Little Taste of Heaven

Have you ever gotten chills down your spine? I don't mean the ones you get when you are cold. I'm talking about the warm, good feeling ones you get. The shivers you get when something great happens to you, like a good hug right when you need one, but even better. My mom tells me that when those satisfying little chills travel down your back you are getting a "little taste of heaven". This little treat is rare, and once you get it you crave to have it again. I love moments in life that God gives us to remember, and to yearn for an eternity of those moments that come and go so swiftly now, but will eventually last forever. That is what heaven will be like. It will be so great that not even the words that I type at this very moment, or a word that any amazing poet uses can descried. I can't wait for that day!

The Gift of being Sick

Whenever I am sick I, like most people feel: puny, achy, sore, frustrated that i can't go anywhere or do anything... the list goes on. The reason you get sick is obvious. Your immune system becomes weak and fails to kill any harmful bacteria, but there has to be more to it than that. You are sick, so you have the chance to relax, and clear your mind not to mention that you have a massive headache. So all This lead to the question, if God loves me so much why would he allow me to get sick? I got to thinking and this is the answer i came up with: There are 2 reasons for our sickness.

1. No matter how shallow this may sound, God may be trying to tell you something. Sometimes it is hard to find time during our busy schedules to be still and listen for the voice of God. So, God decides to slow down your busy schedule and give you time away from the hustle and bustle of life and get some peace and quite for the chance that maybe you will just be quiet and listen to Him. This is even more likely knowing that from 10-4 there is nothing on T.V worth taking the time to watch. So as you lie there on the couch tiring to forget about the frustration of your boredom or trying to ignore your sore throat, you proceed to take a nap. When suddenly a peace has overcome you, the peace of God which surpasses all understanding reminds you of his everlasting, never failing love for you.
2. In all these struggles of poor sleep and lack of nourishment you think about How great a life you will have after this one. You remember that you will be in a place one day where the is no sickness, or pain, or yucky cough medicine. A place of laughter and joy where you can do things you never dreamed of, and That is what gets you through your week of discomfort... Knowing that one day, you won't even have to worry about catching a cold, and This is What God told me today during my gift of rest.

Backyard boundries

Today I didn't have much homework, so i decided to use my extra time working on photography and exploring my back yard. Since it was winter i didn't think that there were going to be very many pretty things out there... there aren't many things out there, but i challenged myself and tried some things.I found more than I thought I would! I ended up having a lot of fun. This is what i found!

Value of Friendship

I was thinking about what it meant to be a good friend... so i goggled it, yes i goggled it. Here are some quotes that I found thoughtful and sweet about friends. some of these may seem silly, but when you think about it they are all true! =) You're...
My Friend,
my companion,
through good times and bad
my friend, my buddy,
through happy and sad,
beside me you stand,
beside me you walk,
you're there to listen,
you're there to talk,
with happiness, with smiles,
with pain and tears,
I know you'll be there, throughout the years!

"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere."
-Tim McGraw
"Surround yourself only with people who are going to lift you higher."
"A true friend is someone who knows there's something wrong even when you have the biggest smile on your face."
The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.” ~Unknown~
“Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer”

Memory capture

Capturing memories is such a great thing... one event, one smile, one laugh, any memory that you you could look back on and it would make you smile. It is so easy to make a memory and even easier to capture one with the click of a button. A picture, so simple, yet so complex. That is why i love photography. You get to have the experience of making memories while having a way to document them. You can help others make there memories even better... then you hope one day when they see the picture from years ago and it would take them back to that time, doing the things they love with the people they love. The world is so beautiful. There are place some people don't know exist unless you show them, and there is only one way to do that...

Plan for the Future

I don't really have a plan for the future. Sometimes I don't even know what my schedule is for the next day. Maybe that is what makes life so exciting. If you woke up knowing everything that would happen that day it wouldn't be any fun. There would be no reason to do things. Some people know what they want to be when they "grow-up". I have a few ideas, but i don't have any definite plans. Maybe that isn't such a bad thing. I wonder what is in store for the next few years of my life. I don't think there is anything wrong with not having a plan... I like to stay on my toes, and see where God is going to take me next! All I know is that it is going to be an adventure that is for sure!

