I am happy that I am Christian. I am happy to be in the light, and I want everyone to be in it with me. I don't know how anyone could completely reject it before they ever gave it a chance. I promise you, if you did give it a chance it would change your life, as it changed mine.

I am not perfect by any means, and I do not think I am any better than anyone in this world. I want to love everyone like Christ loves me. I want to serve those around me. I want to serve the ones who need to be served and the ones who don't need to be served. I want to do good. Jesus says that some people will hate me in this world. In the past year, I have had a good long taste of that. I hate it. I really do. Mostly because it makes me cry. Secretly.

I don't want them to like me just to please me. Especially if they are of this world. They're really nice to my face, but say nasty things about me behind my back. I don't care about that. I care about how it all began. They rejected Christ, and that is in every way bad. I don't say this in a light manner. I know that I have shown them the bread of life, and what did they do? They took it out of my hands, chewed it up, and spit it in my face. I'm not a people pleaser, so when I tell you the Truth, i'm not going to lie to you and tell you that it's all fine and okay with what you're doing.

I don't know, i guess I'm just really hurt by everything that has gone on recently. I've lost too many people I love and really care for to the lies they have been tempted by and chose to believe in. People that I really wanted to see do well. People who were on the right path, and just turned around and walked the other way. People who gave up. But the Lord says

¹³"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. ¹⁴But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." Matthew 7

and

³⁴ “Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace to the earth! I came not to bring peace, but a sword.³⁵ ‘I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. ³⁶ Your enemies will be right in your own household!’ ^{³⁷ “If you love your father or mother more than you love me, you are not worthy of being mine; or if you love your son or daughter more than me, you are not worthy of being mine. ³⁸ If you refuse to take up your cross and follow me, you are not worthy of being mine. ³⁹ If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up your life for me, you will find it." -Matthew 10}

Still, I pray all the time for these people. I know they don't care or appreciate it, but I hate the the thought that Jesus came with a sword to divide me, one of the believers, and the people I love so much but don't believe. There is still time and hope. I have faith that God will do an amazing and mighty work in their hearts. Whatever the outcome may be, all knees will bend and glorify Him! I'm glad that my knees will do that willfully!

Happy birthday Aneya!

My bachelorette party was fun. At some point while bowling, I looked over and saw these underage girls all chatting, unaware of the previously emptied alcohol glasses in front of them. Shortly thereafter the group moved to a different location. Classic.

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Update:

I posted a blog earlier, and I realized that it was the first time I'd updated this thing in about a month now. I don't have any pictures to share my experiences in the past month. Well, I suppose I do. They're just on my phone.

Since my nephew has been born, my brother got in a crazy car accident, rolled three times, and by the grace of God he survived without a scratch. I stopped biting my nails. I'm not going cold turkey though. "Bite no more" is getting me through this lengthy 3 month process. On September 5th my life was almost completed when Blindside came to the stage at Freedom fest.

I found a few pictures for this one. I have NEVER seen Cliffs Amusement Park so packed.

They honestly put on the best show I have ever seen. I love that all of their lyrics are about how big of a role Jesus plays in their life, and how much of a role He should play in our lives.

About 14 days after this glorious day I kept the Blindside going and walked down the aisle to their song "Shekina" to marry my wonderful Husband, Kelly Bransford. Oh yeah, I have a [bad] picture for this one too.

We have now been happily married for 11 days, and Jethro (our dog) isn't living the separated parent lifestyle any more. Poor dog, it must have been rough on him.

Anyway, maybe I'll update more. Well, they'll be pointless from here on out. Maybe. I did get two crock pots as a wedding gift so maybe I'll make some interesting stuff and post a few pictures.

daycare is expensive.

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Aw, Jethro. He's kind of a bad dog, but I still love him. I donLt know what Kelly has been teaching him lately, but he doesn't listen to me.