Quick Word On The Elections...

So, we're (as in the Country) are going to either be choosing a new President or re-electing the old one come November. As it is the Republicans are trying to find a candidate. I would just like to say something about voting...vote on your morals. Forget about the Economy and jobs. Guess what, Bush didn't help, Obama hasn't helped, and the next guy won't help either. Everyone has these great ideas for the economy and I don't know if anyone's noticed but none of them work. Here's and idea stop voting on issues that will never change and vote on your morals. I'm tired of Christians voting for immoral people because "well he can fix the economy." NO HE CAN'T! Here's an idea how about we vote in a Pro-Life, Pro-Traditional Marriage, supporter of the Constitution Godly man. Maybe after we get our hearts right we can worry about fixing the economy.

Heads up on the really random posts...

Just wanted to let everyone know that there may be some random posts. I'm currently looking for any scholorship I can get my hands on and some of them are for teens with blogs. The point of these scholorships is that they send you to a website and say you have to pick out a car and then write a blog post about why it's your dream car or they'll give you a topic and you have to blog about it. I just wanted to let you know so that when "My dream apartment" pops up its for a scholorship contest. Hope your having a great day!!!!

We are who we are when?

So today something happened I have been really convicted about the way I reacted to the situation. Basically some people were making fun of God and instead of taking a real stand I tried to make a joke out of it like "hey guys we should stop, don't feel like dying" type of deal but I didn't take a real stand. I become really convicted one because I feel like I pretty much smacked God in the face by standing by and letting him be mocked and two because everyone there knows that I'm a Christian and that one screw up alone could very well have hurt my witness to those particular people. I was praying about how to handle the situation (which is take a stand if the joke is brought up again) and that quote "You are who you are when no one else is around" popped into my head and I really started to think about it. That is how the world justifies a lot of what they do. If you're the real you when no one's around then what you do the rest of time doesn't matter because that's not really you right? Wrong. Unfortunatly a lot of Christians (myself included) have decided that if this standard is good enough for the world then it's good enough for us. Well that mind set is wrong a destructive. For us as Christians the reality of life is We are who we are when EVERYONE is around. Our job is to take a stand for Christ in front of people not in private. We are supposed to glorify Jesus in front of people not just when we're alone. So, think about when you laugh at a joke, refuse to speak up, or open your mouth. You Are Who You Are When Everyone Is Around.

Vivint Gives Back: Please vote!!! Need all the help we can get!

Vivint is a company that deals with home living, appliances, and green living. I don't know much about the company I'm just going off of what their add says. However, what I do know about Vivint is that they're hosting the Vivint Gives Back Project. It's kind of like Pepsi Refresh, there's a list of a ton of charities and people vote for a charity of their choice and whatever charity wins gets over a million dollars to help with their organization. A charity that I really want to help out is Courage To Be You. I don't know if you've heard of them but they're a Christian organization based right here in the United States and their main focus is to rescue girls out of sex trafficking and give them housing and support. Abortion and Sex Trafficking are the two things that I am most passionate about. However, I've been fairlu active in the pro-life movement but I was never really sure how to play a role in helping victims of sex trafficking well here's where I start. C2BY is in 68th place right now...they need all the voted they can get. I know that all of these charities are important and matter but I really believe that Courage To Be You is a charity worth giving to and helping out.
You can vote for C2BY here for the next 3 weeks and you can vote once a day everyday! Also if you want to know more about C2BY or check them out before voting for them go here. Please vote at least once. This really means a lot to me. Thanks and God Bless!

My very own pictures :)

Sooooo....I said a while back that I would share some of my photos (because you've heard me talk about my favorite photographers and how I love photography and I want to be a photographer). Anyway...here are some for your viewing.

There's just a few :) Hope you like them. Let me know what you think. (Please be honest but nice.) Hope you have a blessed day!

