Kiddies

June 24, 2013

Hello beautiful people!! Soooo, I got news! I finally got a job at a summer camp by God's MAGNIFICENT grace! This is my second week working there, and though it's very tiring, I love the kiddies there!

On my first day when I walked in, all the kids stopped and stared at me, feeling self-consious I smiled looking around the room realizing they were all as brown as me...Oh goodness. :D

One child asked if I was a mom, stunned I smiled and said no, and she looked at me and said "oh, you look like one." :| Uh, thanks? I didn't know what to say so I just giggled and watched her walk away.

A couple minutes after I got there it was time for them to go out and play, so as they lined up they all looked at me and started asking who I was, so I said I was Miss. D their new teacher ( I preferred Miss. D cause I had no idea how they would pronounce my name). They all seemed really happy to hear that they had a new teacher, which made me even happier! And then they all did the funniest thing, they started shooting compliments at me!

                 Child One: I like your shirt!
                 Child Two: I like your earrings!
                 Child Three: I like your shoes!
                 Child Four (same child who said I looked like a mom): I like...I like...I like...
                  YOUR ARMS!

I got to read to the kids and they all loved it! I watched them play and draw and some of them gave me their pictures (mostly scribbles), and I gathered them all into my bag with the biggest smile on my face. It felt like their pictures were peace offerings to me saying they approve of me being their new teacher. :D It was great!

Now on the second week, having to be at work at 7:30 am D: I am still SOOO thankful to Jesus for this blessing of a job, and the little bundles of joy I get to work with everyday!

Working with these kiddies reminds me of how wonderful God's kingdom is. Remembering the Bible verse, "Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."'-Matthew 19:14, I feel like I can see the kingdom of God in the camp, the innocence, the laughter, the smiles, the hugs, and the "I-love-you's." They are such wonderful experiences! No wonder Jesus loved those little kiddies, and I am beyond thankful that He
gave me a heart for them too! With a gift such as that, how can I not smile??

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I feel Ya, Bro

June 15, 2013

It's safe to say that every one is emotional. I mean seriously, who DOESN'T get butterflies, gets a bit dizzy, or a bit sweaty, or starts shaking, or starts getting cottonmouth, when you see that special someone ;) or when you have an exam coming up, or when you get serious news? I've been there, and done that, bro.

Some experiences that emit to these emotions are honestly really awesome. I mean that emotional rush of finally achieving a long term goal, like graduation, or short term goal, like not procrastinating and finishing a paper, or since it's summer to WAKE UP PAST 12 :D I don't do that, seriously. And of course the moments when you are totally crushin. Hard. And you get butterflies just looking at the so and so's picture. Oh, what is life? JK, my bestie uses that, I caught it. She's invading my minnddd!!

It's amazing though how much emotions can get in the way of our lives, or how many different emotions a person actually contains. Did you know most of the reason why people get sick or feel that way is because of emotional stress? It's crazzyy! I for one know what that feels like first hand, i'm a wreck before exams or presentations! I get shortness of breath, and sometimes get light headed, it's horrible. Sometimes I can't even focus on my exam because of it, but I have found a way to conquer it, to make it less powerful on me, it's this thing called prayer. :D You should try it sometime.

Speaking of prayer, it's funny how when we talk about emotions + God we sometimes think, psh there's no way God has emotions, I mean c'mon, He's kinda...God. :O But guess what people?? You are wrong!! God totally has emotions! He loves, and when He loves i'm sure, hundred percent sure, that He lights up when He sees you, being all that you were meant to be. And I know that He gets angry when someone tries to hurt His children because he's our pops, our daddy. And you know what else? He also gets really sad, even cries when He sees us crying, when we are in pain. That's just how much He loves, after all He is our HEAVENLY father.

