Justin Timberlake - Not A Bad Thing

Clicking The Ads

So if you have a keen eye, you'll notice that there are now ads on the blog...one on the sidebar under the hits bar...and another one under the first post of the blog. Now if you've been with  us for a while, you know I had them up for a bit in 2011 and I made a bit of money, that's the whole point of it, but I ended up taking it off cuz I didn't like how it looked on the blog and my purpose for blogging wasn\to make money, so I took it off. But yesterday I had a talk with my friend and my blog has grown so much since 2011 that he thinks I could make a decent amount of money, so after come convincing and some hard thought...I decided to put it back up and just see where it is. So I'm not gonna promote and be all up in your face annoying you to click the ads, but it would be nice if you did lol, thanks...that's all I wanted to say.

D-Pryde - Old School Love

Weekly Posts

Sorry lol...I know I haven't posted since Monday...time honestly just flies and some days I just genuinely forget. And the other half would just be what I've talked about in previous posts...just really loaft and feeling like a bum as of late. Also been feeling really cold for some reason lol, I'm not sick...but just really cold...whenever I'm at home, I'm always under blankets...and like taking a shower is the best part of my day LOL. What else...oh right, no glasses for at least a month...doc said my eyes were too dry and she couldn't properly check and if she gave me glasses it'd be like looking through a lens that's dirty, so gotta use eye drops for a month. What else...I'm really thankful to the brothers and sisters who I've shared with how I was feeling and who comforted me or gave me encouraging and comforting words...thank you.

Dear God

God you know my heart. You know my struggles and you know my triumphs. God I\m asking for peace and joy. You know that I have been neglecting you and neglecting your Word. But you care...and because you care, I know you've placed certain people in my life to draw me back to you, to give me that push. God I pray that you lift this sense of restlessness and joylessness from my heart God, renew that fire in my heart for you and help me find joy in you and in the things that glorify you. God I thank you for never giving up on me no matter how far I stray away from you. God I know you hear my cry, I know you see my brokenness and I know you know how much I'm struggling right now...and I'm praying to you because you are God, because you have guided me through 21 years of trials and tough times and you will continue to do so because you are faithful and loving. God, I trust you...I trust in your plan and in your power...fill me with your love, your grace and with a heart that seeks you and seeks the things that glorify you. I ptay this all in your Son\s most Holy name...

Amen.

J. Cole - Crunch Time

Restlessness and Joylessness

So for those of you who know...I've just been in a funk lately. As simply put, I've been feeling like a bum...like I've been wasting my life. And I've been having this feeling of restlessness and not really finding joy in life or having the motivation for much. I've shared it with a few friends and gotten lots of comforting advice and wisdom from a lot of them. I was sharing with this one friend who I see as really wise and definitely firmly grounded in her faith. I was just sharing with her how I've been feeling as well as what my friends have told me. And she told me...maybe you've been feeling weird and off because you've been neglecting God, not reading your bible...and not really having Him as the centre of your life. And the more and more I thought about it, the more and more it really hit me about how true it was. Maybe the reason why I've been feeling like this...this unexplainable feeling...is because I've been neglecting God and not really giving Him any time at all. And this is God's way of pulling me back. And because I've been neglecting God and ignoring what He's been having to say to me...he told me exactly what I needed to hear through friends...and through their wisdom and experiences. She told me that God knows you haven't been on track with Him, not reading your bible or really taking steps forward to grow in my faith...and I guess God used my friends to kinda put me back on the right track. Cuz I definitely feel better about this whole situation...to focus my heart and mind on God...and let everything else fall into place. Mt 2 friends helped me figure out a devo plan or at least a way to start consistently reading my bible and my other friend and I are keeping each other accountable and we're going to both read Philippians together, so that's definitely encouraging for me. And for some reason, after talking to my friend...the parable of the lost sheep came to my head. How I felt like I've been drifting away from God...and God even with all of his other sheep to tend to...left the herd to come find me, to bring me back to Him...and it honestly gave me so much joy and strength to understand and appreciate that.

Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” Then Jesus told them this parable: “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn't he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbours together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’ I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent. Luke 15:1-7