Years in Review

You know,

it is really awesome to see who you were years ago

But,

It may also be scary.

With the new Facebook timeline I was able to view...

MY HISTORY!

At first it was sad... but I have soo much to be thankful for!

I wanted to let you all know this, so this is why I am writing to you and you and of course I won't forget you over there!

2011

Was a trying year for me, all of the trials and tribulations that a typical 21 yr old goes through. Well, I can definitely state them and rave on how theses bad things happened, but 2011 was much more than the bad things, times, and even, people.

The majority of the year was a blessing, a blessing to be here on this earth, a blessing to be here seeing you, a blessing to be able to say God has brought you through 2011 too!!! (Mrs adventure) To be able to rejoice with you all in all of the wonderful moments and... to be able to cry and share the burden of your pain!!! I Love that some of you shared your prayer requests!!! 2011 was a year that I got to pray for soooo many of my family and friends in more specific ways!!! It was a BLESSING!

I got to look in review my life... and came up with a conclusion in the form of a question.

What was the legacy I left in 2011?

Speechless.

One area I did not leave a legacy in was, my personal growth relationship with my Abba father. . . . . . . . 

Yes, I realize it now.

Yes, I know I was wrong.

Yes, I can shape my future.

AND YES, He still loves me!!!! :-D

I am sooo blessed!!!

One of my New Years Resolutions is to start a quiet time, again, with my Abba Father!! And though, I might have failed from conquering that last year, He still has faith in me and He is not finished with me yet!!!

Another area last year that I lost was.... some friendships. (Tears)

And I know that some are meant to be gone but, others are still waiting, waiting for my reply.

I blamed it on being too busy to have the time to set aside to build our friendship up! (Which is mostly true)

But some of you out there I really owe an apologetic sincere regard to, and you know who you are! and for that, I am truly sorry. Looking on the past year, I still have a chance on some of these friendships. Which leads me into my 2nd Resolution, rekindling those close knit relations again!!! Why? because I miss you too, and I need you like you need me!!!

2011 also had a bad mind set in my own personal life, this included being mad and bitter about things that I have NO control,ties, and/or responsibilities towards anymore! That mindset of always brought my personality and my guard down, giving me a better opportunity to do the wrong thing. (Don't worry I did not do anything too bad/stupid)

My third resolution come from this deep and personal self control in my own life, and is, trying to remind myself each and everyday that I am a child of the Creator! And That He still LOVES me unconditionally, even when I slip up! To truly live and believe in the Jeremiah 29:11 passage!

Lastly, God has called me to be a LEADER, wherever I am, He has made this evident, especially this past year. Little did I fully know, that people really feed off of me and what I do. This makes me responsible to always TRY to be a good example. . . . . My 4th resolution, to live a life, REFLECTING THE ULTIMATE EXAMPLE, JEHOVAH!

I am writing you all this as an update, a prayer request, a support system, and as friends to hold me accountable to my goals!

Thank you SO much for being a part of my life last year, and for entering this New Year with me!! And please, if you need me let, me know. Any Prayer requests, anything, IF I can help I would love to! 

What legacy will I leave with the end of 2012?

Thank you all, Thank You God for always loving me, Thank you all who helped me make it through 2011 and thank you all who hold a close and special piece of my heart.

I LOVE YOU ALL & May 2012 be a BLESSING TO YOU!!! 

So this Is Christmas...

Merry Christmas everyone!

Do not forget to spend TIME with you family this Christmas season!

Quality time will be the most memorable gift given this year. So please, as your children pull you aside to have a tea party with her new doll, or your son has a new multiplayer game, just sit there and have fun with them. Pull the family together for dinner and MAKE personal pizzas that night and watch a old (Or new) traditional Christmas time movie!

This could be a fabulous break for everyone in your family. See none of us are promised tomorrow, and none of us can see such a time coming. So this Christmas, stop working and trying to impress people.

JUST BE THERE

Merry Christmas!

