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There could be a hundred positive news stories and one negative one and the news channels would pick the negative one. I’ll try to post some positive stories on here to restore faith in humanity and help you find your smile!
I have one dream that stands above the rest of them. It is to have an overflowing funeral with people I have helped in one way or another. I hope some have come to know Jesus from my life, but as my life is going right now, I’m assuming that won’t happen sadly. I want there to be a celebration after a short sadness that might come from me not being alive anymore. I used to suffer from depression and in reality, I feel like I still have some of that depression still in me, because I really don’t think I have that much time left on this Earth. I try to make every moment count, but I fail more times than I care to think about. There’s so much negativity that is spread throughout our world, I’m sure there’s positive things that happen, but of course you never hear about any of that. It’s such a sad, sad world we live in.
There are some songs that fire me up, some songs that make me feel like I have wings again and that I can conquer the world. I wonder if anyone else has songs like that in their lives, I’m sure you do. I so badly want to change the world, and yet I keep doing stupid things that prevent me from succeeding at this task. My selfishness continues to hinder me in creating a better world, a more vibrant world of hope and love. When I was in middle school there were a few people I would call “Earth Angels” because they seemed to have such a positive impact on me during some of my dark moments. I think there are “Earth Angels” everywhere, but we never take the time to point them out when we see them, point out those people who are truly changing the world for the better. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE if you are reading this, comment below/email me/tweet me or whatever stories about these type of people in your own life. I would love to add them in this blog and let their stories be known.
One Dream. If my life doesn’t make it to much longer, I hope others will continue my dream, continue to get up and dust themselves off to become a better version of who they are and create a better world. We have it within each of us to do amazing things, we just need to believe.
Thank you and God bless.
I say this to everyone who asks how I’m doing. Some say it’s fake and I’m a liar. In some respects, they are right, I’m not always living the dream. But that’s only if you look at it one way… is my dream to clean toilets and pick up trash from others and feel like I’ve wasted my life? Not really. But because of the work I chose, I get to accomplish some dreams. Personally, I get to have shelter, a bed to sleep in, food to eat, luxuries like tv/tablets/phones/etc., streaming services, this blog, etc. Other exciting things are the fact that I get to have a ministry that one of my part-time jobs feeds into and I get to give money to things that I care about and that are changing lives. I get to sponsor four kids who I hope will live better lives because the help I’m able to give them. That is the greatest dream. One of my biggest goals in life is to have an overflowing funeral with people that I have helped in one way or another. I am not a good person, I have my own demons I’m fighting day in and day out. I make mistakes, I do stupid things. I do hope that I can do some things though that will make a positive change in the world and I don’t want to just be wasting breathe and waste this life or taking up space in this world that someone better could take. I am grateful for what I have, but I am happiest when I get to spend my money on others. I am selfish though and find myself buying junk I really don’t need but get anyways. What’s your dream? Are you living it? How are you living it?
Someday maybe people will see me and it’ll point them to Christ. They’ll wonder how I can be so happy and find out that it’s because of my faith in God and they’ll want that as well…. It’s a dream, we’ll see at the end if it happened or not.
God bless.
This is not the easiest thing to do, it is sometimes the hardest thing in the world to accomplish. But if you wake up every day and decide to have a great day, and find the positive in everything that comes up. If you work hard at creating a positive atmosphere, wherever you work, you will find fruit and a new life inside of that. This will create a life of happiness and you will truly live the dream. The greatest power of positivity, is the fact that it can spread like wildfire. One spark can change the course of the day, week, month, year forever. It’s been a blessing to be apart of this and to see it play out in my own life. When I walk into a room, I am greeted with a happiness and excitement, some people actually search me out for my joke of the day and positivity. We could choose to get angry, fight, and be negative…. or we can choose to fight the negativity in the world with positivity and show that the world can change for the better and the world can be changed forever to make it better for our future generations that we hand this world off too.
God Bless!
