ReStart

REWIND:

So, I had a blog before this, but it was deleted, or hacked, or whatnot...therefore, I want to give a brief recap of where this blog is going...

The Beginning

I've decided to create this blog in order to find beauty in everything, day to day. And to show God is in everything, the good and the "bad".

Never give up. Always Believe, and Have Faith.

Struggles

Each day I have devotionals, and each day I have struggles. It is always hard for me to find a way to apply one to the other, especially when I don't want to. I'm struggling with that very thing today, I need patience to go on with the simplest of tasks. I find my anger taking over my feelings/emotions way to often then it should; the worst is when I know it’s happening and I continue to be angry.
I watched the movie "Courageous" last night, and found it exactly what I needed; showing me that time is short and limited, and we never know when it will be our last day. So what will be people's impression of me, after I'm gone? Will they say, "She was a nice girl, who I think loved God"? Or will they say, "She made an impact on my life, and had God shining through her"? I think... No I know my anger is getting in the way of how people perceive me, and how I want to be perceived, and so I challenge myself to smile in every circumstance. :)
"Therefore, among God's churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring. All this is evidence that God's judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering."
2 Thessalonians 1:4-5

 Patience

"I waited patiently for the LORD;

he turned to me and heard my cry."

Psalm 40:1

This past weekend was really busy, and in the midst of the business I definitely was not patient. So often I pray for something and expect it to be given to me immediately after the words have left my mouth, but that is ‘rarely’ the case. We must remember that God’s time is much different than our time. For me as an American it is really hard to sit and wait for something, especially since a lot of things are handed to me on a silver platter. I will probably never know what it is like to have to wait hours or days for food, or to wait for a family to adopt me from an orphanage. With that I have realized: I’m not only inpatient, but selfish; therefore with patience, comes selflessness. I hope to become patient, and thankful that I’m forgiven by God for all the times I’m inpatient with His timing. His timing is best, His answers to our prayers are for the best, and His love for us is overwhelming. 

Storm Chaser

You are the only person who can let someone else make you feel inferior.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

A true inspiration.

When everything seems to be falling all around, I look to You and I find refuge.

I'm going to be honest with myself; I'm having a lot of struggles, which impart I've put on myself. I look to others for things only God can give me. Like eternal friendship and love and peace. And when I put trust in others it doesn't calm my storm, it only adds to it. I need the storm chaser, I need God to fix my struggles. It's one thing to say something, but a complete other to actually follow through with it...

Grey bounds through the sky

Overcoming

Light will always pass through,

Darkness will be slain

Peace obtained.

Gossip to Grow-up

"Gossip...yeah, I know what runs through your head when you hear it...Who, What, When, Where and Why."

Gossip is something that you can recall being spread around like wild fire, but somehow contained from the thing it is about. Something so easily spread and easily embellished upon...someone could tell someone they thought to be trustworthy a secret about their personal life, and the next day find it to be spread all over with falsehoods tagged on. Now you ask yourself: if it's personal why tell anyone? Well that's where human error comes into play, we are created with what I call a 'trust factor'...it's that same 'Trust' that some people know how to manipulate, which is also another form of human error.

I've talked before about how I live on a floor with 21 other girls...well, with 21 girls one thing is always guaranteed...GOSSIP: "Casual or unconstrained conversation or reports about other people, typically involving details that are not confirmed as being true" (taken from google.com dictionary). I'm definitely not innocent in the realm of 'gossipers', but I know what it is like to be on both sides of the picture; and I can guarantee that neither side of the image is fun. It all ends up getting in a jumble somehow and some way, you will either end up having allies or having enemies. No friends are left in the end of the battle; but that's just it it is just A BATTLE not THE WAR.

If you get caught up in the battle of dramatic gossip just keep in mind it’s just a battle not the war... and in the end everything will be brought to the table, and truths will come out. Whether your intentions are good, it never ends well, because you have then entered into the Satan's war. God is always there when we need someone to talk to.

I'm making a promise today to try with everything in my complete power to: not get sucked into the gossip, or be the one who spreads it. After this last year, I've definitely learned my lesson; gossip not only screws up your own life, but the person your talking about too.

If you are in a hard place surrounded by gossip just remember that none of it is ever worth it, and when you worry about it and let it have a place in your life, your allowing the Devil to win a battle in your life.

DON'T LET satan WIN!!!

"Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear."

-Ephesians 4:29

True Friendships come out of Hardships.

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