Choices

Miley Cyrus is one of the most top rated celebrities from the 21 century. The thing is...what kinds of signs is she putting off to me and you. Miley is our age, and it's easy to get wrapped up in the things of life, she is a teenager and is making some bad choices....so do we let her off the hook for what she's doing, I mean...there are people all around us that are doing the same thing or even worse! That's something that I've been thinking about lately. The reason that we look at her sins being so much worse than someone at our school is because she has a high position. You as a Christian or even as a sibling with younger siblings have a high position. So, the choices that you make need to be thought of in a high position mind...a mature mind. I know it's hard, but in the end all the people that are looking up to you will be encouraged of the choices that you make! Just like we will be encouraged if Miley makes good choices.

Show part 2

This is the Lindsey and Hannah show part 2!

Patience

Wow! I walk in the room of my little brothers and see this! Haha...it's so funny to see the imagination in these boys, I really do have a great family and am very thankful for them. Something that I have noticed from having 4 younger siblings is that you have to be patient. That is something that is hard for me because I'm so NOT. When they do things like this and I see the fun they have, God uses those things to bring me happiness and joy...even in the small things!

This is the first episode of "The Hannah and Lindsey Show".

Christmas 2008

Christmas 2008 was awesome!
Here we have a picture of the tratitional "Birthday cake for Jesus".
We do it every year...make a special cake for the birthday we celebrate.

I was TOTALLY not expecting a laptop this year! It was such a blessing from the Lord that I got it. My sweet great uncle contributed to this present along with my parents. I found out later that my dad woke up at 2am just to get the great deal for me! I use the computer so much for school it's going to be nice to have my own! ( My mom picked out the gorgeous bag!)

The food was AMAZING! I love to eat...especially when my two grandmothers cook, it's so great!
I hope that you all had a great Christmas!

What about the season?

Sometimes I think that its all about the motions, going to church, reading the Bible, acting sweet and other things that we all can think of...but its more than that, so what is more than that???
Well the Lord tells us that if we love Him and obey His commandments...that shows how we feel toward Him. God wants us to obey His commandments...OK but you may say that I'm doing all those things...going to church, reading the Bible, and acting sweet. So what does God want? How does He want us to do it....I really don't have all the answers at all...but He does. Don't you think that if he wants us to seek Him, He will show us how, well so do I, and let that be your goal the Christmas season ( as it is mine), to let Him truly fill us and show us how to live.

Hello to all and Merry Christmas!

I was thinking lately of the things that I'm grateful for, I always have to remind myself of that when it comes to this season! I know that God knows your heart when you tell Him that you love Him, and that you are truly grateful for the things that He has given you, I feel that I can't thank Him enough for the money, for the presents, or the food, or the money to pay for the lights on the tree. I know that He has a reason for blessing me like He has, I don't deserve this AT ALL! The older that I have gotten the more and more I see the ways that I'm blessed, you know, when your young, everything is there because your parents give it to you and you think that everyone is just as blessed as you are, but the thing is, it ultimately comes from God Himself. I think, "would I really be as satisfied if I had way less, if I had no money for new clothes, if my family was never able to go out to Taco-Bell"...and I can't say that I would or that I wouldn't. That's where it scares me to think, "am I really grateful?" and I pray to God that I am, but am I really, I mean REALLY!

~A couple of years ago, me and my family were at White Water. There was a boy there that was seriously deformed, and that has always given me watery eyes to see. I had never seen anything like that in my life, it made me want to start hysterically crying and going nuts because I was so much more well off. I remember going to my dad and saying, "What do I do, I cant ever come back, that's just awful". Now that makes me sound like a mean kid that didn't care for people, but I had a really bad feeling about it. That night, I laid in my bed sobbing at what I had seen that day, I remember calling for mom and dad from my room...my parents took me upstairs and told me, "maybe God wants you to pray for that young man also maybe God wants to remind you to be grateful for your own physical condition." I will never forget that day when I saw that boy, every time I think of being grateful, that always comes to my mind, I feel like that was a MAJOR mountain point in my life because that's where God really taught me the lesson of being thankful.

