Sorry...

I am back but I am very sorry. I have been dealing with some very pressuring things in my life lately and I have seem to put God in second. I need your prayers and maybe I can pick myself up an start trying to do better on my blog. I am about to go to school but I just thought I would give you all an update.

School Pressure

Whats up Guys (and Girls if you think that term doesn't mean both). School has started back and I sure am feeling the pressures of it. Everday somebody is telling a off color joke or making perverted comments or saying cuss words. I've only been back 4 days and it's already starting to really annoy me. But we have put up with it because we have to go to school and get an education because if we don't we grow up to dumb people and we won't be able to share God's word with anybody, so. Now that we are all in school we have to deal with these things in our day to day life. I think my E-mail address is on here but if its not i'll get to it, but you can E-mail me if you want and tell me how you are doing and how school is doing. I think it would be a good idea for some of us to start E-mailing each other and encouraging each other. I think that would help us all out. If you think it is a good idea E-mail me, if you think it's bad idea please keep all negative comments to yourself and pray that God will give you a humble spirit. If you have any other suggestions please let me know. For now I'm going to go and do some homework so I'll talk to you all later.

I'm Here......

Hey guys, I'm still here I have just been busy working at my grandma's house.It sounds like a lame excuse but I really have been. But here I am filling you in on what has been going on. Nothing much whatsoever except working. What stinks is that we start school, or at least I do, August 10 which is next Thursday. You all know what that meens.......Peer Pressure !!! How wonderful. But it's not the end, we go through the same thing every year so we should knw how to handle it by now. Hopefully anyway. I haven't researched anything to write about so I am just talking. I have a lot of catching up to do though. I'm really sorry for not posting for so long but I am about to be back on track. And for the record, I haven't been on vacation this long, I got back about 2 days after writing that last post so don't get the idea that I am some rich extreme vacationer......because I am not. But for now this is all I am going to write and remember school is starting back so keep your head up and keep going, you will make it. Alright guys thanks for reading and I will talk to ya'll later.

Vacation

Hey guys. Guess where I'm at......South Carolina. Yep I'm here to pick up Steven along with the rest of his family. I'm not really writing about any particular subject tonight, I'm just checking in to let you know what I'm up to. We had a 9 hour trip up here with Stacy, Monica, Ron, Jeremy, Natalie, John, Bro. and Sis. Mills, and Sis. Rita....so we had fun. Tomarrow we are going to see Steve and have a picnic on the beach at Paris Island. But anyway I'm going to have to close for now because the battery is going dead so I'll talk to ya'll later.

Anger......

Hi everybody, how are you all (you may leave comments if you wish but please keep them clean). I am doing pretty good but I am sure you are not here to hear about how I am doing you are here for (hopefully) encouragement. If you are not here for encouragement oh well I hope it helps you anyway. Now I came across some notes my mom has and while looking at some topics I saw one on anger and I thought that it would be a good subject to speak about since just about everyone, including me, has a problem with it. So maybe I can help.
First off you need to get over your state of denial because most of you reading this are probably saying to yourselves "I don’t have any problems with anger so why should I read this" .............. If you are saying that to yourself than you most likely do have a problem with it you are just to scared to admit it, it’s ok, a lot of people I know and myself have a problem with it so there is nothing to be ashamed of.
Now to start, the second thing we need to do is think about what gets us angry, I mean what are those things that just set you off and get you flaming mad. For me it’s when someone cuts me off when im driving, that just makes me want to get out and go slap them (which would be hard to do while going 50 mph down the road). Now you take a minute and think about some things that make you mad. You might even want to write them down if you want.
Now think about what you do when you get angry, I usually yell or hit something that will not break, and by the way those are bad habits. Most of the time when we get angry our friends don’t want to be around because we tend to be mean, make any sense, that is why we feel lonely when we are angry because we are. Nobody wants to be around a mean person and when we get angry we usually are mean. So now if you get angry you just think about how you are acting and what you would feel like if one of your friends were acting the same way.
Now to tame your state of fierce rage (for all you over serious people out there that was a joke). I am going to mention some tips to help keep you anger under control. Number one, stay calm no matter what it is. When you freak and loose your temper fast you tend to stupid things that you will regret later. So stay calm and live life with (almost) no regrets. Number two, don’t speak without thinking of what outcomes will come from what you are saying. If you learn to keep you mouth shut when you get angry you will save yourself a lot of trouble later.
The third thing is, DON’T HOLD IT IN. The worst thing you can do is keep all your anger inside. If you have too much anger built up inside of you, you will most likely be mean all the time and loose all your friends and any trust that you have earned over time. Try to let some of your anger out IN A CONSTRUCTIVE WAY! Talk to someone. Talk to yourself, not in public. Take a jog. Workout, but not boxing because you will train yourself to beat the mess out of something when you get mad and what if there is not a punching bag around. Whatever you can think of that does not result in a negative way.
For the closing statement, it’s ok to be angry. Yep it sure is as long as you keep it under control. So next time you feel some anger rising up just remember what you read at this blog. Meanwhile thanks for stopping by.

Fears

Hey Guys, sorry I haven't posted in a while but I have been a little busy working on things here and there. Anyway here I am and I'm hoping to write something woth reading. I feel like a terrible writer, which I guess hating wrting doesn't help either. But the only way to get over things like that is to try to do it. I usually never write anything I don't have to but I am writing this blog bit by bit and writing is slowly becoming easier to do. We can all apply that same concept to our spiritual lives as well. Some people have trouble praying out loud, some have trouble worshiping openly because they think they look dumb, you know how I know because I used to have the same problems. I had to try and learn to get over those fears, and yes they are fears, because I was starting to miss out on things God had for me. What we have to do is simple, talk to God about whatever may bother you whether it be physical everyday things or spiritial. It doesn't matter because God cares about you and everybody else too. Anyway, this is not what I had planned on writing but it just happned so here you go. Please continue pray for our church and for for revival. Thanks for visiting and please leave me some comments to let me know how this may be helping you and ( God forbid) if it doesn't help you at all.

Stay

Now I am going to try to start writing some small letters of encouragement for you all to read. I was listining to Jeremy Camp and his song Stay came on and I started thinking about how we need to stay close to God. Through all that this life throws at you God is still there and he still loves you. Many times I do not feel like God is there, I feel completly stranded and alone but God is there. Mathew 24:13 says "He that endureth unto the end, the same shall be saved." So if we stick with it and just hang on through this life there is going to be a great reward on the other side. But we need to serve God because we love him and because he died for us, not because we just want a reward. I have a brother in heaven and I want to go there to see my brother again but that need not be my number one reason to want to go, God needs to be. So when school starts back and you all start feeling the pressure from your friends and from others to do what's not right remember Mathew 24:13 and just say "no thanks, I'll pass" and go on. Stick with God because he will be the best friend you will ever have.