My mom told me the other day, how honestly all God wants are our attentions. I mean it says in the Bible a lot how our God is a jealous God, and why wouldn't He be? He loves us! If you loved someone SOOO MUCH that you DIED for them, but instead that person kept looking the other way or didn't give you the attention you deserved, wouldn't you be upset and kinda jealous? Wouldn't you want the attention?? My mom told me He loves it most when we talk to Him, like genuinely talk to Him, not just ask Him to do something, or complain about something. He loves it when we tell Him how much we love Him It's important to say that, I've started to do that. You know, whisper that simple "Hey God, I love you," It feels really good, love shouldn't be one way. He also loves it when we sing to Him! I mean imagine you listening to your special someone singing to you, wouldn't that make you happy? Or when your parents hear you sing and play for them, that makes them so happy! So imagine how happy we must make Jesus when we do all those things for Him!

Sometimes, it's really important to feel emotions because it gives us an insight into another person's life. The pain of losing someone, so you can feel what someone else who has been there felt. The pain of failing, so you can tell someone how has or is going through that that it will turn out alright. The pain of heart break, so you know what someone is going through who is just fresh out of it, and you can go up to them and say "hey, I get it, I was there too." All these emotions aren't put into our lives to play and mess around with us, they are honestly blessings in disguise so we can be all the more helpful and understanding to someone who is going through what we went through.

Be thankful for your emotions, without them we would be nothing. The idea of feeling something makes it all the more real. Sometimes feeling rather than seeing is what makes you cross over that line.

Smile for Jesus, cause Jesus is smiling for youu!

Over!

May 15, 2013

It is amazingly amazing how my first year of college is already over! It went by way too fast. I still remember graduation like it was yesterday and how  I was so anxious to be moving into college and being all independent, and honestly it was the greatest thing ever. Meeting new people, learning to do things on my own. When people said it is an adventure I never really realized just how much of an adventure it would be.

I'm really gonna miss my friends. Moving up closer to my university was great, but it's sad when everyone leaves and you are still around. I'm never gonna see these people until next year, and that's 3 MONTHS AWAY! Oh gosh how will I ever survive? I need a job. Seriously.

I got to spend the day with some of my closest friends yesterday and it was great. We just relaxed, spent time together and of course watched Big Bang Theory. (:

This summer I must not be a bum. I should sign that off on something because I say the same thing every summer, but every summer I end up doing the same thing. Eat, Sleep, Eat, TV, Eat, Eat, sleeeepp.

This summer it's gonna be different, I hope.

I wanna do a VBS thing that I signed up at my church, it's called Camp Rock, sounds like that Disney movie with the Jonas bros... :O but this  one is gonna be better (: I'm gonna get closer to God, and i'm GONNA WORK. I hope. I also don't wanna be inside the house 24/7 I need to go out into the world where there is no tv, except to the theaters of course. ;)

SMILE, JESUS LOVES YOU! cheese.

Hey there Betty Baxter :D

May 3, 2013

So this week has been, stressful, eventful, all in all a typical college-student kinda week. Or so I thought.

I reconnected with a friend that I haven't been able to talk with for a while, and I got to spend some more time with someone who I've been getting a lot closer to.

During all of this, I learned a lot during this week than I have in a long time.

1. I learned about connections. How we might think that we are the only ones who might be feeling something, but it's not true. We are all connected someway somehow, and because of that we all have feelings that resemble one another. Tres important to know! :D

2. I learned about patience. How when you really want something and you pray for it for a long time, and you start to doubt, that small amount of faith that you have in God comes through. P.s. I learned that from a friend, you know who you are! ;)

3. I learned about forgiveness. I tell God all the time that I will fix my ways, that I will become a better person but I always find myself messing up and falling on my knees again in shame, but you know what? God is forgiving. He will take us back as many times as we need forgiveness. Do we deserve it? No. But He loves us way too much to let us go that easily. It's funny how hard it is for us to forgive someone over something insanely stupid, but it takes God less than a heartbeat to just forget what we did to Him. And I never realized that before. I also felt forgiveness, it's like this load off of your chest. Now, I didn't do anything really bad, don't get me wrong. But just the small things that you think may not matter can seem pretty big to God, and it's always important to show Jesus that  and to admit that what you did was wrong, that it was disobedient to Him, but you know what? All He wants is for you to be honest with Him, it's not like He doesn't know what you did was wrong, He just wants you to tell Him for yourself. That's it.  And then once you do, POOF it's vanished.

