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G.O.S.P.E.L.

This touched me when not alot of things did,

When I was so confused I couldn't let anyone in,

I didn't know what was the truth and what was a lie,

All I knew was that God was on my side.

I get inspired every time I watch this video.

I saw it for the first time about one year ago and I'm still talking about it.

Hope you are inspired too =)

Had a Frown on Easter Day

I was having a really good week.

 I had finished all of my homework and had practiced all my music

and we had just come home from a Easter play at our church.

And that's when it happened, when my parents told me and my sister that our dog had died.

His name was Caleb and we had him for 9 years.

My sister wasn't feeling good already so she had a harder time at first.

Since I don't really like crying in front of people, I tried to hold it in but did not succeed.

So, I went to my room and I could feel the knot in my stomach.

I picked up my guitar, trying anything to distract me.

That didn't work either.

My mom found me sitting on the floor crying over my guitar like that Taylor Swift song

Teardrops on My Guitar.

If you haven't noticed yet, I'm a big animal lover.

Yes, I want to make every stray dog a pet, but that doesn't mean I do.

And also, I don't deal with change very well and this is definitely a change.

So the next day, I woke up wishing it was a dream, but I knew it wasn't :(

I thought it would make me feel better to clean up all his stuff on the back porch.

If you are smarter than I was on that day, you already know that going out to the porch was

NOT a good idea. I was more sad than when I woke up. oy

All day it was up and down again, I would start to feel better and then I would see dogs for sale on the side of the road and start crying all over again.

I didn't get on facebook or my blog.  I didn't even look at my phone.

Lets just say it wasn't a good Easter.

So, we figured out three things you always want when you're feeling sad...

1. Chocolate

2. Comfort food. (Orlando's Sonic)

3. And stand up comedy.

 

While chocolate and comfort food and comedy are great,

they were just a temporary fix.
 And shutting myself out from everybody wasn't right either.

After the chocolate, I had a stomach ache.

And the sonic, well it was still good.

I did laugh at the stand up comedy, but after it was done, I was right back to where I was before.
I quickly realized the reason why all these things weren't working is that

God meant for us to seek comfort in family and Him and I was shutting out both.

Pretty stupid huh?

Jesus was always there, just waiting for me to ask Him for comfort.
So I did :)

  Now I know, I'm going to be ok real soon.

Here are some of my favorite pics of Caleb

I will always love that annoying dog :)
ttyl

Questions/Anybody Have Answers

Something has been on my mind and I would like to share.

I find myself engrossed with all of these questions about the machine we call church..like..

Why is cussing such a big deal when there are people out there that have real problems?
For instance...drugs, suicide or aids, and that's just a few.

Why do you condemn people because they have a life?

Why do you think it's a good thing to give up family time to help at the church?

Why do you say the church building is the house of the Lord,
when the Bible says it's in you, you're the temple?

With all these questions in my head, you can understand why my mind has been racing :o

and the worst thing is, I don't know the answers.

You see my mom is going though the same things as me.

Which is weird because we use to be so sure of everything.. which sounds stupid now.

How can someone be sure of everything. That's religious pride for you ;)

But here's the cool part!

I saw my mom reading a book called

 " So You Don't Want To Go To Church Any More."

She read a little to me and at first I thought that it would just make me more confused,

but it did the exact opposite.

My eyes were open and I finally knew what I needed to do.

I had to read this book ;)

So I'm setting a goal, starting now and ending June the 30th..

my sisters birthday!!! he he

I don't expect this book to answer all my questions, but just to prove to myself that

I don't have to be afraid of looking at different views on life.

This is going to be interesting!

ttyl

Messy Mondays

I saw this on one of my friend's facebook pages and I've got to say, these guys have got my attention.

Jordan and his brother together make all these hilarious videos on youtube!

They are called blimeycow and new videos are released every Monday.
They have a facebook page and I think they have a twitter too!

Anyone who doesn't know them is truly missing out ;)

Here are some of my favs!!!
Being a homeschooler myself, I especially like the first one.
It's hard to narrow them down because I like them all but I tried =)

LOL

This one makes me laugh so hard!  Every time I am at church I think about this video. 
He's ironically close to the things people do at church.

I've heard of a lot of "lists" before, but this is by far one the best!

Youth Groups....he might be illustrating his point a little more obvious than reality,

 but he's really close (and funny). 

I find myself doing the exact thing he talks about in this video. 

 Interesting...hmmmmm

They've got a lot more videos out there so check them out!

ttyl