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FYI - About Jeanie
Posted on Saturday 25 November 2006 by Jeanie @ 10:38 am
Filed under: Stuff I actually think
Edited July 28, 2008
Lives in Colorado, where there are over 300 sunny days a year!
Married to Dave, best friend and lover for 27 years (we’re off to a good start)!
Familia: I raised 5 kids and lived to tell about it!! 5 grown children (3 of which are married to the best people ever!), 5 extraordinary grandchildren: Gavin-5, Hunter-3, Guini-3, Gemma-1, and the brand new Averi . My parents still going strong for God. Incredible siblings and in-laws all over the nation. So blessed!
One of my favorite lines from a book: “It’s not about you.” from Rick Warren’s best-selling Purpose Driven Life, chapter one, first line. I don’t remember any of the other sentences, too much.
Book title I most hate: Purpose-Driven Life because as a born type-A personality, I don’t need anyone or any book giving me a reason to be driven - no matter how spiritual sounding it may be. I am trying to walk with Christ daily, keep in step with the Holy Spirit - not run them over as I drive by.
Books that impacted me for life at the age of nineteen: Yes! by Ann Kiemel, Disciplines of the Beautiful Woman by Anne Ortlund
Book ending I could’ve lived without: The Journey of Desire by John Eldridge. If you read it, you probably know what I am talking about. (This was still my top book pick for 2004, though)
Foul of choice: “I Think I Love You, ” and “I Woke Up in Love this Morning” are 2 of the greatest songs ever and they are both by the Patridge Family. Really - you have to listen to them again!
Movies I love that you can now buy for $4.99, but are worth the watch (in no particular order)!:
- Return to Me (low budget, small, but such a great story…see it!)
- Grace of My Heart …omygoodnesss…I love this movie!…
- Mother is a Freshman oldie, but a goodie
- Cold Comfort Farm “I saw something nasty in the woodshed”
- One Fine Day…one of the greatest movie kisses…wholesome love story takes place in one 24-hour period
- A League of Their Own great piece from one of my favorite periods, the 40s
- Enchanted April…I need one!…
- Room with a View “?” the great why???
- I’m with Lucy really cute look at dating and finding true love
- Dream Team…Dave says I am the guy in the looney-ward with the cleaning compulsion
- Best in Show…True dog lovers don’t care that much for this movie, but that is because it is about them!
- Waiting for Guffman Ok, Posie Parker? She actually works at the Dairy Queen here in Brighton!
- Bye Bye Love Who knew divorce could be funny? Jeanine Garafolo is the best “date from hell” ever!
- The Notebook Sappy, perhaps, but really sexy and wonderful, too (better ending than the book)
- Elf Captures the childlike wonder of Christmas so well, pretty to look at, too
- Something New a gorgeous guy, a beautiful workaholic and a majestic garden
- Baby Boom…classic Diane Keaton - another of the best movie kisses ever
More “obvious” movies that I love and why:
- You’ve Got Mail…because it’s written by a writer about books- great script, a gentle story…bouquets of sharpened pencils
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles…because you need a good Thanksgiving movie…beautifully relational…makes me laugh every single year…I have felt as frustrated as Steve Martin’s character at the airport car rental counter, and maybe even acted like that…
- The Quiet Man…because you need a good St. Patrick’s Day movie on your list…hot passion…he’s a man!…
- The Sixth Sense…if you got to see it before some one ruined the ending, you know why I love it. You can never experience it like that again, but that was fun!…
Greatest joys:
- Time with Dave…
- the 5 delightful, energetic grandchildren
- Tara & Dave, Stephanie & Tristan, Tredessa, Rocky & Jovan, and Stormie: The wonderful children God gave me - watching them live out His call on their lives through worship, missions, preaching and teaching, giving. I am learning so much from them…
- Home. I found out that I was homesick for like 10 years. I love home…
- Digging in dirt with my bare hands. Some people poetically call this “gardening.” And by the way, the ‘Chicken Soup’ people should watch out for me because I think I have a new series formulating: “Grace from the Garden,” because I really do find it there…
- The great grace and mercy of a God who takes time to bother with me. His Presence and His smile are my great life pursuits. I am awestruck to be learning that He is greatly pursuing my presence as well…
Weirdest things at this point in my life: I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up!
Pet peeve/pardon me while I climb atop my soapbox: Church people who are churchy. Worse yet, being controlled by a spirit of condemnation through being shot with scriptural truth bullits and pious prayers to keep you in line.
Passion: The church when she is alive and functioning the way God intended, walking in love, full of fruit, operating in the gifts for the good of the Body. Nothing as beautiful!
