You know what child? You're mine. Don't listen to what they say, they don't know you like I do. You're mine and I made you just the way you are. So, don't listen to what they've said I have a great plan for you, you are my child. Before time began I had a plan in mind for you because you are mine. I value you, no matter what others say you are mine and I love you for who you are and what you are becoming. Nothing can ever change my love for you; though time and time again you sin I forgive and I will always love you. My love heals the broken heart and mends the wounded soul. I know you have a great hope and a future, even though you can't see it yet. you are mine and I love you. Don't forget my child that I love you so much that I died for you, through the death of my Son on the cross. My love covers all pain, sin, anger, and whatever else anyone can bestow upon you my beautiful child. There is no one like you in the entire universe and I made you the way you are. Why are you trying to be like everyone else, instead of who I want you to be. Child, stop listening to them listen to me instead I'm the one who loves you their just out to hurt you, but take courage my little one for no one can hurt you in anyway that my never ending love can't fix. You're mine child you are mine. You will always be mine and nothing can ever change that. Beautiful, why are you running from me? Why are you hiding from my love? You are royalty even though you haven't figured it out yet, listen to my voice and you will see the light. Listen to me child, I know you better than anyone else for I made you. Why do you try so hard to be something you aren't? Don't run after the things of this world, for there is a better place that you will someday see. If you follow me and believe that I am, you will spend eternity with me in that beautiful place. You have already accepted me and that's the only way to get there, so stop trying to earn your way to heaven, I will get you there just follow me. You know what dear? You are mine. Yes my child you are mine. Seek me and me only for I will satisfy your heart, if it's me you search for you will find, for none other can save you no one but me child no one but me. When I see you hurting it breaks my heart for I know what will happen next. I have laid a path in front of you. You will stumble and you will fall, but haven't I picked you up before? I will do it again I tell you I will rescue you, because you are mine and I love you more than words can muster. You will grow if it's me you run for. Run the race for me, my child, run the race for me. You have been put on this earth for a reason, yes, you have been placed where you are for my purpose. Do as I say My child, I know what's best. What are you waiting for, arise and follow me. I see what you can't, and I know what you don't. Trust me beautiful, trust me. I have been there before I have caught you before, learn from me my child, learn from me. What are you looking for that I can't provide? What are you hiding that I can't see? I know that you feel as though you can't trust a single soul, but you can trust me, I know what's best I know what you need, you can trust me. You are mine and none others for I love you like none other. Child, child, hear my voice, listen to me, I want to show you what I have planned for you, listen to me my child. You are mine. I tell you the truth, you are My child, when you accepted me I adopted you I had you in mind since before time began. What have you been doing? Searching for things you won't find, looking to people for things they can't provide, but I, only I, can give you the things you need. I know how it will turn out in the end and I know what lies ahead. You see my child, I know you like no other, I love you like no other, I see you like no other, I understand you like no other, and I feel you pain like no other. Don't listen to what they say they don't know you like I do, listen to me instead for I know you like no one else knows you. Listen to me my child listen to me, I believe in you and I want to see you succeed. I will teach you my ways if you follow me. Listen child, do you hear me calling? I am calling you to do great things, listen. You are mine, child, You are mine, beautiful, you are mine. ~ Ashley
Who wants to see a picture of laminin? I know you all do! Lol. It's the cell that holds your body together. Without it, you would be a dead man on the floor. It's like the cement foundation of your house. Without it you collapse! I'm not gonna scientifically tell you that's a cross, you make what you want of it, but it's just kind of interesting to see that this is the perfect shape of a cell that keeps us from dying. Same shape of the thing that keeps us from eternally burning...
I love reading this blog! Keep posting!
I got this in an email forward like, a year ago, but I LOVE this story...
Two friends were walking through the desert. During one point through the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt and wrote in the sand "Today my BEST FRIEND slapped me in the face." They kept walking until they found an oasis where they decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped in the face caught their foot and began to drown, but his friend saved him. After recovering he carved in a sand "Today my Best Friend saved my life." The friend who had slapped him and saved his life asked him "When I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now you write on a stone, why?" The friend replied, "When someone hurts us we should write in sand, where winds of forgiveness can wipe it away. When someone does something good for us we must engrave it in stone where no one can EVER erase it.
To me that stone that we engrave it in is our stony hearts...
That's Just the way it looks from where I'm standing...
