-Fresh sushi TODAY for lunch.
-New hanging basket of petunias outside.
-Completely finished having moved into my new house with my favorite person.
-Spring days feeling like summer days.
-Leaving for vacation tomorrow!
YAY! Have a happy day!
If you’re the kind of person who requires a warning before being in the presence of certain people, you’re probably the kind of person most other people would like a warning about.
"Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others."
— Timothy Leary (via a-peapod)
(Source: larmoyante, via a-peapod)
I was not raised with religion. I vaguely remember a church basement with coffee and cookies, and a Sunday school day where I made a piggy bank out of paper with Jesus on it. I remember going infrequently as a child, and then we just stopped going. Probably because both my parents didn’t really like it, and probably didn’t want to bring three whine-y children to church either.
Within the last few years though God has been so strong in my life, and so present that I just can’t deny Him. I am so proud to have so much love in my heart for Him, and I love living a life that I know is meant for the Lord. I can remember the moment that I first felt the Lord and feel in love with him, and it was so peaceful and emotional when I realized that he does love me, and he is there for me, even though I had turned my back on Him in the past.
I was in California visiting family friends one year around Easter, and I went to their church with them and during the worship there was so much lightness in the air and God was so very present that I started crying and raised my hands and begged God to be with me, and ever since that day I have known the soothing hand of the Lord. Believe me, I’ve wavered and I’ve been uncertain and I’ve felt let down, but I know those times are because I have harbored doubts in my heart and let myself fall away from God. But He has always remained, and I have always returned, stronger in my faith and wanting even more to dedicate myself to a life led by God. When I see how life is and how people act when they deny God I am so discouraged and sad because that way of living seems so empty and bleak to me. I am always happier and more steady when I allow God to be an ever present part of my life, and I only want to continue to live for Him.
I have encountered obstacles, and have felt pressured to defend my faith. I have also found that the people who are so adamant about questioning my faith are the kind of people who get angry and try to make me feel as though I am wrong for believing what I do. This frustrates me because I do not feel as though I need to defend my beliefs. To have a personal relationship with God is nothing that should be held under scrutiny because it’s nothing to even be questioned in the first place. People who try to pick apart my love for God and question it just make me sad because they do not allow themselves to experience the same peace and love and acceptance that I feel everyday because of my God.
Timothy 4:12 “Do not let others look down on you because of your age, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in truth, in love, and in purity” 