Tuesday, January 25, 2011

I admire this girl....

Man do I wish I could give myself pep talks like this girl does! Her affirmations are AWESOME! "I can do anything good, better than anyone!"

I think I need to take some clues from this youngster and start giving myself some daily affirmations. Today I seemed to get caught up in how I'm probably not being used in Young Life, recognition I may never get, just feeling jealousy of friends and overall feeling simply insecure. Here's my affirmations for the day: The Lord is using me! He can do anything with me, more than I can imagine! My value comes from him, not from earthly things or recognition! He loves me more than I can imagine! He thinks I'm beautiful both inside and out! His plans he's laying out for me are going to be GREAT!

What affirmations are you giving yourself today??

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Something to be thankful for...today!

I have someone I want you to meet...this is my Grandma Joyce! She's the source for my "something to be thankful for today"! Every week she sends me and my cousins her words of wisdom and boy does this lady have awesome words to live by! She's one of my role models and biggest fans : )


So here are her words of wisdom for today...

If you are burning with desire, make sure you don't make an ash out of yourself.

Say "thank you" a lot. Say "please" a lot.

Be forgiving of yourself and others.


Hope you have a wonderful day : )

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Being thankful...

Blaahhh I'm so bad at blogging!! I haven't posted in like 3 months...woopsies! Life somehow seems to creep in and steal all the time away...is anyone out there anyways?? Just wondering!

Anyways, being back at school today was a struggle because I was seeing the world through the world's eyes instead of seeing the world through Jesus's eyes. Sometimes I make the excuse that it's because I've grown up in this world for 21 years now, that's why it's so easy to listen to the world's view on life and what it should look like. Instead, I should be looking at how Jesus lived in this world, so that I may be a little bit more like him and adopt his perspective on life. It's a constant struggle to do this but somehow seems to be an even bigger nuisance when I'm at school...seems like you're only as good as your future plans, future occupation, graduate school plans, how many awards you've received or are going to receive, etc. All those lies in my head! Yikeseroni!

So I decided today to start looking at the things I'm thankful for instead of focusing on those things I'm stressed out about or worried about, hopefully then I can start to look more and more like Jesus. So here's my something to be thankful for today:


LOVE IT! I always joke with Fed telling him "just play with me buddy!" so that made me think of that but also just being a kid again...when I was a kid my biggest worry was if I had creamy or chunky peanut butter on my sandwich, oh gosh the problems I had huh?! Ha It's a good reminder to have child like faith that everything will work out and work out for the best and to get joy out of the simple things...like this picture! If you want a good laugh check out the blog it came from: http://www.hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/

Her stories are hillarious and the illustrations are even better!