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Dear Mr. Christopher Columbus,

I would like to inform you that you are terribly misinformed about some things. As far as I can tell you did not "find" the new world. To find something, clearly, it must be lost in the first place. As far as I can tell North America wasn't lost, simply hiding. That, or the simple fact that you were all scared out of your wits that you would fall off the world. (Really?)
Also, what is now known as America wasn't in reality a new world. It wasn't a real world at all, just a place inside the world. It was just a hunk of rock that your little ship landed upon. I personally feel sorry for the people aboard, eating stale bread and having to put up with you.
The Indians (aka Native Americans) were here before and I find it quite rude that you didn't even ask them if they minded you trespassing on their lush green land with you diseases and smelly shipmates!
Well that is all, I hope you consider this and roll in your grave a couple times to get the blood flowing, you can get really stiff and even have blood clots from sitting in one position for so long! And if anyone asks, this letter was sent back in the 1400s.

Trip, Ace & Demo,

~Yours Truly

P.S. I needed to lighten my mood. Comments? Read Isaiah 50!

Well as Sydney stated in the post below my computer was broken and... it's now fixed! I thought there was a piece missing out of the side that was making it not turn on but it turns out there never was a piece in the side. Shows how observant I am.
I had an amazing thanksgiving holiday let me tell you. I was so happy that I could spend it with m friends and family (Although my twin wasn’t there...). I am really so thankful for everything I have. I would like to recognize those things below

• My family, they are so supportive and never fail to amaze me whether it’s with their bad jokes or caring hugs.
  


• My friends, I love them to the ends of the earth. I would do anything for any one of them; they truly make life worth living.
  


• My health, lots of people have been getting sick with different things and my heart goes out to those families who had to spend the holiday in the hospital. (I once had to spend Christmas in the hospital)
  

Anyway, it would be cool if you guys could post comments about what you are most thankful for. And as Grace pointed out to me because Thanksgiving is over we are officially allowed to start singing Christmas music. And I have been practicing playing my Christmas music on the Piano. I am so excited for Christmas. Not just for the day but for the season. I love driving at night seeing all of the lights on the houses, I love listening to all the music that is played in the stores, and I love buying gifts for people and seeing their reaction when they open them. Everything about it is just so happy. The day after thanksgiving we put up our light and I love them so much. We put up a ton of them and they look really cool. I like knowing that I helped create a masterpiece!

Over the break I dog sat for two different houses and let me tell you, that was an adventure. The first house had two dogs that were HUGE and whenever I opened the door they would bark at me like I was going to try to hurt them or something. Then they would realize it was just me and they would run to the back door so they could go to the bathroom. Then the second house I was at had a tiny little dog that was sort of like a Pomeranian and another that is so old she can barely see or hear, but they have this waterfall in the backyard which is so so so pretty. It has three different sections and at the bottom there is a pond. Behind the water are these light that light the whole thing up with changing colors. I could have sat there for hours and watched it. I love dog sitting, except the part where you have to get up early so that you can go and let them out. But something about being in a house alone with dogs is so calming.
Until next time...

~A

Well, I have to say I am terribly sorry for my unexcused absence from this blog, as well as Emma's (for those of you who don't know, my twins computer is not working thus she is unable to get on the blog until the repairs are made. Thank you for your thoughtful understanding!)
I myself was gone, with my family for the wonderful holiday of Thanksgiving! I hope you all had amazing holidays, whether you celebrate Thanksgiving or not!
We have so much to be thankful for.
Food.
Clothing.
Shelter.
Friends.
Family.
Love.
LIFE.
It's amazing to me how we can go through life and not know what we are thankful for. There are people in Africa and Mexico, impoverish nations who are more thankful than we ever could be.
I heard the story of a women which brought tears to my eyes. The woman had four children and they were on the verge of starvation and had barely enough to get by. The shack that they lived in was just that, a shack. The man went to the woman and said to her this:
"Ma'am if I could give you one thing- anything- what would you like?"
The woman thought for a moment then looked at the man with smiles dancing in her eyes "I would really like a window."

A window. That woman could have had anything yet all she wanted was a window. How selfless is that? Even if you don't have that pair of shoes you really want, or you weren't able to go the theatre with your friends, think of how much you have to be thankful for. How much you already have.
So let's hear what you have to say: WHAT ARE YOU THANKFUL FOR?

