I’m a Christian blogger who was told (many times) that I talk too much, hence the name Mrs. Talk Your Ears Off! I will share my love of music, stories of my life including my husband and kids, tips and tricks for almost anything and everything, some of my talents, and so much more! Sometimes I may share some things that aren’t Christian related, but I do keep it clean and always have a good reason for it! I’m not perfect, but who is? I welcome you with a smile, a hug and a couple of high fives!
So many of us are looking for love. Although many of us have found love, true love is not the definition of what we believe it to be. I feel happy and in love with my husband all the time, but anyone who has ever been married or been in love with someone knows that it has it’s ups and downs. Why? Because we change and we change how we feel, what we believe, how we act, etc. So, why do so many of us still have that longing for something more? When we seek God’s love in our lives, why do we still, at times, feel like we are missing something? Is it because we are ever changing and once we feel we’ve had our fill, we stop seeking? Or is it that we start listening to others, like in our own relationships, and let other’s opinions ruin our relationship with God? I don’t have all of the answers, but I know I have often felt the pain and heartache that I shouldn’t have to. If I just focused on my relationship with God instead of letting others determine the way my relationship should go, things would go much smoother. This is exactly what I have decided to do and share with you! So if you’re still looking for love, listen to this song…I love it.
I was never someone who struggled with my weight, until I had kids. Am I large? No. I have been told by many that I “look good” for someone who has had four kids. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t struggle everyday with my weight. Why is that though? So many of us women are okay with how we look, until we turn on the TV, stand in line looking at all of the physically fit models on the magazines, and younger, more fit women we see everyday, or the way people treat those who may be more fit than us.
I was one of those “size zero” girls until I was 20 years old and was always told that I needed to eat. Problem was I ate all of the time, any and every thing, and never gained any weight. Now that I have four children, I have struggled to get rid of the “baby fat” that has accumulated in my stomach. There are far many other women who have eating disorders and other more serious issues that may require some professional help, but I do have the power to change my circumstances and so do you! It begins with you admitting your issues and telling someone you need help, but you have to really want it!
I am not here to say that you have to be a size zero, but we can be healthy! All of us come in different shapes, sizes, etc. So, just for those of you who don’t feel beautiful, here’s a little something that might just lift your spirits and get you a little more motivated than you have been! Even if the world calls us fat or doesn’t like the way we look, remember, we are God’s beautiful creation… “This planet is His canvas, and you His Mona Lisa”
PRo – Beautiful
PRo no longer goes by that name. He is now Derek Minor and is part of the 116 Clique. If you don’t know who they are, Google them. Lyrics to the song are posted below the video.
[Chorus – PK]
Something like my Maker, I say you the best
I know you can’t see it all by yourself
But you are beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
‘Cause God ain’t made you like anybody else
Don’t let nobody tell you that you anything less
‘Cause you are beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, yeah
[Verse 1 – PRo]
She check out her reflection in the mirror
But some reason, she don’t see that beauty is in the picture
Thinking her image flawed ‘cause he ain’t made her like these models
Or her figure’s a mistake, he only making Coke bottles
Naw, Coke bottles are plastic
Mannequins are plastic but you are fantastic
She don’t believe it so it’s driving her insane
This diet don’t seem to work, she eating to ease the pain
The world tell her that somehow she doesn’t matter
Besides, the perfect girls live happily ever after.
No idea she been crafted by the Master
Uniquely in his image baby, that is no disaster
[Chorus – PK]
Something like my Maker, I say you the best
I know you can’t see it all by yourself
But you are beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
‘Cause God ain’t made you like anybody else
Don’t let nobody tell you that you anything less
‘Cause you are beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, yeah
[Verse 2 – PRo]
She begging for a hero, but villains is all she see though
Thinks she’s less than other people, she is a size zero
Her ribs touching, not ‘cause of a lack of food
But after every meal, she heads to the bathroom
Stick her finger down her throat, thinking that will give her hope
If her weight will never grow, maybe they will love her more
On a journey to acceptance ‘cause she ain’t been there before
She ain’t perfect, and commercials do their best to let her know
But if she only knew who she was in God’s view
Made his children with a purpose, girl and that includes you
Let this statement give you comfort boo, ‘cause that includes truth
God is in love with you, you ain’t gotta look far for proof
[Chorus – PK]
Something like my Maker, I say you the best
I know you can’t see it all by yourself
But you are beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
‘Cause God ain’t made you like anybody else
Don’t let nobody tell you that you anything less
‘Cause you are beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, yeah
[Verse 3 – PRo]
I wrote this for you, this is your song
You his baby doll, I know I ain’t wrong
Beauty’s from the Creator, and it ain’t measured in weight
You are great just how you are, I don’t care what that TV say
Your DNA is complete, his artistry’s in your genes
That don’t make him less creative ‘cause you don’t fit in them jeans
You ain’t got a clue the way he see you
This planet is his canvas, and you his Mona Lisa …
[Chorus – PK]
Something like my Maker, I say you the best
I know you can’t see it all by yourself
But you are beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
‘Cause God ain’t made you like anybody else
Don’t let nobody tell you that you anything less
‘Cause you are beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, yeah
It’s nearing the end of September, which means the holidays are right around the corner. I love the holidays and having four little children makes it even more exciting! I decided to start with Christmas, and although it is still quite far away, it will be Christmas before you know it!