Annie
Two friends were walking through the desert. During one point through the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt and wrote in the sand "Today my BEST FRIEND slapped me in the face." They kept walking until they found an oasis where they decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped in the face caught their foot and began to drown, but his friend saved him. After recovering he carved in a sand "Today my Best Friend saved my life." The friend who had slapped him and saved his life asked him "When I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now you write on a stone, why?" The friend replied, "When someone hurts us we should write in sand, where winds of forgiveness can wipe it away. When someone does something good for us we must engrave it in stone where no one can EVER erase it.
To me that stone that we engrave it in is our stony hearts...
That's Just the way it looks from where I'm standing...
Annie
Is there anyone who has been fighting, crying? So sick of trying just to make it through. Can anybody hear what I'm saying? I've tried everything, but the torture won't go away. Looking for a way out, I search high and low. Only finding useless addictions that somehow drag me into more and more agony. I want so badly to give up and leave this hell behind. Will anyone care? Does anyone want to join me?
I wake up each day wondering what is the point of surviving this pain. What is my purpose? Why am I here? All I do is make mistakes and get kicked around. Each time I let someone in past my walls, they only let me down. At night, I rage and scream silently in my sleep. Is there anyone who won't ever leave? I'm so empty, so alone. I want someone to hold me tight and wipe away each tear I cry.
Will anyone be that someone?
Bound by chains, they won't let go. I pull and tug but they just clasp around me tighter. "No more! Please! God, help me!", I plead. He reaches out His hand, but I'm too blind to see. So further into the black I fall. My hope is fading... The chains grab me, strangling my wrists and ankles. My chest hurts and it feels like the air is being sucked from my lungs. My hope is almost gone...
Suddenly, a flash of light fills the cold damp hole I'm laying in. Then as fast as it came, it was gone.
Everything is throbbing and aching... Then it all goes numb. I can no longer feel a thing.
But then! I look up- despite the heavy metal begging me not to- and see a warm light slowly flood around me.
Hope.
The light comes down and wraps itself around my broken and worn body. The weight in my chest gets lighter and I'm able to breathe again. I close my eyes and inhale the soothing atmosphere that is so new but yet comfortable.
"Papa?" I mumble.
"Yes, My precious child?" a gentle but strong voice says.
"Why did you leave me?" I ask, my voice weak and thin.
"I never left you, My wonderful creation. You just couldn't see Me... When you cried yourself to sleep, I sat on your bed. When you made ribbons of red along your arms and legs by slicing your skin, I stood beside you. When you swallowed pill after pill, I was there. When you made yourself sick and spent hours over the toilet, I sat next to you. As you tried to drink away the wrong in your life, I saw you. As you snuck outside and attempted to smoke away your hurt, I came with you. When you looked at pictures you knew you shouldn't, wanting to distract yourself and escape, I was there. As you starved yourself, I was at your side. When you gave yourself into human love, desperately trying to fill the emptiness with something physical, I was by you. And when you tried to end the beautiful life I gave to you, I watched and cried. I love you My child! It hurt Me to see you so hurting!" the loving voice says without accusation.
Tears stream down my face... Can it be true? He's not mad at me? Even after I messed up so badly? "I just want to hold you... Will you let Me?" the caring voice continues.
"I'm scared. What if You hurt me? What if You leave me like the others?" I say bitterly.
"I promise I will never stray from you" He says reassuring.
"Are You angry with me?" I ask, terrified to know the answer.
"I am not angry... Sad you were hurting so badly, but never angry My priceless one..." He says tenderly.
"I don't understand..." I whisper.
"I will never leave you. I will never hurt you. I will never force you to please Me. I will never ask you to do anything that leaves you willing empty or unwanted. I will never tell you that you are worthless, shameful, filthy, stupid, or a waste. Because you are none of those things to Me. In My eyes you are beautiful, wanted, worth it, clean, wonderful, strong, lovely, whole, and created for a magnificent purpose. I love you! I made you! I have so many plans for you! I will use you to help change the world I made! You are needed! I love you! I love you! I love you! I love you! I ache to heal your wounds and make them disappear. I love you! Will you let Me make you new? Will you let Me free you?" He asks me.
"Yes... Please hold me and heal me... Please Papa!", I plead.
He comes and puts His arms carefully over my tired shoulders and just hold me, quietly singing, "Priceless, beautiful, worth it, strong. Wanted, wonderful, whole, and loved" over and over. Somehow this Truth was overcoming the loud Lies that wouldn't cease before. The emptiness became filled and no longer was I numb or hurting or hollow. But healed.
"What about these?" I ask, hold up my now weightless chains that however were around me.
