Surrendering

To surrender is to to give (oneself) over to something (as an influence). For me, that's all it's ever meant. I've never truly thought about it, I've just "done" it. I've heard my friends tell me that I need to surrender -fully surrender- to be able to fix things, things being situations, relationships, etc, but I've never taken it to heart. It's so much easier to say that you've surrendered everything than to actually do it. Now that I've thought about it, to surrender just means to truly give it all to God. To give EVERYTHING to him, not just the few things that you feel comfortable with giving. The only way a relationship can be great is to have God in the middle. The only way situations work out is if God's in it. To surrender also means to trust. That's a big one for me. Trusting sometimes causes you to have to be vulnerable, and being vulnerable causes you to have to put yourself out there. The main realization that I've come to is surrendering isn't easy. Once done it's totally worth it, but during the process it's hard. After you surrender you can find one of the greatest feelings,which is true joy.

All I ask is that you pray. Pray that not only I, but everyone has the courage to surrender the things in our life that we need to surrender.

Stay Strong!

I've been going through a lot lately, and it's not just one situation, it's situation after situation after situation. Thankfully now I'm starting to realize how to get through it, and I am. The main concept that has stuck out to me the most through all of this is to stay strong. Everything happens for a reason. I've said that before and I'll continue to say that. A really good friend said "stay strong, the storm will pass". That is such a simple yet complex statement. It's easy for us to say to stay strong, but to act upon that is a whole different thing. It helps to have good, strong people in your life to help you through these storms you will experience. I am extremely lucky to have many of these people in my life. They tell me when I'm messing up but help me clean up the pieces. My advice for you is to stay strong. Focus on the good, not the bad of a situation. You can do it!

Until next time,
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Compassion

My first question is what happened to the compassion in us? We're so one-minded, and we only do things if we can get something out of it. What happened to doing something for someone just because they needed help? I was watching this clip from the movie Pay It Forward. The kid was talking about how if he helped three people do something they couldn't do, then those three people went and each helped three more people, and so on and so forth. What would happen if we really did that? The world would change. The pain would go away. All we have to do is care.

Just what's on my mind.

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a person with something to say

Life

Lets start this little adventure of ours with the topic of life. Now, "life" is a very broad subject, but maybe I can touch base on some of my point-of-views on certain things. First of all let me start by talking about my life. I am a christian, simple as that. Almost all of my decisions and opinions are based on my faith. I've been going through a lot lately and the one thing that has stood out to me the most out of all of this is that we have struggles in our life's for a reason. They may not make sense, and most of the time they won't, but there's a purpose behind all thing's. I think we have situations like life, death, hurt, happiness, etc. to make us stronger. In fact, I believe God puts those situations is our life's for the sole purpose of making us stronger. Stronger in our faith and stronger as people. He wouldn't put us through those situations if he didn't know we could overcome them. To put it plain and simple God has a plan for everyone's life. The struggles are just a small part of making that plan happen. My favorite verse is Philippians 4:6-7. I think that verse fits this topic perfectly.


Until next time,


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