My name is Elisabeth Taylor. I'm 5'5", have brown hair and hazel eyes. I'm fair skinned and about the closest thing to a tan I can get is freckles. I would rather wear jeans and a Tshirt everyday of my life than dress up, but I care to much about people's opinion of me, which usually prevents me from doing so. I am a perfectionist in every sense of the word. My room is spotless and my homework is always done early and turned in on time, my life is organized and my check lists are my life. I love the outdoors and thrive on adventure in God's great universe. Music is my passion, and singing always makes everything better. I'm almost a pilot and one of my dreams is to become a professional mountain climber. I love travelling, but home is always a good place. I am a GRITS girl (girl raised in the south) and proud of it. I love monkeys and my Chacos. Oh, and chocolate always makes my day better!
I read the paragraph above and i should know exactly who i am. According to the world, that is who i am. But who am i really? According to God I am something different, i am His child. A young woman who was raised in an SDA home for a reason, someone who was trained to spread His word to the world. Asked by Him to live my life in way that would glorify Him and draw people closer to Him. I am someone who has messed up more times than i could ever dream of counting, but was still given another chance because He loves me. I am someone who's life God has a specific purpose for. Someone that God wants to do great things through, if i would only surrender my life to Him and let Him guide me.
But you know what the best part is? We are all that person to God. We are all loved by Him more than we could ever dream or imagine. And we are all asked to look in the mirror and ask ourselves, "Who am i to God?"
Friday, April 27, 2012
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Love
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved."
- Shakespeare
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails."
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
Love is one of those things in this life that cannot be understood unless it is experienced. If it is present it can came make someone want to live forever, and if absent snatch the life right out of them.
Love is always stereotyped as feelings one might have for someone of the opposite gender, but it is so much more than that. Love is the ONLY reason that we still exist, and to love is our soul purpose. Yet how many of us really know how to love? I don't just mean the "i love my cat" or "I love pizza" kind, but the kind of love that always puts others first, or would be willing to lay down its life for another. I think if there were more people out there who spent their lives learning how to love instead of becoming the perfect person or putting on the best show, we would have a completely different world... and you and I could be the ones to start making that difference...
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved."
- Shakespeare
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails."
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
Love is one of those things in this life that cannot be understood unless it is experienced. If it is present it can came make someone want to live forever, and if absent snatch the life right out of them.
Love is always stereotyped as feelings one might have for someone of the opposite gender, but it is so much more than that. Love is the ONLY reason that we still exist, and to love is our soul purpose. Yet how many of us really know how to love? I don't just mean the "i love my cat" or "I love pizza" kind, but the kind of love that always puts others first, or would be willing to lay down its life for another. I think if there were more people out there who spent their lives learning how to love instead of becoming the perfect person or putting on the best show, we would have a completely different world... and you and I could be the ones to start making that difference...
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