Girls are like apples.

The other day I was feeling like a failure and that I was never going to find my "happy ever after" then my friend sent me this quote...

Girls are like apples. The best ones are at the top of the tree. The boys don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt.Instead, they get the rotten apples from the ground that aren't as good, but easy. So, the apples at the top think something is wrong with them, when in reality, they are amazing! They just have to wait for the right boy to come along, the one who is brave enough to climb all the way up.

So to all the girls who think they aren't good enough and that they will never find their "happy ever after" just hold on to this thought and know that you are amazing!

The Brick

I just received this e-mail and thought I would share it....

The Brick!!!

A young and successful
executive was traveling down a neighborhood street,
going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar.. He was
watching for kids darting out from between parked
cars and slowed down when he thought he saw
something.

As his car passed, no children appeared.
Instead, a brick smashed into the Jag's side door!
He slammed on the brakes and backed the Jag back to
the spot where the brick had been thrown.

The angry

driver then jumped out of the

car, grabbed the nearest kid and pushed him up

against a parked car shouting,

'What was that all about and who are you? Just what
the heck are you doing? That's a new car and that
brick you threw is going to cost a lot of money. Why
did you do it?' The young boy was apologetic.
'Please, mister...please, I'm sorry but I didn't
know what else to do,' He pleaded. 'I threw the
brick because no one else would stop....' With tears
dripping down his face and off his chin, the youth
pointed to a spot just around a parked car.. 'It's my
brother, 'he said 'He rolled off the curb and fell
out of his wheelchair and I can't lift him
up.'

Now sobbing, the boy
asked the stunned executive, 'Would you please help
me get him back into his wheelchair? He's hurt and
he's too heavy for me.'

Moved beyond words,
the driver tried to swallow the rapidly swelling
lump in his throat... He hurriedly lifted the
handicapped boy back into the wheelchair, then took
out a linen handkerchief and dabbed at the fresh
scrapes and cuts. A quick look told him everything
was going to be okay. 'Thank you and may God bless
you,' the grateful child told the stranger. Too
shook up for words, the man simply watched the boy!
push his wheelchair-bound brother down the sidewalk
toward their home..

It was a long, slow
walk back to the Jaguar. The damage was very
noticeable, but the driver never bothered to repair
the dented side door. He kept the dent there to
remind him of this message: 'Don't go through life
so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to
get your attention!' God whispers in our souls and
speaks to our hearts. Sometimes when we don't have
time to listen, He has to throw a brick at us. It's
our choice to listen or
not.

Thought for the
Day:

If God had a
refrigerator, your picture would be on
it.

If He had a wallet,
your photo would be in
it.

He sends you flowers
every spring.

He sends you a sunrise

every morning Face it, friend - He is crazy about

you!

God didn't promise
days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun
without rain, but He did promise strength for the
day, comfort for the tears, and light for the
way.

Read this line very
slowly and let it sink
in...

If God brings you to
it, He will bring you through
it.

Temptation

I am in two different classes where we are talking a lot about sex this semester. It has been very interesting and I have actually enjoyed it. Sex is a topic we often ignore. I don't really understand that but we often do ignore or act like sex is something that doesn't happen among the Christian population. Something we have said over and over again in our class is that the world is yelling that sex is ok to have no matter what relationship you are in and at the same time the church quietly says no but doesn't really say why or talk about it much. This is something I don't really understand. Why are we afraid to say something about sex? Why is it something that we can't talk about? Today we talked about the temptation to have sex before marriage. We talked about how in the Bible it never really says "Do not have sex before marriage." I wonder if part of this is because it wasn't really that big of a deal in the Bible times. I mean people went through puberty and were married in a year or two. But in our cultural we go through puberty and then have to deal with sexual temptation for about 10 years before we are married. It is hard to wait that long and for a teenager 10 years is a lifetime. I hadn't really thought about my own walk with temptation until today. I have never really be tempted sexually until lately. I think a lot of that is because of my past. I went through some stuff in High School that made me not want to be around guys at all. It wasn't until recently after I have dealt with all that stuff that I have started thinking about a relationship with a guy and that leads to temptation. I think in some ways this has been amazing for me. I didn't have to deal with all of that stuff. I mean don't get me wrong I dealt with a lot but I have gotten over it. I don't think I could be a teenager in todays world and not be tempted to go to far. Temptation is hard but I am glad I am in classes where we all talk about how it is something that we all struggle with.

BOYS!!!

Ok I don’t know who is all still reading this but I mostly am writing just to put my feelings out there and to get them off my chest.

So lately I have been feeling this HUGE pressure to find a guy and move on with my life and get married and have kids and live happily ever after. Well I have not had the best of luck in this area but you gotta try right?!?! Well I have been feeling this pressure from the world, after all it feels as if everyone I know is getting married lately or having babies or both. I want to have a family of my own so badly. I have been praying that if I am supposed to stay single that God would take the desire away and that I would be at peace with my life. I feel that the more I pray that prayer the stronger the desire becomes. So I am guessing that one day I will get married and have a family I just don’t know when. I am not so great at the whole waiting for things to happen. Ok I’m not good at waiting at all. I really stink at it. I get frustrated and I want to just take things into my own hands but I know that God has something planned for me and it is all in his timing. I mean after all I never would have thought I would be where I am today. I went through some stuff in High School and after a long healing process I am finally ok with boys being around me and I long for that relationship but not with just any boy. My standards are set REALLY high and I value myself a lot so not every boy I run into on the street fits into my standards. So for now I will just wait and hope and pray that one day God will bring the right guy along that I am supposed to be with for the rest of my life and we can live happily ever after. But the waiting and longing is so not fun!

Resting

Ok so tonight at soaking Amy talked about how we need to rest in the midst of craziness. Well these last few weeks I have been so busy being social and not really focusing on my relationship with God all that much. I haven't really taken time out to just be us together. Sure I have read my Bible and done some volunteer work but I haven't actually sat down and just listened and existed with God. I have been too busy. That has to change. I have to have more time with God just the two of us together. With out those quiet times I get too wrapped up in me and what I need. I get selfish. It is not a good thing. I feel that lately I have been very self centered and I need to turn my focus to what God wants with me and for me. Soaking really showed me that tonight. I came home and one of my friends wanted me to go watch a movie with her. I have to get up early for class and I have to do some things tomorrow so I declined plus they are watching a scary movie which I am not really a fan of. Tonight I am going to bed pretty early (before 1) and Im going to get some much needed rest. Tonight I realized how crazy my life has been the last few weeks with out God in it. That must and will change starting now.