Trip, Ace & Demo,

~A&A

P.S. Read Proverbs 31 and Psalm 31

Human beings hate to wait.
I hate to wait.
And we are SO good at being impatient.
Is it not easy to complain, to throw a tantrum? To toss things around in anger and frustration, only to find that, in the end, we're in the same place we started. You can walk in a circle all you want, but you'll still end up in the same place.
Why do we walk so, and try so, when we find ourselves empty? Why do we climb back on the same roller coaster when we know it's the one that makes us sick, when it's the one that makes us want to get off the moment we get off?
There is a moment in everyone life-maybe even multiple moments-where the task seems impossible,where the task is so unbearable that you feel retarded. Those are the moments where you have to sit down and WAIT.
You don't walk outside during a tornado, you wait it out.
Life is like one big long car ride. You're behind the wheel. At some moments you'll be cruising right along, faster than 80 kph, the wind blowing through your hair, and the air, the sweet sweet air all around you. Then there will be the moments where you get in a car accident, and you didn't even know it. You have to go in for repairs, and get fixed up and it's not fun. Money has to be forked over, and you really just don't. Want. To.
Then there are the moments when we're been cruising for so long we hit bad traffic. And the going is slow and tough, and we want to just get out of our car and walk, because you'll get there faster.
Race cars drive fast, but in a circle. And no matter how much the loop around and around, they end up in the same place as before. This is where the rubber meets the road. Now.
Trip, Ace & Demo,

~Yours Truly

P.S. Write something. Anything, really. Whatever you are thinking, feeling, write it down.

Decisions are funny. Everyone has had that moment where you make a decision, and there it is. It's set in stone. You're not going back. That's the way it was when I chose to believe in God and live for him and walk with him. There was no going back for me. Because God is limitless, He was and still is EVERYTHING I need. Take the deepest part of the ocean, multiply it by infinity, and God is still beyond that. I love that quote. You can't put limits on God, you can't shove him in a box, or ask him to wear skin. He is everything you need. He provides for sparrows, which are sold for half a penny, how much more will he provide for me? I cannot fathom love like that, yet it's the love I walk in every day. I'm not perfect. I slip up all the time. But God's love is never ending. Like in Benjamin Gate's song "All Over Me" when they sing:

Wave come, wave fall
Cast me on your broken shore
Sun come, sun fall
Cast me on your love so warm

Jesus' love is
Jesus' love is

Chorus:
All over me, all over me
Your love is all over me
All over me, all over me
Your love is . . .

Christ come, Christ crawl
Nailed to a cross so tall
All come, all fall
All walk with hearts so torn

Jesus' love is
Jesus' love is

God's love is all around us. All over us. I love that.
Take the deepest part of the ocean, multiply it by infinity, and God is still beyond that.

Trip, Ace & Demo

~God's Beloved

P.S. Read Hebrews 10

Curious enough, but I have a new favorite song.
Which I find kind of weird because I haven't had a new favorite song since... well, a very long time. The song makes me want to cry and sing and dance all at once. Because I really think that God is in it. It's not a heartbreaking song, nor is it extremely slow.
It's Me. It's God. The song goes like this:

Seeing through a hole in time
looking at this world of mine
all the words we've had to say
all the dreams to light the way
it's been fine though we've been apart
but it's only just begun
far away from home
but baby I'm not alone

Lift me up
turn me around
got to get my feet off the ground

Lift me up
turn me around
sunrises in black and blue
sunsets say I love you
You said I had strength to stand my ground
said I had wings to fly
far away from home
but baby I'm not alone
and everyday away hurts a little more
But every day away is easy to ignore.

The song is "Lift Me Up" by Benjamin Gate. For me, it just brings so much promise. God is here, he's going to light the way. I'm not alone. My life is falling down, the sunrise is bruised, but you gave me wings to fly. I'm not alone. He'll lift you up, He'll turn you around. He'll pick your feet up off the ground so you won't trip on a rock. It says in Psalm 63:3:

Blogging helps wrap up my life in a funny sort of way, and yet I haven't blogged in... five days? I find that a little upsetting considering the fact that BLOGGING IS LIKE MY DIARY FOR GOODNESS SAKE!!!! However, I think that it's nice to get back on and just... type. Like:

Dear World,
Hello. I'm back, it's me again. Did you miss me?
Love,
Me

And I have SO much to say. I find it somewhat ironic that what pastor Gary Oliver preached on was right in line with my Five Minute Challenge I have been preparing. And during service I was like"whoa, that's amazing!" Then you stop and think and God's timing is PERFECT. I do not know a person on this Earth that pops up with exactly what I need when i need it. It's as if God, sitting on his throne with his waxed mustache (so in some of my dreams God looks like Antonio Banderas... sue me.) and he's says:

"Well, she's ready. She thinks I'm not watching or listening, ho ho ho, boy will she get a surprise."