Mac Lucado book expert "A Love Worth Giving"

Holah Ladies and Gents.
Soooo...on wens. night at church we're doing the DEVO A Love Worth Giving by Max Lucado. Anyway tonight we read something that just really stood out to me and paints a vivid image of what Christ really went through for me it just blew me away and really touched base with me. I dont think Im breaking any copy right laws or anything....I hope not (sorry Max! if I am) Soooo....here it is.
"Such love isn't easy. Not for you. Not for me. not even for Jesus. Want proof? Listen to his frustration: 'You people have no faith. How long must I stay with you? How long must I put up with you?' (Mark 9:19)
 Even the son of God was handed plates of 'croak-ra' and 'gasp-aragus.' To know Jesus asked such a question reassures us. But to hear how he answered will change us.
How long must I put up with you?
'Long enough to be called crazy by my brothers and a liar by my neighbors. Long enough to be run out of my town and my Temple. Long enough to be laughed at, cursed, slapped, hit, blindfolded, and mocked. Long enough to feel warm spit and sharp whips and see my own blood puddle at my feet.'
How long?
'Until the rooster sings and the sweat stings and the mallet rings and a hillside of demons smirk at a dying God.'
How long?
'Long enough for every sin to so soak my sinless soul that heaven will turn in horror until my swollen lips pronounce the final transaction : 'It is finished.''
How long?
'Until it kills me.'
Jesus bore all things, believed all things, hoped all things, and endured all things. Every single one."
If that doesn't paint an amazing picture of what Christ did for us in your head then I don't know what will.
If that doesn't bring tears to your eyes, then I don't know what will.
If that doesn't make you want to strive to live your life in a way that will represent God so that you might possiblygive him the smallest fraction of what he gave you, then I don't know what will.
Think about it...Christ did all of that for you, and you complain because tellin strangers that Jesus loves them is akward. I know...I do it to. But hopefully at the very least this will make you stop, think, pray, say thank you, just do something.

Summer Reading List

Hey guys...so I am a major book worm! Now that summer's here alot of us have time on our hands so this is a recomendation of books. Most of them are fiction a few won't be, some will be Christian fiction, some  science fiction, historical fic, and realistic....so yeah.

The Luxe Series by Anna Godbersen
*Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
*Turtle On A Fence Post by June Rae Wood
The Maximum Ride Series by James Patterson
*Do Hard Things by Alex and Brett Harris
*The Complex Infrastructure Known As The Female Mind by Relient K
Impossible by Nancy Werlin
Extraordinary by Nancy Werlin
*Time Lottery by Nancy Moser
*Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan
I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
The Family Greene by Ann Rinaldi
Dreamland by Sarah Dessen
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Once Was Lost by Sara Zarr
After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick
*The Shadow Children Series by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Against All Odds: My Story by Chuck Norris
Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen
*The Man Who Loved Clowns by June Rae Wood (read before Turtle On A Fence Post)
The Road To Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
That Summer by Sarah Dessen
Jude by Kate Morgenroth
The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Matched by Ally Condie
Converting Kate by Beckie Weinheimer
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Sweetness of Salt by Cecilia Galante

Well guys that should hold you for a while. Now if you see a title that intrests you google it before you read it...just because books are like movies there may be something you have a problem with that I don't and vice versa. None of these books however use the "F" word of "Gd" (at least that I remember) I try my best to stay away from books that use these words. * means that I know for sure there is no cussing what so ever...the others may use the "d" word or the "h" word but nothing major. Some may not have the * but that doesn't mean there's cussing it just means I can't remember so I dont want to star it just in case. The Road To Memphis is about a black family in the 1930s so there is the "N" word in that book but I dont think there's any obscene language other than that. I'm pretty sure Matched and Impossible have no cussing what so ever but I can't be 100%.
Also Speak and Impossible have "rape scenes" in them. The Famil Greene discusses an affair and an illigitament child. Jude dealss with abuse. The Hunger Games is extremely violent. and Percy Jackson and Maximum Ride both have violence in them. I dont remember much about Converting Kate, The Sweetness Of Salt, Once Was Lost, or some of the Sarah Dessen books sorry. I just went through my goodreads list. Also Thirteen Reasons why is about suicide and it has alcohol, drugs, and it talks about sex but nothing to graphic, it's  actually an extremely good book just keep some tissues with you. Anyway so just google them first!
Time Lottery
Do Hard Things
and The Complex Infrastructure Known As The Female Mind are all Christian books but each is amazing and the last one is hysterical.