Cheyenne Varner Blog Entries
Cheyenne Varner has written 10 blog posts.
Twenty years old. Eldest of three. Rising Junior at the University of Richmond. Interdisciplinary major: Educational Activism in the Arts (Sociology, Rhetoric &Comm, Education and Theatre). Creative Writing Minor. Has been heart broken by modern day slavery and human trafficking; therefore an aspiring activist of awareness for the two. Believer in Christ, seeking to follow the Savior and glorify the Father with integrity, sincerity, and service, through the power of the Holy Spirit. Oh, and I write poetry. [;
speed bump !
Every morning of day camp, the Magic School Bus a.k.a. Miss Amy’s bus a.k.a. the Third Pres Bus a.k.a. the bus with A/C, hits a myriad of speed bumps. There’s one speed bump, the last speed bump of the trip, that a bunch of the kids on the bus have begun to anticipate by shouting...
Continue reading...light at the end of the tunnel?
By: Cheyenne Varner - Sunday, July 10, 2011
In high-stress situations, my natural instinct is to turn into a sort of “survival” mode. Look at the light at the end of the tunnel and just push toward it– I can get through, I can make it, I tell myself. There’s one problem with this. When I take on this mindset, everything becomes about...
Continue reading...mush.
By: Cheyenne Varner - Thursday, June 30, 2011
When I sit down to type all the words seem to fall out of my head and all that’s left is mush strung together by the common thread of exhaustion. I love daycamp. Mondays are lovely. Tuesdays are absolutely killer. Wednesdays are draining. Thursdays, a light at the end of the tunnel. Fridays, the weekend...
Continue reading...i am a trader.
By: Cheyenne Varner - Monday, June 20, 2011
Not I want to be. Because to want signifies that i am somehow lacking the capacity to be this, as i am, today. I rebuke that. I claim this now. This is what I was made for.
Continue reading...harmony.
By: Cheyenne Varner - Thursday, June 16, 2011
Down time. It’s a beautiful thing; and so was this week. In the past week I’ve been hugged, greeted, cheered for and drop-kicked by students at the “twenty spot” (okay, it wasn’t a drop-kick, it was a hug– but it knocked me to the couch– thought that counts, right? ;p). In all of the hellos,...
Continue reading...here i kneel.
By: Cheyenne Varner - Sunday, June 12, 2011
Hello? Is anyone on the other line? Yes? I have a party of sixteen here, all wishing to reach the same God? Yes? Hold? The phone? No? Our lives? Put our lives on hold? For how long? An entire summer? Well, certainly… what’s that? He’ll have a listen now? What’s that He says? Here I...
Continue reading...eye patch, anyone?
By: Cheyenne Varner - Wednesday, June 8, 2011
I attended my host family’s community group tonight; it was actually an extremely simple endeavor considering it was in our house, haha. While at first I felt sort of out of place and when I first spoke up I felt the frustrating and all-too-familiar tension of my own nervousness, somewhere near the end of the...
Continue reading...my Lord speaks to me in song &poetry.
By: Cheyenne Varner - Monday, June 6, 2011
As a leader in an on-campus ministry whose purpose and mission is to glorify God through song– I have to say, I was more than affected by our spontaneous worship session on the Richmond Hill. The Lord is saying something to me right now. I feel it. I have this same feeling in my gut...
Continue reading...musical reflection.
By: Cheyenne Varner - Saturday, June 4, 2011
When It Was Over by Sara Groves. Jesus died for me. And I lived for myself. Oh love wash over a multitude of things.
Continue reading...the beginning
By: Cheyenne Varner - Thursday, June 2, 2011
There are so many amazing aspects to beginnings. To something being new. A connotation of fresh. Of a clean slate. Of sincerity. In the beginning things are usually clean. The first day of school all your notebooks are in order, the pages in your books aren’t dog-eared, there are no library fines to pay, your...
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sending...
By: Cheyenne Varner - Friday, July 22, 2011
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