"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!
Monday, February 28, 2011
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!
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