Love can be painful and scary, in relationships and even friendships. In the end we all feel it's worth it, but at times it doesn't seem worth it. It is easier sometimes to turn your heart off and to not care about others. The more you care about others, the more you feel their pain. When they go through hard times then you feel like you do as well. I remember in high school I would always say "It sucks to care." It does sometimes. It is much easier to not care about anyone but yourself, which is what most people choose to do. If you care about everyone else too much it will drive you crazy. So we all go into survival mode and just try to protect ourselves. We try to just take care of number one, you. But then you miss out don't you? You miss out on good times with others. When you give you are blessed. People who never give anything to anyone are the most depressed people. Of course we can also get depressed when we give too much to others too. The key is to find the balance. Give but don't give too much. :)
Saturday, October 31, 2020
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Do You Have Faith?
This past year has been a constant roller coaster for everyone. First my family went on a wild roller coaster ride and then the entire world did. It almost was like what happened in my family was a foreshadowing of what would happen in the world, like God wanted to warn me. My ex husband went crazy and became overcome with the spirit of fear. Then the Entire World went crazy and became overwhelmed by the spirit of fear. In both cases I was determined to not let myself become overly afraid but to Stay in Faith.
Do you have faith? Like do you Really have faith?
You can choose to have faith and you can choose to not have faith. Do you really believe that God's got you? If you don't, then why not? What is the point of Not believing that God's got you?
There may have really been someone messing with my ex husband, and there was a real virus that made tons of people sick, but does that mean we should get overcome with a spirit of fear? Doesn't God want us to stay in faith no matter what? To trust him. To believe he WILL work all things together for our good. God wants us to cling tighter to him in the hard times. Sometimes he brings about hard times on purpose so that we will run to him more.
When life is crazy just climb up into God's lap and ask him to hold you. He would love to. He loves you more then words can express. He cares about you tons. Even if you don't feel like he does, he does.
God's got you. Don't stress. Don't worry. Don't get overcome by a spirit of fear. Just trust Him. He will protect you. He will provide for you. You don't need to worry about a thing. ;)
May God bless you! :)
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
I LOVE BIEBER
I love Justin Bieber so much! First of all, he is the most amazing singer I've ever heard. I remember hearing that he went to Hillsong church in NY and I thought that was super cool. He is the only pop star going to church.
Katy Perry was raised in a Pentecostal church but clearly she has fallen away quite a bit. That is very sad. :( But I love Bieber's new song Holy. It is so cute!
There is a series on Youtube of his story with his wife. I hope he will make more Christian like songs that play on pop radio. If anyone could change the world for Jesus, he could! Go Beiber! You are awesome!
I think Satan made Bieber get into drugs so much because he saw the great potential he had. He could be the next Billy Graham, like for real. I hope he might be. I suppose in a way he is like a YouTube Billy Graham now, in a different way. :) I hope Bieber will consider preaching more. He says some about God in interviews, but I pray that he will have the courage to say more about God. Thank you God for blessing Bieber, and President Trump, with Tons of boldness to share the good news about you.
Thank you God that those two powerful and very influential men will use their influence for YOU. In Jesus' name amen!
Saturday, August 29, 2020
Love
I felt God wanted me to write about love. Most people think they understand love, but clearly they don't, given the way people live and how they talk to others. The greatest way to show love to others is to respect them. Even if you don't think someone Deserves respect, you should still respect them. No matter how old or young they are, what gender or race they are, all people deserve respect. We are all made in God's image and that is why every single person alive deserves respect. God loves everyone and that's why we should as well.
We show love the most with our words. Compliment others. Make them feel good. What is the point in bringing others down and insulting them? In the end it will only hurt you because what goes around comes around. You will reap what you sow. If you insult others they might insult you back or God will cause other people to insult you.
Another thought on love is a great quote, "Those who deserve love the least, need it the most." Why? Because there might be something about their personality that turns others off to them, so they don't get much love from others, and that is why they need it the most. When Jesus walked the earth he loved the unlovable. He loved those that most would not have cared about. He showed concern for every single person, and we should too.
A great way to show how much you love someone is by serving them. If you are married, do their laundry and take care of the dishes or vacuuming. Cook for them. These things shouldn't be one sided. Both men and women can serve each other in this way.
So go compliment someone and serve them in some way, and God will bless you greatly for doing so. Take care ya'll. :)
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Gluttony
Watch out for gluttony. Those who love themselves too much tend to be gluttonous. Those who hate themselves tend to starve themselves. The key is to be somewhere in the middle. Here are some good verses on the topic of gluttony:
Proverbs 23:20-21
Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.
Philippians 3:19
Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.
Proverbs 25:16
If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.
5 Things that Destroy Lives
Greed. I think greediness is the number one most ugly trait in a person. This is probably why I was never fully attracted to my ex husband, because he was very, very greedy. He essentially didn't want to share any of the money he made with me, which was always Very frustrating since I was a stay at home mom and couldn't go make my own money. Lazy people are generally very greedy, because they hate to work, so they want to hold on to any money they make very tightly. Don't be lazy. Be a hard worker. And then you won't be greedy anymore.
Laziness. This is the second biggest thing that destroys lives. Look up all the Bible verses on the sluggard. They are very good. I love a talk with Steven Furtick and TD Jakes. Jakes said his parents talked about laziness like it was a disease. And it is actually. It leads to many diseases. Pretty much every illness a person has can come from laziness. When you don't get your body moving, you almost definitely will get sick. Our bodies were meant to work. If you don't work your body in any way, you are lazy and that is disgusting. Work. DO something. Be productive. Otherwise, why do you exist?
