Just fix it.

What do you do when a car has a faulty wire? What do you do when your pants have a tear? What do you do when there is a crack in a window?

All these things have the same type of answer. You fix it.

Life is full of mistakes. There is no getting around them.

If you break something you fix it. The same goes for mistakes. You make one and so you fix it.

The key word is being YOU. YOU have to take the wheel. YOU are the only one who can change what has happened. If YOU sit there and complain about how bad things are then how is anything ever going to be fixed.

There is no excuse to sit around hoping someone or something will fix your problems just like that. YOU need to look in the mirror and ask yourself...What is it that I can try to improve on or accomplish...

If you think that life is so terrible and you can't bear it, then why not look at yourself and see why that is. Is it because you are to hard on yourself? Is it because you don't want to change? What is it that holds you back from changing the things that need to be changed?

Everyone has a choice whether to take the life that has been given them and use it to its full, or sit around and wish that you were someone else.

YOU are who YOU are for a reason. Don't waste your life thinking nothing goes right because there is one thing that you can be certain of. YOU were born for a reason. You may not know what that reason is, but if you keep trying your best to improve and challenge yourself, there is no telling what you can do.

So stop looking at what you could have done then and start looking at what you can do now.

Most importantly, ask God for help. He made you, He knows you, and He loves you. Use what He has given you.

"For I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Philippians 4:13

Thanks!!!

Thanks everyone for reading my blogs. If you have any ideas of what I should write please comment. Again thanks for all your comments and your views.

Jumping into the River

I was asked to write about the temptations of going with the crowd rather than staying true to my beliefs. Well for one thing it is a great challenge. I am constantly tempted to just act like everyone else so I don't stand out. With that in mind I want to stand out to be able to reach more people with what I believe in. There are many different things that I am tempted with that would just make me like everyone else. For example; smoking, swearing, sex, alcohol, etc. These things are ever present in my mind and in the people that I am around. These things seem so harmless and fun that it would be easy to be swayed if everyone else is doing it. A simple analogy of this is with a river. Over the summer I went on a trip called Lightrider. In this trip we went whitewater rafting. At one point in time we were allowed to jump out of the rafts and swim in the low current of the river. At first I was hesitant because I did not know what dangers lay beneath the surface of the water. After a while most everyone was in the water but me. After I saw lots of my friends were in I felt like if everyone was doing it I might as well. Although this analogy has an extreme jump to get to my meaning, it still shows the problems in being part of the crowd. You want to stay with your beliefs but then you see everyone else is doing these fun things. You want to "jump" in with it because you think that you will have fun. However the problem is that you are compromising what your beliefs are and just assimilating into what people want you to be. This is why I see that it is important to stay with what I believe in and to not sway from those beliefs.

Now for those who have already started or have been in the crowd. There is still hope, there is always hope. First you need to decide whether you are going to be committed to change your way of living to what you should be living according to God. Once you have decided you should stop doing the things you know are wrong or sinful. From my viewpoint, I see it as a great testimony to those around you. Think about what your friends would experience and see what is happening to you. They would constantly be asking what or why you are changing. I am not saying that it will be easy to change or take the questions and possible dirty looks, but you will be able to turn your life around and show those around you that you are different from everyone else.

I hope these words show you the significance of being yourself and being true to what you believe in and not joining the crowd because of what they are doing.

Sorry

I am sorry everyone! I haven't written in so long. I have been really busy with school and church and other things. One thing is that I am starting to write a book/devotional that include these last posts and more things. I hope to finish that before the end of the year at the earliest. I could really use your guys' ideas to write about for the blog. If you have something you have been thinking about or have on your heart please tell me and I will try my best to write about it. Thanks guys and sorry again for taking so long to write.

Mirror Image

Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror and said "How could God possibly have made me look like this?" Personally I have realized how much I question that. There have been people in my life that have told me that I look ugly and stupid. These words have been etched in my mind so every time I look in a mirror I see what they said I was.

I have talked to many other people who say that others pick on them and criticize them for their looks. I know that many people look at someone else and say "I wish I could look like them." These are thoughts that will destroy you. If you think that you will end up wasting time trying to be like them and you will never get there. I know from personal experience that it doesn't work at all. You end up losing yourself trying to be more like everyone else.

If there is one thing I know for a fact is that God made you to look like, well, you. There is no other person on earth that is like you. Isn't that incredible? That you are the only you in the ENTIRE WORLD! Now tell me you don't feel better already. There are things about you that no one else has. You are special just the way you are so why would you want to lose that special gift God has given you?

There is a whole other aspect in why you would want to look like someone else or just "better". I know that there are a lot of people who go out of their way to make people like them. Mostly they change their appearance to make people like them more. I used to be one of these people. I tried many things to get rid of my acne (which at the time I felt like I was the only one with it, making it a curse or something). I tried making my hair look more stylish and dressed in "cooler" looking clothes. These things, in my mind, would change the way people think of me. I thought that if I looked good people would start liking me. Well to tell you the truth they did. I am not going to lie to you and tell you that it won't help you. However, the one thing I will tell you is that if they like you because of your looks, then are they really your friends? They only like you because of your appearance and not because of your personality. One quote that I like is "Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." This quote says it perfectly. Those who care about the way you look like shouldn't matter because it is the personality that gets you friends. Those who don't care about your appearance are the ones that should matter because they can see beyond flesh and see your heart.

So the 5 points of your appearance are:
1. God made you the way you are.
2. The people who bring you down because of how you look are only insecure about themselves.
3. There is only one of you and you are made special.
4. People that mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
5. If you try to look like everyone else you will lose yourself and only hurting yourself more.

The next time you look into a mirror and say that you are ugly, think again. You are beautiful and handsome just the way you are. And guess what God loves the way and so do a lot of other people.

A Month Later

It has been a month and a day since I have posted last. I feel so terrible about not posting in so long. I have been extremely busy and I have been working on several big posts (things that people suggested). I will be posting them in the next week or so. Sorry for such a huge gap. Happy reading!

What is life?

The sound of my heart fills my ears, as I walk through the people filled streets. The sound of cars flashing past me with strangers driving to their unknown destinations. As I walk through the streets I see many types of people, people of color, business men and women, construction workers, and many other people. Through all the chaos that I am walking through I stop to think. What is the purpose of life? These cars that pass me by are going at great speeds to get to where they want. These people are all on their cellphones and bluetooths. These people surrounding me live for work live for money and possessions. Is this what life is about? Wealth? In the mitsed of these things going through my head I see a boy and his father. This boy is not an ordinary boy. This boy has special needs. His father loves him so much. This love is not the same love that these people of wealth have. This father has the greatest kind of love for his son. He would lay his own life down for the life of his son if he had to. Even though there is such joy and love in this picture the world goes on. The cars keep passing. The people keep walking. None of them see how precious this show of love is. I think once again. Is this not a example of how God loves us? That he is always there for us helping us and keeping us from danger? In this short moment God showed me that he is there. There for my needs there to help me. I walk by the father and son, smile, tell them thank you and proceed to walk. Walk with more purpose and an answer to the question of life.