Pet Peeves:

• People who just stop in the middle of the hallways. Umm? Hello? Some people have places to go. Get out of my way. Now. Or I will punch you in the back of the neck. Don't test me.
  
• People who pressure you to do things you don't want to. There is a reason I said no. Why don't you go ruin someone else's life. Kthxbi.
• Cold Feet. Ohh my goodness. The rest of my body is supa hot. Why on earth are my toes STILL cold?!
• The random person [[with no rhythm]] who likes to tap their pencil while everyone else is testing. Really? Can you not do that RIGHT now? You are pissing me off.
• When people don’t reply to my text after they started the conversation. Why do you even bother texting me if you are not going to respond? How does that make any sense?
• Posers. Where did that make up and hair come from? Weren’t you like…a preppy snob last year?
• The kind of kids who can only talk about how much sex they have or how high they got last night. Guys. Let’s grow up, please. Wait…you said you were how old?! Fourteen!?
  
• People who think they are hot stuff…when they aren’t. Quit doing the “myspace face.” You are trying way to hard. Please. Go back to your starwars and dungeons and dragons. I liked you better that way.
• People who ask me how I do my hair and make-up, then I tell them, then they come in the next day looking like a carbon copy of me. Whoa! I got a twin? When did this happen?
• People who ask “what?” seven times before finally understanding what you were trying to say. You look cute today! What? You look cute today… What?! Nevermind…just…nevermind.
  

Now! Tell me your pet peeves! I love them!

So uh, call me crazy, but do you ever get that feeling that you need to make up a word for the way you are feeling at that moment? Yeah. I have that feeling right now. I am so happy! And hyper! And bored. All in one. I am bapper. Is that a word already? Probably. Eh. Oh well. I just hope it doesn’t mean something bad. Haha. Anywho,  ughh. I do not know what to do! I should be writing a lab report for an egg drop project that I did. [[My egg survived, by the way]] But…I’m not feelin’ very productive tonight. So, keep me company and comment! Kay!

Lub yews!

Hey hey! WATCH THIS! [[it will make you laugh!]]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YersIyzsOpc

We are in this series called James…umm…its about the book of James. Creative, no? Anyways, We were going over James 2:14-26.

14What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? 15Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. 16If one of you says to him, “Go I wish you well; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? 17In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. 18But some will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.”

Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do. 19You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that–and shudder. 20 You foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless? 21Was not our ancestor Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Issac on the alter? 22You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. 23And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend. 24You see that a person is justified by what he does and not by faith alone. In t he same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction? 26As the body without spirit is dead, so is faith without deeds is dead.”

Okay, I know that was a lot to read, but bear with me. Some of you may read this and think…so? What’s the big deal? I do believe in God. But, I have something to ask those of you who think that. Are you putting everything aside for him? Wake up call people, He did that for you. Can you not make the equivalent sacrifice with daily things in your lives? Now, in no way am I saying that I do. Because, I don’t make the daily sacrifices that I should. Which is probably why this lesson hit me hard. Look back At verse 19 James says that even demons aknowlegde there is a God. However, they have no desire to kneel to the Lord. James compared us to DEMONS. Does that bother anyone else? It sure bothers me. I was thinking about this for awhile last night and I realized how big of an issue this is with the “Christians” of the world today. Sure, go ahead, Believe in God. But it means absolutely nothing if you are not going to show His love and mercy to the people who need it. If you say that you are a Christian and then you are out with your friends partying, cursing, and sleeping around, what does that show to the people around you? How on Earth does that make you any different at all from the rest of society. Christianity is most certainly not about conforming to what society thinks is accepatable. If you say you are a Christian and then you go around judging people left and right, or you are intolerable of a certain group, you are not being who Christ wants you to be. He wants you to follow him. I don’t know if you have noticed this, but Jesus was hanging out with the prostitutes, the tax collectors, the outcasts of society. He showed them love. Can we not do the same thing? So what if youbecome an outcastyourself, at least you know you are doing what is right in God’s eyes. You are showing his love. You are doing his deeds.

My pastor made a good analogy last night. He said, if a man comes to your door and is clothed in rags, and skinny. So skinny he looks as if he stepped out of a holocoust movie and he says to you. “I am hungry! And cold! Please, please help me.” And you reply with, “Go! May God bless you! May he keep you warm and give you food!” yet, you do absolutely nothing. You shut the door in his face. Yes, that may be an exaggeration, but I can garuntee you do the same thing on a smaller scale every day. I know I do. We need to confront this issue. It has caused too many problems. Be tolerant of others. Be accepting. Be loving, at all costs. I will try to work on this too.

Continue to pray for these qualities. Things will change if you want them to. Trust me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLVz_ou3TSA&feature=related

Watch that. That song will speak to you. Open your ears to what the Lord wants you to hear.

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Guys have major mood swings though. Girls, I’m sure you know exactly what I mean. When you are having a fight with a guy, they just start blowing up for no reason, or something that you didn’t even know would bother him… For example the fight I had with my best friend that once was, it was over the fact that I was CONCERNEDabout him! Genuinely concerned. And he blew up! And girls, you know you can never tell him that he is PMSing like a teenage girl, because that only makes him MORE mad! Its really a lose-lose situation for us girls. My best friend that once was, his theme song was most certainly “Hot-n-Cold” by Katty Perry. As are most guys. I just don’t know. Life is so confusing. Yet so interesting. I will keep you updated on me and my…umm…friends? relationship. It should get interesting. Anyways, Here is the quote for the day:

“Best friends are like four leaf clovers, hard to find, but lucky to have!”

To the Fake.

Here’s to you.

To the enemies that were once friends.

To the ones who are not confident in themselves.

To the ones who conform.

Here’s to you.

I hope you realize the pain you have caused.

I hope you realize the insecurities you have caused.

I hope you realize the tears you have caused.

Here’s to you.

Thank you.

Thank you for making me stronger.

Thank you for showing me who my real friends are.

Thank you for making me the person I have become.

Here’s to you.

I know there are many who agree with that. They are just too timid to say it. There might be those of you who intentionally cause the problems I have just described. You have no right to judge people on how they look, dress, act, or think. The Lord is the ONLY one who has the power to judge.  Keep your comments to yourself. However, if you do have something to say, lets make it to the face, okay? Instead, you are being shallow and fake by pretending to be someone you are not. Why don’t you take off you mask and be who you really are? Or perhaps, you are afraid people may not like you for your true self? That is a possibility, but you have to take the risk to grow close to people. Or, you will do what I have experienced.

A story:

There once was a girl, we will call her Britt. Britt did all she could to be herself. To put herself on the line, so people would see the real her, and not a fake. She befriended a monster. This monster, we will call it Joey, would pretend to be her friend, then go back and talk to the other monsters about Britt. Joey would make fun of Britt’s clothing, Hairstyles, and Actions. Him and his monster friends would laugh and laugh. That is, until Britt found out. Britt was beaten down, after all, Joey was her friend…right? But Britt rose above Joey’s petty games. She did not let it affect her. She grew from the experience and is now the person she is today. Joey however, can not hold on to a friend to save his life. He has an unfortunate habit of being judgmental. Joey died alone in his old age. Britt went on to do great things and people loved her for being herself and not conforming to what Joey and his monster friends wanted.

Moral of the story:

Don’t let people get you down because they are too ignorant to see the good side of people. It will come back to haunt them. Keep doing what you need to do to be yourself.

“It’s funny how the people who know
me the least have the most to say”