4. This is the biggest thing. So today my mom found this Indian pastor talking about this women's testimony, Betty Baxter,  about how she was once a cripple and Jesus Himself came down and healed her. I was like wha?? So we found the video on youtube and decided to watch it..

                OHH EEMMM GEEE! It was AMAZING! So this young girl (young at this time) was a cripple, and I mean like seriously crippled. She was just like sticks glued together by a three year old. She was taken to all sorts of doctors to find some way to fix her but they all said there was no hope and that she was going to die anyway, so no point in trying. But her mother, this amazing mother of hers, told Betty  that she had found the GREATEST doctor ever and it was JESUS.

                 So her testimony (which I will attach below :D ) is about how she would pray to Jesus and would set aside a chair for Him to sit and talk to her. And she would say, please come and heal me, why won't you heal me? And Jesus would say, don't worry I'm going to heal you. And one day when she was really sick He gave her a date and time when He would come and heal her, and HE DID! He actually came at that exact time and healed her, and she said you could hear her bones breaking and coming back together and she could feel her organs moving! KLASDJFLSKJF HOW AWESOME IS THAT?! But you have to watch the whole thing!

Honestly, this week, I've been tested and I've been spoken to by God. Makes me so happy to know that He loves me and trusts me, and is always ready to catch me no matter what. And you know, He loves YOU, and He trusts YOU, and he is always ready to catch YOU, no matter what.

PLEASE DO! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xzUoGgynKA

With a Savior like that, how can I stop smiling?! :D

Princess

April 24, 2013

So for those of you who don't know me, I'm more on the creative side on life. Not the creative where I come up with totally out-of-the-box ideas but more of the fairy tales kinda thing.

I've been studying a lot the past few weeks, and it's been craaazzzy.  So what am I doing right now? Oh uh here's a shocker, still studying :/ The stress of college.  So through it all I thought I deserved a break by watching a movie on Netflix  I ended up watching this movie called Princess, which is actually pretty old. Well, if you call 2008 old.

For those of you who are actually interested, which i'm sure is EVERYONE ;) the movie is about this chic who lives in this castle right outside of this city. And she has this secret, and of course no story would be cool without some romance. So this girl meets this guy at a charity ball and she tells him that he is the "searcher" and is meant to help her. So the movie is about this dude trying to figure out what the heck a searcher is and he ends up falling for this chic. Then more stuff happens..but yea. :D Oh she's also a healer of mythological creatures, but that's not important. ;)

ANYWAY, watching the movie made me think about some things. The first thing it made me think of was a conversation I had with my cousin Jenifer a long time ago, like uber long, like years long! So we were just chilling, not really sure how this came up, but she was like hey, did you know that you are a princess? And me, lover of all Disney princess movies, was like WHA?! How exactly did that happen? Is my family hiding something from me that I really should know?? And she was like no,  you know this already, just haven't realized it. So of course I had to ask her to broaden her statement.

She said, see, we serve a God right? Jesus, and God is King of Kings, like He is it. The King. And it's written in the Bible that He is our heavenly father, and we are His children...soooooo, if God=our Heavenly Father, and we=His children, AND God=King, then we are princes and princesses! And that's when it all clicked.

I had never thought about it that way at all! All my childhood I've watched every Disney princess movie, and wished with all my heart that I could be a princess too, not knowing all along that I was one!

And yes, I realized all this from watching a movie about a princess. It's funny cause after I watched this movie and got excited about thinking about this conversation with my cousin, I texted a friend tell him if he knew I was a princess, and he commented about my castle.

