Take Care of Your Body

There are many ways we can take care of our body, and this is they key to getting our full 120 years, (Genesis 6:3 when God numbered our days). We all hear about the few common ways, diet, exercise, filling our body with the good things it needs. But I bet this one wouldn't come to mind first; Praying over our body. We live in a voice activated kingdom (Genesis 1:2 First example of voice activation in the Bible) If we speak positive things over our body, it has to listen, plain and simple.  We should not say things like "Oh, I just have an awful memory" or "I have a bad back, and I will always have a bad back" When we say things like that, we are declaring bad things over our lives and bodies! Don't do that.  We need to be speaking positive things and light over our body. Take advice from from Toby Mac, Speak life!

No, really, this is something I am really passionate about. We must always be speaking life about ourselves, and it is because of the voice activation.  This is powerful stuff, and we can't just mess around with it.  We need to be telling our body it is beautiful, and how healthy we are, and speaking positive things over ourselves all the time.  Amen!


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*2016

This is a new year we have coming up. and with this new year is coming a ton of changes.  To get you caught up on just a few: 1. I started college this fall, and I passed with flying colors (actually I would have liked to do better, but I am happy with the final grade). 2. A courtship, yes, actually this is a new one.  On Christmas eve I was asked to enter into a courtship with the most awesome silly beautiful person.  But with this comes challenges, urges, struggles, and fun.  Neither one of us has ever been in a relationship before, so not only is this new, but we are figuring out how to do this together.  It's fun! And, 3. Divorce, This one happened about six months ago, and it is still kind of new and shocking.  We are all making it through.

This year was full of change, good, and bad, but most of all it was full of growth in the Father. Looking back on my year, I don't tend to thing about the disasters (at the time) I focus on the good stuff, and the love of my Father who is never going to leave me!

If I had to pick some scriptures to "Sum up" this year, I would absolutely have to go with:

Psalm 27:10 "Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me."
Psalm 19:14 " Let my words and my thoughts be pleasing to You, Lord, because you are my mighty rock and my protector."
Matthew 6:33 "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to you."
Romans 8:18 "For I consider that the sufferings of this present time ar not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."
Isaiah 40:31 "But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint."
Jude 1:20-21 "But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting, for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life."


This year was good, but next year is going to be outstanding with the new and deeper relationship in the Lord! Bless and be blessed!

*2015

Well it's new years eve and I can practically feel the lips I won't be kissing tonight when the clock strikes midnight and 2015 begins with a bang. Unlike most people I will not be out at a party tonight, in fact I will most likely be asleep in my bed at midnight tonight. Don't get me wrong, I would have loved to have been invited to a party tonight, I would have loved to have gone too! But due to the lack of friends, as well as the over powering protectiveness of my mom, I shall be home sleeping when well more than half the world will be out partying and having fun, making memories that will surely last more than this year. I guess the bright side is that I won't be working? Although I honestly wouldn’t mind at all, I love my job, and I would gladly work tonight all night actually!

I just don't want to be home, in my bed, all alone tonight when 2015 begins. I don't know, maybe I should just get over it and accept that it is what it is, and that I can't change it. 2015 will start no matter what I, or anyone else has to say or do about it. It will come and go, every day will start with the sun rising, and end with the sun setting. There will be twelve months in this year, there will surely be each day according to each month as it is suppose to be.

I know that in this new year, things will be different, not because I wish they are going to be different, but because I am going to make them different. I am choosing to change my life, which in turn will change the world around me. Now I know this sounds rather drastic, I am going to change, now anything and everything else is going to change too. But really if you think about it. You change, people see it and like it, inspiring them to also change, which inspires everyone around them to change as well. It's a cause to affect chain just like dominoes. Only instead of falling, and knocking everyone else down too you are creating, building up, and moving forward in life.

This is what life is all about, getting to where you are going, not only when you are there, but how you get there, who you meet on the way, and how you can help them achieve their goal too. How you face the struggles life will give you. Because there are bound to be many many struggles, bound to be good days and bad days. You are bound to embarrass yourself so bad that you don't even want to get up the next morning and face what you have to face. But you are also bound to have great days with unending smiles, butterflies in your chest and stomach, and that awesome feeling you get inside only when you've done the right thing, or helped someone you wouldn’t have on a normal occasion.

