Now Playing Tracks

I have this little problem with being included. As a child, i grew up mostly being alone. I had a few friends but i wouldn’t call them “close friends.” I was different. I wasn’t as energetic as the other boys and to top it off i was a very emotional boy. Yeah, I was sensitive. All this caused most people to stay away from me and i got used to never opening up to anyone or going up to people and befriend them. In fact, when i moved to a new high school, i was mostly alone my freshman year. I’m joyful and thankful that that isn’t a problem for me anymore and that God has blessed me with not just friends but brothers and sisters in Christ. Even still, when i am not included with some activities that they do, i get jealous and all the hurt from my past comes back. Slowly but surely i am overcoming this. I actually rejoice to see that they’re having bible studies and prayer sessions and christian movie nights because they’re all doing it for God. I don’t need to be there with them for them to worship God with their lives. I can be here and worship God alone :] It’s not about me but about God. It’s not about my pride but His glory.

Just wanted to share :]

i think i’m gonna start using this blog as a diary. Sounds like a good idea :]
I’ll be starting that next week on monday. Hope fully i’ll stick with it haha

Good night and God bless you all.

nanshelant: purebeachboho: zerenitea: It will take just 37 seconds to read this and change your thinking..Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room.One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs.His bed was next to the room’s only window.The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.The men talked for hours on end.They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation..Every afternoon, when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window.The man in the other bed began to live for those one hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and color of the world outside.The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake.Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every color and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.As the man by the window described all this in exquisite details, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine this picturesque scene.One warm afternoon, the man by the window described a parade passing by.Although the other man could not hear the band - he could see it in his mind’s eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words.Days, weeks and months passed.One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep.She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away.As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone.Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the real world outside.He strained to slowly turn to look out the window besides the bed.It faced a blank wall.The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate who had described such wonderful things outside this window.The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall.She said, ‘Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you.’Epilogue:There is tremendous happiness in making others happy, despite our own situations.Shared grief is half the sorrow, but happiness when shared, is doubled.If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can’t buy.‘Today is a gift, that is why it is called The Present .’The origin of this letter is unknown, but please pass it on.Share it with friends and tag them so the cycle continues … Do not keep this letter … You could change a life too -> i was literally crying reading this :’( this is beautiful <3 Omg the story
Zoom

nanshelant:

purebeachboho:

zerenitea:

It will take just 37 seconds to read this and change your thinking..

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room.

One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs.

His bed was next to the room’s only window.

The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.

The men talked for hours on end.

They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation..

Every afternoon, when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window.

The man in the other bed began to live for those one hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and color of the world outside.

The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake.
Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every color and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.

As the man by the window described all this in exquisite details, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine this picturesque scene.

One warm afternoon, the man by the window described a parade passing by.

Although the other man could not hear the band - he could see it in his mind’s eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words.

Days, weeks and months passed.

One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep.

She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away.

As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone.

Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the real world outside.
He strained to slowly turn to look out the window besides the bed.

It faced a blank wall.

The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate who had described such wonderful things outside this window.

The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall.


She said, ‘Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you.’

Epilogue:

There is tremendous happiness in making others happy, despite our own situations.
Shared grief is half the sorrow, but happiness when shared, is doubled.
If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can’t buy.
‘Today is a gift, that is why it is called The Present .’

The origin of this letter is unknown, but please pass it on.

Share it with friends and tag them so the cycle continues … Do not keep this letter … You could change a life too