My castle, I have one. It's amazing. It has golden roads, and pearly gates, and my daddy lives there. Both of them. :D

I can't be any more thankful of being bestowed the honor of being a princess, but it's more than that. We aren't made to be a prince and princess because of our birth or anything, we are made a prince and princess by being given the honor and privilege. And along with this honor and privilege, we have to act that way too.

The movie talked about how a princess is usually frail and scared at times, but when tested they have the strongest of hearts.  dang. I've been tested so many times, and I know that I always will, but just knowing that I'm a princess and I belong to the King of kings, I can't help but smile at the fact that I've been called with a purpose. I wasn't given this gift to waste it away, but to use it in all ways to bring glory to my King.

We are made royal so that we can reflect the wonder and good of our Kingdom. Our Kingdom that is not only for us, but for all those you earnestly believe like you and I, so that we may one day be reunited with Him and ALL the princes and princesses that have gone on before to dwell in the greatest castle I know.  

How can I not smile knowing I am a princess, that I am a daughter of a living and majestic King? :D

                                      
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Birthday!

April 2, 2013

So this is the day, that comes once a year for every living thing in the world.  It's a birthday! Yay! So today is my birthday and I have to tell you, it was amazing.

The days that led up to today were kinda distracting. I mean, I kept forgetting that my birthday was getting closer, and honestly I wasn't even that excited. I mean, it just felt like another day. But as the day got closer and closer I started to get a bit nervous, I mean what if today wasn't what I expected it to be. What if it was just like another day?

Well my attitude immediately changed when my cousin and mommy surprised me with a cake at exactly 12:00 am. It was perfect. They sang me happy birthday and fed me cake (as per Indian tradition) and of course my cousin was a bro and smeared some onto my face. :D

That was just the beginning of my wonderful day. After getting some sleep I woke up for my first class and met with some friends. I got tons of birthday hugs and my phone was blowing up with my facebook newsfeeds from friends wishing me happy birthday, which was amazing. I realized that even though people just simply said "happy birthday" there were a lot of people who said more, like funny stories or who showered me with wonderful blessings. I also got plenty of text messages and tons of phone calls from family all over the place. it was once again, amazing.

Today I got amazing presents, I got an ipad from my cousin which was a TOTAL surprise because that morning he got me a Rutgers key chain and I was so excited until I came home to a package. Then I got the Les Mis DVD from a bestie with a heartwarming message inside. almost cried. no joke. I also got a cute flannel shirt from another awesome friend, which was something i've wanted to get for a while with an inspiring card. They are wonderful gifts, so THANK YOU!

Though these were amazing presents I have to say the best part of my day was just to see and know how blessed I am to have such AMAZING, WONDERFUL, BEAUTIFUL friends and family who are more than I could ever ask for. God is sooooo good to me. The frienships that I formed in college and ones that I have kept from highschool are tremendous blessings. I love you all so very much, I don't know what I would do without you all. <3

Thank you for making this birthday one that I will never forget. Can't help but smile, all day erryday. :D

Answered

March 25, 2013

Have you ever had something you really care about? And no one understood just how much it meant to you? Especially your parents? And no amount of explaining or drawing pictures or reenacting would come close to them understanding that this "thing" was almost a part of you, a part that just doesn't make sense to them?

Gosh, how easy would it be if your parents just once in a while said, "oh yea, I totally get it." Of course for that to happen it would be like the end of the world. Just kidding, not really. :P

Don't get me wrong, I love my family, it's just. hard sometimes. I mean how do you explain to them in a language that only makes sense to them of why you want to go somewhere or do something or see someone. It's like the only thing that would make them happy is to tie a leach around your hips and attach it to theirs...okay maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration.

 I learned a lot when I dormed in college, I learned about freedom. About how to manage my time. I learned how to have fun (in a good way of course). I got to go out late, even if it was just to get take out. Or go to a club meeting,  things my mother would have NEVER let me do at home...and so now that i'm home...yea you get the picture.

Today, something along the lines of my first paragraph happened, and I was pretty upset. So I did what I could do, and just knelt and prayed.  I was too upset to say anything but, "God. Please do something." I kept repeating that phrase over and over again.

