Recently inspired by the movie "The Bucket List", I have decided to make a bucket list of my own. I plan to put it in two categories, one to finish before the end of my senior year, and one to finish before I go to heaven, whichever comes first. Not to sound morbid, but I am really hoping that Jesus comes back real soon! So just as a little preview, #1 on my 'end of senior year' list- make it through my last year of high school alive!
#1 on my 'before I go to heaven' list- travel abroad to Europe, Africa, and Australia!
I am thinking that the second one may take a little longer to accomplish, but it is still up there! I'll try to post more as they come to mind:) anything you are wanting to do before you die?
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Who goes there?
So unlike my other post, this isn't meaningful and well thought out really. I just wanted to mention how stoked I am the the new season of 'Doctor Who' is starting on Saturday:):):) so here is the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpe1Ywz8azM
Go watch it, and tell me you aren't excited!! this seriously is where i find most of the joy in my life.... British tv, and British actors:) enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpe1Ywz8azM
Go watch it, and tell me you aren't excited!! this seriously is where i find most of the joy in my life.... British tv, and British actors:) enjoy!
Saturday, April 16, 2011
~You've got a friend in me~
Those of you who are older siblings, have you ever thought about the fact that most of what you do is probably influencing your younger sibling(s)? Have you ever thought that maybe, just maybe, they look up to you for advice and guidance because to them, you've been there before? If you haven't thought about these things before, maybe you should start.
Being a younger sibling myself, I look up to each and every one of my siblings for help when I'm having a problem, even if they don't know it. I care about their opinions and I watch what they do so that I don't mess up. Someone once told me that, "I learn from my siblings mistakes," and I absolutely agree. Not that my siblings make a lot of mistakes, but, if there are mistakes to be made, they generally make them first, and then I realize that I shouldn't do that. To me, having a lot of siblings is a blessing, most of the time anyways. When we were younger, there was always someone to play with, and now that we are older, there is always someone to go to if I need help. I love my siblings, but sometimes I don't think they realize how much they are looked up to. So, I challenge you, if you are an older sibling of someone, to make a difference in their life and remember that anything you do, they could be watching and learning. Remember that they look up to you, and they follow you, so don't lead them astray just to get what you want. And remember, no matter what, you are always siblings, but you should try to always be friends. Help them find the joy in life, just like you have.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
~God Bless our troops~
This weekend I went to Mississippi to visit my sissy and her hubby and my wonderful nephew:) My biggest sissy is a fantastic photographer, and I wanted her to take my senior pictures on the beach, so I traveled there on Friday for what I thought would be the best experience of the weekend. But, soon I found out that though it comes in a close second, it was not the best of the weekend.
So here's my story: I attempted to get on a flight at 3:40 that day, and I would be happily on my way to the beach and my family.... but, due to our standby status, I did not make it on the flight, and sadly, the next flight was not until 8 o'clock that evening. Therefore, I was stuck at the DFW airport.... for 5 hours. Thankfully, they have a little place for people like me, standbys who can't get on flights that is. So I took my things and headed to the A terminal where the Non-rev lounge is. That is what we are called, Non-revs. Anyway, I took the skylink over because that was a long way to walk, and this is where the cool part comes in. As I am sitting there, waiting for my stop, 3 soldiers board the train in their camo uniforms and all. As they got on, some man on the train asked them if they were coming home, or going out. They happily said that they were coming home, and the man smiled, shook the hands of all 3 of them, and said "good work, thank you for your service." Now, I don't know if it touched anyone else, and maybe I am just sappy or something, but, to me, that was one of the coolest acts of kindness that I have ever seen. It seemed like one of those 'Pass it on' things, and I silently prayed that it touched some other people on that train like it touched me. I hoped that maybe it would inspire some other people to maybe do the same thing. The rest of that day, since I still had about 4 and a half hours to wait, I made it m goal to at least smile at every military personnel that I saw that day, and maybe eve thank them for their service. And, about 3 hours later, I did get the opportunity to thank a group of about 5 or 6 soldiers and wish them good luck, because they were headed out to fight for my freedom, and for the freedom of every one of you. Generally, you don't see people thanking soldiers for their service as often as they should be. These men and women are sacrificing their lives to keep us safe, and we just walk right past them like they are just another citizen of his great country we live in. For me, it was a really cool experience to be able to give back, at least a little anyways:) It's moments like that when you truly find the joy in life.
I hope that this story maybe inspires you to do the same, or at least just think about all those men and women over there right now, risking their lives. I'm sure we all know someone, or at least know of someone who is over there fighting right now. They are all in my thoughts and prayers every day, and I hope they are in yours too. Support our troops and God bless our troops. Everyday.