-> i was literally crying reading this :’(

this is beautiful <3

Omg the story

itsmelandon: deepinsideashadow: not-broke-just-bent: pedrotojal: This will make you think about life.  1)  The day my sister got back from the hospital after a suicide attempt. I didnt let go for about an hour. 2) Kid just found out his brother was shot and killed. 3) A Russian war veteran kneels beside the tank he spent the war in, now a monument. 4) Man sobbing at animal shelter. After being jailed briefly and his dog Buzz Lightyear impounded he couldn’t afford the $400 to get his pet back. 5) A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires that burned across Victoria, Australia, in 2009. 6) Alcoholic father with his son 7) Robert Peraza pauses at his son’s name on the 9/11 Memorial during the tenth anniversary ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center. 8) Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in Alabama following the Tornado in March, 2012 9) After two double lung transplants and years of battling cystic fibrosis, my good friend passed away last Saturday. This was one of the last pics taken with his mother. This gave me the chills I’m actually sobbing. I met the guy in the last photo. He was a cool guy.
Zoom
itsmelandon: deepinsideashadow: not-broke-just-bent: pedrotojal: This will make you think about life.  1)  The day my sister got back from the hospital after a suicide attempt. I didnt let go for about an hour. 2) Kid just found out his brother was shot and killed. 3) A Russian war veteran kneels beside the tank he spent the war in, now a monument. 4) Man sobbing at animal shelter. After being jailed briefly and his dog Buzz Lightyear impounded he couldn’t afford the $400 to get his pet back. 5) A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires that burned across Victoria, Australia, in 2009. 6) Alcoholic father with his son 7) Robert Peraza pauses at his son’s name on the 9/11 Memorial during the tenth anniversary ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center. 8) Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in Alabama following the Tornado in March, 2012 9) After two double lung transplants and years of battling cystic fibrosis, my good friend passed away last Saturday. This was one of the last pics taken with his mother. This gave me the chills I’m actually sobbing. I met the guy in the last photo. He was a cool guy.
Zoom
itsmelandon: deepinsideashadow: not-broke-just-bent: pedrotojal: This will make you think about life.  1)  The day my sister got back from the hospital after a suicide attempt. I didnt let go for about an hour. 2) Kid just found out his brother was shot and killed. 3) A Russian war veteran kneels beside the tank he spent the war in, now a monument. 4) Man sobbing at animal shelter. After being jailed briefly and his dog Buzz Lightyear impounded he couldn’t afford the $400 to get his pet back. 5) A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires that burned across Victoria, Australia, in 2009. 6) Alcoholic father with his son 7) Robert Peraza pauses at his son’s name on the 9/11 Memorial during the tenth anniversary ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center. 8) Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in Alabama following the Tornado in March, 2012 9) After two double lung transplants and years of battling cystic fibrosis, my good friend passed away last Saturday. This was one of the last pics taken with his mother. This gave me the chills I’m actually sobbing. I met the guy in the last photo. He was a cool guy.
Zoom
itsmelandon: deepinsideashadow: not-broke-just-bent: pedrotojal: This will make you think about life.  1)  The day my sister got back from the hospital after a suicide attempt. I didnt let go for about an hour. 2) Kid just found out his brother was shot and killed. 3) A Russian war veteran kneels beside the tank he spent the war in, now a monument. 4) Man sobbing at animal shelter. After being jailed briefly and his dog Buzz Lightyear impounded he couldn’t afford the $400 to get his pet back. 5) A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires that burned across Victoria, Australia, in 2009. 6) Alcoholic father with his son 7) Robert Peraza pauses at his son’s name on the 9/11 Memorial during the tenth anniversary ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center. 8) Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in Alabama following the Tornado in March, 2012 9) After two double lung transplants and years of battling cystic fibrosis, my good friend passed away last Saturday. This was one of the last pics taken with his mother. This gave me the chills I’m actually sobbing. I met the guy in the last photo. He was a cool guy.
Zoom