~Sometimes God uses big things in your life to help you along and sometimes He uses small.

The moments

We all went out on a Sunday afternoon to my friends Greer's, 17th birthday party! It's so weird to me that in one year she will be an adult...it's just not right. Sometimes I still see myself as a kid, but I'm actually a-little older than a kid :) I don't know, me and my friends are growing up right before my eyes. I thank God that He brings us to these moments, my mom talks about her teen days to me and I'm living my own to tell my kids, it amazing. I want to encourage you to take a moment and enjoy it while you there. God allows you to wake up every morning for a reason, so thank Him!

But still I think that we can be little girls again :) Katie, Hannah and I took some pictures after the party, we didn't know what else to do so this was our idea!

Anxious

Hey everyone,
Well I know that we are headed right for the Christmas season. Things are getting busy and life is tough with wrapping up school and such. I wanted to encourage you all that God, the creator of the Universe has something to say about that. When I was doing my Bible study a couple of days ago, he reminded me of how bad it is to worry and to be anxious. Maybe this will be a time of complete relaxation, but for those that still have mid-terms due, it's worrisome. I can only give you a piece of the passage but PLEASE read all of it, it's so good :)

Do Not Be Anxious

22And he said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. 23For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. 24Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! 25And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? 26If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest? 27Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 28But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith! 29And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. 30For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them. 31Instead, seek his kingdom,and these things will be added to you.

32 "Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

The Christmas Pictures

This is my family

This is Benjamin whos 8 and very strong!
This is Marshall whos 12 and very strong also!
We all took our christmas pictures on Sunday and had a good time with the family along with some great food! Yummmmm I love my grandmothers Italian cooking, it is so good! Marshall said "hey lets take a picture of me holding you up", then Benjamin (8) said, " I can do it too".
So here they are:)

Me along with my cousins Kades and Jer. went my best friends FIRST cheer leading performance! We had so much fun watching her and it was awesome...she was happy that we were there and so were we:) It's always good to support your friends! She is actually running a 26 mile marathon this week! I am SO SO SO proud of her! She's been training for this day for 2 years! It's so awesome to see something so amazing come true for her!~

In Target...

Hello Ladies,
Well, I have to say that I had one of my MOST embarrassing moments in Target! Oh man, OK so me, my mom and my little brother Luke, who is six years old, were at target. We finished our shopping to see this cute guy that was going to help us check out. While I was standing there giving him my money, Luke says, " those look like boy pants" the worker had jokingly asked Luke if these where his cloths. Oh wait...it gets better...then Luke says, " WOW! those are huge!" I was so so so embarrassed. My mom told me in the car that I was blood red. So the thing is, well sometimes it happens, even in front of cute guys at the register. I think that God was reminding me ( once again) to always forget what others think about me. Truthfully, I would have never been that embarrassed if it was at my house. Thats my story of the week.

Love,
Linds.

Me and Luke

Some of you know that I love pictures! It is so awesome to keep memories in such a cool way.
All my friends know that I ALWAYS have my camera. I adore taking pictures of my fam. too.
Yesterday Luke, my little brother who's six, came into my room and I took some pictures. So here we are.
P.S. Little kids love to know that you care enough to take a picture of them on YOUR camera :)

Music!

I love love love music! It makes me so happy! Whenever I do my school and it's driving me crazy, I listen to my favorites. I'm all for Christian music, but sometimes it's hard to find music that floats your boat (if you know what I mean). I have an i-Tunes account and frequently use it to buy certain songs that I like. I LOVE i-Tunes because you don't have to buy the whole album just for one song. You do have to be careful though, some things are pretty bad. One of my favorite types of music to listen to is Frank Sinatra! He has such a pretty voice. I encourage y'all to find a style of music that you like and listen to it. As long as the lyrics are good, and the song is uplifting, it's good music!

