. I was at a small get together in a friends parents basement/bar. We were making screwdrivers. Quickly I got so drunk tthat I blacked out. From what I was told, I fell out of the tree house. Then I peed in front of the group of skater kids that had shown up without my being aware of them. The next day I went to school and I was still drunk. Also, there was my uncles wedding. I was taking "sips" off everyones drinks. I ended up on stage singing Sowing the Seeds of Love by Tears for Fears. It was a good time and that is still one of my favorite songs. All this stuff happened before I was old enough for high school.

For some reason, I did a 360 (as one teacher called it) in high school. I got really into hardcore music and going to shows and I did really good in school at the same time. I made National Honor Society my junior year. They asked me to join as a sophmore but I thought it was too nerdy. When I told my mother that, she insisted that I join in my junior year so I figure "why not?". I received a lot of awards my senior year and graduated 4th in my class.

Close to graduation I started dating a friend from Boston. He got me into weed and drinking again. On the day of my graduation party, my mothers friend gave me some champage. The party ended early because I got drunk and passed out. The next day I moved in with my boyfriend in Boston.

A Few Traits

Maggie's wit is like Dennis Miller's and she's only four years old.

She's as cute as a fluffy calico kitten.

Her intelligence shines like a flood light in a snow filled yard at night.

My Life in Movie Format chapter 1

My life has always felt like a movie about a drug addicted actress. Except, I don't know how to act.

It all started on February 29, 1976 which is a leap year. I was supposed to be born on January 15th. My mother would go into labor and the doctor would tell her that I wasn't ready to come out. Finally my grandmother Georgenia called the doctor and told him to do an emergency c-section. Because I was born so late, my finger nails were even long.

I spent the first week of my life in an incubator. The cord had been wrapped around my neck causing me not to be born. The doctors said that if I had been a boy I probably wouldn't have had the will to survive.

The next 5 years went pretty smooth. I was even given a baby sister and brother. One morning my mother, sister and me went to wake up my 4 month old brother Michael. He
was in his crib facing the wall. My mother gently called his name. "Michael". He didn't respond. She called his name louder and touched his back. No response. Then she screamed his name and turned him away from the wall. His face was blue. I now knew what death looked like. Michael was rushed in the ambulance. All of our family started arriving at our house. I asked my grandmother Marion if Michael would be ok. She said "I can't lie to you, he's dead."

The next 4 years are a blur. All I remember is having to visit with a psychiatrist regularly. Finally, I felt a wave of freedom from my worries as we moved to Winchendon. I was so ready to move that I left early with the moving truck instead of playing with the neighborhood kids for one last time.

At my new school I was scared. I cried on the day that my parents dropped me off but soon a girl in my class befriended me. She gave me her lowdown on all the other kids. At recess we saw a red-haired girl named Peggy playing soccer. My new friend warned me to avoid her because she had was a dork. Peggy turned out to live right behind my new house. We became good friends for a while. This was during the time that the Jem cartoon was on TV. One day we called the show frantically trying to win a contest to sing the theme song. I got through to the voicemail while Peggy was in another room and I sang my heart out. Unfortunately, my singing voice is as bad as Mariah Carey is annoying.

On November 29th of 1985, my sister Tina was born. It soon became my responsibility to take care of her during the day and wake up with her at night. It was then that I began experimenting with alcohol. My father always had a bottle of Wild Turkey around and I would "enjoy" some on special occasions like 4th of July, when I was bored and when my parents weren't around.