Hello Friendships! Ready for this long overdue blog entry? I know I am! So sit back in your comfy couch, make yourself a cup of tea, and maybe read this till the end?
Did you know an Ostrich's eye is the same size as it's brain? Their brains are so small and are so under developed compared to a human brain that, if you raise your hand in front of an ostrich it will think your hand is your head. But really who needs common sense when you can lay ostrich eggs that can weigh up to five pounds? (Don't answer that question...or actually answer it if you want I don't control your life). Did you also know that mortality rates jumps between our early and late adolescence? Crime rates and alcohol abuse are actually highest among young people compared to any other age.
You're wondering..."why did you just make me read that irrelevant information about Ostriches and remind me why society frowns upon teens most of the time?" Well because I feel like right now all of us, if you're nineteen and under, have ostrich brains. Sorry if I offended any of you, but it's true. Teenagers have very small brains! We are so quick to make our decisions that we don't even think about the future consequences that can happen because of the decisions we make. We live in so much of the now that we tend to abuse the fact that we have so much of our lives ahead of us.
I know all ages can be accused of this but teens seem to be more so the victims. "Young people at this age are close to a lifelong peak of physical health, strength, and mental capacity, and yet, for some, this can be a hazardous age." Unfortunately we "Young people" lack development in the frontal lobe of our brains. So don't blame others for your terrible decision making, blame your brain! Your brain isn't fully developed until your early twenties. When you reach this point in your life you have learnt from past mistakes and are still learning, but just handling it in a more sensible manner. Or maybe you're at this point in your life right now! Maybe you're ahead of the game and you have grown out of your ostrich brain.
In any case whether you have an ostrich brain or grew out of it, you have been in a point in your life where you couldn't tell the difference between your head and hand. What I mean is that you probably have made some decisions that you weren't so proud of because you didn't use your head. And by making that decision your sensory neurons start to kicking and your body just follows with the not so cool decision. But you learn from those mistakes and your ostrich brain starts to become...not...an...ostrich...brain?
So don't worry. Have no shame because you have an ostrich brain! Embrace it! This is the time to make mistakes. You're going to make some terrible decisions in your life, it's inevitable. It's up to you to take those mistakes and make it into wicked life lessons for those little hoodlums that live across from you; So they don't have to make the same mistakes you did.
Peace and Hair grease,
-Someone who has an ostrich brain just like you
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Monday, February 10, 2014
As for me and my house we will serve the Lord
Happy Monday, friends.
It's Mondays like this that make me really exhausted, lazy, and overall fed up with everything that's going on around me. But this month is very exciting, as is the next month, and the next month after that. But why? Well you probably won't care, but hey just for fun keep on reading because this might be an exciting story about the power of prayer and THE GRACE OF GOD. (Who doesn't like those stories?)
A little background info, my family and I have not lived in a house for over seven years due to divorce and other personal reasons. Since then we've been living in apartments and town houses. And my little sister and I have been fine with it, of course at that age we tended to complain, but we were young! As we grew older and our family began to grow (another baby sister, and a puppy) we became accustomed to living in such small conditions and our complaints began to seize. Now that our family was bigger and certainly not fit for just two bedrooms, a living room, a bathroom, and fairly small kitchen, we began to discuss about the buying of a house. And as much as we talked about it, it seemed as though we could buy a house, easy as pie! But it seemed everytime we were sure of buying a house, we never really did. This lasted about two years and my excitement for a house started to die down. I sort of made the conclusion that we wouldn't move any time soon, which made me quite somber but I put that aside and just thanked God for giving my family a roof over our heads. My parents would say, "Don't worry. God is going to bless us, he knows what he's doing."
Two years flew by and it was the beginning of 2014, a new year. New years resolutions were being shared and I over heard my mom talking about a goal she had made for herself to buy a house for us. And having hopes so high before I blew it off and didn't get too excitied about the statement she had said. Well to just sum it all up January was full of: complaining about the neighbours, complaining about the landlords, and complaining about the whole apartment building itself. (Most of the complaining was from Laney and I). I'm pretty sure my parents were getting sick of our complaining so they told us to replace our complaining with prayers. So every night before we went to bed our family prayed (like usual, the "Our Father" in case you were wondering) and we would pray for a house. So that's what we did every night, and for me during the day as well. Then during mid January sort of near the end we began looking for houses and one house in particular caught our eyes and it seemed like love at first sight. Long story short, we didn't get that house and our hopes for a new house began to die once again.
