Life seems dreary right now. It is almost like the apocalypse has actually happened. Most people are starting to get cabin fever and I have been sitting on a couch for almost two weeks. But I know that you don’t want to hear about the quarantine and how that is affecting people. We’ve seen it everywhere online. Instead, I want to talk a little about a fun fact. Did you know that during the Black Death, Issac Newton had to go home because his college shut down? During that time, he discovered the Law of Gravity and he founded calculus. Both of those things are something that we use to…
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The Prince of Peace
“For unto us a child is born”, the Prince of Peace. Christ is the ultimate Prince of Peace. While we celebrate that every year during Christmas, it can seem difficult to understand how we can truly have peace in our lives. Most people will say that peace can only come when there isn’t war. Or when you focus on yourself. They will say that there is no way you will find peace in difficulty. I believe this is wrong. Peace can always come. Those who believe in Christ say that when you follow him, peace can come to you. While I believe the same thing, I also believe that if…
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Three Topics That Makeup Peace
It’s December! I can’t believe that 2019 is almost done when I feel like it just has started. It’s almost like I need to go back to the beginning of the year and try again but this time more slowly. With Christmas happening this month, I like to try to make the theme a bit more Christmassy. That is why I am talking about peace this month. One thing I love about peace is that it encompasses many different topics that we have covered before. For example, it includes gratitude which we covered last November when I interviewed Carolyn about her gratitude. It is amazing that she has been through…
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What Is Love?
What is love? The first thing to come to your mind may be a popular song that was made in the ’90s, but its a topic that has been debated. Some may think that it is just some form of attraction, attachment, or passion. For most of my life, I didn’t know what love was. I knew that I loved my parents, my sisters, and my friends, but besides that, I couldn’t have told you what love was except defining it as “a feeling”. There are so many movies out there that just made me even more confused. I would see many couples fight, not communicate, or just run away…
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4 Things I Learned Last Year
It has crossed my mind many times just how much each topic I have written about in the past five months have related to each other. As I considered this, I often wondered if connecting the topics together would result in a bigger learning opportunity and teach me more about each topic. For those who don’t know, so far we have talked about courage, creativity, gratitude, hope, and finally change. At first, when I was looking at each of the topics I was going to write about it didn’t seem as though any of these would cross over into the other categories. But as I started writing each topic, I…
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The Gift of Christmas Present
Last year, my friend gave me one of the best gifts I could have possibly have asked for. The gift was a box that had a stage, lights, and a curtain. On the stage were two people, Christine and the Phantom of the opera. The box had a button on the back where you could press it, and the main theme from the musical would play. I immediately loved it. I had loved the musical for so long and all of my friends knew about this obsession of mine. My sister has long made fun of me by changing the words to the main theme. So when my friend told…
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Hugs From Heaven
Becky is a woman who lives with a sparkle in her eyes and a laugh at the tip of her tongue. I’ve known her since I was twelve and she has always been a light in any darkness, that can fill up a room. “I feel that hope is to view the world with eyeglasses of gratitude.” She said thoughtfully. Becky is the type of woman who already has those eyeglasses of gratitude. She has gone through many trials herself and has seen others go through some as well. “My husband and I, we had served as ARP (Addiction Recovery Program) missionaries for a couple of years, and there was…
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Have Hope Like a Dreamer
I am a dreamer. Everyday I wake up and I start to daydream about life and where I am headed, only to be pulled back by reality and realize that some of those things may not happen. “I want to be an adventurer,” I say. I want to climb up a mountain, fight a bear, and come out of the fight unscathed. Or I want to be on Broadway and have an audience cheer me on. I could even be pirate fighting with swords and swinging on a rope to another boat and take their treasure, and be known as the best woman pirate ever. These are great and…
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Now You Can Have Hope
December is a time of love, peace, and joy. Sometimes we get to see the small flakes of snow that gently covers the ground, sometimes the only part of December we see is the one that comes through holidays. For me, December is a time that I get to be done with school, spend time with my family, and to look forward to what’s to come. Sometimes, I decide to look back on my life. When I look back I seem to always see certain points. Points in my life that really changed me. I sometimes lose hope in the process. Losing hope is almost like losing the last piece…
