Guest Post: Maddy

Hi everyone! I'm very excited to be blogging over here today! My name is Maddy and I blog over at Digital Diary and Girls Living For God's Glory. Real quickly, I just want to thank Ellie for letting me guest post! I'm very excited about it! Now, for the post. I've found some pictures that I'll be sharing with you today that will hopefully encourage you and bring a smile to your face. Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Guys, you were all made beautifully! No matter what anyone tells you, your amazing, your loved, your beautiful, your you! Guys, we need to go out and encourage others! The smallest thing can really brighten up someone's day! Something to try this week, go out there and do something nice for someone. It can be family, friends, or someone you don't even know. Send them a note saying how much you appreciate them, get them a gift, simple share one of these quotes with them. Go out there and share your light!

Helping your day

Hello Everyone! How is life? I have some quotes, lyrics, and some bible verses for you today to help you when your going through a hard time at any part of the day in this week.

Your life isn't going to get any better if you just smile, laugh, forget about it, but most of all. Trust in God. ~A quote by me;)

I ABSULUTELY LOVE THIS SONG! I love just singing the lyrics aloud.

Cornerstone. Weak made strong. In the Savior's love. Through the storm. He is Lord. Lord of all.

My hope is built on nothing less. Than Jesus blood and righteousness. I dare not trust the sweetest frame. But wholly trust in Jesus name.

  

My lighthouse. My lighthouse. I will trust the Lord that he will carry me straight to shore.


Fire before us. You're the brightest. You will lead us through the storm.


I won’t fear what tomorrow brings
With each morning I’ll rise and singMy God’s love will lead me throughYou are the peace in my troubled seaYou are the peace in my troubled sea

 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

For fwe are his workmanship, gcreated in Christ Jesus hfor good works, iwhich God prepared beforehand, jthat we should walk in them.

I am not alone. I am not alone. You will come before me. You will never leave me. 

I hope this helps you today and this week. 

Peace,

                  Bernie;P 

Super Summer! Part 1. :)

Bello! It's Ellie! Finally. Yeahh I got back from my camp (that I think I secretly didn't even tell you about) on Saturday, but posting never was my main goal. Days past fast, but I still wanted to post about it because you just gotta hear about it. This year for my summer camp me and my sister went to Super Summer at Greenville College, Greenville Illinois. It was my first year so I was a little nervous. I knew I was going to miss my family and I just wanted to be back at the no business life which is VERY rare for me. I LOVE BUSY! ANNYYWHO, right when I was with my church group heading to the camp I wasn't nervous. I was pumped! I was laughing and having a great time.

SUMMER CAMP NERVOUSNESS

Let me tell you something, Super Summer is like a dream land. Suddenly, whenever you get there you miss your family, but your not thinking about it. It's pretty much the college life. You get a dorm key! GUYS! THAT'S LIKE..............AWESOME! But I haven't even got to the best part yet. So hang on and keep reading!

MY SCHOOL

In every grade your in a different school. No it's not dreadful like that. It's pretty much like the group you hang out with and go to sermons with. Every school you have a color. I was in the red school. First when you got there you put your luggage in your dorm and immediately a TL (team leader) escorts you to the red school room. It was ALL decorated in red. Red balloons and red table cloths surrounded the room. IT WAS AWESOME! I met my roomie there too! We also met our family group. Mostly after sermons and school sessions your family group would gather together and talk about what they learned.

SCHOOL SESSIONS

In our school sessions the main topic was your identity. We read Genesis 1-3 talking about Adam and Eve. I though of a question which is: If we were born sinners then what did we do? What sin did we commit? Here are also some questions our dean (who is like your main speaker at your school) gave us: Would you die for someone? Would you give permission for someone to die? Have you or I put my hope in the hands of Jesus? Do you or I trust him with it?

RECREATION

Rec was AWESOME! It was all about supporting your school. You'd look weird if you didn't wear you school color. Before rec our whole school gathered in our room. EVERYBODY WAS PUMPED! Red face paint, red shirts, red streamers, and red horns were all over the place!

We were all ready to make our team look like so AWESOME! They screamed, The RED TEAM! One of our leaders shouted "For RED!" And we bolted sprinting across the field. Holding our hands up and screaming! We played awesome game like soccer, town house ball, hungry hippos, and my favorite dodge ball. We were DEFINATELY ALL PUMPED!

A Photographers Life

This is a photographers life. It's about 20 degrees outside. You decide to go outside and take pictures in the freezing cold. Your hand is almost solid rock. But your strong. You fight for your beautiful pictures! It was worth it! TOTALLY!

