Cari Jennings
Relationship Status
Single
Highschool
Oakland High School
College
Carson-Newman College
Interests
God, though i'm much more than interested in Him, playing music, listening to music, singing, reading, swimming, cooking, medicine, politics, sharing my beliefs with others, God's Word - The Bible, anything coffee flavored, school, Grey's Anatomy, Law and Order:SVU (weird, i know), children, missions, international studies, Belle Aire Baptist Church, Catholics
Favorite Music
Mat Kearney, The Gabe Dixon Band, Regina Spektor, Ben Folds, Rufus Wainwright, The Killers, The Beatles, Chris Tomlin, The David Crowder Band, Sarah McLachlan, Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz, Ben Harper, Tom Petty, Hootie and the Blowfish, Keane, Elton John, Billy Joel, Weezer, Fallout Boy, Dashboard Confessional, Michael Buble, The Who, Three Dog Night, The Goo Goo Dolls, James Blunt, Collective Soul, James Taylor, Simon and Garfunkel, Jim Croce, The Postal Service, Ray Lamontagne, Amos Lee, The All American Rejects, Switchfoot, Lenny Kravitz, Aerosmith, Blind Melon, Coldplay, The Eagles, Kanye West, Jet, Iron and Wine, Radiohead, Fleetwood Mac, Chris Rice, Fernando Ortega, Bob Marley, Relient K, Marvin Gaye, Norah Jones, Jars of Clay, and many, many others...
Favorite Movies
The Butterfly Effect, A Lot Like Love, Darkness, The Producers, Schindler's List, Frailty, Frequency, The Pianist, Tommy Boy, A Time to Kill, Just Cause, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Keeping the Faith, Meet the Fockers, There's Something About Mary, I Am David, The Color Purple, Life Is Beautiful, Braveheart, The Patriot, Signs, The Passion of the Christ, (Mel Gibson can do no wrong), The Village, The Sixth Sense, Pay It Forward, Spiderman, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Jennings Family Home Movies, The Sound of Music, The Omen, Prophecy, Napoleon Dynamite, Kung Pow:Enter the Fist, Blacksheep, Moulin Rouge, Dirty Dancing, Bring It On, Saving Private Ryan, We Were Soldiers, and about a million others....
Favorite Books
The Bible, the Little House on the Prairie series, Ethan Frome, Great Expectations, Intensity, Carrie, Rose Madder, The Giver, 1984, A Painted House, A Walk Across America, Angela's Ashes, Mere Christianity, The Lion.the Witch.and the Wardrobe, The Screwtape Letters, Where the Red Fern Grows, Fahrenheit 451, and at least a billion others...
Why?
October 23 2005
funerals suck. like, more than anything in the world, except for burials. especially when it is a baby. a sweet, innocent baby. gah. i hate this fallen world. i'm tellin ya, today more than ever, i decided that i'm totally ready to go home, though that's obviously not God's plan for me right now. but i just want to go somewhere where everything is perfect, cause it sure ain't happenin here. God has revealed himself to me so much over the past year or so, and yet sometimes i still just have to ask why. and yet even in the worst of circumstances, i can see God at work in this. which i know is easy for me to say, since it's not my son. gosh, you should have heard/seen Rhiannon and Grey this afternoon. I can't believe how strong they both are. but that miniature casket was the cruelest thing i've ever seen. but i know that (corny as it sounds) he's in a better place. as brother Dean said, he's experiencing perfect knowledge, perfect joy, and perfect love, among other things. and i'm sure that Bruce is psyched to have him there. i was also really touched by how nice everyone in that family is to me. they always make me feel so loved, and i wouldn't trade them for the world. the burial was awfully brutal, plus it was so cold and gloomy, which i think is fitting. i don't like sunn, cheerful funeral days. anyways, just thought i'd tell ya'll a bit about the funeral. love X3 --Cari
song of the day: Yet I Will Praise You ---My Mom (seriously)
song of the day: Yet I Will Praise You ---My Mom (seriously)
trumpetjaz
October 23 2005
it was a brutal experience, yeah. but the more i really think about it, the more sense it seems to make. Bro. Dean did a great job, as did your Mom. The whole Barker/Gilley family just amazed me.
r
October 23 2005
I've only been to two funerals in my life. Both were for old people and ended up being more a party than anything. Thankfully, I have no experience with a young person's death. I can't imagine what it must be like.
On a seperate note (no pun intended), does your mom have a cd? I would really like one.
Emily W.
October 23 2005
yeah. wow. the gilleys are in my prayers.
i know what you mean. i heard a song today on way-fm .. it talked about being homesick.. i am so homesick. this place isn't my home. i want to go home. so desperately. hope you're doing okay! much love!