This series is intended for all of you who LOVE the Holidays as much as I do! If you enjoy the warm fuzzy feelings the holidays bring, this series is just for you! Now, lets get to the five things my family must do during the holidays. We’ll begin with the Christmas Season!
1. OH CHRISTMAS TREE!
The day after Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year! We get out the Christmas Tree, ornaments, stockings, and other decor. Next we put on some Christmas music, specifically The Christmas Song by Nat King Cole, which sets the mood, and follow up with some Christmas classics, such as the songs you hear on Home Alone, and of course, Mariah Carey’s Christmas Albums (specifically for myself, lol). We make some hot chocolate, filled with the marshmallows and sip it as we sing and put the ornaments on the tree. We talk about all of the fun times we have during the holidays as the spirit of Christmas is ringing in.
2. CHRISTMAS CHAIN!
Do you remember in elementary school when you would make the green and red Christmas chain? It was where the green and red strips were interlocked and you would rip off one and the chain got shorter each night. Well, ever since then I made the same chain every year growing up and as I had my own family. Now whenever I make it, instead of just plain green and red links, I write on each link a verse or set of Bible verses from the Bible of Jesus’ birth. Each night we take off one of the links and read the verses and discuss the true meaning of Christmas to us. Yes “Jesus is the reason for the season!” I’m sure you’ve heard that before! Here’s a link to learn how to make the Christmas Chain, but don’t forget to put the Bible verses you want or you can simply put the numbers for the countdown!
3. CHRISTMAS LIGHTS!
How many times have you been driving at night and see almost every house lit up with Christmas lights? Every year, we see some amazing houses with Christmas decorations. We love to take a tour all over Las Vegas during the season, but not for the Vegas lights, lol! Here is a video of one of our kid’s favorite houses that we drive by almost every day! Every year they have more lights! It’s fascinating!
4. BAKE AND WATCH!
One of mine and the kid’s favorite things to do is bake Christmas cookies! I found a simple recipe several years back that takes little time to do I also shared the recipe in a previous post titled Christmas Sugar Cookies Recipe. Of course we bake other things as well when we have the time, but these are simple and you can make many in little time! They’re simply Sugar Cookies. Here’s a link to the Sugar Cookies recipe and the recipe is also listed below. This is sort of a two in one because we also LOVE to watch Christmas movies! Yes, I let my kids believe in Santa Claus, but I have always taught them the true meaning of Christmas and teach them to give as well. So of course we have a list of our favorites. We watch and like other movies, but Christmas without these would not be Christmas at all. These are some of our favorites: Home Alone 1 and 2, Tim Allen’s The Santa Clause (1, 2, and 3), Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (animated TV Special 1970), Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964), Santa Claus the Movie (with Dudley Moore, John Lithgow, 1985), Elf (Will Ferrel and obviously we don’t watch this with the kids, lol), It’s A Wonderful Life (a classic! 1947), Last Holiday (2006), Perfect Holiday (2007), and of course A Christmas Story (1983).
***The recipe listed below is the original recipe that was posted on the website in the link above. I do modify the recipe to my family’s liking, so I do not make the cookies EXACTLY as they are in the recipe below, so feel free to do the same!***
A simple sugar cookie recipe with a tender, flaky texture and a buttery taste. Yum!
