Wild Flowers

 "When you like a flower, you pick it, but when you love a flower you water it."

 This is what I think about when I think about God's love for us. He didn't just like us enough to pick us because we were pretty. He watered, fertilized, and invested in us because he loves us. 

 Flowers (generally) have nothing to offer humans but enjoyment. The same as such that we have nothing to offer God. But the problem is we all (generally, including myself) just assume we are a potted plant. We make the presumption that we are to sit, stay in one place, then die. That is where we are wrong. God created us to be wild flowers, he created us to go and do, reach out and prosper, make His name known. I think that's why Christianity is failing. For the most part, we as Christians are sitting in our pots and getting watered and fertilized, but doing nothing about but sitting there. Now is time more than ever for us to become wild flowers. 

 A patch of dandelion started with one flower who dared into the unknown, so what are we waiting for?

5 Things About Loss

 This isn't typically the sort of thing I post on here, but it's my blog and I can post whatever I want to so oh well.

 Loss is a vast concept, it can range from your pet gerbil from when you were five dying or your best friend passing on. This is something I think we all have gone through or will go through at some point in our time here on earth. This is just a general list of things I think everyone needs to hear about this topic. 

1. This is all temporary 

 As much as it may hurt now, it will all go away. One day when our person(s) meet us at the flood gates of heaven we are going to feel so silly about mourning all this time! 

2. They would want you to be happy

 Yes, loss stinks and nothing will ever be quite the same. But in the scheme of everything somehow we have to learn cope and try to create our new happiness, for that's what our loved one would have wanted.

3. You have to deal with it

 You may think that waiting until you are older or waiting until you are at a certain point in life or whatever the case my be might be better than dealing with it now is better. You are wrong. Waiting to deal with it only bottles up years and years of emotions that our human nervous system is not prepared to deal with all at one time. It may hurt now, but trust me, it's so much better.

4. You are not alone

 No matter what you think someone else in this world has lost a father, best friend, mother, sister, child, etc. And guess what? They made it through and so can you. Don't be afraid to reach out to someone and ask for help. Above all of that though, Jesus always has a shoulder to cry on.

5. God has a plan

 I do not believe that God gives people cancer, or diseases, or anything else that might entitle passing on. I believe that is just something he allows to happen, not something he provides. But it is most definitely something he can use. Whenever you are going through a loss just know that God knew exactly what he was doing when he allowed it to happen.

 

"New Year New Me"

 "2016 is going to be my year!" "New Year, New Me!" Do these people actually think that a date on a calander is going to automatically change their life situation?? Like honestly, when you think about it, how much sense does that make to you? 

 Don't take me the wrong way, reinventing yourself can be a great thing, but just because the date on the calander changed doesn't mean you are automatically going to have a better life.

 There is only one thing in this world that can offer you that, and He is not of the World. His name is Jesus, have you heard of him? No matter what kind of rotten mess you have gotten yourself into, He can get you out, all you have to do is ask him. Seriously that's it, ask him to help you and he does.

To me, that's a really cool concept to think about. The Creator of the Universe wants to help me with any problem I may face, no matter what year it is. The only problem is I think I can handle it myself, but that doesn't work for me and it won't work for you either.