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What Is Serenity Shelter?
Serenity is a dog rescue. We rescue dogs of all kinds and rehabilitate them to be able to be adopted. Not all dogs have a nice past, such as just being given up to the shelter because their owners couldn't afford to care for them. Some are abandoned. Some were left for dead. But each one is special, and each one is full of love and ready to share it. We give the dogs the best care we can provide, but nothing beats a home that they can call their own. So are you ready to adopt?
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"Below are some of my most treasured ambitions that I would love to accomplish. I hope you enjoy reading!
-Jess<3
Travel
Visit Egypt
Visit Canada
Visit Scandinavia
Visit Thailand
Visit Hong Kong
Visit Japan
Visit China
Visit Rome
Visit Pompeii
Visit Paris
Visit Prague
Visit Sea World, Orlando
Visit Universal Studios
Visit Disneyland
Visit Venice
Visit Las Vegas
Visit Hawaii
Visit Germany
Visit Vienna
Visit London
Visit San Francisco
Visit Australia
Visit New Zealand
Visit Dublin
Visit Edinburgh
Visit New York
Visit Salem
Visit Bruges
Visit Longleat Safari Park
Sights/Attractions
See The Pyramids
See Niagra Falls
See The Taj Mahal
See The Colossuem
See The Trevi Fountain
See The Eiffel Tower
See The Northern Lights
See The Giant’s Causeway
See The Grand Canyon
See The White House
See Buckingham Palace
See Stonehenge
See Alcatraz
See The Great Wall of China
See The Forbidden City
See Edinburgh Castle
See The Leaning Tower of Pisa
See The Marble Arch Caves
See Ayers Rock
See Sydney Opera House
Education/Work
Finish college
Attend university
Learn how to drive
Get a job at the fair
Learn sign language
Learn how to cook
Learn how to play the violin
Learn a different language
Learn how to swim
Learn how to dance
Miscellaneous
Read the classics
Sleep under the stars
Legally drive on the wrong side of the road
Stay in a 5 star hotel
Write a book
Own a car
Own a bonsai tree
Wear a traditional kimono
Wear a traditional sari
Have a Harry Potter movie marathon
Hold a koala
Swim with sharks
Swim with dolphins
Share a helicopter ride with someone special
Go horse-riding
Go ice-skating in Central Park, NY
Gamble in a Las Vegas casino
Go on safari
Share a hot air balloon ride with someone special
Share a gondola ride with someone special
Go bungee jumping
Go whale watching
Share a horse-drawn carriage ride with someone special
Stay on The Orient Express
Go sky-diving
Ride a camel
Ride an elephant
Try archery
Adopt a wolf
Carve a pumpkin
Build a snowman
Attend a New Year’s party/celebration
Decorate my entire house for Halloween
Go dog-sledding
Chris Tomlin grabs the microphone and asks the crowd if they’re ready.
"I feel alive, on God's great dance floor!" He leads the packed venue in singing and jumping.
Tomlin is out touring the country with his latest studio album, “Burning Lights.” In January, it topped the Billboard 200 charts. But unlike those who've enjoyed performances by Beyonce, Johnny Cash and a host of others who've played this Baltimore hall, after these fans stream out the doors they will have ample opportunity to sing Tomlin's songs again, as one.
That is the secret to Tomlin’s success – the stage, the lights, the band - aren’t about him. As lively as his shows are, the point is not to get you inside the doors. The point is to get you singing in church.
“I strive for trying to write something that people can sing, that people want to sing, and that people need to sing,” Tomlin explained before the show.
Tomlin is the undisputed king of worship music, a genre of Christian music sung on Sunday mornings all across the world and increasingly played on Christian radio stations. The music is simple, devotional and easy on the ears“I was just writing songs for the church and from there they just started taking off.”
The compositions are considerably different from pop music. They are simpler, and he takes pains to write them that way.
“I'm thinking as that comes out of my heart as a song of response, I'm trying to think, how can I form this so that everybody, people who are tone deaf, who can't clap on two and four, how can I form this song so they can sing it, so that it is singable?”
Part of that process comes from his love of country music, the simplicity of that music and the stories those songs tell. His goal is to write songs that communicate what people would like to say to God.
“Now, that doesn't happen all the time. I mean, I write so many songs that you never hear because they are not any good.”
Tomlin is the worship pastor at Passion City Church in Atlanta. He leads worship there twice a month and beta tests all his new songs on the congregation. Tomlin is also a major draw as the worship leader of the Passion Conferences, a series of Christian conferences around the world. In January, the conference packed out the Georgia Dome in Atlanta with 60,000 college-age students. Billboard magazine noted the conference helped push up pre-sales of Tomlin’s latest CD.
