Keep those Complimenets coming! :)

Hello, everyone. 🙂

This weekend, after a few days of talking to someone that actually admires my blogs, which I’m completely not used to, I feel like I could . . . . I don’t know, do something crazy and fun. 🙂  But, I will just write a blog, instead. 😉

I’m happy, to say the least. ❤

I am not used to being complimented on my style of writing, usually I just get constructive criticism and a (less than perfect) grade. :p

I think that I may have previously come across another person who enjoyed my blog. But usually, if it’s looked at, at all, it’s to see how well I understood something or how I’m doing since my Traumatic Brain Injury a few years ago. :p

Please don’t misinterpret what I said before, I appreciate the constructive criticism very much, but I really do like to hear that I am saying something that someone other than my professor deems worthy of reading.

I am sitting here in my room, with cold toes, (:p) getting lost in the music that I have downloaded onto my iPhone, thinking about the very slight ways in which I am able to impact the lives of others as ministers and pastors and other religious leaders impact the lives of others on at least a weekly basis.
In church this morning, there were several messages  in the Sermon at the church that I attended.

One of the messages was that Christ’s ‘tough love’ is a grace of God and should be rendered as such in daily life . . . . . . . . . As we go through life’s struggles, we must remember that each thing that we overcome will only make us stronger human beings. . .
Take me for example! I went through a very physically, emotionally and mentally difficult experience, but I am so much stronger now that I ever even dreamed of being before.
Another message that I picked up on at church this morning was how important it is to follow the way of God. After God has commanded that something be done, it will be done. (Bible as Literature course lecture, Dr. Martin, September, 2015)
As discussed by the Pastor in church today, we are to ‘Trust and Obey His Command(ment)s. While she was preaching to the small congregation this morning, Pastor Hardy discussed the importance of following God’s Commandments and abiding by His will. She talked about how immensely important it is to follow His prominent 10 commandments, in order to be accepted into Heaven after being led by His Hand and His staff in this far less than perfect world.

Part of the said ‘far less than imperfect world” we are brought into is a world of rude, harsh (often downright mean) people and expected to come into adulthood as innocent, good and forgiving people as Christians, or any ‘type’ of  people, if you want to segregate or even ‘classify’ people.

This has been my experience of the world so far, anyway. Well, at least my experience of the small region that I have lived most of my life in. It is because I have lived such a wonderful, yet sheltered, life (but have experienced other peoples and cultures) that I dream of living in vastly different places with different languages, foods and new faces around me on a regular basis. Because of my experience of being sheltered and protected for the last 22 years, I want to learn about the world outside of the small bubble that I’ve been raised in. ❤

Believe it or not, I love my little ‘bubble’ of protection and being sheltered very much, I just feel like I need to see how exactly it is, OUTSIDE of my bubble and protection of ‘home’ and ‘love’ and ‘family’. Because of this wondering and deep desire to explore the world, my thoughts are often very scatterbrained and it’s because my scatterbrained thoughts often get put down or refuted so strongly that I hesitate to speak at all such as in class or with people that I don’t know well and feel like they will disagree with what I am saying, etc.  ❤

However!! This new acquaintance that I’ve made, along with previous admirers, renews the faith that I have in humanity.

I have said before that I’m pretty much like a five year old in the way that I see the world because of my car accident injuries, but with the body and experiences of a 22 year old. That makes some people think I’m weird, but I choose to be optimistic, and I don’t care that some people think I’m strange. There are some who think that I am worthy of compliments, and there is ONE who deems me worthy of life everyday. ❤

Because of the ONE who deems me worthy of life, and the few who think me worthy of compliments, I choose to caution myself against the many who think I am ‘sub-par’ and unworthy.  ❤

How about you?; Do you have ‘haters’? Do you have people that are behind you no matter what?

If not, please allow me to introduce you to a man that I know named Jesus. He will always love you and think that you are perfect just the way that you are.

If you don’t want to hear about Him, I will try my best to let you know just how great you are. 😉

God Bless all who have stumbled through my ramblings, and even those who have skipped to the end.

With Most Sincere Love,

Alexandra Mae