Hello everyone! I'm so sad cause I haven't posted much photography in a long time. Though everything is kind of dead. I didn't think I'd find much things to take pictures of but again like always God's marvelous creation impressed me again.

 

                                                   These pictures I decided to edit. Do you like it?

                                                                        My backpack

 

I hope you liked these pictures. Before I go I want to share a couple bible verses I came across this week that I loved! 

BYE BYE! HOPE YOU LIKED!

Peace and Love,
                        Bernie;P

Why do we celebrate Christmas?

Merry Christmas Eve everyone! Tonight me and my brother might sleep under the Christmas tree! So, I know ya'll have heard many times what Christmas is all about! JESUS! Even though that story never gets old I'm going to talk about something else. Why do we celebrate Christmas! Let me tell you something it's not just because Jesus was born on Christmas day. It's also about this.

1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

This is it! We were dead in our sin. Dirty, poor, gross, and many more things but God saved us! He didn't just want to show his love to the children and preach to the lost. He wanted to die for every single one of us. For by grace we have been saved through faith. This is not our works. But by his gift. That's the real gift. His forgiveness and love is our gift this Christmas and every one. Not just on Christmas day but everyday! I don't know about you but I could maybe die for a friend or relative but I couldn't die for someone who hates me and wants to kill me. But God did! He died for the people who hated him! He forgave them! That's why we celebrate Christmas! Because of God's love for us! 

16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 

So let's not just celebrate Christmas because it's God's birthday but also because of what he did for us! No gift is better than his love! Merry Christmas everyone!

Peace and Love,
                       Bernie;P

4 more!

4 more days till Christmas! 3 more days till Christmas eve. Today I got a kind of short post. Tomorrow I'm going to be in a Christmas play called David's Dynasty. Yea it's based off Duck Dynasty and yes I resemble Mrs. Kay. It's weird cause today is her birthday. I like the play! So anyway this is what has been happening in my Christmas filled day today.

We went to church like usual. This night we planned to go caroling. We went with my Pastor and his daughter (my best friend) and her friend and my family. We went to a couple assistant living centers. Then we went in a couple neighborhoods. The last one was the best though. Just think of a long street covered with apartments. People walking outside. Their were cool Christmas decorations too! We started walking down the street while singing. There would be people opening up their window and listening. Some would shout a nice thank you! I would just smile! ;) Some kids said hi and bye to us. Then, our pastor said a passage in the bible. It was dead silent then you heard a loud voice proclaiming a passage. It was so happy! So there's your little story for you. Then we came back to our church and ate pizza. We told tons of funny stories and laughed like crazy! Minus the fact, I hurt my ankle by jumping the wrong way down the stairs, it was a blast! Hope you day was like this one too!

Peace and Love,
                          Bernie;P

countdown till Christmas! 5 more!

5 more days! Today I'm doing some Christmas bible verses.

Luke 2:10 "Then the angel said to them, Do not be afraid for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people."

Luke 2:11 "For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord."

Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a son will be given to us, for unto us a child will be born, and the government will rest on his shoulder, and we will call him Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.

Also today we were reading Christmas songs. It's awesome to sing them, but sometimes we need to focus on the words and read them. So, I'm going to copy one here for you.

O Holy Night! The stars are brightly shining,
It is the night of the dear Saviour's birth.
Long lay the world in sin and error pining.
Till He appeared and the Spirit felt its worth.
A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices,
For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn.
Fall on your knees! Oh, hear the angel voices!
O night divine, the night when Christ was born;
O night, O Holy Night , O night divine!
O night, O Holy Night , O night divine!

Led by the light of faith serenely beaming,
With glowing hearts by His cradle we stand.
O'er the world a star is sweetly gleaming,
Now come the wisemen from out of the Orient land.
The King of kings lay thus lowly manger;
In all our trials born to be our friends.
He knows our need, our weakness is no stranger,
Behold your King! Before him lowly bend!
Behold your King! Before him lowly bend!

Truly He taught us to love one another,
His law is love and His gospel is peace.
Chains he shall break, for the slave is our brother.
And in his name all oppression shall cease.
Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we,
With all our hearts we praise His holy name.
Christ is the Lord! Then ever, ever praise we,
His power and glory ever more proclaim!
His power and glory ever more proclaim!

 

I was about to just do another post and not post any verses, but my brother helped me. He said, "Sure you might not want to hear it but someone might need it. So this is for you! Please read these verses! I hope this helps your day to be joyful! Remember Jesus is the reason for the season!

 

Peace and Love,

                  Bernie;P