Abstinence is Ralistic

I had the blessing of reading a wonderful topic from a blogger, Matt Walsh. If you have not read it, you should. If you believe that "casual sex" is great and a way to express yourself, you have been deceived by yours truly, Satan. I have reason to believe that the adversary wants us to be miserable like unto himself. So he talks through media, gossiping, and casual conversations. Telling many teenagers and even some grown ups out there that Having sex is a modern way to express that way you feel about the other person. But out bodies are sacred places for us. If we let people come close to us we let them in, sex is intimate and a very connective act of love. Once someone experiences that part of you, you feel committed and connected...do you not? If you have already come to this part in your life and you regret it, you can still start a new life, path, and commitment to yourself. Media, the world, and those people who says it is okay to have casual and meaningless sex are sad and want others to be miserable to, because I believe they regret it and are covering up how they really feel, horrible. I have included the link to Matt's blog because this will help you understand where this is coming from. Enjoy the blog:


http://themattwalshblog.com/2013/11/09/abstinence-is-unrealistic-and-old-fashioned/?blogsub=confirming#subscribe-blog

Brand NEW attitude

I just celebrated my 26th birthday...in Mormon culture this is OLD. Because I am not married or have at least 2 children. Really?! I am so tired of people telling me that I am denied the precious gift of a family. I am reminded of this every General Conference and sacrament talk!!!!
So, instead of being bitter of not completing this chapter of my life and giving in to those who are telling me what I am lacking in my life. I have decided to be be the bigger person and turn to the Lord for guidance. During this past session of General Conference I took some notes from a talk in the Sunday Session  based off L. Whitney Clayton.
The thought came to me why do I have to wait to be married to start putting my life in order. I have not been an avid Temple attender, scripture reader, or even service provider. So I have decided to read my scriptures everyday, dedicate a time to go to the temple each week, pray on my knees daily, daily exercise, and provide service everyday. I have decided not to be bitter, I have decided to be happy that I am single and can build my relationship tighter than it has ever been with my much needed Father and Daughter time. I am happy, and I don't need others telling me what can make me happier. I love the Lord and right now that is all that matters!!!
Someone once told me, "own your life" and I feel making this decision in my life is the right way to do so, for me.

Self-Confidence

I took a poetry class this semester in college and I loved it. I was integrated with so many different personalities, which I came to adore. I learned so much from my peers and their criticism. There was this one lady (she was young, I just like calling girls ladies) who would come in and she just had her own style. I loved her poetry and her confidence. She wrote a poem in class that caught my attention and had me sit back and relax and reflect on how I view myself.
I think in today's society so many young girls look at their flaws and hate them, but what we need to do is love them. Love who you are, what you look like, and your own personal style. I loved this poem, because this is a full blown personality of a wonderful woman who has found her divine nature of a daughter of God. LOVE YOURSELF, LADIES!!! It is what God intended for us to do!!! :)
I received permission from her to use her poem on my blog, and let me tell you....get ready for some amazingly written work!!!

To Be Spoken Aloud With Attitude & A Few Teeth Suckings

No one like me!

How could there be?

Not anyone with these thighs

I stay flying high

As I subtly strut down every hall, sprawled

I know that they’re all appalled

At the sight of my curly wavy free bird “good luck” natural God given frizz 

Untamable

That most hairstylists deem uninhabitable and closer to a jungle

No one like me

Afro poof reaching each corner of every room, foxy

Dark red drippings from a chemical tube of a new beginning

This brain attached to the interior walls of my noggin brimming

With its nerves neurons and tubular veins wrapped like a papoose

Looks just like a raisin filled with knowledge juice

I soak up discovery with sunlight through a poet’s monocle

Shedding muddy red squiggles, it’s only anatomical

With these undusted little polka dots all over this olive face

I’m limitless, with nothing in my past to erase

No one like me

Body surrounded by fields of dirty veggies

Wind blasting my body until I’ve got a wedgie

And as this snow falls so willingly

I’ll move on from here towards infinity

While these farming cultures fade like a counter-revolutionary

Into the metropolis of my imagined future

Always surf the net til’ I sleep with my computer 

Is there no one like me?

-Shaychelle Youngberg (she has a blog) check her out!!! 

The Freedom to choose

It matters to live your life full of uncertainty. Everyone thinks we have to know what every path of our life contains. I have slowly come to learn and realize, where is the fun in that? How fun and enjoyable would life be if we lived each day knowing what we would be doing, where we would be going, and who we would be meeting. I didn’t sign up for a play by play of life. I chose to live my life and make it my own. I decided to own it and use prayer for guidance. I love faith, even though there are times when I wish I had a magic 8 ball to shake and see what to do next. I love deciding what I, a daughter of God, who is trusted to make the right decisions. I am grateful for miracles I can see everyday because I choose to be good and make the right choices.

Hidden Monster

I have heard of many lives destroyed by the prongs of evil in the world. I believe it is time for people to see how this hurts those around us. I wrote this poem in my advanced poetry class, we were asked to write something real and raw, and this is what I wrote:

Hidden Monster

Boxy, portable, and full of viruses

Secret, addictive, and fills the mind

Closed behind a door, connected through wires,

And accessible in every home

PORNOGRAPHY  

 

I’m done sugar coating it

I’m through trying to be nice

I’m finished trying to believe it doesn’t exist

IT DOES!

