Hey all! As I am sitting down to write this, I am feeling much better than I was even a few minutes ago. It's amazing that when you pray to Him, all you have to do is change your perspective that He has it all under control, and you immediately feel better. Wow, what a great God we serve! Anyways, today during my english class, we got to go see the Art Attack art show that is taking place throughout our high school. Art Attack is where students who are in art classes get to display their artwork all around school and they have the opportunity to win prizes. Today we took a field trip during english to go visit the art. Our assignment was to write something about the art. We could write our response to a piece, or write a story in which we were in a piece, or even just write a letter to an artist. I found this acrylic piece that when I saw it I immediately knew I wanted to write to the author. Her acrylic piece was of Jesus hanging on the cross. It was done by a senior named Laura. As soon as I saw it, I sat down and started constructing a letter to this girl. I told her all about this journey that I'm going on and how it has really effected me personally, and then I told her that it was incredible that she would do this piece of work. I told her that she needed to stay strong with her faith and to keep living for Him, even when it got hard and it seemed as if no one else understood. I told her all about this blog and how I led Ashley to Jesus last weekend. I told her that I'm only wearing seven clothing items all month and that last month I gave seven things away every day for the entire month. I ended my letter telling her that her painting was a bright spot in my day and that it encouraged me to keep going strong. Finally, I ended it saying that I was glad that she was just as much in love with Jesus as I was, and that I was glad that we weren't alone in this. I then gave that letter to my teacher, who is going to deliver it to her tomorrow at about 1:30pm. So if any of you wanted to pray tomorrow that Laura would feel loved by her Savior when she received the letter and that she would accept it with open arms, that would be great. It's amazing how many people I have come in contact with who I have been able to talk about Jesus with. God is using me in ways that I could have never imagined. I can't wait to see what else He has in store:)
It's funny how we as a society don't want to hear the truth. I am sitting here at my computer listening to One Direction while writing, and I was listening to the song "Tell Me a Lie", which is where the guys sing about how a girl breaks up with them, but if it is because she wants to be with another guy, they don't want to hear it. How true is that in today's world? We don't want to hear the truth, so instead we would rather hear a lie to make us feel better about ourselves. That feeds into my idea of we don't know that we are made perfectly by our Creator and we can't do anything to ourselves to make Him love us more. How messed up is that? We can't take the truth and would rather hear something ELSE to make US feel better (we discuss this in english class all the time). This month, I would rather someone just come up to me and ask me if I have been wearing the same clothes every day rather than them just being nice to me and avoid the topic all together. I know that some people have noticed, and yet they don't say anything about it. That's rude, in my opinion. I am going to be rejoicing when someone tells me that they noticed I am wearing the same clothes. I LITERALLY WILL BE SO HAPPY, because it's better than living in this false lie that it isn't happening, when really it is. I understand that denial can be a defense mechanism, but it bugs me so much. There is this kid in my english class who on Day 16 told me that I wasn't looking too good. At first I thought to myself, did he really just say that? And then I almost wanted to go up and kiss him. I was like, FINALLY an honest person. Where have all these people gone? It seems as if we would rather sweet talk our friends so that they are never mad at us (which I can understand to a point) than be honest and tell people what we really think. Sometimes it is appropriate to hold our tongues, and not be so judgmental, but sometimes you just need to be blunt with what you are thinking. I have a friend at school that bugs me so much. She can get so worked up about little things, and finally today I was like, you need to stop being so difficult and listen to what others have to say. She kind of gave me a funny look, but then she took my advice and it was so much better. Sometimes you just need to take charge and be honest. Because if you don't, then it's possible that no one else will either.
That's all I have for today. Thanks for always reading! xoxo m
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