Letting Go

Letting go is the hardest part in any relationship. Whether it’s saying goodbye to a loved one who has passed on or letting your son or daughter go away to college. When you love someone, saying goodbye is very hard and we want to be selfish and keep them to ourselves. But if we don’t let go, we won’t be able to see what God has in store us and them. Sometimes we know letting go is for the best and sometimes we don’t see it. Like letting go of one of your best friends, not knowing if you will ever see them again. But we need to move on and see what God has planned for our lives, it may take times to accept, but we have to. It will never be easy, I know cause I’m going through it right now. I don’t want to leave my friends, my teacher, or my school. I love where I am in life and i never want to leave. But someone said to me, “God put me in your life for this time and now it’s time to on.” I promise God knows what He is doing. If He wants us to stay in one spot forever, we will. We need to live our lives according to God’s plan, not ours. We think what we want is best, sometimes it is and sometimes it isn’t. We need to trust and understand that God knows what is going to happen. God knows when it’s time to move on from one life to the next, the old city to the new, even when someone’s earthly life is over and their heavenly life begins. It is never easy but it’s what God wants.
This is dedicated to all my friends and teachers at HCS. I love you all and thank you for all the WONDERFUL years together. I will always be there for you! God Bless!

Trust

Trust is a very important quality. We base most of our relationships on trust. Our best friends are the people we trust most. We would trust them with our deepest and darkest secrets and we trust they wouldn’t tell anyone. Our other friends we pick and choose what we tell. If we can’t be trusted, we will get very lonely very fast. One person we should always trust is God. Even when we don’t know what’s going to happen. God knows what’s best for us even if it means fighting for our country or leaving everything behind to become a missionary in Africa. Even if it’s not what we want or our loved ones want. We should want what God wants for us. I know I keep repeating myself, but it is so important in our relationship with Jesus. Without trust in God, our relationship is pointless. I think it’s pretty important if it’s on all the U.S. Currency. If we trust God we won’t be scared of the unknown, won’t worry about why things happened, or what we are supposed to do. All God asks of us is to love Him and others and trust HIm. Trust is a key in life. How we trust and who we trust can make us or break us. If we waste our time trusting people we know we can’t, it’s our own fault we the turn around and stab us in the back, not for them hurting us but for trusting them. But we can’t push everyone away after one bad experience. We need people around us to heal. So be careful who you trust and what you trust them with. But ALWAYS trust God.
God is love. Rev. Run
P.S. This is not Rev. Run, I just felt like putting that.

Death

The death of someone we know effects us in one way or another. Whether it was a loved one or just a friend, it hurts. I’ve only been to three funerals in my life and they always say its a celebration of their life, but its so hard to focus on the good when you know never are going to see them until we die. But we really should be happy for them and all they did in the one life they got. We should be happy for the time we got to spend with that person and be grateful that God put them in our lives. They are free of pain and suffering now, they truly are in a WAY better place than here on this earth. Not only are they free of pain, but they get to spend time with the Creator of the heavens and earth. What is better than that? They get to ask God all their questions and find all the answers. So, we should never be sad that someone is gone, but rejoice that they are happier than they will ever be on this earth. Its ok to miss them but don’t let it ruin your day. There will be new friends and new people, of course they will never replace that person, but they are there to comfort you. God had a reason why He took them away and it is always the right reason. It May not be what we want, but its what God wants and that is what is important.

My 8th Grade Year

This year I wasn't sure what to expect. I had new teachers that I didn't really know , I wondered if there were new kids, and I had no idea what we were going to learn about. But after the first few days, I knew that this was going to be an amazing year. First, science was amazing, not because of science, but because of Mr. Funk, he was amazingly funny and was always making us laugh! All his dances, jokes and little saying were soo FUNNY!! Then Mr. Kridner, what can I say about him? He is an amazing teacher and a very godly man and he inspires me to be a better Christian. I have him for history, math and Bible, which are my favorite classes. Bible classes are just amazing and there are no words to describe them. God was always with us for what ever we did. The D.C. trip was amazing! We had so much fun. I love looking at the old buildings and all the history there, even if it was hotter than heck. But i got to spend time with my friends and teacher, and boy did I take a lot of pics!! Oh, and our Mexico trip was amazing too! We went down just past the boarder to help a man named a Fransico at his orphange. We had so much fun helping the kids and playing with them and hugging them. It was a trip I will never forget it and i hope to go back soon.
This year i built new friendships, fixed old ones and moved on from others. But one relationship i know has grow is my relationshio with God. With Mr. Kridner's help, i grew spiritually this year than i ever have before. Now i have the foundation to live a Christ-like life.
Now that graduation creeps ever near, i try to look back and remember the good times. Remember what we did and how we did it. I love all my classmates and teachers and will miss them very much!!
LANGLEY!!!!!!

Friendship

Friend are people we consider closer than acquaints. We also have best friends (BF or BFF). Our friends say that they will always be there for us through good and bad. But being friends with lots of people cause problems. When one friend is mad at another friend, you always get stuck in the middle, and being in the middle always hurts you more than it does the two people fighting. But every friendship has its ups and downs.
When you feel like you are growing apart from a friend, a friend that is your best friend, it feels like you have a hole in you. A big hole that makes you feel vulnerable. You think its your fault, but can you ever really know? I’m sure you were both at fault in some way or another. You see the signs of a failing friendship and it makes you sad, but you don’t know what to do. I say if the relationship was meant to be it will work out, but if it doesn’t then it wasn’t meant to be a life long friendship. But thats ok. You will have so many friend, some best friend that you’ll be friends with till you die or friends that you see once a month. Some one said friendships are like seasons, we have plentiful seasons and we have scarce seasons. But what we make out of them shows your true character. You will always have one friend, God. God is always there for you and will never leave you. Take comfort in that.
So when you go through the ending of a friendship, remember that there is always a new friend waiting around the corner for you. Even if you can only count your true friends on one hand, thank God that you have that many.

Choices

The choices we make effect everything else, wether it be bad or good. Life is made up of choices. When we make a choice it needs to be what God wants and not what we want. God knows what is best for us and would never do something that He doesn’t have a plan for. Though at times it seems like we are going no where, God knows what’s going on. It seems like a lot of work following God’s plan, but if we just pray for God to help us and do His will, it will be ok. It won’t be easy, cause life is not easy. But with God by your side, nothing is impossible. So if we make the choices that God has planned for us, life will be easier. It’s all a choice, from picking out your clothes in the morning or choosing wether you are going to live in Africa and be a missionary. Some are simple and some require praying, a lot of praying. Praying is essential to find the answers. The answers to our questions only come from God.

Thank You

We say thank you when we receive something. But are we really thankful? Some of us just say it because we want to be respectful. What does it mean to be thankful? When we are thankful, we are happy with what God has blessed us with. Everything we have comes from God, our wealth,our downfalls, and our lives. Even when things are bad and not going the way we want them to, we need to be thankful for what God is doing and trust Him. Bad and good, happy times and sad times, hard times and easy time, we need to stop and take the time to thank God, weather it’s 5 in the morning or at 12 at night. Without God’s blessings we wouldn’t have anything, not even life. We also need to be thankful because we are so fortunate. We complain about having to walk around on vacation, some people don’t never get a vacation. Or ugly clothes, some people would be happy to get a pair of socks. All these things things we take for granted which we should be thankful for. God has blessed us! We need to remember that and live thankful and humble lives. If we aren’t thankful we become proud and selfish. Being thankful keeps us humble and thats what God wants. Be thankful!