So here's my story: I attempted to get on a flight at 3:40 that day, and I would be happily on my way to the beach and my family.... but, due to our standby status, I did not make it on the flight, and sadly, the next flight was not until 8 o'clock that evening. Therefore, I was stuck at the DFW airport.... for 5 hours. Thankfully, they have a little place for people like me, standbys who can't get on flights that is. So I took my things and headed to the A terminal where the Non-rev lounge is. That is what we are called, Non-revs. Anyway, I took the skylink over because that was a long way to walk, and this is where the cool part comes in. As I am sitting there, waiting for my stop, 3 soldiers board the train in their camo uniforms and all. As they got on, some man on the train asked them if they were coming home, or going out. They happily said that they were coming home, and the man smiled, shook the hands of all 3 of them, and said "good work, thank you for your service." Now, I don't know if it touched anyone else, and maybe I am just sappy or something, but, to me, that was one of the coolest acts of kindness that I have ever seen. It seemed like one of those 'Pass it on' things, and I silently prayed that it touched some other people on that train like it touched me. I hoped that maybe it would inspire some other people to maybe do the same thing. The rest of that day, since I still had about 4 and a half hours to wait, I made it m goal to at least smile at every military personnel that I saw that day, and maybe eve thank them for their service. And, about 3 hours later, I did get the opportunity to thank a group of about 5 or 6 soldiers and wish them good luck, because they were headed out to fight for my freedom, and for the freedom of every one of you. Generally, you don't see people thanking soldiers for their service as often as they should be. These men and women are sacrificing their lives to keep us safe, and we just walk right past them like they are just another citizen of his great country we live in. For me, it was a really cool experience to be able to give back, at least a little anyways:) It's moments like that when you truly find the joy in life.
I hope that this story maybe inspires you to do the same, or at least just think about all those men and women over there right now, risking their lives. I'm sure we all know someone, or at least know of someone who is over there fighting right now. They are all in my thoughts and prayers every day, and I hope they are in yours too. Support our troops and God bless our troops. Everyday.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
~Fear no evil~
"It is the Lord your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear." Dt. 6:13
So it is the time of the year for the English TAKS(Texas assessment of knowledge and skills). We take this every year up until our junior year, and it is quite possibly one of the easiest tests ever. There's reading and writing and they always come up with these stupid stories that are really cheesy, and everyone makes fun of them for months after the test. Well, this year the test seemed to revolve around the theme of fear, and therefore, I was inspired.
People have said, "There is nothing to fear but fear itself." The saying makes sense I guess. People fear being afraid of something, as if it makes them weak to be afraid. But, I believe that, first of all, it doesn't make you weak but it makes you brave that you can admit to being afraid of something. Secondly, as it says in the bible verse above, you should fear only God. The Lord is a jealous God and you shall have no other gods. If you fear God and put all your trust in Him, then you should have nothing else to fear because God is always with you and He will get you through whatever is troubling you.
So, look at that. Something good actually came out of the last time I had to ever take the English TAKS. Please comment and let me know your thoughts on the subject. God bless you and have a great day!
So it is the time of the year for the English TAKS(Texas assessment of knowledge and skills). We take this every year up until our junior year, and it is quite possibly one of the easiest tests ever. There's reading and writing and they always come up with these stupid stories that are really cheesy, and everyone makes fun of them for months after the test. Well, this year the test seemed to revolve around the theme of fear, and therefore, I was inspired.
People have said, "There is nothing to fear but fear itself." The saying makes sense I guess. People fear being afraid of something, as if it makes them weak to be afraid. But, I believe that, first of all, it doesn't make you weak but it makes you brave that you can admit to being afraid of something. Secondly, as it says in the bible verse above, you should fear only God. The Lord is a jealous God and you shall have no other gods. If you fear God and put all your trust in Him, then you should have nothing else to fear because God is always with you and He will get you through whatever is troubling you.
So, look at that. Something good actually came out of the last time I had to ever take the English TAKS. Please comment and let me know your thoughts on the subject. God bless you and have a great day!
Monday, February 28, 2011
It's a beautiful morning/day!
"It's a beautiful mornin', Ahhh,
I think I'll go outside a while,
An jus' smile.
Just take in some clean fresh air, boy!
Ain't no sense in stayin' inside
If the weather's fine an' you got the time.
It's your chance to wake up and plan another brand new day."
The weather down here in Texas can be sort of crazy, seeing as we had snow and ice one week and beautiful sunny 70 degrees the next. Today started out cold, but it turned out to be a beautiful afternoon, and I even took a bike ride, which I haven't done in about 4 years probably. Having no color guard practice tonight, added to the beautiful weather and having no homework made for a fantastic afternoon of relaxing and finally getting the chance to blog:). I hope you are all enjoying the day as I am, and taking everything at hand one step at a time. God bless!
I think I'll go outside a while,
An jus' smile.
