Christian Marriage.....

So in my Lit. class we are reading "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis. we got a ginormous amount to read over spring break, but that doesn't really matter at this point. I have four chapters left and so i am on the home stretch......yes....sweet, sweet victory is on its way.......:)

Anyways, i was reading some tonight and i read on a number of things that popped out to me and made me want to share it........so i thought i would blog about it....so now whoever reads this must endure through this......BWHAHAHAHAHA!!

Jeez.....i must be A.D.D. or something...who knows....:/

The first thing that popped out at me was in the chapter entitled "Christian Marriage".

Now every one of us single girls may dream about what it will be like to get married, right? We imagine meeting our "Prince Charming" who will come and sweep us off our feet and we will both be in love with each other and ride off into the sunset and live happily ever after. The we imagine our lives being perfect with the man with love, being married to him "until death do us part"..........

Lewis says that "being in love is a glorious state". (I can only imagine that this is true, seeing that i haven't been in love yet....) He says that it makes us as humans more generous and courageous, "it opens our eyes not only to the beauty of the beloved (ya know...the amazing person that you're in love with...) but to all beauty. Basically he says that love opens you're eyes and gives you a whole new meaning of life and how one should behave...or something like that....that's what it says to me......translate that the way you like......

The later on, Lewis goes on to say "Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings cannot..." He says that no matter what people say, actually "being in love" doesn't usually last. I beg to differ.....

Before i go on, i would like to say that yes,i know that i have never been in love, and yes i know i have never been married (duh...I'm only 17 and still in high school). But from what i have been taught and the opinions that i have formed from what i have been taught, i MOST DEFINITELY disagree with what Lewis says....

When it comes to love and being in love with the "right" person- the person that God has been preparing for you and you for him/her-your feelings for them will never change. You may go through a period of time where you don't particularly like your spouse, but I don't think your feelings really change for them. Like i said, if he/she is the one that God has been preparing for you and you for them, those feelings shouldn't ever truly change.

Maybe i don't know what I'm talking about....maybe i am over stepping some boundaries that shouldn't be crossed until i get married and actually "experience" what C.S. Lewis is talking about......just remember that these are my opinions formed by what i have been taught.....

I'm baaack......

Ok so i went out of town last week with my mom and my friend danielle

this is Danielle----------->

We went to visit some of my family...one night we got real loopy and spacey and Danielle decided to play with a spoon......this is what happened....

yeah.......and i laugh like a hyena.....smooth caroline......real smooth....-.-

A Proverb a day......

So for a while, and along with another study or whatever i had been doing, i have been trying read a proverb that went along with the date for my quiet time. I think its ture that "a proverb a day keeps the devil away"....

This is also something we have been doing in my sunday school class...the way that my teacher has us look through it, it has been very helpful with finding information that can help youthrough the day.....

So to day is january 27, 2010....i read Proverbs 27.....good things have come out of that proverb....

2. Let another praise you, and not your own mouth,

a stranger, and not your own lips.

(don't go around patting your back or tootong your own horn....

let another person praise you if there is praise to be giving..)

9. Oil and perfume make the heart glad,

So a man's counsel is sweer to his friend

(if your giving someone advice, let it be sweer like perfume...)

17. Iron sharpen iron, so one man sharpens another.

22. Though you pound a fool in thee mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain,

yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

(mortar- a recepticle of hard material aka something hard. pestle- a tool grinding substances in a mortar. basically you can't beat, pound, or grind foolishness out of a foolishman.....)

more thanks giving photos.....

yeah...so remember when i said i would post more thanksgiving pictures when i got them?

well i got them...a while ago...just never got around to putting them up...so here they are...

i'm the one in the jean jacket...:)

He died of a broken heart....sacrifical love...

This morning in my quiet time, I was doing some Bible reading for awana, then working on a awana section. In the Bible reading, i read Psalms 19-24. When i got to Psalm 22, I noticed that I had that particular Psalm filled with notes in the margins from a sermon that was preached on this passage of scripture.

Line by line, this scripture was talking of what was to come many years later on the cross. Verses 1-21 were speaking of the agony that Christ went through on the cross. Verses 22-31 were songs of praise to God.

One particular note that I had written at the time caught my attention. It was in refrence to verse 14, which says

"I am poured out like water,

And all my bones are out of joint;

My heart is like wax;

It is melted withing me."

The note that I had written out in the margin for this verse said, "Jesus died, not because of the torture that he went through, but of a broken heart." WOW! The only time i have ever heard of someone dying of a broken heart and it was Christ!

That shows how much we mean to Him. It shows how horrible our sins are. It shows how devestating being seperated from God the father was. Christ didn't care that "all his bones were out of joint" or that that he was beaten and bruised till he was unrecognizable. It says "My Heart is like wax; it has melted within me." Christ heart was broken....he died of a broken heart....

Studying, Smallville, Full House, Egg Nog...and sinus issues...

So this thanksgiving weekend has been a very lazy one. Actually, my entire thanksgiving break has been rather lazy. All i have really done has been studying for the Geometry and Physics test that i have after break, watch television, and exercise.

My week went like this:

Monday- did history and literature homeowork, studied physics for an hour, studied geometry for an hour, exercised........watched Smallville

Tuesday- studied physics and geometry for an hour each, exercised....Watched Smallville

Wednesday- same as tuesday...Started Full house season one

Thursday- Thanksgiving.....no school

Friday- feeling bad because of sinuses, a little physics studying watched full house

Today (Saturday)- same thing except for the fact that i studied geometry instead of physics...continued watching full house (up to season five....)

hopfully i will be able to make a good grade on my math and science test (i am doing rather aweful in those subjects at the moment...those have never been my strong subjects...)

Other pictures from thanksgiving have been put on facebook!! I will put them on another post shortly.......

Oh!! i got to have some egg nog today!! it feels like christmas!

Thanksgiving has come....and gone....

So yesterday was thanksgiving.
The day that the pilgrims shared a large meal with the Indians.
A day set aside, allowing us to remember who and what we are thankful for (although we should be thanksful for these things every day we are alive).

Hope everyone had a good thanksgiving!! I did. My mom and i were invited to a friends to celebrate with them and their family.

It is quite nice out in Pineland, South Carolina. That is were the friends live.

This is their awesome log cabin that The Nicholas's (our friends that invited us for thanksgiving) live in. It looks almost exactly like my aunts house!!!

When we got there, we said hello to everyone before Mr. Steve (our host) said the blessing. After we ate, some of us ladies went out to the porch to relaxe and play with a puppy and take picture.

Finally after we let our food digest, Mr. Seve decided that my mom and I were going to do some target shooting. Mr. Steve said that my mom and I were going to do this when he invited us for thanksgiving. Instead of me telling you how it was, lets hope these picture explain for themselves....

Our target....yes we shot this......

Mr. Steve explaining how to aim and use the hand gun

Me shooting the hand gun.....

My mom shooting a shot gun...thing

This is John, (one of my best friends and Mr. Steve's son) showing us how to use the machine gun looking....thing....

As you can see...i have know gun knowledge

So i think it went well.....i have more picutres of thanksgiving, but there not on my camera. I have to wait for them to be uploaded to facebook before i can get them....but you'll see more of thanksgiving soon...i hope...lol