Holiday DIY Ideas?

Every year my family gets together for Christmas to exchange gifts. With my family being sorta big, we decided to bake treats or make something that doesn't cost us to much.  This year I'm sick of making cookies or chocolates... i want to make something that they can use or enjoy throughout the year. I need ideas! I was thinking of making soap or even home made snow globes. With the Holidays upon us i thought i would get a head start. Please Comment Below with Your ideas! Thanks! :)

Welcome!

Hello again!

      Today i missed going to church because i wasn't feeling to well. After i slept half the day away i got out of bed and went to have worship. I can't get enough of devotional books! I could read them over and over again. So i grabbed a few of my devotional books and my bible. As i was reading today's lesson i came across this text. "I praise you because i am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, i know that full well." Psalm 139:14 NIV. I Love this text! God knew just what he was doing when he created us. He took the time to get down into the dirt and form us with his bare hands. Everything he made before that he spoke into existence. Amazing how "fearfully and wonderfully" we are made. "How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!" 1 John 3:1 NIV. I do believe that today i can say that even though i missed going to church and not feeling to well pretty much all day, i still was able to have a pretty good worship thought with God. God is Good!! I Pray that you gain a blessing today.

Remembering Family

This weekend was a busy one. Family reunion was really nice to see all those family members of mine that i don't get to see more than once a year. Its amazing how much people change and grow as each year goes by. Plenty of little ones to welcome into the family. We took a side trip on the way home to the cemetery that my mother was buried two and a half years ago. It hit me, that feeling of "wow this is real." Not everyday do you think about the ones you lost, some days are more hard than others and somehow you make it though it. Just one day at a time, that's what i keep telling myself. This year is going to be another turning point in my life and yet i want to somehow turn back the time to where i could ask my mom for advice and have someone to talk to. I'm still a bit unsure if i want to move on... in the back of my head there's always that thought of if i do indeed move on I'm going to forget my mother and leave her behind. I know that's something i would never want to do but as the years go by you tend to forget somethings. There is those times when I'm out with friends and then i remember something funny or exciting that my mom did you said. Never will i forget her and how much she loved me and my sister! This picture was taken on the way home from the cemetery. i thought the sun set was perfect! It's amazing how when it seems your world is crumbling around you God gives you a lovely sunset to end challenging day.

This is my best friend that has always been there for me when i needed him. I have been through a lot these last two years and I'm so glad he was there by my side the whole way through it. Today i said goodbye to my dog charlie, he went to a really great family who I'm sure will love him just the same as i did. I'm moving on with my life and going to enlist in the United States Air Force and had no one to take care of my little darling while I'm gone. It was for the best and i did the right thing i just wish saying goodbye wasn't that hard.

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Letters From God

I have this thing for devotional books. Collecting them became part of my life. For my birthday i received a new devotional book called Jesus Calling. As i started reading it every night before bed i was amazed at how powerful it was. Reading this book is like you're reading a note Jesus himself wrote to you. So many times i allow my mind to worry about things that end up getting me stressed out and when i read these "letters from God" so to say, i feel at peace. It's amazing how God knows just what you need and when you need it. No matter what your going through in Life, God never gives you more than you can handle. What a wonderful God we serve!

Worried all the time

Lately i worry to much to the point where it makes me sick. No one seems to understand what I'm going through. Even though my mom died about two years ago i still have a lot to go through in life and she is not there to give me advice or hug me when I'm feeling sad. My birthday is coming up and its a big deal to me, and she can't even spend it with me. I was always the tough one, i never would cry about anything. That all changed when my great grandpa died and i saw my grandma crying and i felt sad but then when i saw my mother crying it broke my heart. i took care of her, the reason she was still here was because of me... since i was 9 I've had to take care of her and when she got sick for the last time i felt like i was drowning her. there was nothing i could do for her and i wanted to do so much. i remember saying i wanted to take her place, i would do anything to have here here with me for my birthday but the thing is i can't do a thing to get her back. All i can do is try and live my life. Live a life that i wasn't so sure i wanted to live without my mom. So now i worry, worry about everything. And no matter what people say it doesn't seem to help. Sooner or later i will stop worrying about things and how i can go on without my role model, my hero, my mom.