And He LOVES doing that because we're worth it and his love is never ending. In Psalm is says

P.S. read Psalm 63 (come on people, this one is about... seven verses long, God deserves that. He created you.)

Have you guys heard that song? Sunday Sunday!!!! It's a cool song really, I got to sing it last year in choir and it sounded pretty good. So I was thinking of something meaning full to say but it's kid of hard when all you do is hang out all day and do chores. yes, story of my Sunday. Which is why I brought up the song. How does Sydney think of something people actually want to hear? All I can think of is what I did today. Maybe that's why she had the idea of starting the blog. Maybe that's why shes writing a book. Because she has so much to say. So much voice. So much to envy. Oh yes, like her acting skills. I'm going to really need her help because she convinced me to try out for the play. I'm actually really excited for that because i think that getting involved in school is really important and I decided that I should get involved. I think that the only time I actually acted is in fifth grade when I was the queen in the school play. I had like two lines but the entire play I had to stand on the stage wishing that I was playing the princess who had waaaaayy more lines then I did. Katie was the lucky girl who got that part and I was so mad I didn't try out to be the princess. I'm not going to let that happen again. Wasn't that a great story? I'm done with that little rant now so you can all take a deep breath.

In my language arts class we are acting out a book called Inherit the Wind. I'm not sure if you guys have heard of the Scopes Monkey Trial? Probably not, but that's what the book is about. So what the scopes trial about is this man named John T. Scopes who taught evolution in the classroom. (This was in the 1920s) And there was a HUGE trial about how it went against this law in Tennessee that basically says "You must not teach anything that goes against what the Bible says." Well he obviously didn't follow that law and people were not very happy with him. I thought that was kind of interesting. I'm excited to see what happens at the end.
This is a short post and I feel kind of bad, like I'm jipping Sydney out of our deal.
Sorry Syd but that's all I have to say right now.
~A
Please comment, it makes me feel better, like we actually have an audience... or do we...

Right now, I'm just... me.
I'm in this weird area where I know God is preparing me for a battle, a big battle that is coming up. Yet, I'm OK with that. I know it's going to be painful, but I feel fine. Oddly enough, I feel removed from the situation. Like, it's not my burden to bear. God holds it, and though I'm going to experience some pain, it's for God, and He's allowing it. Like Ryan said, your suffering isn't without reason. I think that's so amazing.
God gives and takes away, yet He always gives more than He takes.

Trip, Ace & Demo,

~Yours Truly

P.S. Read Matthew 10

Ok so it is day 2 of this whole blog every day thing, sydney came over today and we had a blast! Even though the visit didn't last long because she had to work on her project. I cherish every time i spend with any of my friends. Today when I was i choir she had us switch seats around so I was front and center which made me really happy because I had a great view of the inside of the piano, which is like one of the coolest things I have ever seen. If you have never seen the inside of the piano, i encourage you to do so. When she was playing I almost forgot to sing, I just kept staring at the tons and tons little hammers panging on the tons and tons of little strings wondering who could have possibly come up with this brilliant idea? Because whoever did, I'm impressed. And that is the one thing that I don't like about my piano, you cant see the beautiful inside. But I love it all the same.

I'm having a real problem with what to write about. I had an idea but i just lost it and I'm really having troubles but I told sydney I would do it and I intend to do so.

I have to share about my finding of cloning. We watched a very intriguing movie. It was all about how there is a scientist who wanted to change lives by curing diseases and helping people who are paralyzed to become unparalyzed. He was going to try to clone human stem cells so that they could form into whatever the patient needed. He was giving the scenario about how if someone got in a car accident and their kidney or heart was damaged beyond repair they could take a sample of the persons DNA and just make them a new one. Replace the old one and then the person who was destined to die is good as new. But I'm not sure if I'm ok with the whole idea.

I know that this was a really short post and as soon as I publish it I will probably think of the think I forgot that I was going to write about but, none the less

I guess I will think about it and maybe write it tomorrow...?

~A