IT, hurts, you want to know how:

IT, leaves a mother with her children alone, trying to raise a

family where it’s not complete

IT, creates falsehoods in a girls mind

 thinking the only way to a man’s heart

is to bare it all and nothing more

IT, leads a man to think his manhood is

benign to

a web of wires and a homepage

IT, abandons your daughter or son to a life full of

disappointment and isolation of a childhood

never to be returned

LEAVE IT!

I am here and I am full of

veins that carry blood to my heart

 that will beat only for you,

but you don’t hear the rhythm

I have a mind full of intricate pathways

that will lead to extraordinary places,

but will never be explored, by you

 

HOWEVER,

 You will forget all of that, just to gravitate toward

A cold, hard, emotionless machine, only to find

Its modem has never loved you, let alone,

Known you even exist

CRASH IT!  

  

School project

Listed below you will find a few titles I hope you go through. I was given this assignment at the beginning of the school year. I was to go through some topics picked out in class and I was to go through some of our general church leaders and find quotes based off of those topics. It was a wonderful and valuable experience for me. I love this project and I hope you do too!

Pornography

PRONOGRAPHY

“Pornography is especially dangerous and addictive. Curious exploration of pornography can become a controlling habit, leading to coarser material and to sexual transgression. Avoid pornography at all costs.”

“Don’t be afraid to walk out of a movie, turn off a television set, or change a radio station if what’s being presented does not meet your Heavenly Father’s standards. In short, if you have any question about whether a particular movie, book, or other form of entertainment is appropriate, don’t see it, don’t read it, don’t participate.”

“Because sexual intimacy is so sacred, the Lord requires self-control and purity before marriage as well as full fidelity after marriage. In dating, treat your date with respect and expect your date to show that same respect for you. Tears inevitably follow transgression.”

-President Thomas S. Monson

“It is interesting that people who are involved with pornography often assume a false identity and hides their participation.”

“Pornography is a plague that is detrimental not only to a person’s moral standing with God, but it can also destroy marriages and families and has an adverse impact on society

-Elder Quentin L. Cook

“In our day the dreadful influence of pornography is like unto a plague sweeping across the world, infecting one here and one there, relentlessly trying to invade every home, most frequently through the husband and father,”

“Priesthood holders carry with them the antidote to remove the terrible images of pornography and to wash away guilt. The priesthood has the power to unlock the influence of our habits, even to unchain from addiction, however tight the grip. It can heal over the scars of past mistakes.”

“every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled ‘repentance.’ If you know how to use this key, the adversary cannot hold you. The twin principles of repentance and forgiveness exceed in strength the awesome power of the tempter.

-President Boyd K. Packer

“He said we cannot minimize the seriousness of pornography no matter what shape, form, or dosage it comes in.”

 “First, acknowledge the evil. Don’t defend it or try to justify yourself. Second, seek the help of the Lord and His servants.

Third, do all that you can to avoid pornography

Finally, do not patronize pornography”

--Elder Dallin H. Oaks

Pornography is a wide spread epidemic in the world today. It has destroyed families and people of all genders, races, and social latters. It tears people down into a depth of slime. But Christ knew of these hard trials in life, but that doesn’t mean there is not a way out. I am so grateful for Christ and his atonement, that we can turn to him in times of need and see there is a way out of Satan’s traps set before us everyday. I am so grateful for that accessibility there for each of us. 

Provident Living

PROVIDENT LIVING

“Living providently reflects our true eternal nature: we are “to act for [ourselves] and not to be acted upon”

“All of us are responsible to provide for ourselves and our families in both temporal and spiritual ways. To provide providently, we must practice the principles of provident living: joyfully living within our means, being content with what we have, avoiding excessive debt, and diligently saving and preparing for rainy-day emergencies.”

-Robert D. Hales

“Begin to prepare for a temple marriage as well as for a mission. Proper dating is a part of that preparation.”

“We can so live that we can call upon the Lord for His protection and guidance. … We cannot expect His help if we are unwilling to keep His commandments.”

“when much has been given to us much is required of us”

“I know that we are not perfect men. We know the perfect way, but we do not always act according to our knowledge. But I think that for the most part we are trying.”

“They did not send away any who were naked, or that were hungry, or that were athirst, or that were sick, or that had not been nourished; and they did not set their hearts upon riches; therefore they were liberal to all, both old and young, both bond and free, both male and female, whether out of the church or in the church, having no respect to persons as to those who stood in need”

“What we have experienced in the past was all foretold, and the end is not yet. Just as there have been calamities in the past, we expect more in the future.”

“if ye are prepared ye shall not fear”

“Wherefore, stand ye in holy places, and be not moved, until the day of the Lord come”

Being prepared in any situation is important. You will never know when a time of preparation is needed. When you are in school you need to be prepared for the tests, so you study. When you are in a place with high rates of natural disasters then you prepare for a traumatic event by taking the necessary steps if a catastrophe where to hit. When we are prepared and know what precautions to take then we need not fear what may beseech us. That is the comfort in the gospel