Trampoline

One Christmas, I wanted a trampoline extremley bad. My neighbor had one and we always would play on it. I knew all the tricks that you could do on a trampoline. I could do front flips, aerials, backflips, back handsprings, toe touches, and many other silly things that me and my friend would make up. It was a form of exercise that we never saw as exercise, but instead, pure fun and excitement. I literally could spend hours jumping on the trampoline. That year, I made sure my letter to Santa emphazied the "I WANT A TRAMPOLINE PLEASE" part. Sure enough, good-old Santa Clause followed through. The most gigantic present I had ever had was placed in the living room when I went down the stairs on Christmas Day- the box of my brand-spankin'-new trampoline. Later on that day, my dad set up the trampoline in the backyard. In my eyes, it was the best and the springiest trampoline ever. I loved that trampoline so much. The same trampoline still sits in our backyard. And though the net has torn, the legs have bent from storms, the rust has taken over the springs, and only my lightest brother is allowed on it, I still look at it and remember the joy and memories it possesses.

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Thanksgiving

My family’s traditional thanksgiving meal is at my grandparent’s home here in Owensboro. My family from Bowling Green comes in and the house turns into chaos- and I love it. Grandmommy and mom are putting food on the counter, kids are running around like crazy people, and I just take it all in. The smell of the turkey and salty homemade foods make my mouth water, and I ALWAYS end up sneaking some meat before the meal officially starts. During the meal, I pile my plate with turkey, mashed potatoes, green beans, and my grandmother’s famous “pink stuff” (as I like to call it.) Everything is so perfect, and the day reminds me to always be thankful for the family I have all around me. I could not ask for a better family.

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Beautiul Earth

Seeing the images on the PowerPoint makes me realize the amazing, beautiful world we live in. Even with the lights and electricity, beauty still comes from it. The world is so beautiful to me and really displays how spectacular God’s creation is. I look at those pictures of the Earth and know that there are billions of people on those continents, all of which are going through different things. A person from one continent might have a completely different life than the other, but from outer space, you would never tell. God looks at us from that perspective also. He backs up and sees his world, and He loves each person equally: no matter what continent, no matter what color, no matter what culture. He made us. He loves us. And He made this beautiful world-for us.

We all have the opportunity to be…

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Poor, Ugly Little Bugs

You know when you are in class, you look up, and there are black shadows all over the retangular lights? Those are bugs. Dead bugs. To be honest, I found this out only years ago. I do not know how they get in there. Do they crawl through the cracks in the ceiling? Why do I never witness this? Do they crawl along electrical lines in the ceiling while we are listening to lectures? I wonder what they do when they finally reach the lights. Maybe they see a light at the end of the tunnel and run towards it in hope for a better life. Maybe they go into this lit compartment and just stay there in dumbness and confusion. Maybe they are on the lookout for new food. In the end and in despair, they die. That light is the end of their short life. The light, for them, means death. Poor, ugly little bugs.

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The Voice Thunders

Job 37:5-6
God's voice thunders in marvelous ways;
he does great things beyond our understanding
He says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth,'
and to the rain shower, 'Be a mighty downpour.'

This scripture's words are so powerful. It really shows the power of God among nature. He can make anything happen. His voice thunders, He commands the weather. There is no one like Him. The snow falls to the Earth because of His strong words. The rain pours on the ground because of His mighty power. All the great things He does are marvelous. We cannot comprehend why or how God is able to do these things. All we know is that it is because He is the creator, He is the King of Kings, and He can do anything and everything. I am so honored and grateful to be...

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Bank Deposits

Happiness is something that you can choose. Going into a situation, you can either decide it is going to be awful, or you can decide that you are going to accept it. Would you rather be negative and miserable? Or positive and happy? Throughout life, you must take the happy moments of your life and remember them. Recognize them as a blessing and deposit them in your memory so that you can dwell on them in later years.

We go through our every day life and miss so much of the blessings God has put in our life because we are not paying attention to them. We are choosing to feel the way we want to feel. We are choosing to not pay attention. We are choosing to dread things. We are choosing to be distracted. But we can also choose to be happy. Withdrawling happy moments from your past life will provide much joy in your future.

Knowing that you took hold of that oppurtunity, knowing that you were thankful for that situation, acknowledging that you were blessed, will make you happy. It is your choice. A situation can be viewed as good or bad depending on your perspective of it. Choose to be happy. Choose to accept the things that you cannot control. Choose to be happy for others and thankful for others. You never know how much happiness you will need to withdrawl towards the end of your life.

So save up.

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Words

Ecclesiastes 7:21-22
Do not pay attention to every word people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you- for you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others.


*I know we hear things during the day that we don't like: like people talking bad about us or someone we are close to. If we pay attention to every word people say, and take it to heart, and get angry about it, it will not always be helpful to the situation. Also, we have to realize that even we say mean or degrading things about others out loud and even more in our minds. We just need to calm ourselves and learn to ignore and not think mean thoughts either.

If someone says something mean to me or does something rude, I always think this: at the end of the day, when that person is laying in their beds, is that the thing they are going to remember and dwell on before they go to sleep? Most likely not. So that is one reason why we cannot take everything to heart.

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