Identity

You are a person trying to create your identity. You don't know who you are going to be yet. In the search for your soal you come across many obsatcles. On your journey you may take a wrong turn and begin to be the wrong person. It is your job to turn around and find yourself again. It is God's job to lead you along the path. Protecting you and showing you wear to go. if you don't listen you may get lost and end up somewhere. then it is your job to listen carefully to the voice of God that will lead you to Him, but you chose to ingnore. When you see Him again you will be emrased... embraced by your father. Your father that gave everything for you, and would do it all over again in a heartb beat. Will you listen for the voice of God?

A Strong Passion

Do you have a strong passion for something? Well many people do whether it for a sport, hobbie or a pet. Manny people use the word passion very freely. I think the word passion is a much stronger word than Love and a way stronger word than like. Many people may use the word passion so freely because they don't actually know what it means. . . well on http://www.merriam-webster.com/ the definition for passion is: a strong liking or desire for or devotion to some activity, object or concept; an object desire or deep concept.
In other words you have strong feeling, love or affection toward something. . . for example: I have a passion for Volleyball. Another way to look at the word passion is like this: the sufferings of Christ between the night of the last supper and His death. Basically Jesus had a strong Love and passion for us so He died the death that we were to die because His love for us was so strong. . . in other words a passion. A true, real living strong passion, and It was for us. Does not that make you feel good? God loved us that much. Think about it! :)

One of my teachers asked the rest of the class and I if we believed in New year resolutions. I thought about it for a mintue and then relized that honestly I have never heard that question asked before. My answer was yes because, I think that the new year is like a new begining and a clean slate. The new year just seems like a good point in time to change the way you do things or to start something new. Why would you not want to have a new year resolution? Nobody is perfect and everybody has something about them that they want to change about themselves, so why not start now? It's up to you!

For our grade's field trip we went to the aquarium and to see the play A Christmas Carol. At the aquarium we went to the Titanic exhibit where we saw various things found on the titanic after it sunk. It was awesome. There was perfume bottles, cloths, dishes, furniture. When you entered to doors you would be handed a card that had a name of a person that was actually on the titanic, and a little about themselves. In the end you would get to find your name on a list and see if you lived or died. I lived.
The play was a wonderful performance and it was defiantly worth seeing. The young actors seemed to bring London to life. The typical told story of Scrooge and the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future was all understood by the audience. The scene transitions were very uniquely done with out curtains. The characters who played several people were never mistaken. I think that every family in the local area of the play needs to see this show.

There once were to young men with the same breathing disorder. There lungs were clogged up with fluid, so there whole life they were forced to lye down in order to keep breathing. The two men were able to share we a hospital room together so they would not be alone. About everyday at the same time the nurse would come in and open the window for some fresh air. The man in the bed closest to the window would always describe what he saw the the other that could not see. He would say stuff like: "I see flowers", "there is children riding bikes down the street", "a man mowing the lawn" and so on.
The two men got to know each other very well from spending every moment of every day together. The one man that was unable to see out of the window was getting angry because he was not able to see everything too. The man by the window had a coughing fit one night because his lungs were filled with fluid and he could not breath anymore. But because of the man's jealousy he chose not to help his friend by pressing the button to call the nurse. The man in the bed farthest from the wall was thinking that if his friend dies then he might get to have the bed by the window and see outside.
The man died after hours of trying to breath. The next day the nurse came in the room and moved the greedy man's bed over to the window and opened it. Outside the man saw a brick wall. This goes to show that no matter how good something seems to be, it might never be what you think, and it can end with some bad results.

Rules?

When your parents tell you not to do something, or tell you to do something that may sound a little strange, I hate it when your friends "egg" you on not to do it, or say that it a stupid rule. When friends say that the thing you want to do is agree with them and completely disregard the rule.
One of my friends was told not to watch a scene of a certain movie before she went to a birthday party. Most of the people around her ere telling her that is wasn't a bad part, and they were trying to encourage her to watch it. Something that I did not expect to happen was for my friend to say: "Well, my mom told me that it was not a good part to watch, and I trust her." I was very happy that she stood up not only for herself, but also for her parents and their rules. I think that this is what we should do all the time. Sometimes what we want to do is not always the right thing. Plus parents have already taken the road that we have.

"What is popular is not always right, and what is right is not always popular"