The Art Of Deception

Deception is something I have never really been able to understand. I cannot, for the life of me, find a reason where deception is necessary. Yet, deceptions seems to be a part of everyday life in our culture. It is everywhere, you see it in all the movies, on tv shows, and in books! At first I thought it was just going to be one of those high school habits that everyone quickly grew out of. I was wrong. It is almost as if high school was training camp. The place you learned different tactics on how to deceive those around you. Personally I dislike being deceitful with an extreme passion. I believe in being honest with everyone and don't think it is right to say one thing to someone's face and then to turn around and say the complete opposite a second later. I also do not think deceit is biblical in anyway. I will always tell someone to their face what I would ever tell any other person. I hate being fake with people honestly if I do not like you I am not going to pretend we are best friends. I will be nice and polite to you but I will not lie and suck up to you just so that you will like me. I am sorry if this is crude and frowned upon by our society but where does it say that I must be best friends with everyone on the planet? Yes I am called to love everyone but I this does not mean I tell acquaintances that I love their boots when I think they are the uglies things i've ever seen. NO!! that is lying and I do not know why our culture has accepted these actions to be okay. Why are there people who are supposedly "best friends" but when one of them isn't there all they do is rag on the other person and say awful things about them? Is it because we are so caught up on everyone wanting to like us? I think this is more of a problem among girls but I don't thing guys are excused. It is just so strange and sad to me that people will do this to one another. I've seen so many friendships ripped apart and people get hurt when they didn't need to be.

I think the root problem is gossip. Our culture thrives on gossip. I, myself included. I love to hear the latest story. Half the time I don't think I even realize that I am gossiping. This is so sad because the bible obviously describes gossiping and the hurtfulness and wrongness of it. I think if as girls we started to guard out tongues better and actually thought about what qualifies as gossip our relationships would be much better. It worries me sometimes though...the thought what would we talk about always come to my mind. which is so sad because I should be able to carry on conversations without having to participate in gossip. I wish I was better at holding my tongue and not spreading gossip or digging for gossip. I really am going to try and be better because it would make things so much better if I did. Just think if we didn't gossip how confidential anything you said to anyone would be. How nice would it be to know that what you said isn't about to spread like wild fire! Ah to be that girl that people know they can trust to talk to. I want to be that girl. Lord, help me to be a confidential girl who holds her tongue and does not hide who she is from other people. May I never intentionally deceive anyone and may my motives always be pure. Let's do it girls. Let's try and stop spreading the fire of gossip and promote confidentiality!

Happiness

HI! 
Long time no see!!
I don't have much time to let you in on life but here are a few happy quote i found.
Today has been a rough day of life and it's beautiful complications and these were good reminders!
I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. 

• Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time at least.

• The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes to do but in liking what one has to do. 

• Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them.

• Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget
       about it.

• Happy people roll with the punches.  They know from experience that
       everything changes.  Today's good fortune may vanish tomorrow,
       today's crises may turn out to be tomorrow's good fortune.

• Everyone is responsible for their own joy.

• Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling

• What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.  They are trifles,
      to be sure, but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is
      inconceivable.

• Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young.  A good laugh
         makes better friends with ourselves and everybody around.

•      I'm going to be happy today, Though the skies may be cloudy and gray  No matter what may come my way I'm going to be happy today.

• The joyful people are those who are generous and kind 
  The miserable people are those who are selfish & unforgiving.
  The problem solvers are those whose lives are powered by  faith & optimism.
  The problem people are those whose lives are drained by  doubts & pessimism.
  The winners are those who learn to take full responsibility for their actions.
  The losers are those who blame others for their failures.

• Happiness is like a potato salad  -  when shared with others - 
  it's a picnic.

• Nothing has to happen for me to feel good!  I feel good because
          I'm alive!  Life is a gift, and I revel in it.

• Where ever you are going, whatever the weather always bring your own sunshine.

• This is the day the Lord has Made I will Rejoice and be Glad in IT!!!

Quotes always fascinate me. I love to sort through a pile of them and find those couple that are just awesome! I could just curl up with a fluffy blanket and shift through quotes all day long and be entertained the whole time. So let's go be happy!

Life

I don't want to start this week.
I really just want to curl up in a big bed with fluffy pillows and comforters and forget the world.
I'm not sure why I want this. It's a weird feeling that this week is just going to be full of life.
The depressing reality that we live in, because of or fallen nature.
I just have a feeling that there will be more messy-ness this upcoming week.
and I just don't want to deal with it.
I want to curl up with a romantic book and imagine that is how the world is.
To do nothing for days!!
But it is time i brace for the week coming. That I put on my armor and show this world that this isn't the end.
that this isn't the reality we have to live in.
There is more to come.
There is a place that is much more than we could ever imagine.
A place where feelings are never hurt.
Boys are never jerks.
Friends never lie.
People aren't starving.
Children aren't crying.
Wars aren't being fought.
Just a place of peace and rest.
A place where we can look on the face of the Almighty and just bask in His Glory.
So for this week I take on the challenge to show the people around me a piece of that peace.
A glimpse of that happiness
A sliver of that honesty
An embrace of that comfort
because it doesn't take a multitude just a smile and a good attitude.
So let's go attack this week and make a mark for the kingdom to come!