World domination

Here's something I continue to find truly amazing. You the readers live all around the world and actually read what I write. I'm just a college kid in America who enjoys writing about important issues and practical advice. Mexico, Indonesia, Germany, Great Britain, Poland, Russia, amazing places I can only dream to visit. I think its great that even though I have never traveled to any of those places we still have something in common and can relate because we all feel. Some of us feel more than others and experience situations that cause us to feel sorrow and hurtful emotions and other times we feel joy peace comfort happy emotions. A midst the struggles and blessings that each day contains we can feel like there has to be someone out there that knows and has experienced what we have gone through. Through the power of prayer and belief in salvation from sin we are united in faith in Christ Jesus and know we will never walk alone. 

Learned this year

Tonight the question was posed what have I learned this year. Great thing to think about.
learned...
1. How to express myself without swearing, I used to curse like a sailor and think nothing about it
2. How to find the joy in a situation and turn around my outlook
3. Nothing school related
4. What good friends I have
5. There are more important things in life than drama
6. Experiences are blessings good or bad, you experience them for a reason that only God knows
7. People will always fail you but its how\who you turn to to make things better

MILATARY

Recently I have been watching too many military themed movies. Red Tails, Black Hawk Down, Act of Valor, are just a few. All of these movies make me recognize the fact that America might be called the "land of the free and the home of the brave" but at the expense that people pay. The brave that call America home, are the ones that seldom return to enjoy the freedom. Military personal are being killed and sacrificing themselves everyday in the battlefields for US. Are we living as free people should be living? If anyone who served came back and saw the way that we are living would they still be proud to say they fight for us? Would you want to give your life to protect a bunch of gangsters, drug addicts, club rats, slackers, unemployed people, broken  sinners? 
Jesus did. He died for US and protected us from death and sin consequences. 

Reading

The other day I was thinking about writing but never got the chance to sit down and put letters to thoughts. Today is a beautiful day and thoughts are escaping me, I can't seem to remember what I was going to write about. 
Have you ever thought about why the last book we reach to read is often the books that will benefit us the most by reading them? Textbooks, Bible, other encouraging books. I recently finished yet another novel and said I have nothing left to read but then I remembered I have a Bible. 66 books. All at my disposal whenever I want something to read I have the privileged of living in a country that allows me to be able to carry a Bible and read it freely. The Bible contains many stories that cover the vast spectrum of any type of story that you would ever want to read. Why is it that the Bible is most often the book we only open when we are experiencing struggles and don't ever just read for the pleasure of the stories. The Bible has the best author that ever existed and is the best selling book in the world. The power in the book has been recognized by those that oppose the Faith and because they realize the power, that is why certain country's ban the Bible. 
Just something to think about...

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Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest Matthew 11:28
Tonight I wrote. Pen, paper, thoughts flowed in illegible cursive. The forgotten penmanship.
I'm sorry I haven't been faithful writing on here but life has been busy.

Choices

It has been said that you can tell a lot about a person by the choices they make. What the wear, what they eat, what type of car they drive but the most important deciding factor has to be who they associate with. Their is an old saying that says something along the lines of "birds of a feather flock together". Animals have a distinct instinct when they know someone has gone missing, and often will never leave one of their own alone in the world. Friendships are like animal packs, never leave a man behind. If one of your friends is struggling or hurting in anyway you should be the friend they need that hits them with the hard questions and is there to help them through the tough situation like animals do. Recently I have readdressed the idea of getting out of here because of the issues I have previously written about. If you have never gone to a Christian college or are still at that deciding point of what to do after you graduate, I am going to advise you with the best advice. DO NOT pick the University on solely how easy it is to get accepted. Challenge yourself and really look into where YOU want to go because You will be the person actually attending classes there and spending part of your life in that environment. My experience at this University has been quite the roller-coaster experience. I still to this day have to trust God in every choice I make. For the past week and a half I have been stubborn and honestly thought I could decide for myself where and what I am doing with my life. It is MY life, and MY lie that I was believing about the grass being greener at home on the other side at a state school. I honestly thought that I could control lifes twists and turns and I could be adult and get what I want my way. Fortunatly God taught me the best lesson I really needed to learn I AM HERE FOR A PURPOSE, and only He knows what that purpose is and how I am going to play into that scheme. 

History

Throughout the course of time people have often wondered about the possibility of time travel, and if it were possible would they given the option go back in their lives and change anything. I think that as cliche as the phrase the past makes you who you are today is somewhat true. If I hadn't had such a terrible time in high school and written everyone off my senior year, I would never have thrown myself fully into college friendships and never would have opened up to meet the great friends I am blessed with. At the same time I do try and connect with the people I remained friends with in High School, but someway or another it does not end up working out. I suppose that's fate for ya you try and be kind and right the wrongs you committed in your youth and show them you are a changed person and try to rekindle friendships for what for them to blow you off every chance you try and reach out to them. That's life. People dishing out the karma you are dealt and having to respond in a loving Christ like attitude and not just write them off again. Honestly that is life and people will always be holding a grudge about how they were treated back in the day and no matter how badly you improve yourself and try to make changes for the better it will just never be enough and people will never forget or even forgive.  That is why it is extremely important to remain faithful and consistent with the relationships you have. Don't burn the bridge and expect to cross back over it again because that will never happen. May this advice help you to stay out of the dead zone with your friends.