I took out my Bible and tried to flip through to see if anything would pop out at me, maybe God would speak, but nothing happened. So as I went to put it away, a couple of my family pictures fell down onto my lap. They were my dad's. I looked through them, cried. And something else from my Bible started so slip out, it was a cross that my old church had sent me. So as I opened the page it was falling from BOOM, God 

spoke.

"But you are a shield around me, O Lord; You bestow glory on me and lift up my head. To the Lord I cry out and he answers me form his holy hill. I lie down and sleep: I wake again, because the Lord sustains me. I will not fear the tens of thousands drawn up against me on every side." -Psalm 3:3-6

"Answer me when I call to you, O my righteous God. Give me relief from my distress; be merciful to me and hear my prayer."-Psalm 4 : 1

I felt, as I told my friend, that sometimes even though I know that God hears me, it's nice to know that in my distress or my breaking point that He really does hear me, and when I read those couple verses I felt like God saying, DARLING, I'M HERE, I GOT THIS. :)

How can I not smile? :)

Psalm 121

March 18th, 2013

So, my mom told me on the car ride home that she wanted me to memorize psalm 121. At first I was kinda hesitant, I mean I know the gist of the psalm why do I need to know it word for word? So once coming home and getting settled, she reminded me again that she wanted me to recite the psalm for her by memory, so I popped it up on my computer and read it over before starting to engrave it into my mind. As I was reading it a lot of things popped into my mind.

The first thing was, I remember the summer of sixth grade when my grandparents came from India to spend the summer with us. So when I was running around the house doing totally useless things and wasting my time, my grandfather called me over and told me to recite Psalm 121 to him. I groaned and complained saying my favorite show was on, and I didn't want to, but he was pretty persistent. So I sat there trying to engrave it into my mind, but I had such a hard time. Now I know why.

See I tried to memorize the psalm as just words, and not by what it means, and honestly if you don't get what you are saying or what you are reading it's so much harder to memorize! So as I read over the psalm I was like dang, there is so much love and faith and commitment in this Bible passage. It's almost like a romantic letter God writes to us as His children!

The second thing this psalm reminded me of was a sermon that Pastor Tim (a pastor at Liquid) gave a couple weeks ago. He talked about the importance of memorizing God's word and storing it up in our ammunition box. And he specifically pointed his finger to the parents saying that they are the ones who should make their children learn Bible passages, so that the children have it stored in their ammunition box for when they get older.

He told a story of how him and his family went rock climbing. His son (pretty young) was climbing in front of him and  he was right behind him. As they were climbing his son suddenly stopped and was really afraid. So the pastor told him to keep going and that they were almost to the top. As the pastor was speaking he heard his son whispering something and realized that it was a Bible verse that he had made him memorize a couple weeks ago. Continuing to say that verse they both scurried to the top and made it! It was so inspiring. So I guess I can't argue with what my mom is doing for me, because honestly it's for me.

I also realized that by memorizing Bible verses, it will honestly be a blessing in the future. Personally, sometimes when I talk to my friends I tell them about something from the Bible, but I can never pin point the exact words unless from Psalm 23 or the exact book, chapter, or verse it's from. So memorizing more of God's word really gives me proof behind what i'm saying, as my bestie writes in her blog, "na mean?" Lol. Anyway, I think it's a blessing having a great mind, so why not fill it with promises given to us by our Heavenly Father?? Na mean? :D 

For all of you who want to know what Psalm 121 says here it is:

                I lift my eyes to the hills from where does my help come from

                My help comes from the Lord the Maker of the heavens and the earth.

                He will not let my foot slip, He who watches over me will not slumber,

                Indeed He who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

                The Lord watches over me, He is my shade at my right hand,

                the sun will not harm me by day nor the moon by night.

                The Lord will keep me from all harm,

                He will watch over my life, He will watch my going and coming,

                both now and forever more.  <3

P.S that was all from memory, BAM :D So blessed

With a God like that how can you not SMILE! :D

MISH YOU!