His songs are so sought-after that, even before they're released on CD, they start showing up in CCLI’s online database.
“His songs have probably had the most immediate impact on churches that we have seen in history,” Rachinski said. “Even before you get to street release [of a CD], churches are already networked and engaged with his songs.”Other contemporary Christian musicians, as the music industry designates them, have crossed over to mainstream pop with some success. Tomlin said he has no designs on making that leap.
He also doesn’t need the money. Over the course of his career he’s sold 4.2 million albums, had 6 million digital downloads, a number of sold-out tours, and of course, the copyright royalties.
Tomlin said money isn't what motivates him to write and perform.
“I feel like I have a responsibility, that God has given me a gift to write songs for his church that people listen to and that people are coming to expect now,” he said. “When I make a record I feel that responsibility that worship leaders, churches are going to say, 'Hey, are these some new songs we can sing in our church?' And I don't take that lightly, and I don't go, ‘Oh let's go do something else fun.’”“I haven't invented any new instruments, I haven't created new chords that no one has ever played. I play the same chord that every band plays, we play the same instruments up there, the melodies are melodies. The difference to me in the music is that I ask that God's presence be on it and that people, when they sing these songs, sense that God does something.”
The spotlight is on Tomlin even more than ever after starting the year a top the Billboard charts. As he tours the country at bigger and bigger venues, he would prefer to step out of the spotlight, away from the microphone, and let everyone else sing.
“People would be mad that they paid for a ticket for that. So I do that just occasionally, but that is what I love.”
He said the night before, at the Theater at Madison Square Garden, he took as much time as he could to step back and let everyone else sing.
“It was just so beautiful, because I feel like it says something. It's not just like, ‘Hey, listen to me sing.’ This is all of us together. I think when you step back from the mic and it is not about you - and yeah, the light may be on you, but this is about all of us singing. This is about a bigger story, it's about a greater story. It's about a greater name than my name. My name is on the ticket, but this is about a greater name.”
Credit.
My hero other than Chris Tomlin is Ellen DeGeneres. I have always admired her for being so generous and kind, and for being so open about who she is. I heard about Ellen through her show, the Ellen DeGeneres Show. Ellen has a firm belief that everyone should be helped. She supports many different charities and foundations such as the Artists Against Racism, Feeding America, Love Our Children USA, and countless others. Once a woman from Florida wrote her a letter about how she and her husband and two children were struggling right now. Ellen was touched and invited them to come on her show. When they did Ellen gave them a new crib, bottles, baby food, and a year's supply of diapers for their baby daughter. She also gave them $10,000 to help them buy a car, but later surprised them with a new car because theirs was going to be taken away. Nobody asked her to do this; she did it simply out of the kindness of her heart. Ellen was born on January 26, 1958 in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was the daughter of an insurance salesman and a working mother. While she was growing up, Ellen wanted to be a veterinarian; however she gave up the dream because she was not "book smart". In 1973, when Ellen was sixteen her parents filed for divorce and her mother was later remarried and moved the family to Texas. Ellen is important to me because she is so kind. She is a very big animal lover and is constantly rescuing them. Nobody has to get down on their knees and beg for her help because she is already so willing to give it. I also admire that she did not even think of pursuing a job being a comedian. One day while giving a speech and became frightened by the crowd and used her humor to get her through it. She was later asked to do stand-ups and so her show was created.
-Jess<3
She likes to work on her ambition, 'bucket list.' She tries to work on her list whenever she can and is rather determined to finish it. Other then that, she likes to write poems in her free time, and will turn the radio up and sing along.
Jess lay in bed as her father picked her up and gave a goodmorning kiss, "Goodmorning my beautiful." he told her. He hadn't seen her since last year, and she was growing quickly. She yawned and hugged him tightly as he carried her into the kitchen where her mother was cookin pecan pancakes for breakfast with almond syrup. Her father snuck up from behind her an grabbed a little of the pancake batter, purposely throwing a little on her. She turned around laughing and threw a little back, covering little Jess and her father. Pretty soon, they were all in the floor laughing. Jess's father stood up and helped up his wife and daughter as they continued to giggle. Her mother stood up and begin to make more batter while her father cleaned up the mess. When he finished, he picked up Jess, and carried her to the living room and turned on Tom and Jerry. He wrapped her in a hug and handed her his camouflage collar and silver chain smiling, "I love you my little Jessie."






Of Monsters and Men wrote:I met a man today,
And he smiled back at me;
Now there are thoughts like these,
That keep me on my feet,
That keep me on my feet
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