itsmelandon: deepinsideashadow: not-broke-just-bent: pedrotojal: This will make you think about life.  1)  The day my sister got back from the hospital after a suicide attempt. I didnt let go for about an hour. 2) Kid just found out his brother was shot and killed. 3) A Russian war veteran kneels beside the tank he spent the war in, now a monument. 4) Man sobbing at animal shelter. After being jailed briefly and his dog Buzz Lightyear impounded he couldn’t afford the $400 to get his pet back. 5) A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires that burned across Victoria, Australia, in 2009. 6) Alcoholic father with his son 7) Robert Peraza pauses at his son’s name on the 9/11 Memorial during the tenth anniversary ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center. 8) Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in Alabama following the Tornado in March, 2012 9) After two double lung transplants and years of battling cystic fibrosis, my good friend passed away last Saturday. This was one of the last pics taken with his mother. This gave me the chills I’m actually sobbing. I met the guy in the last photo. He was a cool guy.
Zoom
itsmelandon: deepinsideashadow: not-broke-just-bent: pedrotojal: This will make you think about life.  1)  The day my sister got back from the hospital after a suicide attempt. I didnt let go for about an hour. 2) Kid just found out his brother was shot and killed. 3) A Russian war veteran kneels beside the tank he spent the war in, now a monument. 4) Man sobbing at animal shelter. After being jailed briefly and his dog Buzz Lightyear impounded he couldn’t afford the $400 to get his pet back. 5) A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires that burned across Victoria, Australia, in 2009. 6) Alcoholic father with his son 7) Robert Peraza pauses at his son’s name on the 9/11 Memorial during the tenth anniversary ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center. 8) Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in Alabama following the Tornado in March, 2012 9) After two double lung transplants and years of battling cystic fibrosis, my good friend passed away last Saturday. This was one of the last pics taken with his mother. This gave me the chills I’m actually sobbing. I met the guy in the last photo. He was a cool guy.
Zoom
itsmelandon: deepinsideashadow: not-broke-just-bent: pedrotojal: This will make you think about life.  1)  The day my sister got back from the hospital after a suicide attempt. I didnt let go for about an hour. 2) Kid just found out his brother was shot and killed. 3) A Russian war veteran kneels beside the tank he spent the war in, now a monument. 4) Man sobbing at animal shelter. After being jailed briefly and his dog Buzz Lightyear impounded he couldn’t afford the $400 to get his pet back. 5) A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires that burned across Victoria, Australia, in 2009. 6) Alcoholic father with his son 7) Robert Peraza pauses at his son’s name on the 9/11 Memorial during the tenth anniversary ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center. 8) Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in Alabama following the Tornado in March, 2012 9) After two double lung transplants and years of battling cystic fibrosis, my good friend passed away last Saturday. This was one of the last pics taken with his mother. This gave me the chills I’m actually sobbing. I met the guy in the last photo. He was a cool guy.
Zoom
itsmelandon: deepinsideashadow: not-broke-just-bent: pedrotojal: This will make you think about life.  1)  The day my sister got back from the hospital after a suicide attempt. I didnt let go for about an hour. 2) Kid just found out his brother was shot and killed. 3) A Russian war veteran kneels beside the tank he spent the war in, now a monument. 4) Man sobbing at animal shelter. After being jailed briefly and his dog Buzz Lightyear impounded he couldn’t afford the $400 to get his pet back. 5) A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires that burned across Victoria, Australia, in 2009. 6) Alcoholic father with his son 7) Robert Peraza pauses at his son’s name on the 9/11 Memorial during the tenth anniversary ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center. 8) Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in Alabama following the Tornado in March, 2012 9) After two double lung transplants and years of battling cystic fibrosis, my good friend passed away last Saturday. This was one of the last pics taken with his mother. This gave me the chills I’m actually sobbing. I met the guy in the last photo. He was a cool guy.
Zoom
itsmelandon: deepinsideashadow: not-broke-just-bent: pedrotojal: This will make you think about life.  1)  The day my sister got back from the hospital after a suicide attempt. I didnt let go for about an hour. 2) Kid just found out his brother was shot and killed. 3) A Russian war veteran kneels beside the tank he spent the war in, now a monument. 4) Man sobbing at animal shelter. After being jailed briefly and his dog Buzz Lightyear impounded he couldn’t afford the $400 to get his pet back. 5) A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires that burned across Victoria, Australia, in 2009. 6) Alcoholic father with his son 7) Robert Peraza pauses at his son’s name on the 9/11 Memorial during the tenth anniversary ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center. 8) Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in Alabama following the Tornado in March, 2012 9) After two double lung transplants and years of battling cystic fibrosis, my good friend passed away last Saturday. This was one of the last pics taken with his mother. This gave me the chills I’m actually sobbing. I met the guy in the last photo. He was a cool guy.
Zoom