March 12, 2013

               Hello wonderful people! I'm not sure why I have been blogging so much the last couple days, I guess things  have been happening? Anyways, I have started to commute from college and it's going quite well! I mean, I do miss dorming but being home has its advantageous. Like I have my own lovely bathroom, and I have fresh, healthy, homemade food every day, I'm home with family, and so on, but of course living on campus has its own adventures, and I'm very thankful that I got to experience it.

                So today I went to class, and got to spend a couple hours back in the area where I dormed with my friends. It was really nice! Though raining, the temperature was fantastic and it didn't feel cloudy cause I had friends to brighten up my day! As I saw people come in and out the dorm, while I sat in the lounge with a friend, we said our hello's and hugged, and I got a lot of  "I miss you." Honestly when I left the dorm to commute, I thought that yea I might be missed for like...a couple hours but people would soon forget I was even there and move on. But having people text me, and message me, and tell me to my face that they really did miss me, even weeks after I moved out...dang it hits home. I never thought that I would make such an impact on people's lives! Okay, maybe "impact" isn't the exact word for the situation, but I guess what I mean to say is that I feel like I squeezed into their hearts (: And honestly, In a totally non-selfish way, being missed is a wonderful feeling. It really makes you feel special and all mushy inside.

                Seeing my friends today was awesome, they are wonderful people, I'm very blessed to have them! We always have the best long talks about us, and our lives, we have a lot of fun just being kids and not acting like we are in college. Today because of the rain there were a lot of puddles, so we (mostly me) went PUDDLE JUMPING! It was awweessoommeee, except when I got my socks soaked. :D It was soo worth it though!

The thing is, even though my friends miss me, they have no idea how much I miss them. Going to college and living with people who come from so many different places and backgrounds really makes the connection between two people or a group of people special. So thankful they are a part of my life!!

I ruv you guys, can't help but SMILE! :D

Happiness

March 10th, 2013

 So i've been thinking about happiness for a while. I mean there are so many things that make me happy, and i'm sure that goes for everyone, I mean even the word happy makes me happy...if that makes sense. :D I've been asked by a lot of people why I'm so happy all the time, and I guess that's because there are enough things in life that make us sad so being happy kinda fools life and brings a new perspective into things. It makes life say, "Where did I go wrong?" ;)  Being happy not only makes us feel good, but it honestly rubs off on other people. I've had many experiences when someone smiles or laughs or just says hi and a smile automatically creeps onto my lips. Happiness, such a good feeling.

 I was thinking about being happy, and so I thought of what makes me happy. Jesus makes me happy, my family, my friends, snowflakes, warmth, the sun, rain, music, dancing, my guitar, church, ICF, walks, long talks, warm sand, clear water, clothes, putting on clothes fresh out of the drier...I could go on and on.

What makes you happy? That person who you love going shopping with, or that one girl who sucks at tennis so she decides to plop down and sing to the tune of Taylor Swift, or that gal who laughs at your jokes, especially the turkey ones? (oh wait..I think I know who that person is.. ;) JK) But seriously, what makes you happy? Things that I noticed that made some of my closest friends happy in the last couple days were puppy kisses, that special someone who texts you and can speak Chinese, or being on spring break even though you have to study, or seeing Jesus in little babies (:

 I like being happy, and laughing, because people can't help be that way too when they are around you. So KEEP SMILING, IT WILL RUB OFF ONTO OTHERS AND MAKE YOU FEEL WONDERFULLY GUSHY INSIDE :D  

SURRENDER!

March 10, 2013


Hello B-E-A-U-TIFUL people! Today is such a beautiful day! Wish I could have spent more time outside D: but instead I had to take a wonderful (sooo totally exaggerating) biology exam. But it was okay, because I started of this Sunday with a wonderful service at Liquid!

