Waves.

Doodles

Don't ya know?

"Don't ya know that girls like me like boys like you?

But there's no other girl like me and there's no other boy like you."

I love imagining what people may be thinking when they give a smirk.
One of my favorite photographs of last summer. I look at it and distinctly remember smiling this very smile. I don't love it because of my pose, or because the lighting is anything to ride home about, I just love it because it makes me remember that very moment when I flashed a smile that was so genuine, and it was captured. 

Our hearts all beat the same.

7 billion people and counting.
We are only two.
We are different:

She is little, I am big.
She lives here, I live there.
She rides on the back of a motorcycle, I use a car.

We're all so different, but our hearts all beat the same.

Our Corner of the Universe

I used to lay in the surf as the waves would roar onto my face.
I used dance in the rain as the down-poor created the rhythm to move.
I have always loved water, thus, these remedies have not changed.

This past Spring, I went on a trip to Belize through my school. Months of preparation, hours of classes, pool training, I was finally ready to get my scuba certification. I was excited, mostly for bragging rights of saying that I was licensed to take an oxygen tank 60 feet under water and breathe with ease. Even as I soared through the the tropical waters of the Caribbean, it didn't hit me until I was sitting at the bottom of the ocean, following my bubbles to the surface.

There is so much world.

30% of this world is land.

70% is water.

I loved scuba diving; however, at the time, I wasn't really sure why I found it to be so fascinating. Though I loved gliding through the waves with the vast amount of fish, and even with a larger than life sea-turtle, that is not what sparked my passion when thinking of my under-the-sea adventure.

30% land.
That leaves 70% of this world, that would otherwise go unnoticed.

What do I really love about scuba-diving, I mean what do I really, REALLY love about it?

I love the fact that I am free to the rest of the world.
That instead of the .0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of the universe I live in, I am open, and free, to discover the rest of the world.

I tend to forget that the world isn't confined to what we know.

The Battle Between the Heart and Mind

My heart's a thousand places at once but it's only chasing you cause it knows you're the one I love.
And don't you know it can't just stop, it goes on it's own way and makes me feel so lost.
My heart's got a mind of it's own, it doesn't love easy or like letting go.
It take a while for it It to feel at home, but when it found you my heart knew it wasn't alone.
There's a passion that I will not contain. I know I'm insane and I know I'm to blame, but you can't blame me when my heart ignores my brain.
My heart's not cliche it's one of a kind, but the person I love won't give it any time.
I ask for wisdom, a word of advice, but when people talk they talk from their mind, they don't hear their heart's or listen to mine cry.
Maybe a heart doesn't represent love, because heart's do strange things and ignore what is right.
I'm not ready to forget, but just for my heart it's time to get this burden off my chest.
I'm in love and I'm alone, I will risk it all, I've put my heart on the line.

Happy Sabbath

It is not guns that kill, people do.
It is not God that turns others away, people do.

My mom is the most spiritual person I have met. I think that part of the reason I have formed a bond with God is because of her. It took me seeing how much she loved God, and how she believed that God loves me, for me to love Him myself.

I don't understand how some call themselves Christians when they simply believe in the doctrines. They don't believe in God or love or salvation or show love to everyone, they believe that if they follow the rules, that will show they believe in God.
It is not the rules that show God you believe in Him, it is your actions.

As a child, I didn't want my friends to come to church with me. I thought it was boring and I didn't want them to meet someone so caught up in the rules that they would forever have a bitter taste in their mouths about the church. But, the church is not a place. WE are the church. God's people are the church. The church is not some place you go, it is some place you are, because the church is a place to worship God.

I don't like being titled with religion, even if I do believe in the fundamentals. I like to be titled as a "loving person" because if I show love, I show God. Sure, there are rules, and I believe that they were set in stone for good reason. Ellen White, for instance. But, you cannot take something completely out of context, latch onto one thing that is said, and expect it to have the same meaning. I believe in God. I believe in love. I don't believe that love simply evolved.

It's not the person, it's the interpretations of the people.
It's the misconceptions of interpreting religion as God.  

I want people to know God.
I want to know God.

I believe in God.
I am an Adventist because it draws me closer to the people I care about love, and God is love.