Tuesday, October 29, 2013

November

It's November... The time to... Write! For the last two years at the beginning of November I have mad a commitment to finish a 50000 word novel in a month. No backspacing, editing, etc allowed. However, I have never completed this goal, and so, I am going to attempt it again. My only problem being, I have two days to figure out what I'm going to write about, thirty days to get it down on paper, and no one to commit to this challenge with me. Any wide range of Ideas. Please post. I'm up for anything at the moment. Thanks

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Sixteen Years: Friends

     Sixteen years is a long time. Although I think I established that in my last post, which I must admit was a bit long and maybe dragged out, but something I felt needed to be written. I don't know about you, but I needed to put it down, and I'm sure someone needed to hear it. Back on subject though. Over the next week, or perhaps longer I hope to write here at least once a day, something important, something inspiring. It doesn't really matter. I just need to get the words on the page. So anyhow, here we go, friends.
     Friends. We all have them, or at least most of us do, and we depend on them, for a lot of things. For me my friends are a support system, a community of people helping and boosting each other up, and I am grateful for them. They have helped me through a lot of things, always been there, and almost always tried to boost me up with their beautiful wit, humor, and enthusiasm, as well as their trustworthiness and truth. I am exceedingly blessed to have them. And as I thought about them tonight, while sitting in church, listening to a discussion about the friends and people we need to surround ourselves with, it hit me again, how amazingly blessed I am to have such brilliant and fantastic friends. What we don't realize often enough is how much our friends and the people around us effect our lives and our perspective. They can drag you down with them, or you can make a community effort to pull each other up. I am grateful for the friends I have, they're trustworthy and dependable. They listen when I need an ear, and they are encouraging and uplifting. They don't do drama or even seem to feel the need to push people down. I can only hope to be the same to them as they are to me, and in the end be encouraging and kind to our friends, be honest, trustworthy, reliable, and anything else they need. Don't pull them down.

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Sixteen years: Words

     It's been almost a year since I last wrote here. A strange phenomena, a mixture of procrastination, forgetfulness, and just plain business. Around a year ago I was in my last year of middle school, and had only been there a few months. I had a black lab, whom I adored and still miss, and I had many good friends that I have managed to somehow keep. About a year ago I had never read any of Shakespeare's plays, had never driven a car (As far as I can remember ) And had never seen an episode of Doctor Who. I hadn't gone on a missions trip, done an internship, or many other things. So much has changed in a years time. I've kept old friends and made new ones, spent more time studying the bible than ever before, and was given a chance to help change the lives of people. In a year I watched every episode of new Who, lost my big black pup, and got a new one. I broke my collarbone, sprained an ankle, visited my first comic-con, began high-school, etc. All that has happened in only one year, and over the sixteen years I have now been alive a lot has changed. Not necessarily in good ways or bad, but changed. Necessary changes needed to grow and make an impact. Some for the better some for the worst.
    Over sixteen years a lot of words have been said. Some good, some bad. All make part of that impact. As I have been looking over Pinterest and other parts of the internet these last weeks, and doing a bible study, I have found many things referring to the words that are said and written. Words are powerful, they change lives. Words can bring destruction, and words can bring healing. So stop cutting yourself and other people down with your words. That's not an excuse, words can hurt the most. Why not instead use your words for good, to bring growth and life to a person, not lies and death? Heal instead of poison, use truth instead of dishonesty, bring back the life. Think about what you say, take just a moment. Pause. It doesn't take long, but it can make a difference far down the road.
    I think I'll leave this here, just for the moment. A tribute to the sixteen years God has given me, and to thinking before we act. I wonder how different things would be, if every word you said appeared where everyone could see.