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| User: | mommydama (1373223) Building a Refuge...
Dama's Journal |
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| Name: | Dama | |
| Location: | Northern, Virginia, United States | |
| Birthdate: | 1973-10-12 | |
| Bio: | "Today you are our child, this day we have begotten you." --Orthodox Christian Service of the Adopted Child "You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face of him who gives and kindles joy in the heart of him who receives. All condemnation is from the devil. Never condemn each other… Instead of condemning others, strive to reach inner peace. Keep silent, refrain from judgment. This will raise you above the deadly arrows of slander, insult, and outrage and will shield your glowing hearts against all evil." ~St. Seraphim of Sarov Last night there was a moment that surged up inside me so immense it overflowed and thankful I was alive if only for that one gaze that one minute among thousands exhausted sigh, calmed by the only mommy will do damp curl resting on her forehead sooty lashes fluttering above her flushed cheeks lips red plump parted in unconcious abandon to the sleep that settles like a blanket, an exhale her fist clenched in my shirt uncurls flower petals secretly in the dead of night and I am sure for one heartbeat that on her breath I smelled incense could it be that she is still so close to heaven? --DLJ 9/17/04 I'm mommy to three young daughters (12/24/00, 11/8/01, and 12/17/02) by adoption. I'm wife to an officer in the US Army. I'm definately a work in progress. My journal is for me to vent, groan, and think outloud, but also to keep friends and family up to date on the happenings in our world, so I do make a lot of public entries. Anything else you need to know, just ask. "O Lord Jesus Christ our God Who didst come into this world not to be ministered unto but to minister and to give Thy life as a ransom for many. Help me, I beseech Thee in my ministry of caring for the children Thou hast given me. Enable me to be patient in tribulations, to instruct with a meek and gentle spirit, to reprimand with inner tranquility and a sober mind, and to serve in humility of heart with love. May I thus live in Thee alone, by Thee alone and for Thee alone showing forth Thy virtues and leading my family upon the path of Thy saving commandments. That we may glorify Thee together with Thine unoriginate Father and Thine all-holy and life-giving Spirit both in this world and that which is to come. Amen." | |
| Memories:: | 23 entries | |
| Interests: | 59: adoption, anne of green gables, anne rice, arizona, audrey hepburn, babies, bare feet, beading, bible, books, british history, byzantine icons, c.s. lewis, childhood, children's books, christ, cloth diapering, coloring, crying, cuddling, day-dreaming, deserts, dimples, divine liturgy, family, friends, gardens, guitars, gymboree, hiking, historical fiction, history, homeschooling, indigo girls, janette oke, jon bon jovi, military, mountains, my children, my dog, orthodox christianity, pizza, poetry, quilts, rain, reading, researching, saints, shirley temple, spring in texas, sunsets, the color blue, the quiet man, tolkein, u.s. army, verandas, walking aimlessly, writing, zydeco | |
| Schools: | None listed | |
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| Account type: | Basic Account | |