I can't even begin to describe who wonderful today's church service was. We walked in on one of my favorite songs, "Set a fire down in my soul, that I can't deny that I can't control, I want more of You God..." and we had a baby dedication, that literally brought me to tears! The family lost a baby by still birth a year ago, but yesterday they celebrated the first birthday of their second son Luke who was being dedicated. And let me tell you, this baby was FULL OF LIFE! He was smiling, and clapping, and when the pastor prayed for him by holding his hand, the baby held the pastors hand with both of his own little hands and wouldn't take his eyes off of the pastor! It was precious. The sermons was awesome, the pastor talked about the grace of God, and how when it touches us, it causes immediate surrender. He said that last week he had a woman come to church, and at the end came up to him and gave him a zip-lock bag full of pills that she was going to use to end her life. He showed us the pills and dang, it was amazing. That lady said as she handed him the pills that she found Jesus and she didn't need drugs anymore. That lady is the mother of two little girls.
The one thing that stood out the most to me today was this, when we are covered by grace, God doesn't see us, He sees Jesus. IS THAT NOT AWESOME?! Take about seeing Jesus in us! :D

That is my thought for the day! Other than that college is pretty busy, and crazy and all around exciting? Not sure if that is the right word, but I guess there are people around the world who would give anything to be where we are, and so we should enjoy what we are blessed with! SO KEEP SMILING! <3

Go My Children

February 24, 2013


HAPPY SUNDAY!! :D So today was an interesting day, well...I don't want to say that, then you guys might get too excited ;) but today was a...umm, I guess a bitter sweet day??

So we found this new church that is down the street from our church. We decided to go there for the first time last Sunday just to open our mind since we are moving (that will be another post of its own) and we said, hey why not go check this place out? It's funny because this was the same way we found our church, and it's been ten years since we have been members! So anyway, this new church was AWESOME! I could totally feel the presence of God just flooding this place with life! This church was very similar to the church that I attend near my university. ~ You are probably thinking how many churches I go to, right? Haha I promise it's not a lot! I just like exploring sometimes!!~

Anyways, today we decided to go back to that church, and i'm glad that we did! The pastor preached about how there are two roads in life. One, the broad one where you are in control and you can just cruise right on through, but it leads to destruction. The second path, is a narrow one, and Jesus says that only some find it, but this path is hard and windy and confusing, but it leads to life. He went onto talk about the difference between the two roads and how the latter one is about letting God take the wheel, while the first road is about you being in control. So the sermon came down to, which path would you take?

After this church we raced to our church because we wanted to say goodbye. We attended our church and it was nice, but what was nicer was the way God spoke to my mom and I. At the end of the service we always sing one last hymn, and today's hymn was Go My Children. It goes "Go my children with my blessing, never alone. Waking, sleeping, I am with you, you are  my own." Can God send us off from this place, a place where we have been for ten years of our lives, a place that became a home to us, in any other way? Honestly i'm not ashamed to say that it made my mom and I tear up a bit. As this song played, I thought about all the stuff that happened in this place. How we came as three, leaving as two, how we laughed and cried in this place, how God was here. But the thing is, God is still here, He isn't just in that place, He is in us. We are his church. Honestly, what is a church other than a place where God dwells? So if He is in us, then we are a church!

So as we left we said our goodbyes, promised we would stay in touch. But you know,  goodbyes are only for people or things that we will never see again. So I guess the better term is, see ya later! (:
God is good people, really good. SO, KEEP SMILING!

SECOND SEMESTER

February 20, 2013

So, the last time I blogged was before I came back to school! Let me just say that, TIME FLIES! It just doesn't want to stop...ever. Honestly though, even though people complain about time flying (I am one of them), isn't that a good thing? I mean people who say that time flies usually are going through something good, but if time stopped then the better things that are to come would take longer. And what about the people who are going through something terrible, wouldn't it suck if time slowed down at that moment for them, and it took so much more longer for them to get through their situation? Just a thought.

