Self worth

Your self worth is not decided by the number of facebook friends you have. It isn't decided by how often you get text messages or how many parties you go to. Your weight, skin color, job, talents, strengths, and weaknesses shouldn't affect your self worth. That boy has no right to decide how much your worth. Your self worth is decided by yourself and god. God has already let you know that you are worth everything. All the riches in the world combined cannot compare to your worth in the eyes of god. It is up to you to realize that you are worth so much more than you see when you look in the mirror. Its okay to love yourself, but beware of pride. You deserve to be treated better, so treat yourself better. You want to be happier? Do something uplifting.

DO NOT DEPEND ON OTHERS TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR EVERY EMOTIONAL NEED. Your friends have emotional needs too, and most of them know that they sometimes need to put their emotional needs first. If you become completely dependent on others to fill your emotional needs, you will forever feel an aching and longing for a kind of acceptance and emotional need that only one person can fill. You will never feel complete until you accept yourself.

You need to accept the fact that you are the way you are, and if you don't like the way you are, change yourself. Once you begin to love yourself, it will become easier to love others. Remind yourself and the people you choose to surround yourself with regularly of gods love for each of his children. let others see your confidence, and inspire them to see their own self worth. <3

One of those days

Have you ever had one of those days where you honestly try to be a good person and do good things, but the world seems to be out to get you and everything you do turns out to either hurt someone or fail miserably? I hate those days. But I think I hate watching my friends go through one of those days more then I hate going through one myself. I wish I knew what I could do or say to lighten the burden that the world, for some reason, has chosen to put on you today. Just remember I love you. I pray tomorrow will be a better day.

Spiritual high

• My first year at girls camp. I was so scared. I didn't know anyone except my sister. I was immediatly accepted by the laurel girls, who were all beautiful, strong, and confident young women. They smothered me in love.  They showed me what it meant to truly love the gospel. Walking away with goosebumps, sore eyes, and a full heart after bearing my little testimony for the first time and for my first testimony meeting. That was a spiritual high.
• Trek. After walking mile after mile, pushing a handcart and holding a ginormous baby, they asked all the men to leave the women behind and watch on the sidelines as the women pushed the cart up a hill. It was intimidating, but my family was strong and we made it without too much struggling. I joined the men on the sidelines, and watched as group after group struggled getting up the hill. Unable to physically help my sisters, We began to sing as we watched. Again, with goosebumps, sore eyes, and a full heart, I continued with my family to the end of the journey. They then asked me to share my testimony for the whole stake. I was on a spiritual high.
• My parents stopped going to church when I was about 13. It was really hard to convince myself to go to church without them. My 4th year at girls camp, I found a spot in the woods, where I was completely alone. I knelt down and prayed to my lord. I felt confirmation that going to church was the right thing to do, and that heavenly father was proud of me. I walked back to camp with goosebumps, sore eyes, and a full heart for yet another incredible testimony meeting. This is one of my favorite spiritual highs.
• Your seminary class is full of good students who have good fun, but are in tune with the spirit. After a particularly good lesson, you walk out of the classroom with goosebumps, sore eyes, and a full heart. You walk on air, cheerful and happy the rest of the day. That is a spiritual high.
• I have one of those particularly hard weeks where it seems the world is out to get me. Its late at night, and I'm laying in my bed. I feel so alone and worthless. I say a prayer and just start to cry. I lay there crying myself to sleep when suddenly, there are no more tears left to cry. It feels peaceful. Despite the goosebumps, sore eyes, and full heart, I am able to lay still, and peacefully fall asleep. This is a quiet, but powerful spiritual high.
• It had been a while since I went up during sacrament meeting to share my testimony. It was fast Sunday, and I was sitting with my sister and a cute little angel named Megan. She dared me to go up to the stand. Right when she said that my heart started pounding, and I knew I was gonna go up whether I wanted to or not. shaking, with goosebumps, and a full heart, I went up and shared my love of the gospel with the ward. Twas a spiritual high.

Spiritual High: Whenever the spirit touches your heart <3 

God is love

God is the ultimate example of true, eternal, perfect love.
As a teenager, I get so caught up and excited at the thought of true love. I love my friends and my family, but that love is quite pathetic compared to the love god has for us, each of his children.

He loves us so he sent his son to be sacrificed for our sins, to bleed from every poor and to be rejected by man. He loves us all so much that he watched his only begotten son suffer for each of us, individually,  one at a time. I imagine being a parent and the intangible and unimaginable amount of love I have for my beautiful baby girl or handsome baby boy. I would be so upset and angry if anyone even thought about hurting my child, and how I would do anything to protect him/her from the cruelty of the world. I can only imagine how terribly hard it must be for god to see us, his children, backstabbing and hurting one another. He has the power to stop the backstabbing and the pain, but enough love to let us make mistakes, hurt, and learn. he loves us with a perfect love, and forgives us no matter how bad we screw up.

When we gossip, make others upset, judge, or hurt someone, we have to keep in mind that the people we are hurting are gods precious children. They are worth everything to God. Jesus Christ already suffered for their sins, why should we make them suffer for them too?  He loves and cares about them just as much as he loves and cares about you. 

"LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER: FOR LOVE IS OF GOD; AND EVERYONE THAT LOVETH IS BORN OF GOD AND KNOWETH GOD. FOR GOD IS LOVE." -John 4:7-8