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Monday, May 23, 2011

"If you're running fear is going to chase you, but the second you turn around and chase fear, fear runs"
-Dani Johnson

"Nicole, You Need To Forgive Your Father, For The Sake Of Your Husband"
-Anonymous

Thursday, May 12, 2011

my zebra painting :)



Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Africa



Poverty is always going to be different depending on circumstances and peoples situations. I hear people say they are poor, they have no money. No money to us is having enough to get by, having money in the bank, food on the table and a good wardrobe. A car, as well with money to pay for gas. We get frusterated when we think we don't have enough money for college, or university. When we realisticly are "rich". We can spend money on things we want, and yet say we are too poor, and we CAN'T AFFORD. I find myself here too, I say I have no money, but yet at the end of the day I fall asleep and my tummy is satisfied. In the beginning of each day I slip clothes on, and I step into a pair of the many shoes I own and start my day.

Tonight I tried to picture myself fitting into someone else's shoes, someone who lives in poverty. I read something that an old African Lady wrote about Poverty and it changed me. Her poverty is different than my poverty, completely different, when I thought about it more, and compared to her words, I don't even feel right anymore saying I'am poor, or I can't afford. After reading her words, I felt rich. I'm not saying this to brag or anything, I'm saying this becasue it actually broke my heart. We are all rich, but yet we fret so much about money. I am rich because my life doesn't come close to comparing to what this lady has to say... I feel broken because my heart wants to help people in Africa. I would love to go to Africa and help people there who have lost hope.

Here is her life changing words...

"I know poverty because poverty was there before I was born and it has become part of life the blood through my veins. Poverty is not going empty for a single day and getting something to eat the next day. Poverty is going empty with no hope for the future. Poverty is getting nobody to feel your pain and poverty is when your dreams go in vain because nobody is there to help you. Poverty is watching your mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters die in pain and in sorrow just because they couldn't get something to eat. Poverty is hearing your grandmothers and grandfathers cry out to death to come take them because they are tired of this world. Poverty is watching your own children and grandchildren die in your arms, but there is nothing you can do. Poverty is watching your children and your grandchildren share tears in their deepest sleep. Poverty is suffering from HIV/AIDS and dying a shameful death but nobody seems to care. Poverty is when you hide your face and wish nobody could see you just because you feel less than a human being. Poverty is when you dream of bread and fish you never see in the day light. Poverty is when people accuse you and prosecute you for no fault of yours but who is there to say some to you? Poverty is when the hopes of your fathers and grandfathers just vanish within a blink of an eye. I know poverty and I know poverty just like I know my father's name. Poverty never sleeps. Poverty works all day and night. Poverty never takes a holiday." (an old african woman)

Lately Africa has been on my heart, and in the bible, it clearly says "There is surly a future hope for you, and that hope will not be cut off."
There is a hope for these people, God never wants things like this to happen, and I truly believe that we are all here to help them. To let them know that there is hope.




"We are acustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves." Francois de la Roche Foucald

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves"