Old Movies I Love

            With all of this snow and nasty weather all I have wanted to do is curl up on the couch and watch movies. Some of my all time favorite movies are from the 80's, I don't know what it is about old movies but I"m obsessed with them. Life just looks so much more fun and carefree in the movies. Here are some of my favorites.

The Breakfast Club
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Pretty in Pink
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 Can't Buy Me Love
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 Christmas Vacation
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 Dirty Dancing
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Sixteen Candles
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When Harry Met Sally
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These are just some of my favorites. What are yours?

Breaking Our Own Hearts

         Have you ever just though about heartbreak? It sucks, bad. But is it always the other person's fault? When I really thought about it I realized, maybe it's me that is breaking my own heart? Weird to think about right? I mean, why would I break my own heart? But I constantly create these perfect images in my head about my life. Perfect clothes, hair, and of course the perfect boyfriend. I've even caught myself thinking about a life I could have with guys I barely know. I dream about these perfect scenarios and then wake up to my normal life. How am I not supposed to be heartbroken from that? Creating these perfect dreams is part of the reason why I get so heartbroken. How many of you get SO attached to a guy after a couple of dates? You put all of your hopes of a relationship and life into one guy that you barely know, how fair is that? Then, when it doesn't work out you're left devastated. We have got to quit putting so much hope into guys, other people, and material things and put our faith into ourselves and God. Doing this will help us from heartbreak and eventually the right guy will come along and everything will fall into place. 

Motivational Monday

Mondays suck, but with a little bit of motivation anything is possible. I love quotes, there's pretty much a quote relevant to every situation in life. Here are some good ones that may help you perk up on this boring Monday.

"If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary." --Jim Rohn

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly." --Proverb

 "Opportunities don't happen, you create them." --Chris Grosser

 "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." --Eleanor Roosevelt

 "If you're going through hell keep going." --Winston Churchill

 "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." --John D. Rockefeller 

“Well done is better than well said.” - Benjamin Franklin

“The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.”–Benjamin Mays 

Hopefully this will give you that little bit of motivation you need to accomplish great things. Happy Monday! 

What I'm Praying for This Month

   

         Lately God has really been laying things on my heart. I'm so fortunate to live the life that I live and be able to freely worship Jesus and I've honestly taken advantage of it so much. They're are people all over the world that are killed because they speak up and share the word of Jesus while I sit here and say nothing because I do not have the courage to speak the way those people do. This is something I really have to work on and I hope through this blog I will be able to spread a little bit more of the word. Anyway, here are some things that have been laid on my heart and I will be praying for this month.

• End it: Shine a Light on Slavery 

There are over 27 million people that are trapped into slavery in the world today. This is something that everyone should be on board to stop. I challenge you to build a team or donate and join The End It Movement. More info.

• Forgiveness

 Not only forgiveness of my sins, but for me to grant people forgiveness that I have been withholding. Living with grudges creates walls and makes us live where we are constantly trying to protect ourselves. This is like telling God that we don't trust him enough to lay our problems down in front of him and let him handle it. This is one thing I really have to work on.

• Being okay with being single

I constantly see on social media where people are in these perfect relationships and it makes me so jealous. I am praying for God to put me at peace with not being in a relationship and to make me a better Christian for my future spouse. 

• My Future

With three months until I graduate high school, I constantly worry about my future. I am praying that God will wash peace over me and help me with all of the big decisions to come.

    These are just some of the things that I will be focusing on this month, what are you praying for?

Snow Day

Living in Alabama, snow days are few and far between so when we do get snow it's a big deal. Right now, we have about six inches and it's supposed to keep coming through the night so there's no telling what we'll have in the morning. Here's some pictures from my snow day. Stay tuned for more pictures from my snow fun!

Finally, snow: 1. Four wheeler: 0. 

Quotes To Live Your Day By

It's been rainy and depressing here all day, it's days like today where you have to take it upon yourself to create your own sunshine. Here are some quotes that may give you some inspiration to make the day yours. 

I hope you all have a fabulous day.

Be a Doer.

     

      A lot of things in James stuck out to me, I feel like God really wanted me to look into this and apply it to my life. I have gotten SO caught up in the world and how I want to act I have been completely ignoring how God wants me to act. In James 1, verses 19-20 really hit me. "My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires." Honestly, how often do you catch yourself speaking out of anger and not realize how bad you hurt someone until after you can't take it back? I know I do it often, I mean, how can you sit there and think about every single thing you say before you say it? It seems so hard but if God specifically tells us to be slow to speak it has to be possible. I know I have to learn to listen to what others say and then think about what I respond with, sometimes I just need to stop and think "what would Jesus say?" I know that sounds kinda cheesy, it's what I had pounded into my head at vacation bible school every summer of my childhood but it's so true. If we could just stop and think what Jesus would say then we could live out the life that God wants us to. God doesn't want us to be so blunt and angry, he wants us to listen to others and be nicer. 

     The next verses I looked at were 22-25. "22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do." This is something I have really struggled with, I constantly find myself just kind of going through the motions. I go to church, read my bible, and pray but am I really doing anything for God? Honestly, I'm not. To really fulfill the life that God wants me to I have to do something. I have to embody Christ instead of the world and share the word with anyone that will listen. We have to learn how to be doers, and step out of our comfort zones and do what Jesus wants us to. 

What I Wish I Would Have Known

Looking back on my freshman year of high school, there are SO many things I wish I could go back in time and tell myself. Looking back on these last four years here are some of the things that stuck out to me the most.

Boys suck.

This is a big one, I spent a lot of my high school life obsessing over boys which most of the time turned into crying over them. One thing I have learned is, they're not worth it. The boys that make you cry and feel worthless are NOT the guy that God has ultimately picked for you. I wish I could go back and tell myself to not focus so much on boys but to instead just be happy. The guys I have met are either focused on sex or just not for me. I tried so hard to change myself to try to make guys like me and it took me a long time to realize that if you have to change yourself for a guy to like you then it won't work.

Be happy.

Happiness is kind of a tough one for me, even though I think I have a pretty great life, I have really bad anxiety and I can go from being happy to really anxious fast. I wish I could tell my freshman self to just be happier, and not focus on the bad stuff. I feel like I have wasted so much time focusing on what all has went wrong in my life and not enough on everything else that is going great. 

Be yourself.

It really makes me sad looking back and realizing how often I felt I needed to change myself to fit in with girls or even to make a guy like me. I wish I would have known just how great of a person I am just being myself and that if I feel the need to change myself to be with anyone that they're not who I should be around.

Have fun.

Everyone always told me high school flies by and boy were they true. I wish I could tell my freshman self to take my time and just enjoy everything. I constantly wished for graduation to hurry and now that it's so close I just wish I could go back to being that scared, naive freshman that still thought high school was supposed to be constantly fun and crazy. I just wish I would have enjoyed the ride a little bit more.

High school is such a great thing, from freshman to senior year it changes you. You come out a completely different person, good or bad. If you're a freshman please take my advice, enjoy high school. High school changed me so much, now to conquer college.

New Year, New Attitude.

I don't know about y'all but 2014 was such a great year, kind of hard to let go of that. However, I am determined to make 2015 the best. 2015 will be filled with my high school graduation, (finally!) college, and SO many changes. Realizing all these changes are coming is so scary but exciting at the same time. It kind of feels like things just keep getting thrown at me, this has made me decide that I need to change my attitude and outlook on life. Throughout the year I will be posting about how to be more positive and happier. I hope this year has been amazing for all of you and continues to get even better!