Makes about 24
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg
1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla
3 cups all-purpose flour
1-1/4 teaspoons baking powder
Beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla, mix until just combined. Add flour and baking powder in intervals. Dough will seem as if doesn’t have enough moisture but continue to mix with mixer until combined (it will come together when chilled). Divide the dough into four equal parts, shape into four disks, wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate about an hour or until firm. Preheat oven to 375 F. Lightly grease baking sheets or line with parchment paper or a non-stick baking mat. Roll out dough between 2 sheets of waxed paper, about 1/4 inch thick for crispier cookies and 1/3 inch thick for softer cookies. Cut out shapes with cookie cutters and place on prepared baking sheets. Bake for 7-8 minutes or until edges just start to turn a golden color. For softer cookies, do not allow the cookies to take on color. Remove from oven, let cool for one minute and then transfer to wire rack. Allow cookie sheet to cool thoroughly before placing uncooked dough on it. Decorate cookies with Royal Icing or Buttercream Frosting and sprinkles.
Can be stored in freezer undecorated for 2 months. Dough also freezes well.
Note: Yield varies greatly depending on how thin you roll out the dough and how large your cookie cutters are, but an overall guideline is 24 cookies.
5. CHRISTMAS EVE
Christmas Eve is no doubt my kid’s favorite! They absolutely love it because they know Santa will be on his way and we get to set out a plate of cookies with some milk. Christmas Eve is usually spent at one family’s house (whichever family member decides to have it at their home) and we all gather around for food and exchange gifts. After that, we usually go home, put on another Christmas movie, then get ready for bed. We always let the kids open one gift for Christmas. We usually do the “From Mommy and Daddy” gifts and save the “From Santa” gifts for Christmas morning. Most times it’s something they can sleep in (my kids love comfy pajamas) or something they can use immediately…it’s more fun that way. Then we get the cookies and milk together for Santa and send the kids off to bed. They are so excited and so are we! The next morning everyone is up before the sun! We say a prayer together thanking God that Jesus was born to save us from our sins, sing Happy Birthday to Jesus and then open presents! By then we are all exhausted and fall back to sleep (well, the adults do at least), until it’s time to get ready to visit more family!
What are some of the things your family MUST do during the holidays? I would love for you to share with me some of those things, ideas, traditions, etc. that you do for the holidays! Stay tuned for more posts about the holidays. Thanksgiving and Halloween will be incorporated into some of these posts as well. Happy Holidays!
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This weekend was really tough for me. I saw that one of my old jr. high/high school friends (who I had not been around since high school) passed away (on my husband’s birthday). Having not been there for many years and just finally reconnecting through Facebook and seeing his condition and then getting word that he had passed brought up a lot of emotions. It may seem weird to some to know that I was extremely emotional, especially because I wasn’t even as close to him as those who have been there for him. But I tell you, death has a way of bringing up some emotions you may have suppressed for many years.
When I was about 11, I remember my Grandpa passing away. Since then, I have put away my feelings of sadness and always tried to cover them up with happy thoughts and put on a smile. It was hard for me then, and even more difficult for me to deal with now. I just lost my other Grandpa last year, August 3, 2012 to be exact. It was also difficult because I never got the chance to say goodbye. So, of course, like I said before, some may feel that I shouldn’t even feel the way I do about someone I hadn’t been around since high school. Sometimes people leave an impression on your heart, even from far away. Seeing how many people were always around him, knowing we had the same mutual friends, seeing the love others had for him, knowing we were both Gemini’s (it’s really a Gemini thing), and the way he was always an uplifting spirit and could tell you like it is at any given moment, definitely left me with something. One thing I can honestly say that I learned from him, even at a distance, was that we need to be strong! Live a fun life and always live to your full potential! I remember one of his last posts saying that although he was sick, he was still the same person!
To any of his family and close friends who are reading this, I would just like to say that I am so sorry for your loss. It has been tough on me from far away and not having had the chance to say goodbye, so for you all, I’m sure it’s even more difficult because you were able to know such a wonderful, strong person. I will continue to pray for you and your loss! One thing I’m leaving you with today is a song. It’s by Mercy Me, called Homesick. It’s about losing our loved ones and being homesick for our next home (heaven) because our loved ones are there! I know my grandparents and Joe are looking down on us and will be there to greet us all when we are also called home!
In honor of mine and my husband’s 10 year wedding anniversary tomorrow, August 23, 2013, I am going to share with you some of the songs that make up a part of the soundtrack of our life! I know I usually share my faith and of course as we have grown over the years, our faith has grown stronger. Here are some of the things I’d like to share! I’m excited to share them with you!
