Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Maybe a little...

So I might be a little suspicious of the people on my street. Maybe a little. I have a reason though! We have had the police patrol our street regularly, a swat team decided to visit across the street once, and there are always parties going on some where in the wee hours of the night! We also have more than one house that we never see the people who live there. Sure cars go in and out, but we some how never see the people. I once passed one of the said houses with my mother and there were people working on the car. Gasp! People! Then they turned and told us that they didn't live there, they were just friends. I find it a little odd that they would find a need to tell us that, what does that say about the people who really live there? Well, in other news, we now have Vincent back in our house! It's always good to have our french students revisit! Also, there is a little man running around our house yelling "melween! Melweeeeeen!!" That Jamesy Baby sure loves Water melon! We can't take the cute of Mr. James H much longer. Hope to have some pictures of my trip to Disney to share with all of you guys later!

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

What's next?

While reading my book about the tribulation last night, I was really feeling down about what was to come to all of man. I had turned off my lights and sat waiting for sleep, but it didn't come. Turning my light back on, I reached out for my Bible and right away I flipped back to the book of Revelation. I knew if I needed answers or comfort I could find it in God's word. After a while, I realized that the middle of Revelation is not exactly the place to find encouragement. So I flipped through reading the headers in my Bible. I found chapter 21 to have the heading "A New Heaven and a New Earth." and I read. It only took me to get to the third verse before I felt like crying at the glory of God. After all of the evils of Satan himself that the world has gone through, these words are spoken to all those who have accepted Christ "3 And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. 4 And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”
5 Then He who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” And He said to me,[a] “Write, for these words are true and faithful.” (Revelation 21:3-5) I don't know about you, but after living in this world full of sin, those words will be most welcome. Then I read on. John, the author of Revelation, started describing the new heaven and new earth. I started to imagine what it would be like with it's walls of jewels and all the glorious things described there. But then, I realized, that as much beauty as there is on this earth God has made, it is nothing compared to what is to come. We can't even imagine it (drats!) because we are yet to see anything so beautiful! Yet, God has given us things like this.

Even these flowers in their bounty cannot compare to those God has in store for us.


All of these colors, and there are a lot of them, have nothing on the glorious colors to come. Colors, are something quite amazing to me.


These trees, as lovely as they are, again, are nothing to what's coming. ( I like this picture don't you?)

And finally, all of the giant castles and wonders man has made, are nothing. For God has made a place for us! Us! Sinners! But more important, we are forgiven through the final sacrifice of Christ Jesus His son. And only if you believe that, you are forgiven and able to live forever in God's glory. Phew! Sorry to put such a big Theological post on you first thing, but it's just what's been on my mind lately!

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

A new thing, in a new way.

Well, I'm giving this a try. So far so good! I love to write and I love to tell stories, so I hope you like to read! I will be honest right now and say proudly I am a Christian. I try my hardest to take that seriously even though I am still in the early stages of being a teen. I have just started reading the Left Behind series, a good read incase you were wondering, so the fact I'm a Christian has become very important to me! Other little facts about me: I love to read, I love music terribly, I have a cute cute puppy named Missy Mae (she likes socks), my dad is a painting machine, my mom works for the Mouse, I'm waiting anxiously for my brother to come home from college, I'm dreading my sister going to college, and I'm about to start high school. Well that's pretty much me in a forever long setence! I hope I'll be able to keep a semi-regular blog and lets see hoow this goes!