Just take in some clean fresh air, boy!
Ain't no sense in stayin' inside
If the weather's fine an' you got the time.
It's your chance to wake up and plan another brand new day."
The weather down here in Texas can be sort of crazy, seeing as we had snow and ice one week and beautiful sunny 70 degrees the next. Today started out cold, but it turned out to be a beautiful afternoon, and I even took a bike ride, which I haven't done in about 4 years probably. Having no color guard practice tonight, added to the beautiful weather and having no homework made for a fantastic afternoon of relaxing and finally getting the chance to blog:). I hope you are all enjoying the day as I am, and taking everything at hand one step at a time. God bless!
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Don't Worry, be happy now!
"Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. sufficient for the day is its own trouble." Matthew 6:34
One of my favorite verses, it has really helped me the past few weeks. The time has come in our school year for us to be picking our classes for next year. For the past few weeks I have been so stressed and worried about my senior year and what classes to take that will help me prepare for my future career. Do i do AP?, dual-credit(college courses)? Can we afford these classes and tests? Before I knew it, I found myself looking at tons of college stuff and majors and minors, along with all my school work from this year, my junior year in high school. All of the sudden I just sat there and thought, "I don't need to be thinking about all of this just yet, I've got time, right?" Well, being the person I am, I still felt like I need to be deciding everything right at this very moment. I still have a year and a half till college but one thing keeps leading to another and I find myself researching colleges and what majors and classes to take. After a bible study on trusting in God and a Sunday school class on not worrying, I realized that I have been going about this all wrong. I need to remember that God has a plan for me and I need to trust that he will take care of me and get me to where I need to be, when I need to be there. God loves us, and will always take care of us. Even if it seems like He is not there and you are all alone in this stress, you are not, and He is always there leading you along the path he has made for you.
Now, things might not always turn out the way we want them, but we need to just take every day, one day at a time and put our trust in God. God will provide. As the one hit wonder, Bobby McFerrin sings to us:
"Don't worry be happy
In every life we have some trouble
When you worry you make it double
Don't worry, be happy"
So if you find yourself being overwhelmed with to many worries of the future, just take a step back and pray that God will help you through this and give you the wisdom to know what to day. I encourage you to "find the Joye in life", and let tomorrow worry about itself. Wow, that was a long post but I felt that around this time people may need to hear that. Thanks for reading.
One of my favorite verses, it has really helped me the past few weeks. The time has come in our school year for us to be picking our classes for next year. For the past few weeks I have been so stressed and worried about my senior year and what classes to take that will help me prepare for my future career. Do i do AP?, dual-credit(college courses)? Can we afford these classes and tests? Before I knew it, I found myself looking at tons of college stuff and majors and minors, along with all my school work from this year, my junior year in high school. All of the sudden I just sat there and thought, "I don't need to be thinking about all of this just yet, I've got time, right?" Well, being the person I am, I still felt like I need to be deciding everything right at this very moment. I still have a year and a half till college but one thing keeps leading to another and I find myself researching colleges and what majors and classes to take. After a bible study on trusting in God and a Sunday school class on not worrying, I realized that I have been going about this all wrong. I need to remember that God has a plan for me and I need to trust that he will take care of me and get me to where I need to be, when I need to be there. God loves us, and will always take care of us. Even if it seems like He is not there and you are all alone in this stress, you are not, and He is always there leading you along the path he has made for you.
Now, things might not always turn out the way we want them, but we need to just take every day, one day at a time and put our trust in God. God will provide. As the one hit wonder, Bobby McFerrin sings to us:
"Don't worry be happy
In every life we have some trouble
When you worry you make it double
Don't worry, be happy"
So if you find yourself being overwhelmed with to many worries of the future, just take a step back and pray that God will help you through this and give you the wisdom to know what to day. I encourage you to "find the Joye in life", and let tomorrow worry about itself. Wow, that was a long post but I felt that around this time people may need to hear that. Thanks for reading.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
'Baby you were born this way?'
I apologize for not posting in a while. I was in my schools production of "Back to the 80's: the Totally awesome musical", and yes, that is the full title. So, therefore i have been a bit busy but I am back now.
Now, throughout this musical experience, I have made a lot of close friends who I am sure i will remain friends with for a long time. The interesting part about it is the variety of people that you meet. That variety being theater and choir kids, people who love to act and sing, and are generally over the top, which makes it all the more fun. Sometimes you even meet those who may like the same sex. After this musical, I was approached by my friend who is a member of the ELCA(Evangelical Lutheran Church of America) saying that her church is more accepting of the gays than we are. Now, we have these conversations from time to time about the differences in our churches but, this time I was slightly caught off guard. I would like everyone to realize that my church, LCMS(Lutheran Church Missouri Synod) believes that God loves even the gays and lesbians, we just want to help them see that they are sinners but God still loves them. Our church is more conservative and traditional but that does not mean that we reject all sinners. If we rejected all sinners, we would reject everyone, even the pastors, because no one is perfect. as lady gaga says, "God makes no mistakes, i'm on the right track baby, I was born this way." Whether that be true or not, God does not make mistakes and he loves us all. Please comment and let me know your comments on this topic and maybe anything else you would like me to touch on. Thank you for reading my super long post:) have a great day!