The Beautiful Sunset of St. Georges Island

The Crab

Garrison and I holding tiny little Horse Shoe Crabs

more trip

These are some more pictures of our trip to St. Georges Island.
Some of my good buddies and me!

My trip

Well me and my mom along with my best friend, Kades, went on a retreat with my school Living Science. We had such a good time. The work was a-little hard but the benefit was great. I got the opportunity to hold a sea urchin. WOW! Those things feel so weird on your hand!!! Check out the video :)

The one that...is

HI Ladies!

I have been meaning to write to you all...about a certain subject. So here it goes!

I have a story that will blow your mind! Check this out! ( this is a really LONG story)

About 2 summers ago, I was at my grandmothers pool with my mom and siblings. There was this guy there (he was 15) and I guess he saw me and later he went to my grandmothers house. He asked for my telephone number. He told my grandmother that his mother wanted to talk to my mom about homeschooling. So I was quite anticipating the call sometime that week...and I got it! Now mind you, that I have never even spoken a word to this boy in my WHOLE life! I had NEVER talked to a boy on the phone before but my mom let me just to see what he wanted! So he calls but he only asks for me...we all know that he was lying about the whole "my mom wants to talk to her mom" thing. So I proceed to talk with him....it was really awkward!!!
We finally get off the phone and me and my mom are about to loose our minds that some guy would do that! I was finishing up my math, and about 10 minutes later....he calls again! He asks if I am going to the pool that afternoon and unfortunately our family had already made plans to do just that..... BEFORE the phone call happened! So I finished talking for about 1 minute and JUST GUESS who calls AGAIN??? Yep your right! The boy from the pool! He wanted to know if I had a cell phone and I told him know no, ( I really don't) that I only talk on the home phone!

~ We all loaded in the car for the pool, when we got there he sat by me. He asked me if he could ride to my house on his mountain bike...and at the end he asked if I was busy so that we could
"catch a movie". I was appalled at the way he treated me with such little respect! He acted as if I was a gold fish, we all looked the same and I was just a stupid yellow gold fish that was only meant to look pretty. I HATED that! Most likely he wasn't saved and just needed the Lord, he wasn't taught well and needed MAJOR training! After I had said that my parents wouldn't allow that, he NEVER spoke to me again!

~~The moral of this REALLY long blogg, is to NOT sell yourself short for a boy that will treat you like a fish in a bowl. Someone that you have no relationship with and someone that you know is NOT a match for you. The " Mr. Right" will come some day if you Trust God for it...I'm NOT kidding girls, it will really happen! God encourages us all in His word to be a person that trusts in Him. Let God be your satisfaction and not people...that will only give you heart ache. Let Him know everyday that you trust Him. Sometimes sin may even seem better...it may not feel good at the time to choose to trust in Him, but the result is amazing. Can you imagine what would have happened if I took that boy for his word? I would have has serious problems...but I didn't!





Proverbs 3:5,6
" Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways
acknowledged Him and He will direct your path".


Love y'all!

Linds :)

Hello my dears,

Thank you all so much for reading/looking/listening to my blogg, thats really sweet!

I have been doing a-lot of school lately and things are so busy! But God is good and has been teaching me so much, He has really been teaching me how to trust Him with everything. Even when it comes to school all the way to hanging with friends.

- Two weeks ago I was looking at my school schedule for the rest of the week. It was overwhelming to the bits...I thought, "HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GET ALL THIS DONE?" It did NOT make me happy that my teachers had assigned all that work ...although I had all the rest of the week to go, I was getting stressed over the fact.