My entire life from birth to where I am now has been a blessing. God has had his hand guiding me step by step every single day. Obviously, there’s been a lot of those days that I push his hand aside and go my own way and quite honestly, things always seem to start going from worse to even worse when I do it. We are always fighting now, fighting the health officials who tell us to wear masks and stay 6 feet apart, fighting amongst each other because we don’t think we’re being treated right and think the worlds against us, not loving others, not helping others, not being kind to others…. The saddest thing about it all is that this is the world our children are growing up in, instead of showing them that we can overcome this, we are just spreading the same ashes that have been spread for years upon years. Try planting some seeds in the ashes, see if we can grow something and create something better for our future generations. The world has often said it doesn’t want God, but we need God more than ever. Honestly, look in the Bible for gratitude, love, peace, hope, kindness…. it’s filled with those types of lessons to teach us. Instead of trying to push God out of everything, why not just let Him do what He’s done best for the past thousand plus years and create a world filled with hope and love. Unclench that fist and open up your hand for a handshake or a high five, uncross your arms for a hug, open your eyes to the possibilities of what can be instead of always focusing on what has been. The only reason why the past isn’t behind us is because we keep digging it up and letting it repeat itself and show it’s ugly head. We have ALL been blessed abundantly, we still have breath in our lungs, food in our bellies and usually a place to find shelter. We have the freedom to speak what we want to speak, the freedom to be who we want to be, and the freedom to become something better than who we are today. Let’s not waste our lives with spitting anger, let’s use our lives to make the place a better place than when we entered it. Let’s create a masterpiece. May God give you strength and wisdom.
God bless
** THERE ARE SPOILERS PROBABLY SO DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN’T WATCHED THE MOVIE YET AND ARE PLANNING ON WATCHING IT. COME BACK AFTER AND READ IT THOUGH :)**
I watched this movie yesterday with my dad and enjoyed it. Some movies leave you with the sense of being able to conquer the world (usually the superhero ones do this for me), while other movies don’t really do any of that, but are good and have powerful meanings behind them if you really think about it.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is one of those types that didn’t leave me wanting to conquer the world, but it was entertaining to watch and the more you think about it, the more you’d realize how profound of a movie it really is. It shows you that although you may have a bad past or that others may have “destined” you to do something, you are not held by those expectations. You have the ability to create your own destiny, and in the world we live in I think that is extremely important to remember. A lot of people might look at their lives and say “Well, I’m this way so I have to act this way” or “I was brought up with this as my surrounding, so I have to follow in those footsteps”. In reality, we can be who we want to be, if you want to change the world, do it. No one is stopping you from doing amazingly extraordinary things with your life, except for yourself. A lot of times that is where we get lost, we think we aren’t strong enough or aren’t capable of doing something, so we don’t even try. We just sit back and let the world pass us by and don’t dare to dream of bigger dreams for ourselves. This movie exemplifies that you can dare to dream big dreams and you can accomplish them. Rey was “destined” to be on the dark side, and yet she dared to dream of a better life, and instead conquered the dark side, and she was willing to give up her own life to do it as well. Ben was doing everything he could to be a major player on the dark side, but the world had different plans for him and he became a powerful helper for the Jedi force. I know that last one kind of goes against what I’ve been writing about, but you’ll have to work with me on this one. The world is going to tell you sometimes that you can’t do something and allow your fear to conquer any possibilities of good things happening, just like in the movie when they were losing all hope because the darkness was playing tricks on them, but than there’s that still small voice that tells you to keep hope alive, and when you listen to it, you realize you were never alone at all but you have had an enormous community of friends and family backing you every step of the way. Create your dreams and follow your passions. If you fail, so what. If you fall down, so what. Get back up, dust yourself off and keep moving forward. You may get hit and take a few steps backward, but regain your strength and step foward again and again until you are living the dreams you have envisioned.
God bless and don’t forget to smile!!
If you have any success stories of you following your dreams, make sure you comment below or email me and let me know! I’d love to hear them!!