Now, throughout this musical experience, I have made a lot of close friends who I am sure i will remain friends with for a long time. The interesting part about it is the variety of people that you meet. That variety being theater and choir kids, people who love to act and sing, and are generally over the top, which makes it all the more fun. Sometimes you even meet those who may like the same sex. After this musical, I was approached by my friend who is a member of the ELCA(Evangelical Lutheran Church of America) saying that her church is more accepting of the gays than we are. Now, we have these conversations from time to time about the differences in our churches but, this time I was slightly caught off guard. I would like everyone to realize that my church, LCMS(Lutheran Church Missouri Synod) believes that God loves even the gays and lesbians, we just want to help them see that they are sinners but God still loves them. Our church is more conservative and traditional but that does not mean that we reject all sinners. If we rejected all sinners, we would reject everyone, even the pastors, because no one is perfect. as lady gaga says, "God makes no mistakes, i'm on the right track baby, I was born this way." Whether that be true or not, God does not make mistakes and he loves us all. Please comment and let me know your comments on this topic and maybe anything else you would like me to touch on. Thank you for reading my super long post:) have a great day!
Friday, January 7, 2011
laughing with God
I have recently been listening to a song by Regina Spektor called, "Laughing With God". Here is a little verse of it:
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one’s laughing at God
When they’re starving or freezing or so very poor
No one laughs at God
When the doctor calls after some routine tests
No one’s laughing at God
When it’s gotten real late
And their kid’s not back from the party yet
This may not be the actual meaning, but what i got from it is that, even if the person doesn't believe in God, when something bad happens to them, it's as if they somehow know that they shouldn't laugh at God. It is like they know that maybe he is who they can count on. Which brings me to another point that some friends and i had talked about at a bible study the other night. God is who we can count on all the time. Our trust in him never fluctuates. We can always depend on him ad trust in him. When bad things happen in our life, it may not be easy to go to some family or friends for comfort, but God is always there to comfort us and to give us hope, that one day we will be in everlasting life with him. So that is just what has been on my mind today. I'd love to know what you think, so comment if you would like.
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one’s laughing at God
When they’re starving or freezing or so very poor
No one laughs at God
When the doctor calls after some routine tests
No one’s laughing at God
When it’s gotten real late
And their kid’s not back from the party yet
This may not be the actual meaning, but what i got from it is that, even if the person doesn't believe in God, when something bad happens to them, it's as if they somehow know that they shouldn't laugh at God. It is like they know that maybe he is who they can count on. Which brings me to another point that some friends and i had talked about at a bible study the other night. God is who we can count on all the time. Our trust in him never fluctuates. We can always depend on him ad trust in him. When bad things happen in our life, it may not be easy to go to some family or friends for comfort, but God is always there to comfort us and to give us hope, that one day we will be in everlasting life with him. So that is just what has been on my mind today. I'd love to know what you think, so comment if you would like.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Joye to the world
Seeing as it is only about a week and a half after Christmas, i thought that would be an appropriate title. This is my very first blog entry, so bear with me. Now, I am not as good as my oldest sister, but she was my inspiration and some day I want to be as good of a writer as she is. The idea for this blog really came from my dad. We had a crazy adventure trying to get from Wisconsin this past week. It was so crazy that he said "Someone should write this down so we never forget it." So, here I am. Last Friday, our day went as so:
- 6:30 AM- get to Madison airport after our flight to Chicago was canceled, and tried to get on a flight to Dallas, which was also canceled that morning.
- 7:20 AM- We took a bus for 2 hours to Chicago, where we were, or thought we were, guaranteed a way home.
- 11:00 AM(approx.)- Attempt to get on a flight to Arkansas, where we were told we had seats, but while we were waiting, the flight filled up, and we were bumped off that plane.
- 12:15 PM- We were trying a flight to Tulsa, Oklahoma, that would then take us to Dallas from there, but the flight was delayed an hour, to 1:15, and if we had gone on that flight, we would not have made our connection to Dallas.
- 1:20 PM- Got on a plane, finally, to Oklahoma City, where we would then connect to Dallas.
- 3:45 PM- after landing in Oklahoma City just an hour earlier, we got on our last plane of the day, to good old Dallas, Texas.
- 5:00 PM- after an entire day of traveling, we landed back in Texas, safe and sound, just in time to celebrate the New year with our friends and family.
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