Because YOU are Strong!! (YPG)

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Are You Who You Want To Be???

Today I was wondering what to write and I decided to write about the following. This problem is mostly seen in teenagers! Well the question I have is: Are you who you want to be?? You might wonder why I ask this question and I do it because like you one day I was a teenager who apparently thought that I was who I want it to be but I was wrong! I was a teenager that I didn't want to be! I tried to hide myself by staying quiet or by surrounded by friend. I pretended to be happy around everything and everyone and no one knew it but me. I was the only one who knew the big empty space that was in me and I tried to fill it up with things of the world but it didn't seem to work! Aparantely I was what everyone else wanted me to be. I was the friend that was always there the girl who didn't say anything and always stayed quiet! But oh boy only if they knew everything I wanted to say only if they knew how much I wanted to scream out for help as well!! Because to them I was perfect just the way I was but they didnt know how much hate and emptiness was in me because to them I was perfect but personally me I hated the way I was living I wanted to end with my life! But because I wanted to please everything and everyone around me I stayed quiet and that's the biggest mistake we make!! Until one day I couldn't take it anymore I was done with everything I just wanted a way out of every thing that was suffocating me!!! So I finally spoke! I finally did what I have to do! I didn't let people treat me the way they wanted anymore! I didn't let them make the decisions for me! I said it was time for a change and that I was going to be who I wanted to be! And I made it! but oh no it wAsnt easy at all! It was though and of course I couldn't do it alone. But I did it with the help of God! He is the reason why I write this to you and why I'm still here!! It's not too late to be who you want to be!!!:)

My Life Changed.

Late at night I stay up thinking how my life would've been if I've never met the one who saved me from this world my God. All these questions come up to my mind: would I still be alive or how would my life be probably misserable. Would I've have killed myself like I use to plan it or would I've had died slowly of the pain and sadness that I had inside me? filled of hatred towards this world and I didn't know why? Blaming others for my mistakes! Stuck in my own little world where there was no light but just darkness finding a way to end with my life cause I hated myself. Tried to be someone who wasn't me wanted to be out in the world wanted to be known, tried to be good but it didn't seem to work. So I gave a chance to the bad and started being someone who wasn't me and when I least expected it wasn't me who had control of my life anymore but everything else that I pretended to be. So I gave up and went back to my own little world. And as time passed nothing changed except the emptiness inside me kept growing. I wanted to atleast fake a smile but who was I fooling no one else but just me! About to commit suicide I tried to think about my family and everyone else that was close to me. How would they feel if I was gone forever. But the thought of suicide kept growing and just when I was about to kill myself. I remembered that someone once told me that there is a God who can help me and fill this emptiness inside me?! But then I thought to myself wait if there is a God like they say there is then why is my life miserable? It wasn't until I opened my heart to God and decided to give him a chance and that's were I found that happiness and love that no one could give me! And now I live to serve him! Now I can say there really is a God who can change your life around! If he did it for me why not for you!! All you have to do is open your heart to him let him in and you will see the difference!

ENJOY! LOVE, MARLENE:)

DO NOT RUSH!!

The question i ask myself: WHY RUSH ON HAVING A BF/GF?? WHY DONT WE LEARN TO WAIT TO SEE WHAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR US BECAUSE IM SURE GODS PICK IS MUCH BETTER THAN OURS! AS DAYS,TIME PASSES BY PEOPLE ARE MORE WORRIED ON HAVING MR.RIGHT OR MS.RIGHT!! THEY DONT CARE IF ITS THE ONE WHO THEIR GOING TO SPEND THE REST OF THEIR LIFES WITH OR IF ITS THE ONE GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THEM THEY JUST WANT SOMEONE BY THEIR SIDE BECAUSE THEIR AFRAID OF GETTING OLD AND NOT HAVING ANYONE! IM ONLY 17 YEARS OLD I KNOW YOU MIGHT SAY AND WHAT DOES A 17 YEAR OLD KNOW ABOUT WAITING IF THEIR JUST 17!! WELL IVE NEVER HAD A BOYFRIEND IN MY LIFE AND I DONT WANT TO UNTIL ITS MY TIME AND THE ONE GOD HAS FOR ME BECAUSE I KNOW IT WILL BE WORTH THE WAIT! SO THINK ABOUT IT HAVE YOU BEEN WORRYING TOO MUCH ABOUT ON HAVING A BF/GF? WELL I TELL YOU THATS THE LEAST THING TO WORRY ABOUT BECAUSE THINK IF YOU WORRY MORE ABOUT OTHER THINGS THAT YOU ACTUALLY NEED TO FOCUS ON THEN WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT YOUR GOING TO HAVE THAT PERFECT SOMEONE BY YOUR SIDE! IM NOT ONLY WRITTING THIS BECAUSE I SEE IT IN OTHER PEOPLE NO BUT ALSO BECAUSE I SEE IT IN MYSELF AND THATS ONE THING I ALSO NEED TO CHANGE WRITTING IN MY BLOG ALSO HELPS ME AND I HOPE IT HELPS YOU!! SO REMEMBER BE PATIENT DONT RUSH!! ONE THING THAT WAS SAID TO ME AND I WILL NEVER FORGET IS THAT GODS TIME IS NOT OUR TIME!! HE WORKS IN A MATTER THAT YOU LEAST EXPECT IT AND WHEN HE BLESSES ITS AMAZING!!! WELL GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU<3