I have never really done the whole 'New Years Resolution' thing mostly because I can't actually commit to doing something like 'I am going to start going to the gym and get fit, and lose 35 lbs.' I just can't do it, usually I end up getting really excited about something for like two to three weeks, and I stay with it wholehearted for that long, but them I forget, or miss it once or twice. Missing it multiplies to forgetting for a week or so, then eventually just not going or doing it at all. So instead of setting a new years resolution I will instead just change the way that I do things, I am going to make a conscience decision every day to see things differently, do things differently, treat people in a different way. Find happiness in the little things. Not be so angry, frustrated, or short tempered with people or circumstances in life, because half the time, I just can't do anything about it. I am going to live my life every day for the one who loves me unconditionally, for the one who has given everything to me, the one who will always be there for me no matter what I do. Yahweh, I am going to praise Him for every minute of everyday because I know that without him I am literally nothing. Without him I don’t have any hope for anything, at all. I would have no hope in tomorrow, no hope that the days would continue to come, no hope that 2015 is going to be an awesome year. With Him I have everything that I need, and most importantly I have Hope.

So to sum things up I am going into 2015 with a changed heart, with my own big bang. And you know what? who cares if I won't be getting kissed this year? I am more than positive that it will happen one year or another. 2015 is a changed year, I can feel it already. And you know what I say to anyone who tells me differently? I say That I have faith that things will turn out just exactly how God wants them to! If that means being embarrassed, or not always knowing what to say, then let it be. I say let it be. I am following what God has planned out for me. I don't know what that is, but I do know that whatever it is I am sure it will be awesome in one way or another. By this time next year, I am expecting great things to come of my new year. Hey, I'll be 18, I'll be in college, Semi on my own. I will be well on my way to my own life and however God has it planned out for me is exactly how I want it to be!

Tis' the Season to be Confused

Well it's Christmas time! But to me it doesn't even feel anything like Christmas. I'm sure it doesn't help that we have less than no Christmas decorations up in our house. No tree. No wreaths. No extra snowmen. No fun little snowflakes all around. We have nothing to help bring in the spirit of this wonderful season.  Now its at the point where I actually went out and bought things to decorate, I bought a really cute reindeer thing for my car, it has a red nose on the front of my car, and the antlers on the tops of my windows! Super Cute!! I also bought some snowflake window stickies, and a poinsettia to keep in my room.
My older brother is not enjoying the holiday season, he keeps saying "I've been looking forward to December 26 sense before thanksgiving." This is not helping me get into the Christmas spirit.
I just can't wrap my brain around the fact that tomorrow is Christmas Eve!! Wow where did time go? Like just yesterday was when school started back up again,  time has come and gone, days have passed on by, weeks were here greeted us with a sometimes not-so-pleasant Monday morning, and end with a wonderful weekend. Months have past by with only the blink on an eye.
2014 has been one heck of a year! Joyful, Wonderful, Filled with new opportunities, Also filled with tears of joy and tears of sadness, A very stressful year as well.  So much has went on in 2014 that it would take a whole year to explain and tell the great, and sad stories that went on. 

I know way deep down in my heart that 2015 will be brilliant. 2015 has to be much much better! I know it does because 2014 was, well it just was. 

2014 was the kind of year that had to be, because it was the next in line, we have good years, we have bad years, we have great years, and we have years like 2014, a year that can't really be described in words, but more like feelings and emotions. A year that was full of new things, new beginning, new opportunities, new people and faces. New all around. Also a year filled with disappointment, empty promises, things that have been said that will never come true. But then again, I guess every year can be looked upon like that: Full of the good, full of the bad. Every year can be a year like 2014, or we can choose to move past the ugly, and set in our minds that every year can be like the 2015 we hope it will be. 

We can look back on every year and pick out the bad, the hurt, the sad, the unpleasant. But what good will that do us? What we actually have to do is set our selves to see the good, count our blessings. Pray to God that this coming year will be full of love, and, well, just different. 

2015 Will be Awesome

2015 Will be Great

2015 Will be full of Blessings

2015 Will be Different

2015 Will be different because I am choosing to make it different, my outlook on life is changing, the things that I am spending my time doing are changing. My whole life has to change. It just has to because I can't go on feeling this way. I can't go on constantly waiting for things to change when I'm doing nothing to change things. I am so tired of feeling this way. I know one way to change it, and I must take that way and just go for it.

Go for the only one who can make things right in my life. Give my heart completely to Him, But the thing is: I'm scared.
I don't know how to do this. I don't know how to just let go. How do I just let go of everything in my life? I don't know. That is the best answer I have, it really isn't even an answer, but it's all I've got. Because by myself I am not enough, I need Him in my life. He has been in my life for my whole life, but now He needs to BE my life. There is a difference, and I don't know where to start. 

