Today after having a good day at church with some friends, my family and I went by Home Depot to pick up a rivet gun to fix the chimney with. While we were there I saw something that completely made my day.......you ready?
Christmas trees....with lights. Yep. And ornaments, glowing rain deer, cinamon scented candles, the whole sha-bang. That along with the cold weather made me realize that were almost to Christmas time! After tomorrow just one more holiday to go and then we can break out the holly and hot cocoa. And I can listen to Christmas music until my hearts content without worrying about driving my family crazy, ( maybe ).
I've been trying my best not to think about it yet but I have to post about it today and at least enjoy it for a few minutes. Until I have to tuck it away again for another month or so.
Whether it's because my birthday and Chritmas are so close together or because of the jingle bells, glowing lights and happy memories, I don't know. But every time Christmas comes around my happyness level shoots way up. Call me cliche'. I don't care, it's one of my favorite things in the world and I can't wait until it's here again.
Thank you for listening to my rant, your a good audience. c ;
Heres one of my favorite Christmas songs, it's not a traditional Christmas song (I love those too ) but still it's very good. c :
It's hard sometimes, to know that you have to trust God with your future. To believe that He knows you better than you do and that His plans for you will far surpass your own. Afterall the world says, "If it feels good, it must be a good thing." But our Father whispers to us to give Him our hearts and let Him protect us until the time is right. The truth is, everyone was created for love. We search for it, long for it, go after it and when we think we have it we hold on as tight as we can so that it doesn't slip away. It's not wrong of us to search for love, but maybe were looking in the wrong place.
I don't have all the answers on dating or courting or falling in love or how exactly it's all supposed to happen. But I do know this. Our first love should be Christ. Yes, God may have plans for us to "complete" someone else. But not until after we are complete in Him. Afterall, Christ's love for each of us is much stronger and deeper than any human could ever give.
As young people, especially girls, we have dreams, hopes and plans for the future. We have qualities we would like to find in a future husband or wife. And so we keep our eyes open, just in case. We don't want to miss something that's right in front of us. But what about keeping our eyes on Christ and not on the horizon waiting for someone to come and love us the way He already does. When we keep our eyes on Him, and trust Him, and give Him our hearts, that's when we will truly be satisfied and ready for the next step.
And yes there will be trials, tests and temptations. But He will always be right there, cheering us on, telling us that we can do it, and promising a brighter future. We must remember that our foe is always trying to make us stumble, and we need to be smart enough to see it coming and rise up against it before he even gets to us.
These things have been on my mind lately. It's a very important thing for young people to learn. Because it is the key to building relationships with others. Loving Christ first will provide us with everything we need to love someome else. Even if it isn't a future spouse, but a brother, sister, mother, father or friend. When we allow God to choose for us and trust Him with the outcome, that's when we get our happily ever after.
In our day and time with all of these feminists crying "Anything you can do I can do better!", it's sometimes hard to remember what it's like to stop fighting to be like everyone else and just be the calm, cool, collected lady of grace that we were made to be. I watched a movie the other day called Ballet Shoes, it was about three orphan girls who were adopted from all over the world by a man in London and raised by his daughter as he traveled abroad. They lived in England during the 1940's and it showed how they went on in pursuit of their dreams. One wanted to be an actress, one an aviator and one a ballerina. But I realized something after watching it. Those girls, even at the ages of 12 through 16, had an element of grace that I was lacking. And I realized I wanted it.
Most modern day women and girls look at the image of an old Victorian looking woman in a long flowing dress and think that she was weak and inferior to any and all of her mail companions. But was she in reality? My mother heard a definition of meekness once that she loves to quote now. " Meekness is power under control." And I believe it's true. There is a stereotype of women in the pre-civil rights era who were abused, mistreated and inferior to men young and old. And in reality there were women who were in that position, that's why I think in a way, the civil rights movement ( I'm referring to the part where women won the right to vote and own property and no other part. ) was a very good thing. But it seems that we have taken it too far. We have forgotten what it was like to be a woman who was not mistreated, not abused and not inferior but still wore dresses, took care of the home, raised the children, and was all the while the epitome of grace and elegance.
Today our stereo types and role models of what a women should be are very different than what they used to be. We use the words "sexy", "alluring" and "irresistible" to define the "best" qualities a woman could have. Instead of "graceful", "self-controlled" and "diligent".
In the next few posts I'll go through a few things we as women have forgotten, myself included. And bring to light the lost art of being a lady.
Today after having a good day at church with some friends, my family and I went by Home Depot to pick up a rivet gun to fix the chimney with. While we were there I saw something that completely made my day.......you ready? 
