Waiting For Tomorrow

Hey Everyone, I realize it's almost February and I have yet to post this year...shame on me, I know...but in my defense, my laptop crashed and so I'm currently typing this on a PC, I'm borrowing, that's connected to my TV...I've got wires everywhere and the keyboard on my lap...quite the sight I'm sure! haha! Anyways...moving on... As Christians we are "related" to all other believers in the sense that we have all been adopted by Christ which is pretty amazing, if you ask me! As brothers and sisters in Christ we are called to encourage one another and call each other out on shortcomings, but the latter, I feel is often done in wrong and hurtful ways...and it's honestly, one of my biggest pet peeves. Some of you may think that it's probably only a pet peeve because I don't want to be convicted of my sin, but you couldn't be more wrong....sure, I'm human and sometimes I'm sure I get defensive over things that I shouldn't, but ...

Hey All, So as the year of 2015 is coming to a close, next weekend, it's only natural to start thinking about your New Years' Resolutions and so that's kind of what this post will be about. More often than not, people make resolutions and they don't follow through with them, and honestly, until this past year, I've never really made any myself, partly due to that reason...This isn't a good or bad thing, but still it's the truth...I, however, encourage all you to claim 2016 as your year to [blank] and strive EVERY day to make that desire a reality! Some of the most common resolutions I hear of are about physical health (working out or eating healthier etc.) and while those are good things to strive for, I think that you should start with something else. More often than not, if you don't first strive to better your emotional/inward self, you won't be able to fully embrace becoming more healthy, physically. I'm not saying it has to be entirely one o...

Hello Everyone, Fair warning, this post may be repetitive of past blog entries from this year, but if you are new to my blog or even if not, I'm sure that some of it will still be fresh and hopefully helpful to you in some way. As the year of learning to love myself is drawing to a close, it's so encouraging to look back and see how far I've come since March of this year! I am much more at peace with myself and with my surroundings than I have been in maybe forever, and my perspective on so many things has changed, for what I believe to be the better. I've had numerous people tell me that they can see a change in me, even without me mentioning anything about my journey, and honestly, I feel as if, in some ways, I was "reborn" at the beginning of this year. I'm SO grateful to God for helping me walk through so much of my former baggage that I carried for far too long! Alright, so this post is going to be sort of a "tutorial" into how I was able to...

Hey All, First off I just realized that last year I posted 43 times and this year I have only posted 19 so far...that is quite the difference, and hopefully, next year I'll be better at writing when I have inspiration instead of waiting until it leaves me and I forget half of what I was going to post on. We'll see. I have no idea how many of you actually care about whether I post or not, so probably most of this is for my own future benefit, but that's okay. Anyways, obviously we are in the month of December and as some of you probably know, this month the camp I work at closes down which is rather difficult for me. I only have deep cleaning a couple of days, and our Christmas party, in which I get to go to my favorite place on earth and see some of my favorite people, but that's not the only hard part; it also means I'm pretty tight on money this month. Yes, I have another job, but camp pays my bills and some extra, so now I just have savings/extra money coming in ...

Hi Everyone, So unless you are just coming to my blog, and this is the first post you have read of mine, you know for a fact, that I'm a born-again Christian...at least I hope you know that for a fact! Anyways, my point is, that I'm not one to not bring up my faith in Jehovah on a very regular basis, however, proclaiming my faith is quite different then living it out. I can easily say that I love Jesus, but unless I live it out on a daily basis, it means nothing; it's all just empty words. (James 2:14-26) I would REALLY like to think that my life exemplifies Christ in pretty much everything I say and do, but I'm human so, obviously, that is not the case! Without going into details, God has convicted my soul about an area of my life that I let my sinful nature take over, and it really humbled me. I do not want there to be a space in between me and my Creator and I 100% do NOT want to cause Him to be disappointed in how I live my life. We alll make mistakes so I...

Hey, First off, I want to say I'm terribly sorry I haven't blogged in a long time. I have been busy with work, and just life, and every time I would sit down to write this post I'd start and then stop. I don't know if it was just I wasn't ready to write it, even though I thought I was, or if it was just the fact that God wanted me to wait...either way, this time, I 'm determined to actually finish and post it, even if I'm not 100% satisfied with how it's written or think that I could say more, etc. So as some of you who have read past posts of mine know, this is my year of learning to love myself , and since claiming that as my "goal" for this year, God has continually shown me ways in which to do that. One of which, is through my short relationship with someone I met this summer. Even though we recently ended things, and it was pretty hard at first, I trust God has a plan here. My ex really helped me believe that I am important, special, bea...

Hey All, So life has still been crazy since I last posted. My new job is pretty great and I'm very grateful, to God, for sending this opportunity my way! It's slightly "weird" being outside the kitchen for a change, but I enjoy mixing it up, learning new things, and getting this new avenue to show His love and light to my community! This enthusiasm about the new job doesn't mean that all my life has been amazing lately, and to be honest, parts of it have kind of sucked. Without getting into too many details, I'll just say my coworkers at camp are changing and despite my love of change, mostly, this change has made me bawl my eyes out several times, and I have a feeling it will continue to for awhile. That being said, I have had an overwhelming peace about it all this past week or so since I had a long talk with my Creator. It may sound crazy, but it was one of those conversations where I actually "heard" His voice whisper to my soul, and if I hadn...