Just Keep Swimming...

Happy National Dance Day!

Here is the link to MormonMessages on youtube - there are TONS of videos on there.

And here is a very inspirational tumblr - just good, happy pictures and quotes.

Goodness. I feel so inferior at times - there are so many absolutely stunning people around me: at school, on the internet, old friends - I just don't compare. They are so bold in their beliefs, so honest and steady in their actions and so sure of themselves. Hopefully, with time and effort, I will be able to reach their level. I have so many things that I need to work on - procrastination, other forms of responsibility, self-confidence, health, goal-keeping, kindness, integrity, anger, humor, attitude, thinking before speaking, hypocrisy, and so much more.

God's 3 Answers to Prayer:
1)Yes.
2)Not yet.
3)I have something better in mind.

That is just so wonderful  - even if you feel as if you have been ignored or put down, really everything life hands you is for your benefit, and He always knows what's goin' on. Just because we think we know what is supposed to happen, it doesn't mean we are right.

And I really like this quote:

"Live in such a way that if anyone should speak badly of you no one would believe it."

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Hopefully, she doesn't mind me putting this link, but a girl in my stake has a fantastic blog with very inspirational goodies; here is one of my favorite posts:

"We have grown up hearing the timeless cliche, 'just be yourself.' That is a powerful statement. Few generations have been allowed such freedom of individual expression. If you want to be a punk, go for it. Valley girl? Right on. The only thing you can do wrong is not to be yourself.

So what if you want to be yourself, but you have lost sight of who you are?

Most of us have also heard the cliche, 'When it rain, it pours.' Sometimes life pours problems so persistently and so hard that it quickly turns into an ocean you find yourself struggling to swim in. It takes all concentration to just keep your head up out of the water. All familiar objects are drowned, and the guideposts you marked to help you gain bearing over your surroundings are now covered in the water. You frantically tread water, just hoping, praying, you can wait until the sun comes out and the water sinks back into the dirt. Hope. Pray. Hope. Pray. It is an exhausting cycle. It rains harder. The sun sometimes comes out, basks your face in warmth to remind you that you can make, clouds pass, normalcy returns. But what do you do until the water is gone? Sometimes your strength is gone. Sometimes it is just to much.

Water, much like the problems life throws at us, spurs growth. But water, much like the problems life throws at us, drowns out fire. It drowns the spark.

When you reach that point, just keep treading water. That's all one can do. One cannot control the sky, cloud coverage, or the inches of rain that fall. One cannot control when the sun comes out and how long it stays. The only thing one can control is if they sink or swim.

I choose to swim."

the picture isn't working. oops.

Meet Emily.

We used to be in the same ward, but then I moved and she sneaked off to college. This girl I have always looked up to. She is so naturally beautiful, so kind, smart, funny, and just the sweetest person. I wanted to dress like her, have the same friends as her, and she was the perfect older sister to her plethora of siblings. I haven't seen her in years, and we weren't even super close, but she is just one of those people you never really forget. She will always be an example to me, and I am creepily-facebook-stalking-slash-rooting-for-her-to-get-married-already-cause-she-is-just-so-dang-perfect-and-I-can't-believe-she-doesn't-have-boys-lining-up. 

xoxo,

McCall

Happy National Dance Day!

Here is the link to MormonMessages on youtube - there are TONS of videos on there.

And here is a very inspirational tumblr - just good, happy pictures and quotes.

Goodness. I feel so inferior at times - there are so many absolutely stunning people around me: at school, on the internet, old friends - I just don't compare. They are so bold in their beliefs, so honest and steady in their actions and so sure of themselves. Hopefully, with time and effort, I will be able to reach their level. I have so many things that I need to work on - procrastination, other forms of responsibility, self-confidence, health, goal-keeping, kindness, integrity, anger, humor, attitude, thinking before speaking, hypocrisy, and so much more.

God's 3 Answers to Prayer:
1)Yes.
2)Not yet.
3)I have something better in mind.

That is just so wonderful  - even if you feel as if you have been ignored or put down, really everything life hands you is for your benefit, and He always knows what's goin' on. Just because we think we know what is supposed to happen, it doesn't mean we are right.

And I really like this quote:

"Live in such a way that if anyone should speak badly of you no one would believe it."

 - - + - - - + - - + - - - + - -

Hopefully, she doesn't mind me putting this link, but a girl in my stake has a fantastic blog with very inspirational goodies; here is one of my favorite posts:

"We have grown up hearing the timeless cliche, 'just be yourself.' That is a powerful statement. Few generations have been allowed such freedom of individual expression. If you want to be a punk, go for it. Valley girl? Right on. The only thing you can do wrong is not to be yourself.

So what if you want to be yourself, but you have lost sight of who you are?

Most of us have also heard the cliche, 'When it rain, it pours.' Sometimes life pours problems so persistently and so hard that it quickly turns into an ocean you find yourself struggling to swim in. It takes all concentration to just keep your head up out of the water. All familiar objects are drowned, and the guideposts you marked to help you gain bearing over your surroundings are now covered in the water. You frantically tread water, just hoping, praying, you can wait until the sun comes out and the water sinks back into the dirt. Hope. Pray. Hope. Pray. It is an exhausting cycle. It rains harder. The sun sometimes comes out, basks your face in warmth to remind you that you can make, clouds pass, normalcy returns. But what do you do until the water is gone? Sometimes your strength is gone. Sometimes it is just to much.

Water, much like the problems life throws at us, spurs growth. But water, much like the problems life throws at us, drowns out fire. It drowns the spark.

When you reach that point, just keep treading water. That's all one can do. One cannot control the sky, cloud coverage, or the inches of rain that fall. One cannot control when the sun comes out and how long it stays. The only thing one can control is if they sink or swim.

I choose to swim."

the picture isn't working. oops.

Meet Emily.

We used to be in the same ward, but then I moved and she sneaked off to college. This girl I have always looked up to. She is so naturally beautiful, so kind, smart, funny, and just the sweetest person. I wanted to dress like her, have the same friends as her, and she was the perfect older sister to her plethora of siblings. I haven't seen her in years, and we weren't even super close, but she is just one of those people you never really forget. She will always be an example to me, and I am creepily-facebook-stalking-slash-rooting-for-her-to-get-married-already-cause-she-is-just-so-dang-perfect-and-I-can't-believe-she-doesn't-have-boys-lining-up. 

xoxo,

McCall