I want to start off this new year with a new life. Get this chip off my shoulder, and lets ring in the new year with a new me. Let's start this off right. I am bound and determined to do this, and do it right.

Don't date!

Well when I say 'don't date' what I mean is don't date until you are old enough. And even when you are old enough don't date, You should court. I really hate seeing all these 14 year olds' running around saying how in-love they are with their 'MCM' or whatever. UGH it really drives me insane! I am a hopeless romantic, Pride and Prejudiced, the Princess Bride, the Notebook: all
 of these are great vouchers of that. but what I am saying is I hate the drama that takes over in a relationship whiten a young immature couple who are still in High School!

The Notebook (Credit Google)

Pride and Prejudice (Credit Google)

The Princess Bride (Credit Google)

I believe people should wait until they are plenty mature to date, because what is dating for? Answer: To find your future husband or wife! So why would these teenagers still in high school need/want to find their spouse? Answer: They really don't, all they really want is to be like everyone else and have a boyfriend or girlfriend to be there for them, and be intimate with! 
That's it. Kids are too young stupid and way to immature to practice being married! As much as my desire is to be a wife, and then later to be a mom, I am very willing to wait. For two reasons.

1. Right now I know I am not ready to have a relationship with my future husband
2. also people change, chances are if I do think I have met the person I am going to spend the rest of my life don't you think I would want to be really sure? Well I do want to be Extremely sure!

I have seen what happens when two people meet when they are young, get married, then change. This is not something I want to happen in my life to my future kids. So I am going to be very sure. Make this decision extremely carefully with guidance and wisdom from people in my life who's opinions matter: like My Mom, and My pastor/and his wife (who are also my best friends parents). I trust these people with my (future) life! (LOL)

Anyway I guess why I wrote this is just to say. Please think about a relationship before actually getting involved (in any manor). If and when you are courting someone, please talk with older mentors in your life and ask their opinion of this person and a possible future for you two. Then when they give advice, do yourself a favor and LISTEN! I am sure whatevery they say to you is only in your best interest!

Happy Birthday to ME!

Well, today is my seventeenth birthday! I don't really have any plans at all. Sometime this week we may be going to a theme park. Today my day literally consists of 1. waiting for my new phone to arrive in the mail, and 2. going to a 4-H meeting this evening.
I am not disappointing that I don't have lots of plans or a party planned, I don't know it's just weird. Usually this summer we have something going every day, and today, nothing. So far today all I have done is get myself ready for the day, eat a sandwich, make a coffee, and listen to music.
My friends are busy/working today so I can't really hangout with them. My big brother is still a camp councilor so I can't talk to him. I don't know I'm just very board!

Taken on my 17th birthday!

You know when people see you on your birthday and they ask "how does it feel being another year older" and you just lie and say "it feels great!" when actually you don't feel any different than any other day of the year? Yea, I think that is my lease favorite part of my birthday.

Leading up to my birthday I didn't have any expectations I really just wanted to be 17 like all of a sudden, BOOM it happened, no birthday, no fuss.  Don't get me wrong I like birthdays, I really do, I love getting presents and gifts! I just don't like being the center of attention.

The Sharpening Stone

In life there are many things you will have to do, some of which you won't want to do at all!
Right now I work at a very high end restaurant, now if you have seen Hell's kitchen you know how some bosses can be. My boss is not like that! But sometimes he can get a bit short with his employees, the other day we were in a big rush, and we just had a menu change that night. With our menu change we only had one item that was the same as the old menu. I was working on a FRIDAY night with over 150 reservations, plus walk-ins and working with someone who is new. I was very unprepared to work this shift. My boss got very short with me and my co-worker yelled at us and said "I honestly can't believe both of you are still working here!"
I was completely shocked at this, both me and my co-worker had no idea what was going on, we didn't know what to do, we had nothing to know what to prepare for this station.
As the night went on he kept coming by and checking to make sure everything was perfect. Needless to say that night was not a good night for me. When I got off of work it was really late, I wasn't feeling well, and on top of all that I had to go back to work the next morning.
At work the next day I had a literal realization of something when I was trying to cut veggies with a dull knife.
Its like I am the knife, and my boss is the sharpening stone. He only wants me to work better, to be the very best I can be. Sometimes he comes on a bit rough, but I have to keep in mind that it is only for good! To better my ability, and do my best in everything I do, and yes sometimes I will have to be sharpened, even the best of knives, or people, do!

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