Princesses aren't Perfect.

I am reading through I Kissed Dating Goodbye and here are my outrageous thoughts/feelings/convictions: (Please beware these are true, honest feelings, read at your own risk in judgement) It brings up many thoughts and ideas I feel I should have been smart enough to decide on my own. I should have been more wise with the bible to figure how I am suppose to act. After reading, I feel I definitely need to say Goodbye to dating and focus on spending my whole life with God. And spending time with His word and His Spirit. I want to say Goodbye so I can be able to serve Him and do more for Him rather than for myself. I want to say Goodbye so that I can be able to continue growing with Him. I want to say Goodbye so that I can continue to learn everything about Him and to learn of where His plan for me is. I want to say Goodbye to all of it, so that I can be pure in the Spirit. And pure in my body when it comes to loving God and one day to love my husband. I need to make sure I know the true ...

To GO: To GO out and do God's Will. To GO out and spread the word of the Good News, share the Gospel. To GO out and spread the love, peace, and hope that God has freely given us. To GO and do miraculous things. But to think to actually GO... What comes to mind? What comes to my mind: "Lord, I want to GO, I want to do exactly what You have planned for me, but right now I need to finish my 5th year of school. Then I promise I'll surrender to You everything that I have." But I quickly realize this should NOT be my thought at all. Who am I to say, "NO GOD, I'm not ready for this YET ." When will I be ready? Tomorrow, next year, 5 years? How will you ever know you're ready until you do it? How can you ever question or doubt God? He's omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient, our Creator, our Lord, our Father. Why doubt? When it's trust - He'll provide, trust - He'll take care of you, trust - He knows what's best for you. You don'...

This is probably one of the most difficult to write. Throughout the bible, it shares a story of loving those who we just absolutely hate. It's to love those who have done us wrong. It's to love those who have treated us with little respect. It's to love those who are the utmost evil. It's to love those, those people that as human beings we just cannot love. When we love them, we show we have forgiven them, but as us -- being part of this world, are we ready for that? "Jesus is calling us to be willing to suffer anything and forsake everything for the sake of the Gospel. His call is to love those who have cheated us in business; those who have spread nasty rumors about us ; those who would kill us if they could; those who disagree with us politically, practically, and fundamentally. His call is to consider everything a loss for His sake. His call is for total surrender. He calls us to give up all that we have to give even to the point of offering up our lives as a ...

Thank you for reading my blog. I appreciate all the words of encouragement. I didn't think anyone would read this or even take out the time to. So again thank you! Diverse: many and different; or distinctly dissimilar or unlike Serving God and living faithfully can become a constant guilt trip of "trying harder" and "doing better next time." As I'm starting to get back into living a life that is worthy of God rather than living a comfortable life, I've come to realize that people I've surrounded myself with are so much more "GODLY" than I. I love hearing stories and I'm a great listener, supporter, and encourager. But at the same time I'm inspired to do more. I'm at a point in life where "DO MORE" is my new slogan. To do more for God, do more of my friends, do more for my family, my job, school, church, and volleyball. There may be a quick feeling of being blue because my life for God is not as theirs. BUT! A fr...