Pride. Pride is a very ugly characteristic to have. The people who think Everyone likes them are actually liked by no one because they have so much pride. Prideful people are not well liked because they are selfish. Be humble. Remember to stay teachable. Realize that every person around you has something to teach you. Never get to the point where you think you have nothing else to learn. And Never think you are better then everyone else, because you aren't.
Gluttony. The most disgusting trait anyone can have is gluttony. Don't over eat. Save some food for the children in Africa, so to speak. Seriously, eat less so you can give away more. Don't be overly selfish. Don't spend all your money on just feeding yourself. Don't starve yourself, but realize when you have had enough food and Stop. Be generous with your money. God didn't mean for all your money to only be yours, you are supposed to share it with others.
Atheism. The biggest thing overall that destroys lives is atheism. If you don't believe in God, what is the point of living? What do you live for? I don't know how anyone can function in life without knowing for sure there is a God in heaven that loves them and is watching over them. Why would anyone Not want to believe that? I have never understood that.
I hope this blog edified you and made you wiser. If it made you angry, pray about why it did and what part did.
God bless!
A Rebellious Spirit
Working at Papa John's has definitely made me a better person. I always used to have a bit of a rebellious spirit. For example, I haven't always been good about keeping my car registration up to date, and that was wrong. In my last marriage my ex husband wanted me to stop buying things on Amazon but I refused to stop buying things on Amazon, which really is a big reason why we are divorced now. It's possible that my over spending was one thing that made him go legitimately insane. The reason why I did that though was that I didn't really respect him. I always viewed him as being far less intelligent then me, so I felt I had a reason to not respect him. But I should have never married him in the first place if I knew I wouldn't be able to respect him.
I have had a hard time respecting anyone my entire life. Partly because I think I'm smarter then everyone else, or more godly, or more attractive etc. I have had a lot of pride my whole life over my gifts that I know God gave me, but I felt I had reason to feel prideful over them. And God has always blessed me and provided for me well, so I had pride over that. That is partly why I have smoked over the past year, to keep me humble. :) It reminds me that I'm not perfect. It's good to try to live perfectly, but if it makes you an arrogant asshole, maybe you should try not being "perfect" for awhile so you can be more humble.
Mainly I had a hard time respecting people because both my dad and mom were not very respectable people. My dad molested me as a child a lot. He acted like a Christian but then he did that, so I had very little respect for him because he was just a pretender. He was a huge liar. I always saw him as a con artist. I saw my mom as almost an equally giant hypocrite because she lost her temper with me several times. I think people don't realize how much you loose respect with others when you loose your temper with them.
So I grew up having a hard time respecting adults. Although in school I respected a TON almost every teacher I had. I suppose that's why I wanted to teach for so long, because I was thinking those are the only adult people in society that are respected. But then I tried teaching Junior High students one year and my students did NOT respect me half of the time, which was very hard. :( Maybe God was giving me a dose of my own medicine. I was reaping what I sowed. So needless to say that made me give up on the dream of teaching.
In some of my jobs I have had a hard time respecting my boss and co-workers. But my level for what I expect of others in order for me to respect them is pretty high and probably unrealistic. I suppose I am a perfectionist in that. It takes a lot for me to respect a person. I always used to love the quote "Respect is not given, it is earned." And it should be, but our level of what we need to respect a person maybe shouldn't be as high as we think it should be.
But praise God, I finally have found a group of people that I greatly respect. I have a very, Very high respect for everyone that I work with at Papa John's. I posted on Twitter once that you haven't really worked until you have worked at a pizza place on a Friday night. The amount of stress you have to deal with on a Friday night, and a few other nights, is unlike any other stress you can face in life. And I know because I have worked in several Pre-schools, gone through labor twice and been thousands of dollars in debt, but none of that compares with a Friday night at Papa Johns. :) You feel like you are making dinner for the entire city you live in, and then after all that you do, people still aren't grateful. So many people complain about so many things, but all my co-workers take it like champs. I look up to them all a lot for that. Their level of patience and understanding and forgiveness is Amazing. They have asked me a few time to be a manager but I don't think I would have the patience to deal with complaining customers. I literally would just want to say to people, "Deal with it and stop whining. At least we made you food. Goodbye." :) So that's why I'm not a manager. I'm just a driver, but I love being a driver. :)
But I respect a LOT all the patient and loving people I work with that put up with all that and can still stay calm. Most of the time they stay calm anyways. :) Good job Papa John's friends!
The level of forgiveness all my co-workers have is so amazing. We all have to forgive each other so much every day for so many things. And the managers have to forgive the customers for being difficult a...holes so often.
So it has made me a much better person working there, from observing everyone I work with and wanting to emulate them.
At first I didn't respect the job that much. I always thought, "This is just pizza. We aren't running the country." But the longer I've been there, the more I have seen how hard it really is, and I have strived to do my job with excellence and to do everything perfectly. I had kind of a rebellious and an "I'm better than you" attitude when I started there, like that job was beneath me, as I have felt with most jobs I've had, but God has greatly grown my humility in this time.
Don't ever consider ANY job to be beneath you. Any of us are very lucky to have jobs now, with the world the way it is. So value your job. Value your co-workers and your bosses. At least you have friends, if you consider them friends, and hopefully you do. Not many people can say they have a good group of friends.
Do your job well. Work as unto the Lord. Love others well. Be excellent in all things, and you will be blessed. And always be grateful for your job. :)
God bless!