"You are free!" He calls.
I look down at my wrists and ankles... The chains had not only come off, but were gone!!
"I am free?", I say puzzled.
"You. Are. Free!" is my reply.
Realization sweeps over my foggy mind. I stand up and it all becomes clear. I was never alone. I am forgiven. I am healed.
And I am FREE!!!
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That's just the way it looks from where I'm standing...
<3 you all! ~ Brownie=)
I wake up each day wondering what is the point of surviving this pain. What is my purpose? Why am I here? All I do is make mistakes and get kicked around. Each time I let someone in past my walls, they only let me down. At night, I rage and scream silently in my sleep. Is there anyone who won't ever leave? I'm so empty, so alone. I want someone to hold me tight and wipe away each tear I cry.
Will anyone be that someone?
Bound by chains, they won't let go. I pull and tug but they just clasp around me tighter. "No more! Please! God, help me!", I plead. He reaches out His hand, but I'm too blind to see. So further into the black I fall. My hope is fading... The chains grab me, strangling my wrists and ankles. My chest hurts and it feels like the air is being sucked from my lungs. My hope is almost gone...
Suddenly, a flash of light fills the cold damp hole I'm laying in. Then as fast as it came, it was gone.
Everything is throbbing and aching... Then it all goes numb. I can no longer feel a thing.
But then! I look up- despite the heavy metal begging me not to- and see a warm light slowly flood around me.
Hope.
The light comes down and wraps itself around my broken and worn body. The weight in my chest gets lighter and I'm able to breathe again. I close my eyes and inhale the soothing atmosphere that is so new but yet comfortable.
"Papa?" I mumble.
"Yes, My precious child?" a gentle but strong voice says.
"Why did you leave me?" I ask, my voice weak and thin.
"I never left you, My wonderful creation. You just couldn't see Me... When you cried yourself to sleep, I sat on your bed. When you made ribbons of red along your arms and legs by slicing your skin, I stood beside you. When you swallowed pill after pill, I was there. When you made yourself sick and spent hours over the toilet, I sat next to you. As you tried to drink away the wrong in your life, I saw you. As you snuck outside and attempted to smoke away your hurt, I came with you. When you looked at pictures you knew you shouldn't, wanting to distract yourself and escape, I was there. As you starved yourself, I was at your side. When you gave yourself into human love, desperately trying to fill the emptiness with something physical, I was by you. And when you tried to end the beautiful life I gave to you, I watched and cried. I love you My child! It hurt Me to see you so hurting!" the loving voice says without accusation.
Tears stream down my face... Can it be true? He's not mad at me? Even after I messed up so badly? "I just want to hold you... Will you let Me?" the caring voice continues.
"I'm scared. What if You hurt me? What if You leave me like the others?" I say bitterly.
"I promise I will never stray from you" He says reassuring.
"Are You angry with me?" I ask, terrified to know the answer.
"I am not angry... Sad you were hurting so badly, but never angry My priceless one..." He says tenderly.
"I don't understand..." I whisper.
"I will never leave you. I will never hurt you. I will never force you to please Me. I will never ask you to do anything that leaves you willing empty or unwanted. I will never tell you that you are worthless, shameful, filthy, stupid, or a waste. Because you are none of those things to Me. In My eyes you are beautiful, wanted, worth it, clean, wonderful, strong, lovely, whole, and created for a magnificent purpose. I love you! I made you! I have so many plans for you! I will use you to help change the world I made! You are needed! I love you! I love you! I love you! I love you! I ache to heal your wounds and make them disappear. I love you! Will you let Me make you new? Will you let Me free you?" He asks me.
"Yes... Please hold me and heal me... Please Papa!", I plead.
He comes and puts His arms carefully over my tired shoulders and just hold me, quietly singing, "Priceless, beautiful, worth it, strong. Wanted, wonderful, whole, and loved" over and over. Somehow this Truth was overcoming the loud Lies that wouldn't cease before. The emptiness became filled and no longer was I numb or hurting or hollow. But healed.
"What about these?" I ask, hold up my now weightless chains that however were around me.
"You are free!" He calls.
I look down at my wrists and ankles... The chains had not only come off, but were gone!!
"I am free?", I say puzzled.
"You. Are. Free!" is my reply.
Realization sweeps over my foggy mind. I stand up and it all becomes clear. I was never alone. I am forgiven. I am healed.
And I am FREE!!!
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That's just the way it looks from where I'm standing...
<3 you all! ~ Brownie=)