~Jared

Is It Time=It Is Time

     Ok, so is it time? You know time to figure out what you really want to do, time to make that big step. With all the possibilities of the world at your the tips of your hands, Is It Time? Time to go and time stay. Time to grow and time to play. What is holding you back, I say? answer me this, Is It Time?
    Time to go back and look at life as a child and to see you in the future being successful. Happy is time, gained or lost, it is how you see it spent to make the cost. My question to you is, Is It Time? Don't look so small at the buffet before you, go grab it all and try new things! But remember what you love cherish the most... stay on top of your life don't remain a ghost. These are the things I question the most.
     Why here, why there, why not everywhere?! Again I say, why you still here?! Go on, go out there! Chase the stars and run the river, grab the flowers and never quiver!!! I am telling you to light a fire and set your world a blaze! Doing what you do to amaze. Please don't fret to neglect the opportunities at hand but discern the outcome to follow your plan! The great things are what lie ahead just waiting for you to be fed. May I ask, Is It Time?
    I question you the riddle of the a life time, and ask that you know answer for yourself... So what are you waiting for, pigs to fly? Get up and Go! The world you live in is awaiting your potential. I say, Is It Time? Is now simply answered, It Is Time.

Wednesday + God's Power and Grace

I Know I know that This will be hard for you

And I know that this will also help you grow

I also know that no matter what I am behind you all the way

So, shadow this one in prayer

No matter what it is that YOU are going through be wise and gain discernment

I am praying for you

I am here for you

I will pick you up when you fall

And

I will help you gain strength so you can walk again

But listen to Me

And

You will receive the words and actions that I have prepared for you

Again, remember

I AM

-God

A Beautiful Day in Cloudy Last Few Months

          Today, was a day were the sun shined and green grass was all round! I heard the birds chirping in the back of the crisp fall breeze and saw the smile the Uncle Kracker keeps ringing in my head about! I mean come on I know that you know what I am talking about...today was wonderful! Ok, cut to the chase? I will, I will calm down the rapture hasn't happened yet! (I Know bcuz I am still here ;-)
          Ok, God has been blessing me in every circumstance today, and I am going to tell you all about it! Sit down, buckle up and put it in drive because the theater production is playing!.... This morning I woke up in such a slump that not even the thought of my future day came to my mind, I slithered out of bed beaten from the past few days(months) in my life. I got in Paula (Minivan) and drove off to class, not at all intending on attending my first class due to just being in the "Dumps Mood" and not feeling happy or of much worth. Well As I pulled in the parking lot of RSCC, I had received a phone call from a man saying, "Stop eating and get in your class" Now at this time I had no idea, not even a clue, as to who this man was telling me to sop eating (Which I was) and go to class (Which I had been contemplating not going to)! I mean I was flabbergasted, appalled, and speechless! Turns out that wfter I was over the shock he told me " Ah man, I was just picking on while I had the opportunity. I just passed you in the RSCC parking lot and had to give you a hard time" My thoughts were "WHAT ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH DID YOU DO THAT FOR?!?!!?! Turns out he was an man dropping of his daughter that I used to go to church with at my former place of worship! (I was thinking what a relief when I had figured out who he was!) Well needless to say somehow, I ended up in my first class right on time! And I will admit it was more difficult study in today's lesson but, I LOVED every minute of  it! See that was one of my blessings!
           After that class I had received the best opportunity to do some homework, since I had 1hr & 30mins till my next class, so I took it! And I had been able to get soooo much HW done in that time! Blessing again!
          Next, was ALGEBRA!!! And let me just say this, " I Have the best Father in the world! He provided me with the best algebra teacher I thought never existed!" In our lesson I was just-a-learning everything she was dishing out to us today. I mean I messed up on a few things, but, she did help me through ach od my wrong answers! She is 3rd blessing.
          LUNCH!!! I s my all time most favorite class periods ever, and the best part was I was able to eat lunch at the same time the girl of dreams able to!!! ( I like her... like like her a lot ;-) and we just sat in a booth eating and the only thing I could think about was her, and how I ended up with such a blessing from God! I Believe I was on cloud nine (IDK if she noticed or not).
          After the enjoyable Arby's 5 Star Meal (maybe a little too much emphasis) I had to take this jewel back to RSCC so she could finish up her day of classes and so I could meet one of my best friends/co worker/ business partner/ girlfriend's mom at a house we had to clean today...which was easy, nice, and the owners were like family! I made me smile! Uh.... 1,2,3, oh yeah, #5!
          My day was getting to a close when I found out that I had dinner invitation at a pristine and eclectic dining residence, were she had prepared a ROAST for her and her family to eat and invited me over!!! OMGosh it was sooo good! (And no, I was not invited to Paula Deen's house for dinner!) DINNER @ 6!
            After that it ended up with MANY MANY laughs and knitting while watching HGTV!!!


