About
Name: Laura
Location: Kentucky, USA
A computer technician, avid reader, and self-proclaimed geek, Laura is fabulously witty, astoundingly intelligent, stunningly beautiful, and able to recite Jabberwocky at will. She doesn’t live near a beach, but would enjoy long walks on it if she did.
Having recently graduated with a degree in social work, Laura adamantly protests she’ll use it one day. In the meantime, she works in the IT department of her alma mater. She occasionally suspects she does as much social work there as she could elsewhere, though they inadvertently left it out of her job description.
Once she gives up on her laughable effort to pay off her school loans, Laura will pursue her Masters of Social Work with lofty schemes of obtaining employment with a nonprofit social service agency or Christian organization. Maybe in Kentucky, maybe in Timbuktu, or maybe everywhere in between.
Laura is constantly surprised by how much free time she has, after having almost forgotten there was life beyond school, and spends much of it absorbed in a good book. If you took a random sample of her favorite reading material, the titles might include Flatland, Quo Vadis, Hamlet, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Arena, Les Misérables, Blink, Mountains Beyond Mountains, Ender’s Game, and the obligatory multiple titles by C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.
She absolutely adores anything SciFi, has a long-standing crush on Dr. Daniel Jackson, and devotedly watches Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Battlestar Galactica.
Laura’s never seen a waterfall, but she suspects they’re beautiful.
She’s a personality test junkie (her MBTI is INFJ).
And she misses her mom’s beef brisket.
What does Ani Ruhama mean?
In the book of Hosea, Gomer has an illegitimate daughter named Lo-Ruhama, which means “Not my loved one.” Later on, God renames her “My loved one”, which is Ruhama in Hebrew. Laura was struck by how God changes the name of this unacceptable child, taking her as His own and loving her unconditionally. Partially because that’s a wonderful metaphor for God’s work in her life, and partially because she didn’t have any better ideas, she decided her alter ego would be Ani Ruhama, which means “My name is Ruhama,” or “My name is Loved.”
“I will show my love to the one I called ‘Not my loved one.’”
-Hosea 2:23 (NIV)
