I see your face in every sunrise, the colors of the morning are inside of your eyes. The world awakens in the light of the day, I look up to the sky and I say, you’re beautiful.
focused.
God I need to stay focused on your right now. Turn my stresses to you, turn my schoolwork to be done for your glory and honor.
Ineed to be focused on you so badly right now. Please just help me remember that.
Stop filling your emptiness with things that simply won’t fill you. God fills you completely, nothing else.
an answered prayer.
Hello everyone! I have WONDERFUL news! God has answered my prayers and my top choice in schools accepted me for next year! This means great APs, a wonderful art program, almost a sorority for my class, a supportive environment I can speak about my faith in, teachers who care, and a place where I belong in the puzzle; I’m not just some outsider. This is actually so wonderful andamazingto write out here because I honestly feel like I can flourish and thrive at this wonderful new school. Of course there will be things I don’t get, like a cheer team (I think), and it’ll be really far away from home, but I’m so excited. I feel like God really wants me to be there. It had a combination of the college/course/internship, organization of students and rigorous academics, as well as the environment and opportunities for me to take. It had the best qualities from some of the other schools I applied too, and when I was there I really felt so welcome. No one was fake, no one hid behind material things, and I didn’t even need to question their genuine interest and kindness towards me. Up until now I thought it was a personality disorder, either avoidant or paranoid PD (because I’ve tested high for those…(I’ve been desperate to see what’s wrong with me) I took a couple of online personality disorder tests (SOO OFF TOPIC RACHEL))
…ANYWHOO I finally feel like I’ll be supported and wanted and loved by at least one person there, and they have a wonderful arts program for when I just need to express my emotions (oh yeah, I do art (like realism and pencils and watercolors, not abstract) for those of you who don’t know me well yet) and they have this really cool internship program where you go to an internship in a field of work you want to pursue or study. It’s basically amazing for me. And a weight off my shoulders. And so relieving. And this has really just given me so many answers and confirmations and reassurances about where I am with God and spiritually.
alking the alk.
I realize that those are not real words in my title. No, I’m not completely med (yet). But I have heard people say “walk your talk” and “talk your walk,” before, and I want to bring some of my opinions to the subject. To “walk your talk” is to live out the Christian standards and verses that you say you follow; to not only be Christian in words but Christian in actions. To “talk your walk,” is to be more open and public about your faith and journey with the Lord.
I’ve seen so many friends within my youth group be hurt by another, and it happens, I know. We have faults and flaws and we don’t expect everyone to be perfect but what I can’t get over is when our brothers and sisters in Christ think it’s ok to subsequently judge us for our faults that we speak about. To me, I think it’s really un-Christian to judge people and exclude them socially because of a sin they’ve committed—we are to be “little Christs,” and Jesus never judged anyone by their faults.
The second part about this is to talk your walk. We need fellowship, and thats a fact. As a community of believers we were made for interaction and to be the church. If we don’t let anyone know that we’re believers how do we expect them to support us or try to avoid tempting us? A few months ago I got an ask and it basically said “I had no idea you were a Christian,” and this kind of got me curious. Later I found out who it was and we’ve emailed a bit since, but she was in my humanities classes (english and history), and I saw her once every other day and twice the days between. She sat behind me in the class we shared everyday.. how had we not broughten Christ and our relationships with the Lord up before? I was kind of given a dose of reality as I gradually accepted the fact that I had totally kept her out of the most important part of my life.
So yeah. It’s really late, I’m butt-tired, and this probably will make -37% sense tomorrow when I read this after posting it.
Should I be posting more simple pictures? Got a question or an ask? Should I post more personal posts up here relating to my family and such or no (I have a separate-ish blog for the runny reblogs and rants I sometimes get, should I just weld the two together for you), yes or no?
Ladies the way a man treats you should be a reflection of the love and respect God has for us. He created us delicate, sensitive, passionate, romantic, beautiful, and a complete mystery that has to be discovered. God treats us a such, so then, why would we settle for any less? Why would you let a…
‘Tis a good message and a wonderful blog. At least read through, sisters, and brothers, and just lemme know what you think.
sing is a bit of an understatement here. I mean when I’m in my room I make up dances just when the Christian radio station is on (I know.. I dance in my room alone to worship music.. my life might as well be on every tabloid because I’m so cool)…
I wonder if I could just dance in His praises in heaven. Just always dance for him.. never get tired, hurt, or stumble. Never feel embarrassed or awkward and self-conscious. I can’t even fathom…
another petition for your prayers.
Hey guys I need to ask a really quick favor from you all. I really need you guys to pray for me. There are so many reasons, God knows them all, but they all factor into something that has resulted in this massive mountain range right in front where I’m supposed to be walking with the Lord. Obviously I can’t climb it alone and I can’t get rid of it alone so I need His help, but for some reason, as soon as I get close to be broken down to be filled up, I pull away and try to do things by myself again. It’s like I’m about to give God the car keys to drive my life because I know I’m terrible at navigating my own life, but I’m too attached to the bug on the windshield from the driver’s seat or something. It’s ridiculous; I’m ridiculous for finding silly excuses every time.
..Well if that hasn’t proved my insanity to you yet, I promise I’m not in a good place right now and need prayers for God to give me the wisdom and self-will to let God back in control and submit my will to be pleasing, honoring, and praising Him.
So if you could just really quickly tell God to smack some sense back into me, shake my shoulders to waken my senses, and plant my feet on solid ground—rock— again, that’d be great, okay?
guys I need prayer right now. God knows the situation. Please please please this is so incredibly urgent. please just pray
applicable, relevant, and so very neccessary for me right now. pray for me?
motions.
I was just doing this history assignment where I have to track down all this trivial information about six different world religions. Most of the religions have one or two regions that they spread to, but Judaism and Christianity spread so much farther. Judaism was found in the Middle East, parts of Africa, Europe, and so on and so forth. Christianity is found everywhere. Every continent, there is some sort of Christian church.
Another thing, I was doing an assignment on another religion, and it said that religion was the practice of certain ceremonies, rituals and sacrifices. That didn’t make sense to me until I read it about four times. I guess I’m so used to calling my relationship with the Lord my “religion” that I can’t fathom a “religion” where all you do is go through the motions and check off the ceremonies you’ve performed.
