Lawn Mowers

Well here is how lawn mowers relate to faith. My dad just said to write about a simple object like a lawn mover and relate it back to faith because everything can relate back to God and faith.

Ok so here it goes. Lawn mowers are kind of like people. There are so many types and brands of us. We are steered by God who leads us around the yard to change things in our life (grass). God “sits” or “pushes” us to change others in our life. We are supposed to change everything that we pass. This doesn’t necessary mean in a good way. It means both change others for the better and for the worse. We are supposed to use our skills and strengths to help others along the way. But along the way we can get off track and hurt people. This is kind of like accidentally going off track and cutting a flower or two.

Yeah I’m not the best at connecting everything to faith but I tried and I think I did pretty well. I tried to think of others things that would be hard to relate to God and faith. So think about things in your life and relate it to faith because it makes you think a lot about what that object actually does.

Six ethics of Life

“Before you Pray – Believe

Before you speak – Listen

Before you spend – Earn

Before you write – Think

Before you Quit – Try

Before you Die – life. “ – Unknown

Before you have a bad day make sure you realize that it is you choice. In you life makes sure you have something to believe in. It doesn’t have to be big thing but make sure you believe in something and yourself. God is a great thing to believe in because He is always there and always willing to listen if you pray to Him. And believing in you is one of the biggest things in life. Don’t just pray without believing in God because that’s kind of pointless to me. I get it if you have hesitations to pray but if you have no belief I don’t understand it.

Make sure you listen before you speak. I learned that the only way to communicate is the fact that you can listen to someone. I always thought that I couldn’t really communicate with other because I couldn’t really talk with them, but then I learned that just listening is a great way to communicate so I really shouldn’t be afraid to communicate with people. So listen and make sure that you really are getting the full picture.

Everyone has to spend so make sure you earn money before you spend it because its really hard if you go into debt. You don’t have to earn a whole like but make sure it is a comfortable amount.

When you write something many people just throw it on the paper with no reason. Honestly I have done that a couple times but I try really hard to think about what I want people to get out of it. Many times I will just think for longer then I will write because I want to make sure it really works.

Make sure you try before you quit. If you want to quit try to figure out why things are going wrong and what you can do better. I know I hate to quit something because I want to prove to myself that I can do anything I put my mind to. I believe that everyone should have that attitude but they don’t so I at least hope people try there hardest.

And last but not least make sure you live before you die. This doesn’t mean just to go on with your life but to actually make the most of your life. Don’t let a moment go by that you wish you were doing something. There is no use of having your life go by without living it to the fullest.

So if you want to take something out of this remember that you are in charge of your life and you have to believe, listen, earn, think, try and live. 

Surviving the Storm

“And once the storm is over you wont remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person you walked in.”  -Haruki Murakami

Everyone goes through storms both physically and hypothetically. Physically there are so many storms out there that hurt you or scare you. Many of these big storms are hurricanes or tornados. If you go through on of these very physical storms then you have gone through so much. I see or read about how people have to deal with all these emotions and have to rebuild their lives because all they had have washed away. I am thankful so far in my life not to have one of these but it happens so often that its hard to avoid it sometimes. When Cedar Rapids had the flood in 2008 there was so many people that had to either move or change so much about their life. But then I show so many people helping them. That help probably meant everything to some people.

Storms like these are so impactful in someone’s life that it really does change them. They know that the disaster may be over but what next when they have to rebuild their life. It’s hard to come out of something that so physically in painful and hard.

Hypothetically a storm can be anything that mentally, emotionally or physically “hurts” you. I put hurt in quotations because some storms look like they are going to hurt you but then when you come out of it you are so much better off that you cant really say that it hurt you so much that you cant live.

No one is ever certain if the storm has past or if it is just weak at that time. Those moments of wandering can this even get worse or the worse? You have to keep pushing though and making sure that nothing stops you from where you are going. Yes this journey may change you and looking back at storms you already have, you may be changed from those. But those changes are most of the time for the good because storms are supposed to strengthen you.

Think about it this way. God sent a giant storm to kill everyone. But He knew it would change the earth forever. He now reminds us that He will never kill everyone again through these storms and the rainbows afterward. These rainbows don’t just represent a promise but also represents the end or a short break of that storm. It’s there to help us know that we can move on with our lives. Either as changed people or not changed. But still storms will have their troubles along the way. You just have to remember that they will end and that there is a rainbow in the future.

Earth

“The seeming imperfections of Earth, the hazard and inequalities of life, the cruelty, harshness and apparent indifference to suffering and affliction are not what they seem; as it is Earth is perfect for its purpose. It is ignorance of that purpose which makes it appear imperfect.” – Kolbrin Bible

Earth has pretty much one purpose but do humans really know what that is. They are so blind to what is around them that they don’t focus on the one thing that earth gives the nothing else does. Earth gives us a home to live on. Air to breath. And many breathe taking sights to see.

But do people really see that. First why do we have to look for another planet to live on or the Moon? Many reasons say incase Earth is destroyed. Why does the earth have to be destroyed? We have to protect what we have. Yes someday it will die out but we can prolong that by not having all this waste going on. We should be self-sufficient and use everything in our wake. This problem can’t just take one person to do. It has to pretty much take the whole population to realize that this is our decedents have to life. If they read in a textbook that we just sat around and kept polluting I think they would be pretty made. I know I would.

Second I feel like people need to stop cutting down trees or if they do find a way to plant some more. I see it as if you take on down then plant 10 more and then someday someone can cut those down and then 100 would be planted. There is no need to not plant another tree after you cut it down. Whole forests are being cut down just for lumber. They are left with nothing afterward. People don’t realize that it doesn’t take much effort just to plant more treeing right back there. Also people don’t realize that we need those trees for our well-being. They cut CO2 levels down and increase oxygen.

Third I think people need to get up and go look and the many wonderful things about our world that makes it so beautiful. Even just going to a local park can make you realize that the world is a beautiful place and there is so any living things out there that you have to realize that you are not the only thing on earth.

You don’t have to even believe in God to appreciate all this glorious creations. So go out and looks and nature and the beauty that our plant hold. It is one of a kind.

Frustration

Have you ever been so frustration with something that you just don’t even want to continue with it? At the moment this is what is happening with homework right now. I just don’t want to continue doing it but I know that I have to because if not I would fail and that would just make me stress out so much. This happens to me over and over again. I don’t even get why I get so frustrated but I do.

I just want to step back and relax but when I do that then I start to get frustrated with myself even more. I know that the relaxing does help me more then hurts be but sometimes my brain doesn’t fell like that at all. It is pretty much a mind game in my head sometimes.

Whenever I get like this the only one thing that really helps is to just breath and tell myself that I have felt like this before and to just let the frustration run its course because I will be better soon. And then I thank God every time that I stop being frustrated because He does so much and helped me through it.

Frustration is a common thing to everyone. Al that you can do is have a positive attitude and try to turn it around. Having something that you know that will have is always a good thing. Stuff like praying and chocolate seem to help me the most because praying just is relaxing to me and chocolate is my favorite.

So remember not to stress when you get frustrated with stuff because obviously it happens to everyone and it’s just something that naturally happens.