itsmelandon:

deepinsideashadow:

not-broke-just-bent:

pedrotojal:

This will make you think about life. 

1)  The day my sister got back from the hospital after a suicide attempt. I didnt let go for about an hour.

2) Kid just found out his brother was shot and killed.

3) A Russian war veteran kneels beside the tank he spent the war in, now a monument.

4) Man sobbing at animal shelter. After being jailed briefly and his dog Buzz Lightyear impounded he couldn’t afford the $400 to get his pet back.

5) A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires that burned across Victoria, Australia, in 2009.

6) Alcoholic father with his son

7) Robert Peraza pauses at his son’s name on the 9/11 Memorial during the tenth anniversary ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center.

8) Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in Alabama following the Tornado in March, 2012

9) After two double lung transplants and years of battling cystic fibrosis, my good friend passed away last Saturday. This was one of the last pics taken with his mother.

This gave me the chills

I’m actually sobbing.

I met the guy in the last photo. He was a cool guy.

We are living in a generation where we want things now

Some call us the digital generation, others call us the microwave generation. Either way, it still points out the fact that we want things handed to us right away. And I bet that most of you won’t even read this because “this is just too much to read.” I’ve noticed that tumblr LOVES photos. We like those nice pictures with texts that head straight to the point, but most of us disregard the posts with the long paragraphs because we think that we don’t have time for it. The truth is, there is as much beauty in an edited picture as a lengthy post. And to be honest, I’m sure that the writers of those long posts are pouring out every bit of themselves into them. Their heart is literally being written. Take some time to read these posts, it might surprise you what you learn.

Thank you for reading this all the way. I honestly do appreciate it.

I’d really like for you guys to ask questions to me :] if you have anything at all on your mind, please don’t hesitate to tell me :] my ears are open and I will give no judgement.

Thought via Path

I think tonight just showed how much I’m not giving enough credit to myself and the work God is doing in me. I AM patient and I AM confident in God’s timing and all of it is because of God :] heeding God’s call and stepping out in faith when He does just brings me unimaginable joy :] and there are so many applications for this in every single section of my life :] my career, love life, walking with God, school, family, SO MANY!! AHHHHH!! I may be rambling but I’m just crazy in love with God and what He’s doing in my life :] – Read on Path.

You are worth more than you think

This is for those who are struggling to love themselves. God loves you even when you don’t feel like you are loved. If you think you love your friends and family now while it’s hard for you to love yourself, just imagine how much more you can love them when you are able to love yourself.

Trust me, you are worth more than you think. You are worth more than the number on the weighing scale. You are worth more than what society labels you as. You are worth far more than the riches of this world. You are a worth dying for. I know because i know a man who died for you over two thousand years ago.

You are worth more and you are loved.

Hello Tumblr,

I want to talk about a subject that i’m currently thinking about right now and i wanted to write it down before i lose my drive haha. But before i move on, i  just want to tell you all that i hope everything is going well with your lives and i am SO sure that God is blessing you in countless ways :]

So now, let’s begin. I wanted to talk about religion. Yeah, i know, it seems like most of my posts are about how flawed religion is but i can’t help but share how much giving up religion has helped me with my walk with Christ. The main reason i actually wanted to talk about this subject is because i had this thought: Doing Hail Mary’s, reciting rehearsed prayers, memorizing liturgies, or whatever else you do in religion, will not make God love you more than anyone else but the amazing thing about God is that He won’t love you any less if you give them up. It says in 1 Samuel 15:22

“But Samuel replied: ‘Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.’”

No where in the bible says that we are required more than to love others as ourselves, make disciples, and obey the Lord’s commands (by this i mean God the Father’s commands in the old testament and Jesus’ commands in the new testament). I know what you’re thinking, “Justin, how can we possibly follow the things God said in the old testament AND what Jesus said? They’re like completely different,” great question. Obviously we are already disregarding a lot of God’s old commandments. We shave our faces even when the bible says that we’re not even supposed to trim the edges of our beards, we plant different plants in the same farm, some of us even get tattoos, and the bible explicitly says that those are things we are not to do. Jesus actually came not to rule over us with the law but He came to give us a new perspective on the law. Heck, He made it even harder for us to follow it; but it was all for this point: to show us that it is impossible for us to fulfill the law and be completely perfect. It is only through Jesus’ shed blood that we are made perfect. Through Him, we are washed clean for every single thing that we fail God with every single day. Romans 5:20-21 says,

“The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

Guys, we can never be  perfect on our own power; it is literally impossible for us to be perfect or even begin to try to become perfect. There is only one true way that we are made perfect and it has already been done over two thousand years ago; it was when Jesus died in our stead. He took that part from us just so that we have the choice to live in paradise. We don’t have to do all these extra things that churches forces us to do that aren’t even in the bible.

In conclusion, religion is just a chase after the wind. The toil that you do in trying to earn your way into heaven is in vain. The price has already been pain in the blood of Jesus and there is nothing more you can do besides accepting Him as your Lord and Saviour. Following God’s commands should be because you love Him and not because the church said that God will love you more because of it. Doing more work doesn’t make you any better than anyone, it says so in Ecclesiastes. God loves us all equally.

I really hope that this can help anyone somehow that is struggling in their walk with God. Giving up religion has helped me have an amazing relationship with God. Religion is a man made institution and i am now following God’s commands instead of man. I am freer and my love for God grows and never becomes dull :] I pray that you doing the same will produce the same things.

God bless you all :]

To Tumblr, Love Pixel Union