True Love

It is two days past Christmas and love is in the air. Almost everyone is enjoying themselves, spending time with their families, EATING! But it's so relaxing to look at the decorations and FEEL the love. Especially the love of God; after all the season is about His son coming to earth to do his will and eventually die for us all. The truest love of all. And honestly the holidays isn't about findinngggg love. It's already there, you just need to learn to accept it. Especially if you're hunting for it, trust me, it doesn't work. Just wait for the ultimate matchmaker to put true love together, and his love will shine just that much brighter.

Behind the Looking Glass

I dare you to stare at someone. Prejudge their life, then disregard everything you just thought about that person and then get to know them. It takes one person to have faith in someone else to change their life around. That one person helps the lost person gain the self confidence they've been looking for. It has only been temporarily hidden due to the black sheep in their life. It takes something to live for to truly live.

Communication

Communication involves speaking. Not texting, not e-mails, not facebook. No communication is honest to goodness, face to face conversation. For example, asking a girl out over texting whether you wanted to or not, isn't gonna fly. Asking, goes a loonnggg way. So why is it that we chose to miss out on the experience of relationships? Doesn't communication ultimately form the foundation of relationships, friendships or otherwise? I think so. It hit me today at church, how we are to talk to people about Christ's love for us. So why do we avoid speaking? Is it the fact that actually getting a response, body language and all is intimidating? It shouldn't be! Language is a beautiful thing. I've studied two different foreign languages and it's so cool to see how connected everyone truly is. A little bit of Latin words here, some Greek and Hebrew over there. It's really cool to see how interconnected we are. That is a beautiful thing. So why not share with the world how God managed this? How amazing and lovely and gracious or God is? Because we fear rejection. It is frowned upon in any society. But it's not really rejection. Rejection seems so negative, it's more like a stumbling block. Rejection can be overcome by finding a different approach. So find a new way to approach others on how awesome our God is. After all, that IS why we celebrate CHRISTmas.

Would You Wanna?

         I've always wanted to know what it would be like to view myself from someone else's perspective. Honestly, I would like to know how my siblings see me, my four year old's that I teach, my friends, and my crushes. I know it sounds ridiculously stupid, but for whatever reason the satisfaction of how I view myself just isn't enough. I know that we're human and I'm sure at least one other person on this planet has thought of it too. And I don't even want to see myself for longer than a day. A day is enough for a first impression of myself. Sounds odd, giving myself a first impression of myself. It's the truth though.
         Man,just thinking about what I would love to say but won't because this is on the internet. Diaries are good for that kind of stuff. Or "journaling" for a more sophisticated term. You can vent through and through and know your secrets won't go anywhere, except possibly bleed through the pages. But they're your thoughts, your events, your life. It's all supposed to bleed together at some point anyway. Hence, the title of my blog. Well, sort of. I guess. God knows my thoughts though, and I'm okay with that. It's crazy when you start thinking about thinking. This blog is going to be a blast if it manages to stimulate my mind this much.      
          Switching tracks. I guess you should deserve to know why I am writing a blog. I am addicted to facebook. It's terrible. So I'm on the internet/facebook enough that it's like my refrigerator, I keep refreshing it hoping something changes and it normally doesn't. I have a problem. So to ween myself off of facebook, I figured I could do something more constructive with my time. Blogging seemed like a good solution. Why aren't you writing in a diary you may ask? It's because my laptop is like crack to me. We can be separated but it has to be replaced with something better. It takes a lot to convince myself that good old fashioned pen and paper is more constructive. Probably because I associate it with school.
          However, I do love reading. So I suppose I will keep you updated on which books I finished. I just finished Go Ask Alice a second time. It doesn't scare me as much as it did the first time I read it. But it most definitely puts life into perspective. How much people desire to live, but fall into sin that they know harms their life and they slowly begin to live in fear, which I feel is not living at all. It also reminded me how death can truly scare people. I've never been afraid per say. I know I will die and go to heaven and I am STOKED for that, but it saddens me how people are scared of it, and it swoops up on them like a bird on its prey. Each death is a part of His puzzle. Think about it.

Getting Started

So I don't know how this will work, what I might say or do so bear with me. I love the Lord and maybe this will help me grow closer to Him and for others to know more about Him. But we'll see, after all, I'm just getting started :]