Lucy Bug

So when I told Lucy that I had posted a picture of her sister Felicity, she must have gotten jealous because not long after she stuck her head in this cat tent to get a toy mouse out of it. But I guess she didn't really know how to get her head back out. So of course I snapped a bunch of photos before I helped her out of it. Tehe! :P I think that she knew I couldn't pass up a photo-op like that one. ;)

Sunday scripture

So I'm going to try to post a Bible verse every Sunday. Hopefully I can manage to post one every week! :)

More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. (Romans 5:3-5 ESV)

I hope everyone had a blessed Sunday.

My crazy cat

I've decided that my cat must have abandonment issues. She is literally crazy. You can be petting her and she will randomly start biting you! Her tail seems to be set on an automatic setting where it twitches constantly. It twitches even when she is purring sometimes. But I do wonder if all of this has anything to do with the fact that she was lost as a kitten and someone found her in a flower pot on their porch when she was 4 weeks old. I raised her and sometimes I think she considers me her mother, but then at other times I have several scratches healing on my hands and arms and I wonder. Despite all that, I do love her and she is my baby. She sleeps on my bed almost every night. She's crazy, that is for sure, but maybe he just gets that from me. But they do say that insanity is hereditary, you get it from your children, maybe the same is true with pets. Haha!

Reflections on Christmas

I got to thinking about Christmas one Sunday during church and this is what I wrote down. Everyone is always saying "Jesus is the reason for the season". And that is true, He is, but I think that too often we get caught up in the story of the manger and forget to look beyond that. If the story of Christmas stopped at the manger than there is no point to the story or the season at all. If Christ had only come to be born and that was all it wouldn't have mattered. Christ came, not only to be born of a virgin but also to die on the cross for our sins. He took the punishment that was rightfully ours. But again, the story doesn't end there. For He arose! On the third day, just as was foretold. You see, with the resurrection He conquered death, for you and me. And you know what is better than all that? (I know, what could be better?) Christ will come again someday! He will come back for His own and we will live with Him forever.

I got an iPhone!

So this is me testing a post from my new iPhone. We finally bit the bullet and got a data plan. So I decided to get an iPhone and my dad and sister got blackberries. I like it so far! But I'm still getting used to it. But I got the blogger app and I thought I'd try it out!

Without a phone... again

So I did a very brilliant thing on Friday. I decided to put my phone in my back pocket when I went out on the Mule (a four-wheeler/golf cart kind of vehicle) with a friend. Well, it didn't stay in my pocket. We went and looked that night while someone called it repeatedly, my friend went out and looked for it the next day... 2 or 3 times, I went out and looked for it one last time Saturday before it started to get dark. But we still didn't find it. :( This had happened before but we were able to find it the next morning because the alarms were going off. But with this phone I don't set the alarms to repeat, I just turn them on every night. And see, I was trying to be responsible and keep my phone with me in case my dad needed to contact me or something. Well, that plan backfired! I also left my phone in Belize when I was there for a mission trip, so apparently I am not good with phones.
Soooo... I'm looking at getting a new phone. Especially since it proceeded to rain Saturday night. :/ So even if we were to find my phone it would probably be dead. But I was needing a new phone anyways, so I just REALLY need one now. I'm hoping to get an iPhone, if I can convince my dad to get a data plan if I chip in a bit for it. But we'll see. And maybe I shouldn't get one if I'm so bad at losing phones. But I very rarely drop my phone, so at least I don't have to worry about that as much. Even so I'm still going to get an otter box or something like it because I know I will drop it if I have one as breakable as an iPhone.
So there's my life right now. haha! :P

Politics :P

For the most part I try to avoid politics... like the plague. But for today I think I will break my unspoken rule and talk about politics... and how much I dislike them. :P

Here are my reasons for hating politics:

1) I can't stand arguments - To me it seems like so much of politics is just a bunch of mud-slinging and name-calling. I have never liked confrontation and it seems to me that when politics are involved it can get really nasty. I don't mind a bit of debate, as long as those involved can be mature about it and know when to leave it be. But I have seen far too many people get hurt and attacked through political debates on things like Facebook. I have a number of friends that frequently post political things on Facebook, some of them I agree with and some I don't. Don't get me wrong, everyone is entitled to an opinion and I'm happy for you if you feel comfortable posting it for the world to see. See here's the thing, when you are debating politics you are only defending your opinion. In areas such as religion, you are actually defending your faith and your God (or whatever you believe in). It is true that sometimes the two areas can overlap, such as in the case of abortion or gay marriage.

2) There are more important things to worry about - I kind of touched on this in my last point, but I just think too many times people get caught up in the little things. I think if people would focus on the heart of issues such as abortion and gay marriage, there would be less room for debate. Because if you believe in the Bible as I do, or have some other religious standpoint, the answer to things like that is really quite clear. It gets tricky when people try to interpret things differently though, and again, makes things complicate.

3) No one ever agrees with anyone else completely - This kind of relates to the reason above, but it just seems to me that there are so many issues that no one is ever going to completely agree with anyone else. There will always be at least one or two things that they don't agree on, and these things then tend to cause contention

4) I don't like politicians - In my opinion, most politicians are not really the greatest people. In order to get elected they often have to lie. Those that are actually honest are less likely to be elected. I guess I am kind of a blunt person, at least in my head I'm really blunt, I don't always say things because I would never want to hurt someone. But I really hate grey areas, it's either right or wrong, either black or white, and so on. Politicians have to be so vague when they are campaigning in order to appeal to the widest group possible. Now I do know of at least one politician that is pretty great. At least as far as I know. Obviously nobody is perfect. If we were we wouldn't need Christ.

5) They don't glorify God - All of the arguments over politics don't bring glory to God. And that is what we should be focusing on.
I Corinthians 10:31 - So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
This should be the theme of our lives. Before we do or way anything we should check whether it will bring glory to God. I will be the first to admit that I do things that don't glorify God all the time. But I pray that the Spirit convicts me of those things and I will do more things that do glorify God. 


Here is a song that I really like and it puts it all so much more eloquently than I could. (I would also recommend Chris Rice as a really great artist.) And again, I want to emphasize that if you post political things, more power to you. Just understand that I will probably not ever get myself involved (even if I agree with you), and these are my reasons. If someone were to specifically ask my opinion on something I would likely tell them. I will stand up for my beliefs, but I don't like pointless bickering. So now I'll get off my soapbox! lol! I pray I didn't offend anyone, but I just wanted to speak my mind. God bless you all!