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.