This song by Jagged Edge was a song that my husband dedicated to me when we were dating. I remember being at my good friend Keishana’s house and he called me on my phone just to tell me he loved me and dedicated this song to me. I know it sounds cheesy, but how many of you men did special similar things for the special lady in your life? Okay, not so cheesy now is it? LOL. But seriously, loved it and the words stuck with me forever! I held him to it too!
Jagged Edge – I Gotta Be
Okay, so we had a rough area in our dating relationship, where we were apart for a few months. Most of my friends didn’t know that I was dating Leotis in my senior year of high school, but then broke up a couple of months before prom. Of course, I was devastated and felt so sad that I had lost the one I really loved. I didn’t want him to get away. I ended up going to prom with someone else, and then we ended up having dinner at a place where Leotis had previously worked. To make matters worse, the guy that went with me to prom actually wanted to be in a relationship. That just didn’t sit well with me. Obviously it didn’t because I started ‘Smokin’ Cigarettes at night’ lol.
Tweet – Smokin Cigarettes
So, one day as I was leaving work and locking up, I see a car, similar to Leotis’ and hear music playing. I see a guy get out of the car with a single rose in his hand and this song playing. Of course we were meant to be!
Case – I’m Missing You
We knew we loved each other, so one day, April 1, 2003 to be exact (April Fool’s Day) he asked me to marry him. Funny thing is, we had ordered a pizza at my parent’s house, which is where I lived until the day we said I do, and when I turned around from getting the pizza, he was on one knee proposing. I thought he was joking and then when he pulled the ring out of his pocket, I was jumping up and down (pizza still in my hand) and said YES! Four months later, on August 23, 2003 we were married. We went back to my parent’s house for the wedding reception and had our first dance as a married couple. This was the song we chose and yes, we still listen to this song and remember how awkward we felt as everyone watched us dance! Now we laugh at how silly it was for us to be nervous.
Donnell Jones – I Wanna Luv You
Okay, so I’m going to fast forward quite a few years just because this was when we had our first three kids and started realizing that we just might not be the most “hip” parents after all. And after using the word hip, well, you get what I’m saying right? Anyway, trying to do this dance for me and my husband wasn’t difficult, but it was just funny when we were actually doing the dance. We were telling each other that we need to stay up on the dances so that our kids wont think we’re unhip! There goes that word again, and I’m sure we’ll be pretty unhip to them until they become adults and have some kids of their own.
GS Boyz – Stanky Legg
Now I wonder how many of you were actually doing the Stanky Legg or at least trying it while watching the video!!
Really, I just wanted to share a little bit with you of how we first got together. The rest is history, and if I put every song on here that we loved or that played an important part in our relationship, well, we’d be here for another 10 years! So we’re going to live another 10 years with new music and some new memories!
Can’t wait to share with you our experience on the Hot Air Balloon ride on Saturday! Thanks for listening/reading!
Christina Grimmie, someone I have been subscribed to on YouTube for quite a few years now! I have seen her grow from doing covers on YouTube, to performing with Selena Gomez, and now an album! She is simply amazing! A great singer/songwriter/musician! She is simply amazing and hearing this song “I Bet You Don’t Curse God”, has inspired me even more! I love this song from beginning to end. If you are into vocals, you have to listen to the end. It’s simple, but she throws out something that shows you she is a complete genius when it comes to arranging her own vocals! Love this girl, and the lyrics are posted below the video!
The message in her song reminds me of how much we take God for granted until we are really in a desperate situation. We should always remember to call on God, even when times are easy instead of only when they’re tough. It’s like asking someone to do you a favor when you haven’t even talked to them in a while or only when you need something… We should remember how it feels to be on that end and get to know God more closely. When He is there in the good times, He will make it easier and you won’t even have to ask Him to be there in the bad times! He’ll simply carry you through them!
Christina Grimmie – I Bet You Don’t Curse God
Lyrics:
I bet You don’t curse god.
When the Doctor calls with a stern voice
and test results
and he asks You to come in right away.
I bet You don’t curse God.
When you’re on a plane in a turbulance, pourin’ rain
And you’re hoping that you’ll make it out okay.
Everybody cries, We’ve all faked a smile.
When your back’s against the wall
and your hands are tied.
There’s pain, Life hurts,
There’s a thousand things You think You don’t deserve.
All hope is lost
When You spend it all and You just can’t beat the odds.
I bet You don’t curse God.
I bet You don’t curse God.
I bet You don’t curse God when your child is gone
And he ain’t picking up the phone
And it’s 2am on a Saturday in July.
