Thursday, March 25, 2010

God Blesses Us with things we take for granted

Today, we had a speaker talk to our school. She told us how careful we have to be with our bodies in cars, bicycle, and etc. You never know when there will be an accident in a car. She told us not to call them accidents because, would a drunk driver say to a family who he killed their daughter, "It was an accident. I'm sorry." No. He had the choice to get drunk or not, a choice to go to that friend's home, a choice to go to that party. He had a choice to choose those type of friends. Is that an accident? Nope, not at any time is it an accident. The lady that talked to us told us that she was paralyzed from the waist down. She broke her vertebra in a car accident because she didn't have her seat belt on. That also caused her little sister to get killed from head trauma right next to her. The girl went to the hospital, being paralyzed all around. The only way to communicate was blinking; one blink for yes, two blinks for no. This showed me how fortunate we are to have our legs move, our eyes blinking, our fingers fiddling. God gives us all of the fantastic abilities and we take them for granted. Have you ever seen anybody in a wheelchair? They can't go to the bathroom by themselves, they can't walk. Walking is such a great ability. I lets us run and kick and play too! we need to thank God for that! He gives us the ability to take pictures, to smile. That one move of a finger to press that little button on a camera, some people can't do that. Some people have breathing disabilities. Some people won't live as long as us. Us as Christians need to not only help people without the abilities that we have, but thank and praise God for what he does for us.

God is AMAZING with what he does and just we need to rejoice that and use his abilities. He gave you your own special ability; NOBODY else has that and you need to show God through that ability. Please remember that. So... ya I guess what I'm trying toi say is we're SO fortunate with what we have and we cannot take that granted. Embrace it!!

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Hey!

Hey! Just this morning, my friend, Ben posted a FANTASTIC blog about God and how great he is. Well, I'm going to tell you a story that helps me rely more on God.
Well everybody at my school is wearing makeup. My parents don't let me wear makeup and to be honest, I don't want to wear makeup. Plus, when everybody wears makeup, everybody looks the same. I don't wanna look the same as other people. And whenever I don't feel pretty or perfect, I always look up my favorite verse in the Bible talking about all of God's daughters. It uplifts me so much and is just such an inspiration:

Psalm 45:10-11
Listen, daughter, pay attention and consider: forget you people and your father's house, and the king will desire your beauty. Bow down to him, for he is your lord.
Wow
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hat is all I can say. This is such a STRONG and POWERFUL verse! It's pretty much saying to forget about everything in your life even your father's home because the king, Jesus Christ, wants to desire your beauty! He thinks that I am so beautiful because he made me and he wants to see his masterpiece!
That to me is my absolute favorite verse! Thank you for reading God Bless.
Whoops i almost forgot, my black eye became a good use for the Lord. People will ask what happened and I'll say that I got hit with a dodge ball at church. I'm hoping that people will think. "You can play dodge ball oat your church?" So that's how I can embrace my Chritianity and it's really true that
God has a reason for EVERYTHING. :)