Then on February fifth, just five days from today my parents decided to show us one last house before we headed out to youth group. We had talked about this house but they gave us really vague answers when we asked them about it. So while driving our parents told us to put our hats down over our eyes so we couldn't see. I was sort of excitied but something in me told me to calm down and not get my hopes up. When they finally stopped they told us to get out of the car. We stepped out and they led us towards the front door and placed us both in the "corners" of the house. They told us to take off the blind folds and I opened my eyes to a very empty and very beautiful home. Perfect for a couple with three girls and a dog (and possibly even more if God wants to surprise us). As we were looking around we all sort of stopped in the bottom of the stairs, all silent, and just looking at eachother. When my dad said, "So I guess this is our house now." and we all sort of smiled and laughed, and I knew we all were thanking God at the same time. We'll be moving on the Third of March and we are all very very exctited and we can't stop thanking God.
God has done so much for our family and this is just one example on how his timing is so perfect. It shows how awesome he really is, and that even if we feel like giving up we should never stop praying. We shouldn't stop praying because we feel like it's not going to work. We shouldn't stop praying because God has answered your prayer and you feel like "oh well he answered it, my job is done." Prayer should not feel like a chore. It should not be used only when you need something. Prayer is to ask for God's guidance and to thank him for everything he has done for you (good and bad). So yes! That is all for now, I hope it wasn't too much to read. I hope this made you smile and or your heart smile.
~Emmy
It's Mondays like this that make me really exhausted, lazy, and overall fed up with everything that's going on around me. But this month is very exciting, as is the next month, and the next month after that. But why? Well you probably won't care, but hey just for fun keep on reading because this might be an exciting story about the power of prayer and THE GRACE OF GOD. (Who doesn't like those stories?)
A little background info, my family and I have not lived in a house for over seven years due to divorce and other personal reasons. Since then we've been living in apartments and town houses. And my little sister and I have been fine with it, of course at that age we tended to complain, but we were young! As we grew older and our family began to grow (another baby sister, and a puppy) we became accustomed to living in such small conditions and our complaints began to seize. Now that our family was bigger and certainly not fit for just two bedrooms, a living room, a bathroom, and fairly small kitchen, we began to discuss about the buying of a house. And as much as we talked about it, it seemed as though we could buy a house, easy as pie! But it seemed everytime we were sure of buying a house, we never really did. This lasted about two years and my excitement for a house started to die down. I sort of made the conclusion that we wouldn't move any time soon, which made me quite somber but I put that aside and just thanked God for giving my family a roof over our heads. My parents would say, "Don't worry. God is going to bless us, he knows what he's doing."
Two years flew by and it was the beginning of 2014, a new year. New years resolutions were being shared and I over heard my mom talking about a goal she had made for herself to buy a house for us. And having hopes so high before I blew it off and didn't get too excitied about the statement she had said. Well to just sum it all up January was full of: complaining about the neighbours, complaining about the landlords, and complaining about the whole apartment building itself. (Most of the complaining was from Laney and I). I'm pretty sure my parents were getting sick of our complaining so they told us to replace our complaining with prayers. So every night before we went to bed our family prayed (like usual, the "Our Father" in case you were wondering) and we would pray for a house. So that's what we did every night, and for me during the day as well. Then during mid January sort of near the end we began looking for houses and one house in particular caught our eyes and it seemed like love at first sight. Long story short, we didn't get that house and our hopes for a new house began to die once again.
Then on February fifth, just five days from today my parents decided to show us one last house before we headed out to youth group. We had talked about this house but they gave us really vague answers when we asked them about it. So while driving our parents told us to put our hats down over our eyes so we couldn't see. I was sort of excitied but something in me told me to calm down and not get my hopes up. When they finally stopped they told us to get out of the car. We stepped out and they led us towards the front door and placed us both in the "corners" of the house. They told us to take off the blind folds and I opened my eyes to a very empty and very beautiful home. Perfect for a couple with three girls and a dog (and possibly even more if God wants to surprise us). As we were looking around we all sort of stopped in the bottom of the stairs, all silent, and just looking at eachother. When my dad said, "So I guess this is our house now." and we all sort of smiled and laughed, and I knew we all were thanking God at the same time. We'll be moving on the Third of March and we are all very very exctited and we can't stop thanking God.