I bet you don’t curse God at your bottom ine
and your credit cards are all declined,
And you don’t know where you’re gonna sleep tonight.
Everybody cries, We’ve all faked a smile.
When your back’s against the wall
and your hands are tied.
There’s pain, Life hurts,
There’s a thousand things You think You don’t deserve.
All hope is lost
When You spend it all and You just can’t beat the odds.
I bet You don’t curse God.
Oh, I bet You don’t curse God.
I bet you don’t curse god when you’re dying in bed
About to take your one last breath
and you’re holding on before you say goodnight.
There’s pain, Life hurts,
There’s a thousand things You think you don’t deserve.
When All hope is lost
When You spend it all
and You just can’t beat the odds.
I bet You don’t curse… GOD.
I bet You don’t curse… GOD.
I bet you don’t curse God.
With so much hurt, pain, and sadness going on in the world today, it can bring your current situation to a more depressing level. You hear it all the time, people ending their own lives because the pressure is too much or the pain is unbearable. With the problems I am currently facing, it can take it’s toll on even the most encouraging, uplifting person (not saying that I’m the most encouraging or uplifting), but I definitely have been struggling this past week with some deep feelings. Feelings that involve something that has never been resolved completely. As a result, there have been times when I feel like I’m harboring resentment and anger, when I always talk about not harboring those feelings. I have not acted out towards those who have hurt me, but instead, I have fallen into a place where I still let things suppress who I am and how I really feel. Sometimes, the pain and memories are too much to bear and bringing up the issues to resolve them feels like it will take too much out of me and I end up walking away, leaving the things unresolved. Even though I KNOW those things are NOT my fault in any way, I still seem to feel the responsibility of exposing the truth and lies that have been told for many years. But I must leave that all up to God!
By feeling this way, I have been asking God to remove this pain and hurt from me and to draw me closer to Him. Then I remembered this song. It’s a song that I have listened to for years and it always seemed to get me through my toughest of times. I am not alone in this and I know that this song is for me today, as well as you! This song lets me know that all I have to do is keep praying and God will get me through even the toughest times. I remember a few times that I thought I was at my worst and things would never end, but I can look back now and see that it really wasn’t as bad as I made it out to be and I made it through!
OUT OF EDEN – Draw You Near
*lyrics are posted below the video*
Lyrics:
I woke up on this morning
And misery surrounds me
And I am forced to face a day
I didn’t even want to begin
God knows I’m going through it
And it’s hard to imagine I can take it this time
As my sadness mounts I pray that this day would end
Cry myself to sleep and then start again
When the world loses its luster
And you’re feeling sad and lonely
And you need someone to be there
In your time of need, time of need
You can turn your eyes to the Heavens
And their creator’s watching on you
With arms of love to hold you
And draw you near
You’re in the midst of heartache
Perhaps you’ve lost a loved one
Lost all your faith can barely pray
For the strength you need to go on
Well darling don’t give up now
I know that inevitably this too shall pass
Trouble doesn’t last always hold on through the pain
I believe the sun will outlast your rain
When the world loses it’s luster
And you’re feeling sad and lonely
And you need someone to be there
In your time of need, time of need
You can turn your eyes to the Heavens
And their creator’s watching on you
With arms of love to hold you
And draw you near
Draw you near
Ooh, just to take the pain away
Ooh, so you can see a brighter day
Oh, I know you can find the strength
That you need to get you through what you’re going through
So when the world seems to crash down on you
Don’t worry, no matter
He hears you, keep praying
Don’t worry, no matter
He hears you, keep praying
When, no, no, no
All you gotta do is call
And my God, He will be there
When you’re down and out
When you’re feeling lonely
Keep praying
Draw you closer yeah
Draw you closer
Ooh, all you gotta do is call
Oh yeah
And He will be there for you
Turn your eyes
Oh
With arms of love
Ooh
Don’t worry, no matter
He hears you, keep praying
Don’t worry, no matter
He hears you, keep praying
Let’s just begin with this today! I know I talk a lot about God and sometimes for others it can be overwhelming. Some people look at me and say that I think I’m better than someone who doesn’t believe in God or is, I guess, in between. Or they look at me and say that I’m too overpowering with what I believe. Some may even say that I put on a front and a show for others, and that no one can truly be happy living the way I live my life. Some people look at me, not always in a negative way, but give me encouragement and tell me to continue to be who I am. Sometimes it’s not easy, but I must be true to what I love and how I choose to live my life.