The next morning I asked God to PLEASE help me in my school, to help me to organize well and to get all of it done! I even had some extra stuff that I had done the wrong way, so my teacher gave me an 80%...she said that if I finished all the rest ( of the questions that I didn't see) then she would give me full credit. I was like..... em, " yeah right! there is NO way", and guess what! The night before I had to turn my stuff in God gave me like 2 extra hours that I didn't think I was going to have! I was so happy! God reminded me of the prayer that I'd had at the beginning of the week, and I heard Him say, " Lindsey, I will never let you down, even to the smallest things"

It really was a good reminder that God hears His children calling and He WILL answer the prayer in some way...He didn't forget about my 80%.

Love y'all!

Lindsey :)

We all went to I-Hop at like 2 in the morning after a movie!
It was SO much fun...that has to be a tradition!!!

Two of the GREATEST people in the whole world are Kades and Gabe!

Micheal,Baby Zuni, Luke,Benjamin,Emily and I.

We had like a whole week of fun with some GREAT friends of ours. Here are some pictures!
These are my two brothers Marsh and Luke along with Gabe and Daniel!

The real thing

The Blooper

Being an example!

Hello ladies,

Last Sunday a friend of mine that is 18 years old sent a sweet e-mail to just say, " How are you?"

I thought that was really sweet seeing that she's at college and really busy.
She has always been so sweet to me and she's not even my age, she is older.
I encourage you girls to be an encouragement to those that are around you that are younger.

Things that come first

Hello my fellow Ladies!

This is Linds telling you that I HAVE SO MUCH SCHOOL RIGHT NOW!!!
Things are soooo busy and it seems that I don't have time to do everything...but God gives me grace!
So this morning I was doing my math and WAM God hit me over the head saying, " Lindsey! what did you do when you woke up this morning?"
I said..."Well ok I REALLY have to get this math done and then I have to head out the door to go to classes!" So God was basically saying..."Did you do your devotion with Me yet? Which you know is WAY more important than any algebra! " I know I know...so I did it and was I able to get everything done in the amount of time that I needed.

So the moral of the story is PUT GOD FIRST! That's the ONLY thing that matters the most!
YES! I am guilty of NOT putting Him first sometimes and then my whole day STINKS! So He is most important in every way:)

What matters most!

Thank you so much my dears for continuing to read my blogg.....that is a very happy thing.

- Yesterday, at my house it was really raining hard. My mom and dad weren't there and it was just me and the BOYS.....MY TWO LITTLE BROTHERS. I'm not saying that brothers are bad at all... but some days they, well, are BOYS.

-So I decided that a way to get my exercise and to also play with them after doing 8 hours of homework would be to get out in the rain and jump on the trampoline! So all three of us put on our shoes and went out there. Then when we came in our dog had snuck out with us so we had to give that smelly thing a bath along with the other two little animals (the boys of course). We all gave Benji a bath...

God just reminded me of the things in life that are most important. They will remember that for a-long time....that means a-lot to me.

Me and Marsh.

This picture is of me and my 12 year old brother Marsh.
I love him very much. We where actually trying on glasses
at the mall and I HAD to take a picture!

Tonights Church

Hey everyone!

Tonight I went to my youth group at church and it was so great. We had a speaker from England.
His name is Matt and he works with an organization that gets Bibles out to people that really need them.
He and his wife are just so amazing and really seem to be on fire for Christ. He spoke about how important it is to NOT care what people think about you, to JUST worry about what your heart looks like to God...which I think is EXTREMELY timely for what I wrote about in my last blog.
- But tonight he was talking about how people in other countries DIE for only sharing the gospel with someone...and yet we are afraid of what we look like standing in line with our younger sibling!
THIS IS NOT THE LIFE THAT GOD HAS CHOSEN FOR US!
" For this is the will of God, your sanctification..." ( 1 Thessalonians 4:3 )
God above all things calls us to be sanctified through Him...I have to think about that before anything else. There are people in other countries who are giving their lives for the will of God, to share their faith with others. What is our purpose as teen girls? Is it to ALWAYS worry about what we look like?
No...it is to DO the will of God and to be sanctified!