So second semester of college is pretty crazyyy. Not like partying-crazy, cause i don't party... But like exam and assignment crazy!! The classes i'm taking this semester are more upbeat and interesting than last semester, except for CHEMISTRY. Oh how i detest this course. It's all I do. CHEMCHEMCHEMCHEMCHEM. Did I mention chem?? For some reason it's a challenge for me, maybe because i'm not a math person? idunno. Anyway, i've been praying for wisdom, since God is the provider of ALL wisdom. (: My other classes are pretty ehh, I'm taking a creative writing course that I thought for sure would be an easy A...but uh my professor is too dedicated to this course. He said he actually wwrriitteess. Like novels! But i feel bad for him because i know that everyone in the class came in with the same mentality as me, and so we aren't giving him the credit he deserves; even if we have to read sixty pages of stuff every week and have to do three writing assignments along with the readings. This week we have a five page short story due...no idea what i'm going to write about. D: I suggested to my friend to write about unicorns, or rather a unicorn that lost its horn and is on a quest to find it. He said he would do it!! :D

So yea, that's just a sum of what has been happening in my life, now must get back to work! I used an exclamation mark, not because i'm excited to get back to work, but i learned that having the ability to have education and the luxury of going to college is a BLESSING. So many people do not have the privilege of having what I have. I mean there are kids out there, who are so much more intelligent that I am, but because of the cost of going to school is so high, they have to give it up. I feel like this is something that people need to hear a lot more, so that it hits home and can be a source of inspiration to do work.

That is all, KEEP SMILING BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE!!

LES MISERABLES!

January 8, 2013

So today I got to watch Les Miserables with an awesome buddy of mine, and it was nothing less than AMAZING!  Yes, we cried almost through the entire thing, and yes that led to loud sobs, but man oh man it was incredible.

What I loved about the movie was how it captured almost every aspect of suffering. Nothing in the movie was really pictured as "perfect" but that is what made it so good! I feel like a lot of the movies we see today are happy, funny, and yea some have a bit of sadness to them,  but they usually end happily. This movie however, was about the hope and faith and dreams that live through the suffering. How a person can change, how God works through people, and how sometimes faith is all you need to keep going. Also, the main character played by Hugh Jacksman was great! He is an inspiration, or at least to me, of how the things you are given in life aren't meant to be kept to oneself but should be used to help others.

This movie made me think about how i've been complaining about my life a lot for the past couple weeks, and I thought what was happening to me was hard, difficult and totally unfair. After seeing this movie, dang, I regret everything I said. There are so many more things in life that are far worse than what I have, and yea i've had some hard times in life, but they have only made me stronger. Watching this movie really set me back on track to reach for my dream, to use everything I have to give glory to God because He will be faithful and direct me and you in the right path. The path He has chosen for all of us, and I will not say that it will be easy, but I can guarantee that He will always be there walking right beside you.

Anyways, I really do recommend watching this movie, because it will worth it! So to finish off, I would like to end with a quote from the movie.

"And remember
The truth that once was spoken
To love another person
Is to see the face of God." -Les Mis <3

SHOUT OUT TO THE NEW YEAR!

January 2nd, 2013

So I had one of the most memorable New Years yet! My friend from college has a church because his dad is a pastor, so he invited my family and a couple of others to celebrate the New Years with him by watching the movie The Odd Life of Timothy Green, and to end it with short New Years service by his dad.

About  the movie, ohh eemm gee to say the least it was amazing!! There were many times when my eyes got a bit cloudy as I held my friends hand, and other parts where the room was filled with giggles and outright laughter. Without giving away the ending, I have to say, I don't think there was a dry eye in the room! The movie held many family and life values that everyone should know, like happiness is best when shared, and when you have something ,the best thing to do is to share it or just simply give it away.

Once the movie was over, we had a small but really sweet sermon from my friend's dad, he talked about how with New Years, everyone has a resolution, but if you just clean yourself up and put on the same clothes then nothing is going to change. You have to clean yourself up and put on NEW CLOTHES and then changes will start to happen. I thought that was the perfect way to start a New Year, not just with that thought but with great friends (you guys know who you are (: ), great family, and an Almighty God. :D