Numero Uno.

       So... This is my first blog post. This blog if anything, is a place for me to let out my frustrations, joys, and sadness, along with my ADD thoughts. So if you're reading this, go for it. Be enlightened. If you're not... then whatever. Do your thing.

       I'm going back to school soon, and I can't say that I'm excited about it. I feel like that scared little kindergarten kid crying in a corner, except that I'm a Junior in High School. (Okay maybe it isn't that serious...) But seriously, I'm not ready to go back. The exhaustion from school mixed in with crazy, girly emotional swings just makes it UNBEARABLE. Sometimes it's hard to just stop and breathe. Sometimes everything is so chaotic, and my mind is racing making it IMPOSSIBLE to sleep, so I just lay there and cry. But here's the cool thing, the game changer. My God is with me ALWAYS. No matter how crazy it gets, no matter how unbearable I think my life may be, God is there. He lets me stop and breathe. 

The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still. (Exodus 14:14)

       God has put me in these situations for a reason. I may not be able to comprehend those reasons at the moment... But there are reasons nonetheless. He has put me here on this world, in this town, in this home, to be his light in the darkness. He has put me here to bring honor and glory to him. He has put me here to bring people to him. Because people need him. This world needs him. All the way from Peru, to Costa Rica, to Uganda, and to this little town in Texas. 

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. (Matthew 28:19-20)

       God is going to be with me everywhere I go. He is my father and he loves me. He is going to be with me during the happiness and the laughter as well as the sadness and the tears. He is going to help me grow into the woman he wants me to be. He may have to put me through the flames to do that, but there will be beauty from ashes. With him, I will overcome. But sometimes to do that, you need to just stop and breathe.

I have told you these things so that you may have peace in me. In this world you will have trouble, but take heart! For I have overcome the world. (John 16:33)