It doesn’t matter where you are in life or how much money you have, you can change the world. Simply listening to someone or telling jokes and making people smile can create a positive change that can impact the world and allow the light to flood in! Go out and do something kind. If you need a joke, try this one: I was addicted to the hokey pokey, but I turned myself around.
Live the dream!!
Everything changed for me in college, I wish I could say I deserved all the good things that have happened to me and that I worked hard to achieve what I have achieved. I’d be lying though, it was God all along. Every time he has opened my eyes to the greater purpose I could have for my life, I have forcefully shut them again and gone down the wrong path. I was part of a christian organization in college called Campus Crusade for Christ. Through my years as part of that organization, I became more and more prideful, to the point where I would think I had something to do with the success of it. I had nothing to do with it though, it was and will always be God. He worked through ordinary people to do extraordinary things, he brought people together that would remain friends to this day. You know Steph Mox that I have talked about on this site in the past? She was the beginning, she was the glue that held our group together and continues to shine in ways I could only dream of. Her husband’s light combined with hers has reached places that I don’t know if I’ll ever see in my lifetime. I took a different route, one that not many college graduates take in life, the path of a custodian. When you think of grand jobs, I guarantee you never think of a custodian as one of those jobs. It’s a job of little thanks, lots of messes and lots of just blah. It’s the perfect job for someone who needs to learn how to serve others without getting praised for it. Because of “Cru”, I had acquired the taste of serving others. It was something that I felt as a “Christ-like” person, I should be good at doing and strive to do more often. The thing is, I really really like praise, I really really enjoy awards and the pride of making things happen. That, my friends, is why I am who I am today. I am not a good person, but instead I struggle with pride. To the point where I get literally angry if other people don’t understand how good I am and if they can’t be as good as I am, then to (heck) with them. I don’t deserve this life and I don’t deserve the great things that have happened to my life. I am a sinner in need of a savior and my life is a total mess. But, that’s where my faith starts to shine through. I know that Jesus died for me, and I know that with his strength and through Him I may find a light that has always extinguished the darkness within me. He opened my eyes to the needs of the world and given me the jobs to accomplish those needs. I have one wish, one real dream….. that is that at the end of my life, I will have an overflowing funeral with those who I have helped in one way or another. You may not understand and that’s quite alright, I don’t understand it either. I do understand one thing though, that’s that I have been given everything in life so that I may use it to help others. I don’t always like helping others or doing what I have to do to help them, I complain all the time at work because of it and swear a lot because of it. But, in the end of the day, when I remember the scriptures that have been instilled in me, I remember that it doesn’t matter what I want or how I feel….it just matters that His glory be seen and His will be done. I started a ministry fund in college, since than I have added to it and when I prayed for a sustainable way to add to it, God answered me. I became poor. Well, to some they said I was poor, I never felt poor because I had everything still. But, through that, I picked up a second part-time job and a week or so later, got Full-time at my main part-time job. Being full-time allowed me to get back on my feet with that paycheck and live off of that paycheck, making my second part-time paycheck open to be used to grow my ministry fund. After a year or so of being full-time, that’s exactly what I did. I have been blessed with being able to sponsor four kids, donate to a survival program for newborn babies, and do countless other things with the money that I have earned. The greatest joy in life doesn’t come from owning gadgets and gizmos and the latest technology, it comes from getting letters from kids and hearing about how you are changing their lives. I am a horrible person, a worldly person, but God has used me to do extraordinary things. I will never deserve it, I will never be able to earn it, but it was a free gift that was given to me and I cherish it more than life itself. Cleaning toilets for a living just got a new appreciation from me, it allows God to work through me and it allows Him to teach me how to shed this pride and depend SOLELY on Him. Every hardship sheds new light on how powerful God is and the magnificent things he can accomplish if you put your trust in Him. I pray you will give Him a chance as I have and see if he can spark a flame within you that will burn bright and be Radiant.
God bless
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