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...
shared burritos taste the best.
July 27 2006
ha. so i finally ate guacamole for the first time (by choice) tonight. restaurant raid was at Blue Coast. i had half a burrito and a brush with death. michael almost ordered it with (dun dun DUN!) BLACK OLIVES!!!!!!!! it would have been really sad if he had have killed me via a small black vegetable. anyways, got to know a kid named Zeke, which was pretty cool. clint gave the most amazing message in the world tonight. and that's because it was just all God. like, it was totally His words. it was amazing. i could've sworn that he was speaking directly to me.
i also got to thinking about how shallow i can be. how shallow the world is. there are so many people living for the most temporary things. temporary glory. and also how many religious people there are. i'm guilty of it myself at times. Tonight clint talked about how easy it is to be religious. In fact, it seems to almost be catered to our human nature. It's a result of our pride, it glorifies us, it requires no love or compassion, and enables us to accuse because, of course, we are so much better than those sinners. our world doesn't need more religion. we need the radical, transforming change that a real relationship with Jesus Christ brings. Christianity is not a religion. It's a relationship. sounds trite i know, but it's just the truth. i get so comfortable with the milk of God's word, and even when i'm offered the meat and potatoes, i just shrink back and stay complacent. i can be such a hypocrite.
i know that God loves us all equally, but sometimes i wonder if He shakes His head at us as Christians more than non-believers, because we know better, and we still act like we are of this world. i feel like i've just been talking the talk, but no more. i'm gonna start walking.
"THEREFORE, THERE IS NOW NO COMDEMNATION FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN CHRIST JESUS!" ---Romans 8:1. i want to live my life in the knowledge of the freedom that i have in Christ. i didn't realize how far i had fallen until tonight, and i had to question a lot of my motives. i had truly forgotten my first love. i pray that each and every one of you will come to that same realization, just quicker than i did. if you are a believer in Jesus Christ, go forward tomorrow knowing that any accusation brought up against you cannot stand. you are not bound by the "law of sin and death" any longer! praise God, and thanks be to Him! i love you all so much. goodnight, and much love ----Cari
