Life~Trials~Inspiration

When the TV series "13 Reasons Why" first came out, I watched the series and actually wrote a blog on 13 Reasons Why Not. As I am finishing up the second season, I think we have more to take from this then what is seen with the naked eye. There's lots of negative comments regarding the first and especially the second season due to the honestly blunt content. Our world is so used to having the effects of bullying sugar coated that getting a glimpse of what really happens is shocking and unwanted. People think this show is promoting suicide and promoting the blame of someone committing suicide on the people around them, its not. I believe this show is a lesson that we all need to take much more from. Yes the content may be harsh and revealing, but its real.. I don't think people really understand what being bullied is like. When it gets to the extreme that you question whether this life is worth living... no one can understand that unless they've experienced it. And

If you haven't noticed already, my focus of topics this week has focused around relationships. Tonight is no exception, we often hear when a couple is fighting, the wise reminder that they are fighting the problem and not each other. This applies to a friendship as well, I feel like we get in fights and we want someone to blame, we don't want to accept were at fault. We want to be in the right even if were in the wrong, so when were fighting with a friend or a special friend, its almost natural to blame them right off the bat. Its easy and almost comforting to put all the blame on them. What does that do though? It doesn't solve the problem, it actually divides the people more and more. If the situation was hard to get over before, well now a larger gap has been created. When there is a problem, and argument, a fight or whatever it may be. We need to have the maturity to say, I realize "I'm at fault", or "I've taken some part in this", because fi

Life is full of things in this new age, things have taken over our lives. In our generation its all about who has the newest car, the best job, the cutest cloths and the list goes on.. Our lives are so focused on things that everything is a jumble, its all complicated and the complications aren't even to fulfill our happiness but rather to make others think were happy..  When we live constantly unhappy  with what we have, always wanting more, we miss out on the amazing joys and blessings of what we do have that are right in front of us.  How often do you simply walk outside and stare at the sky? Yes it looks a bit weird to some but that shouldn't matter. How often do you just absorb the sunlight not for the sake of a fashion tan but simply because it feels good? How often do you dance in the rain without fear of your makeup being ruined simply because you want to? How often do you wake up, look out your window and thank God for giving you another day? Our society is so focused

Hey  Ya'll, Tonight I want to touch base on a topic that I've kind of brought up in the past but not specifically in this context. We all have relationships in life whether its with friends, significant others, co-workers, bosses, etc. We all have relationships of some sort in our daily lives and we all want relationships. We want friends to go out with, we want to feel accepted and wanted. We all want to find that one person who truly gets who we are inside and out. Its a fact that as humans we thrive on connection and engagement of a social network with others. What I want to shed a light on tonight is the kind of relationships we look for, and how to know if its truly a healthy relationship to pursue. Of course this can be taken and applied a large variety of ways, depending on the type of relationship, circumstances  etc. For the sake of narrowing down that variety, I'd like to stick to the two in which I feel teens encounter most frequently. Those are friendships and

Hey guys! First off I'd like to apologize for not writing in so long, life has been crazy hectic and I've had a major case of writers block.. I am back though and very excited! For those of you whom have read past blogs of mine, you know that I love to take what I hear about in church and really translate it into my life and the lives of those around me. Today is no exception, I had the pleasure of hearing another amazing sermon and I took quite a bit from it, so lets dive right in :) Today was a discussion that I believe we can all relate to, the mythical idea of waiting... I say mythical because lets be honest, patience is not a trait were just born with and sadly this idea of waiting isn't mythical at all, but rather a part of our every day lives. Sometimes in life we feel like our feet are stuck in the mud, we have so much to look forward to and yet feel as if we are making no progress towards those things. We often times approach waiting as if its a curse, we approa