If you haven’t been reading my posts, I’m going to briefly give you history as to why I love sharing my life and how God has been an awesome inspiration and guide in my life. When I was 8 I knew I wanted to give my life to God. I believed everything I heard in church about Jesus dying on the cross for our sins and being raised from the dead. I still do. I know it sounds crazy to people, but when you have the faith and see things that happen in your life that are completely unexplained, I cannot deny that God is real! Anyway, I went up to the altar when asked if anyone wanted to give their life to God. I was crying and felt like I was home. Shortly after, I asked to be baptized and I was. I knew that God had something for me in life, even at 8 years old. So, of course, like any child, you go through different stages, you fall away from what your parents teach you and I even fell away from my faith and didn’t live for God for quite some time. There were good times and bad times, but overall, I still felt like something was missing. So to keep a long story short (I know it’s hard for me to do!) I ended up coming back to my faith and started living for God.
Publicly I struggled living for God fearing that others would judge me for my beliefs, until just recently when I decided that I can either keep God’s greatness to myself (which is selfish) or share His love and greatness with others as He would have me do. So I said, “It’s time to start caring about others the way God cares for me.” I won’t stop and I won’t look back. I know that I’m not perfect and have a lot of growing to do, but I feel that if I let my light shine and live a life according to God’s word, then I just might be able to encourage others to do the same thing! And after hearing this song by Britt Nicole and reading the lyrics, I became even more inspired to let my light shine to the world, whether they are ready or not!
“Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.” (Matthew 5:15-16)
Britt Nicole – Ready or Not ft Lecrae (one of my fave Christian rappers!)
Sometimes all hope is lost. We struggle in our relationships with friends and family along with the bad things that seem to be never ending. All of these issues that we can’t agree on, plus dealing with a constant question in our minds “Is it ever going to get better?”. Friends, I’m here to tell you that it does get better. The hurt and pain only lasts for a time and a season, and God will move you out of it!
As a Christian, it has never gotten to the point where I don’t face any battles and things are perfectly peachy. In fact, the struggle is still the same, only you have God to put your trust in and He always makes everything right! I cannot speak for everyone, but for me personally, the things I thought that God would never do, He has done. Even through the most devastating of situations, I would ask God why and often wonder why he didn’t just change my circumstances so that I could be happy. As a Christian, I do not have the answer to everything. I don’t think anyone can. If God is as great as He is (or that we claim Him to be), then we wouldn’t understand everything or why He lets things happen. If we all understood and knew everything He did and had the answers to everything, there would be no reason to believe in God. We, ourselves would be great and would have the cure or answers to everything.
My hope is not in knowing that we have to struggle in this life, my hope is in knowing that there is a God that has given me the free will to choose to live for Him (or not) even in the midst of all of my pain and suffering and in the end I will have a place to live free from all of those things. By the way, how will we ever appreciate a life where we no longer suffer and are forever happy if we didn’t go through a life of pain and suffering first?
With all of that said, listen to this song by Andy Mineo. I know I have been showing you all of the songs from that album, but this one (along with many others) speaks to me in a few different ways.
‘Review This’ is back today. I have noticed that I am at a place in my life where I have to come to terms with the truth. The truth? The truth about what? The truth about my life. The truth of being first, but usually last. And I don’t mean the verse from the bible where it states “In the same way, the last will be first, and the first will be last, because many are called, but few are chosen.” Matthew 20:16 (that’s a whole new topic there).
What I really mean is being told that I was too old to do some things in my life because I was too old (when I was only 6) and having my dreams crushed at such a young age. I also mean the times when I was told that I was loved, but then some things were really just said and not actually meant. The same times when I was told that fairness was the only way, but then you see the treatment you get compared to others, you realize that what you have done never really mattered anyway. I was always trying to do good because I felt that if I didn’t do right or tell on others, I would get the punishment I didn’t really deserve. Then made to put on a front so that no one would know the real TRUTH of everything.
I have come to terms that all of these things, along with some unmentioned things, I had no control over. However, coming to this realization about the truth in my life, I understand that everyone else has their own battles and things they struggled with. As for me, I have always used music to overcome my battles. And really Matthew 20:16 does play a part in this life. We all can’t change the way this world has become and continues to become, but at least when this Gravity is no more, our truths will all be one, or two!
It’s nearing the end of September, which means the holidays are right around the corner. I love the holidays and having four little children makes it even more exciting! I decided to start with Christmas, and although it is still quite far away, it will be Christmas before you know it!
Mrs. Talk Your Ears Off 