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.