We were meant to live for so much more

Have we lost ourselves?

The world we live in today upsets me greatly.

God gave each of us life, one that is meant to be lived in a positive way.. And most people just throw that away for something meaningless.

I know that no one is perfect, especially not me.

But why can't people just see how much better their lives could be if they just changed the direction that they are heading?

Why must the majority of today's population be heading down a path that eventually is only lead going to lead them to regret?

I wish people could understand what they are doing to themselves, but most never will.

The choices people make these days are just ignorant.

They way people treat others.. The ones that mean a lot to them, and the ones the despise.. Is hateful and rude.

The mistakes people are making are ones they have made a dozen times before and refuse to learn from them.

The way people act is unpleasing and unjust.

And then, people make excuses, that are honestly just a bunch of BS. [Bologna Sandwich ;) ]

Sure, life throws at us all kinds of problems and situations that we don't want to go through.. But it is our decision how we handle those.

I just wish people could realize that life isn't as hard as we make it out to be, we are the ones who complicate it.

We are the ones that have turned the world into the corrupt place it is today.

We are the ones that can make a change.

The only issue is.. Most people aren't willing to do that.

If I had one wish I would make this world a better place and change almost everything about it.

But only thing I can do is change myself and maybe the small community around me, and probably not even that.

We've all gotta start somewhere though.

Fly with Christ

Well, she doesn't realize it, but, I have been inspired by my friend El to try out some photography and add a little color to my blog. My pictures aren't the best but it was still fun taking them.

Anyways, as I last posted about the experience I was to have last weekend, I promised a follow up blog. Not sure if anyone cares, but here it goes.

Last weekend was amazing. I learned many things:

• God's love is a beautiful thing and is greatly shown through the people who care about you.
• I am blessed beyond what I could ever deserve.
• I have every reason to be content, worry-free and confident.
• There are awesome people in my school that I have never even talked to before.
• If you eat 5 times more in a day than you normally do, you might feel sick and bloated. [Ha]
• It's impossible for me to sleep when I'm cold.
• I would love to be able to play guitar. [And I'm going to one of these days

I know not all of those sound like good things, but last weekend was an experience that I am never going to forget. I'm not sure if you are familiar with Chrysalis, but if you are and have a chance to attend a flight, you will not regret it. Chrysalis is kind of hard to explain so I won't try to, but if you have questions about it I'd love to answer them.

However I do view life in a different and brighter way after that weekend, I feel as if I'm doing a poor job of showing it. There are things I wanted to change that I haven't yet. It's not too late of course.

But I have so many bad qualities about me that I feel are keeping me from pursuing what the Lord truly wants from me, and I'm not sure how exactly to get rid of those.

Life is complicated, I've figured out that much by now. But until I figured the rest out, I'm going to try my hardest to fly with Christ, and maybe eventually those aspects of my character that are holding me back will fade away.

Experience

15 years, 10 months, 3 weeks, and 1 day of my life has passed by.

Over the course of this time, I guess I could say I've had many different experiences.

A lot of them have been good experiences, such as visiting 13 of the United States for vacations, late nights with my wonderful friends, holidays with my amazing family, and hot summers filled with something new everyday.

I've had my share of bad experiences too.. Ones that I'd rather not mention and ones that I wish I could forget completely.

But this weekend, I'm about to experience something that apparently is going to be amazing and life changing.

I'm really excited, I've been looking forward to this and praying about it for almost a month. But I'm also kind of scared because I'm not sure what to expect. I don't know any details about it because what goes on is supposed to be kept a secret. That's part of the experience.

So.. Maybe the greatest experiences in life are the ones that are kind of surprising.. I guess I'll find out! I can't wait to see how God works.. I'm sure to have a follow up post after this experience!

God Bless you all :)

Here's to a new year..

2010 is gone. 2011 is here. Honestly, the change from one year to the next doesn't have much significance to me. But then I started thinking.. It's a new decade. Never again will I write two zeroes in a row to identify the date. Someday when I have kids [hopefully] I will torture them by making them listen to a radio station called "the early 2000s".

With new beginning often comes a sense of fear. To be honest, until today I was kind of afraid of what this year might possibly bring. However our sermon at church this morning opened my eyes to how I should really feel about 2011.

The funny thing is, our preacher used the chapter in the bible where my favorite verse comes from [Proverbs 3:5-6] and he gave us a list of 11 resolutions we should make this year according to that passage. And honestly, out of the 35 verses in that particular chapter, I had only read about 6 of them. Little did I know, that entire chapter is very important. Of course the whole bible is very important, but everyone has those books and chapters that really help them out.

As much as I would like for everyone to know exactly what my preacher said this morning, I'm not going to type a whole sermon on here. Nor will I write all 11 resolutions that he shared. But I encourage you to read Proverbs 3 and see what you can get out of it to better yourself this year.

As for me, there are two particular resolutions mentioned that I am going to focus on this year.

1. "Trust in the Lord with all your heart." [Proverbs 3:5] This is part of my all time favorite verse, but often I forget that God can take care of any problems that I encounter. I know from experience that if you put a situation in the hands of God and pray about it, He will take care of it. So everytime I have difficult situation this year, I'm going to stop trying to control my own life by fixing my things myself and let God do his job as my creator.

2. "Have no fear." [Proverbs 3:24-26] Like I said earlier, I was slightly afraid of the events that could occur this year. But then I realized that with God by my side all the time, I should have nothing to fear. He will be with me through the best and worse times that may come in 2011.

And if I really trust God with everything I have, why would I have anything to be afraid of!

It's only been two days and I can already tell God is going to do great things in my life in 2011 and for the rest of my life, how ever long that may be. So here's to a new year, and to an amazing God that has allowed us to make it this far.

:)