           I could not have asked for a better recharge than for the one that I had received today, the past few months has been all BUT friendly/inviting/happy, but today God said "Jared, I love you, here you go"

"Friends"

I guess I am going to tell you all about one of my most recent endeavors, I deleted a LOT of friends in my life( well maybe you should look at it as if it was really my Facebook) Supposedly, these days if you delete someone off your Facebook then you are no longer friends... SINCE WHEN DOES A STUPID internet website decide who I am friends with?!

I Know, that today's technology speaks a thousand words in just a few simple exercises, but I mean, come on! Have we really let a technology decide who we are friends with and who we are not friends with?

OK, I know it sounds as if I am writing you  soap box, but, that is the last thing I am trying to imply. I am saying that I deleted 70something people off of my Facebook and I have sure received some flack because I deleted Xperson(s). See Facebook is not a place for "friends" that you don't keep in touch with, or for that matter even family members that you never see or talk to...it is a place for recent happenings and current updates from the people you know and love!

(Or for your Korean friends, who live in Korea!)

~I MISS YOU DAI GNE LIM~

I don't know maybe it is just me and no one else but that is what has been piercing my mind all day so maybe you can relate, or, maybe not, but in any circumstance I would definitely advice you to evaluate your life and those you care about. 

OR

Just keep getting all of the useless updates, requests, and tags that boggle your FB Home everyday....

The Healing Power of Forgiveness

You know that one of the hardest things in life is to forgive a person, right? I mean especially when they have wronged you in such a harsh way. Or even in some of the little things we still get tangle in anger over what has been wronged of us. Well, I have some thing to say about forgiveness first; IT IS NOT  EASY!!! I mean come on if it was easy would you not have done it by now?! GOTCHA! So confess it, forgiveness is hard... come on... do it. Thank you. Secondly; it is definitely WORTH IT! WAIT. Hold the phone. You mean you want me to get out of my comfort zone and forgive someone and then admit that I was wrong in holding my forgiveness off?!?! And Now you say it is worth it!!!? You are out of your mind. No, no, no I'm not, I am simply stating that if you take the time out of your busy day and look at the situation you will find out that most of the times you SHOULD be forgiving this person! OH CRAP! Yeah OH CRAP. I mean what did God tell us to do?

Jesus spells it out plainly: if we forgive others, we will be forgiven. Likewise, we shouldn't judge, lest we be judged and we shouldn't condemn lest we be condemned as well. 

Luke 6:37 (The Message)

 ^37-38"Don't pick on people, jump on their failures, criticize their faults— unless, of course, you want the same treatment. Don't condemn those who are down; that hardness can boomerang. Be easy on people; you'll find life a lot easier. Give away your life; you'll find life given back, but not merely given back—given back with bonus and blessing. Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets generosity."

Luke 6:37 (New Living Translation)

Do Not Judge Others

 ³⁷ “Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn others, or it will all come back against you. Forgive others, and you will be forgiven.

 

 

I mean correct me if I am wrong but to me it sounds as if God <----- The Creator---> is telling us that we should forgive one another... and DROP it! Wow. Now why would The Creator God tell us to forgive others.... oh ya, see God expects us to be Christlike and to be the examples in this dark world. But forgiveness is holding us back. So in turn, we are ... disobeying God. (OUCH!) ((It even sucks to type that out!)) Okay, so, what if this is true... then we (Believers) are not living out what we want others to live.

Ok well let me help some of you in realizing how the power of forgiveness has a healing side effect! There is a book, "The Healing Power of Forgiveness" by Ray Pritchard. Need I say no more. If you are having trouble in this area I KNOW that this book will help you. I dare you to spend $15 + Reading time = Forgiveness. This book, will "drive it home" for you in helping you let go of your hurt, experience renewed relationships, and, find new intimacy with God.

Okay, now, all of that to say... "Don't wait until the person you need to forgive is dead in a 2 week later car accident to tell him/her that you forgave him/her" Your relationships are VERY important, why else would God stress that a relationship with Him is the key to heaven?!?!?

God Bless and be Blessed

~Jared