Peer-Pressure is what we go most in our teenager years. As a 16 year old girl that i am i know a lot about peer-pressure such as wanting to have a boyfriend or changing your look because you think you look ugly or wearing all this fancy clothes and jewelery! Eventhough the idea of having a boyfriend never really grabbed my attention for the fact that i wasnt allowed to have one and because i would see all my friends having one but i just thought it wasnt for me. Then when i got to highschool thats were there was even more peer-pressure. I would see girls wearing make-up and wearing nice clothes and even my friends a lot of them changed their appearance and just by looking at them i would want to change mine too. So i did i started changing the way i dressed my hair style and doing my nails and make-up and having a boyfriend etc. But it got to a point that it was too much and i didnt feel comfortable the way i was i wanted to go back to being me but then all this thoughts would come to my head but what if..... So then little by little i started going to who i was before a simple girl but that i felt comfortable with. Then i learned that you dont have to change just to fit-in. Its better to be yourself than to be someone you are not. Yes, a lot of people would just stare at me like this girl need a change but i didnt care what they said because i felt comfortable for who i was and the way i dressed and not having to put all that make-up and jewelery that sometimes makes you look worse! So be yourself!

Sacrifice!

You may ask yourself what is a sacrifice? Just yesterday(thursday) i was at church i was sitting down talking to one of my friends after our youth group meeting and he had hes ipodtouch. so i was like oh im going to get one of thoose for my birthday and he said to me well i can sell you mines for $250 and i was like really and he said yes. so i was like okay let me ask my dad and ill tell you tommorow(friday). so when i got home from church on thursday my dad was in the living room watching t.v. and I was like hey dad remember how you said you were going to buy me a ipodtouch for my birthday and he was like yea. so i was like well my friend from church is selling his for $250 do you think you can buy it for me and he told me yes i will! so i was happy because i really wanted the ipodtouch. But then today when i was coming home from school i was in the car thinking oh im going to get my ipodtouch today finally but then i remebered wait THE CAMPAIGN OF ISRAEL is going on and as soon as i thought of that. there was a voice saying marlene are u really sacrificing are you really giving it your all like you said you were going to. so i stopped and thought aboout it and i came to a conclusion that when you sacrifice something for God it has to be perfect with no deffect. so i was like wait if im going to sacrifice then i CANNOT have what i want for me im going to do what God wants me to do so i finally took my decision which was to keep on sacrificing in THE CAMPAIGN OF ISRAEl. I told my dad you know what dad i dont want the itouch anymore and he was like why isnt that what you really wanted and i was like yea dad thats what i wanted but my wanting is not what matters its what God wants me to do thats what matters. so he just starred at me and he said whatever you decide marlene. so then we left home and on my way home i was thinking how this CAMPAIGN OF ISRAEL may be just another CAMPAIGN for other people but i have decided that this is my opportunity and im not letting it go. im going to give it my all no matter what it takes because its my time to SHINE!! So think about it are you really doing what God wants you to do or are you doing what you want to do just so you can say your participating in The CAMPAIGN OF ISRAEL!! REMEMBER YOU CANNOT FOOL GOD!! oh and you might say oh wow a itouch yes an itouch something small like that can make your sacrifice have a deffect because if i would of bought that itouch my sacrifice wouldnt be perfect! SO if your in the same faith for THE CAMPAIGN OF ISRAEL becareful because this is also when the devil tries to put doubt and put other stuff so you can say wait how do i know that God is really going to answer me.but all you have to do is BELIEVE and DONT LET DOUBT OR ANYTHING GET IN YOUR WAY TO KEEP ON SACRIFICING!!!!