God has done so much for our family and this is just one example on how his timing is so perfect. It shows how awesome he really is, and that even if we feel like giving up we should never stop praying. We shouldn't stop praying because we feel like it's not going to work. We shouldn't stop praying because God has answered your prayer and you feel like "oh well he answered it, my job is done." Prayer should not feel like a chore. It should not be used only when you need something. Prayer is to ask for God's guidance and to thank him for everything he has done for you (good and bad). So yes! That is all for now, I hope it wasn't too much to read. I hope this made you smile and or your heart smile.
~Emmy
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Me, Myself, and Jesus
Well getting more in the swing of things with this blog I decided to write something that has been on my mind since the day I came to know God and more of an understanding on how wonderful he really is. Lately I've been very VERY busy, and if I have anytime to myself I usually call it "me" time, but during this "me time" It usually consists of me just doing absolutely nothing. By nothing I mean things that won't benefit me in anyway. To sum it all up I am the epiphany of lazy when it comes to "me time". I'm ashamed of this yes, and while being in such a lazy state I begin to think of things that I could be doing. For example: read my bible, exercise, practice my Cajon (percussion instrument), paint. But I somehow always find a way to avoid doing any of these things.
So why don't I get around to do any of these things? Well as sadly as this sounds (and I think a lot of people can relate) I tend to put myself before God. I know it sounds terrible but don't you lie! You have done it too. So has you mother, father, sister, brother, dog, fish, and every living person in this tiny planet we call, Earth. I'm not saying you're a bad person or anything, nor am I calling myself a bad person, we're human. Humans have selfish and down right dumb embedded into our skulls.
Now, I don't know about you but I don't want to have those words embedded in my skull. I want to replace those words with, compassion and loving. Those two words are what Jesus shows us every single day. Although we have our faults Jesus looks past them and says, "You are mine and I am yours." He shows us never ending love, even though we veer towards our own desires. I want to change my "me time" into "Jesus time" (sounds like a game show or something.) I'd advise you to do the same. Take an hour or two to just study God's word. Really grip the message you're reading and write them down in your journal. Change "me, myself, and I" into "Me, myself, and Jesus." Focus on your relationship with him and I pinky swear only good things will come of it. I hope this made you smile and or your heart smile.
Peace and Hair Grease,
~Emmy
So why don't I get around to do any of these things? Well as sadly as this sounds (and I think a lot of people can relate) I tend to put myself before God. I know it sounds terrible but don't you lie! You have done it too. So has you mother, father, sister, brother, dog, fish, and every living person in this tiny planet we call, Earth. I'm not saying you're a bad person or anything, nor am I calling myself a bad person, we're human. Humans have selfish and down right dumb embedded into our skulls.
Now, I don't know about you but I don't want to have those words embedded in my skull. I want to replace those words with, compassion and loving. Those two words are what Jesus shows us every single day. Although we have our faults Jesus looks past them and says, "You are mine and I am yours." He shows us never ending love, even though we veer towards our own desires. I want to change my "me time" into "Jesus time" (sounds like a game show or something.) I'd advise you to do the same. Take an hour or two to just study God's word. Really grip the message you're reading and write them down in your journal. Change "me, myself, and I" into "Me, myself, and Jesus." Focus on your relationship with him and I pinky swear only good things will come of it. I hope this made you smile and or your heart smile.
Peace and Hair Grease,
~Emmy
Saturday, January 11, 2014
MY FIRST POST EVER
Well I don't know how to properly start off this blog so...Hello? Hi? Greetings? How are you? I don't know. I want you to know that I've been spending pretty much this whole day thinking about what to write about for my first post EVER. It actually started to get quite frustrating. I mean this whole entire day I was so worried about what to write and here I am now typing at this very moment just going with the flow and typing whatever is in my head right now. You. You. You. How am I going to make this post interesting to YOU? I guess to catch your attention I was thinking about writing just random things about myself. For example: My favourite colour is blue and my favourite animal is an elephant. I'm Asian American and I have an addiction to The Office. But seriously, how boring is that? THOSE TYPE OF THINGS WERE IN MY HEAD THE WHOLE ENTIRE DAY. You can see how that can be quite frustrating.
So right now I have come to the conclusion that there is no way I can possibly write this post to interest you in any way, shape, or form. All I can do is just let you read what's on my mind and hopefully (emphasis on the hopefully) try to make my thoughts mildly interesting to you and somehow put them into words to make a post. I have no idea what I'm going to post in the future. I have no idea if anybody is even going to read this. But I'll tell you this, homie...everything I post will be genuine and true. Because life isn't any fun when you're fake and lying, am I right? I hope this post and my future posts make you smile and or your heart smile.
Peace and hair grease,
~Emmy
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