Be yourself!

< This is me and "Butterfingers" :)

Yesterday me and one of my best friends in the whole world "Butterfinger" got together and went to the pool. She came to just hang with me while we were drinking our favorite drink...SWEET tea. We had such a good time goofing off and being ourselves. That night we went to half of a football practice and to a park close by with my brother and sat on the tire swing, my brother spinned us SO fast that the rice we ate for dinner suddenly didn't settle so well :/ After acting like a bunch of little kids, we sat and watch the rest of the practice.

-What I'm getting at is that, well, YES you definitely should be surrounded by a great group of friends...that is SO important. But having someone in your life that you can just have a good time with, without trying to be "cool"...thats one of the greatest friends of all!!!
- "Butterfingers" has really helped me since we have known each other to always remember to Be yourself...no one else. I love her so much, to be honest, I probably would have never got on that tire-swing as a sophomore in highschool if "Butterfingers" hadn't said, "Lindz! Lets go!"

Trusting in God

This Morning in my devotions, I was reading Oswald Chambers " My Utmost For His Highest".
Outside of the Bible, it has to be one of the most poweful devotion books that I have ever read. August 12 was on the Theology of trusting in God, Oswald simply states the importance of trusting in Christ. The verse that he quotes is Matthew 8:26, " Why are you fearful?, Oh you of little faith?"
Oswald expands on this verse and says, " There are times when there is no storm or crisis in our lives, and we do all that is humanly possible. But it is when a crisis arises that we instantly reveal upon whom we rely. We come to our wits' end showing that we don't have the slightest amount of confidence in Him or in His sovereign control of the World."

* That really spoke to me this morning...reminding me that God wants me to give him everything.

This is me and my BEST friends in the whole world. My two cousins!

Shopping!!!

I LOVE to shop!!!!
It is so much fun to me, although I don't have a big wallet in my pocket...my mom has taught me GREAT tips that I use all the time.
1. Look for the SALE rack!!! When I shop I NEVER shop on anything but sales. Except for shoes.
2. Look for clothes that you can wear with ALOT of things. For instance, I bought a black casual plain shirt at Kohls for $10. I wear it all the time...OK everyone knows that black goes with everything.
3. Sweaters are great too. They are modest but make everyones shape look good. I bought a blue and white stripped sweater at Heritage 1989 on a CLEARANCE rack for $6. It was originally $24 but I looked in the sale area.
4. Buy clothes that you can dress UP or DOWN.

* " For you shall remember the Lord your God, for He is the one that is giving you power to make wealth,
that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is to this day." (Deuteronomy 8:18)

- As children of God, we do HAVE to remember above all things, that we do NOT desire this thing called wealth. "For he is the one that has given you power". Without God I wouldn't have $20 at Kohls, or anything at all.
* " How much better is it to get wisdom than gold?..." (Proverbs 16:16) in this verse God is putting wisdom above gold...if so, how important is it to spend with wisdom?

Hello my dears,
Yesterday I went to Sixflags with most of my family and other friends.
There were so many young ladies and even some older ladies that where wearing clothing that in my opinion, wasn't OK for anyplace. Although everyone wants to stay cool in the 115 degree weather, there are ways to to do that without dressing...well, not so good. So here are some things that may help.

1. Thin clothing is always a blessing, not clothes that you can see through, but T-shirts that are thin.
2. Drinking water will cool you off any day.
3. Tiny Sofie shorts and a halter doesn't achieve the goal of being modest, but...a tank that comes up higher and cotton Bermudas from Wal-mart does the trick for me!
4. Ride rides that go up REALLY high so that you have a great breeze going down. Hahah :)

Lindsey

The first!

Hello Ladies, I am very exited about doing this blog. My prayer is that God will use this to speak to girls my age. I think that it is going to be really cool to write about how God speaks to me in my devotions. He is always showing me things and I think would be neat to share. Thanks for checking in! Lindsey :)