Food For Thought #25 Guest Post

Guest post from Maddy at Maddy's Digital Diary 

Being thankful for the simple things. It's something we all forget. Like, I had my family, friends, a house to sleep in, clothes to wear, and 

just stuff like that and I was thankful for it. But, I think that we often forget to be thankful for the simple things. Sometimes even the big things. Just recently, I went on a mission trip with my dance school. It was amazing. I was thankful to be able to go and I learned a lot. I'd like to share a story with you all...

Me and my dance school just got to Kentucky and were having a great time. The town that we were in was just like any other town. During the day, we would go out and minister to others and at night, we would go back to our hotel and normally talk or play games until about 12. It was fun. It was just like any other place. We stayed there for 2 days and then went to another town that was much different. It was a very poor town. There were just dozens of houses lined up down the street and it would just go on for miles. That's all there was in that town. Nothing else. We were kind of shocked by it all but also, we had to stay at a very small church, in a bunk room with another group who had come up. ( We didn't know that anyone else would be there until 10 minutes before we got there. ) Anyways, it was definitely different. I remember that we all didn't really know what to think and we were all like " Come on guys, we can do it, It's only for four days, " So, we put our happy faces on and we got to paint a mans house in the morning, and teach dance at night. As the days were coming to a end, we realized that this was an awesome place even though it was very poor and had pretty much nothing. We were able to meet many great people and made many friends. What surprised me the most, is that many of these kids had bad parents or just had barely anything, but, they had so much joy. And they were thankful for the little and only things they had...

Guys, we need to be thankful for everything just as these kids were. Me and friends weren't being thankful at first for the opportunity  that we had to go there. Even if it wasn't what we thought that it would be. Some people might tell you that kids can't teach you anything, but they can. I learned so much from them and just to be thankful for everything. Good or bad.

Thanks for letting me post, Mikayla! Go here to read about the rest of my trip where you can read about us painting a house, going horseback riding, and much more! Also, I'd love to get to know you! Feel free to follow/contact me over at my blog, my group blog, or google plus. :-) Have a great day! 

Thank you Maddy! 

-Mikayla- 

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Thankfulness #5

Hello and thanks for coming to my fifth and final week of Thankfulness!

1.      For NaNoWriMo.

2.      For smiles.

3.      For kittens to cuddle.

4.      For long walks and pretty days.

5.      For fall and all the colors it brings.

6.      For Sunday’s to rest on.

7.      For trees to climb.

8.      For pretty rocks to hold.

9.      For being able to dress like I’m from the 50’s.

10.   For music to listain to. 

Thanks for stopping by! I really enjoyed this month of Thankfulness I hope you did to! 

Thanksgiving.

Hello everyone I just wanted to say HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!! Its been awesome here at our house, we had a very big lunch then shared what we were thankful for which was so nice because it really reminded me that with all my faults and my problems I have SO much to be thankful for, like all the posts I've been doing this month, but here are a few more things I thought of today.

For Parents and siblings who let me be me, dress in my own style, be the loudmoth I am, let me write at all hours of the day, let me have my own opoiaons on things, like my own type of music, spend tons of time on printrest when we go to the libray because it inspires me to write and who let me talk there ears off.

For Rebekkah not minding me repeat the same thing for the fifth time, letting me repeat songs about a millian songs, letting me sing in an untuned voice, let me stay up to eleven at night to write for NaNo, for giveing me a lot of snuggles, for always telling me I can do it no matter what it is, for helping me to dream outside of the "possible", For always putting up with my fashanitas and for never getting tiard of my book plots and seeing the same photos over and over. For helping me come up with so much of my book plots and for being the best friend in the world.

For Sarah for being my NaNo buddy, for helping me every day to keep my temper under control, for also telling me I can do anything, for being a writey purson, for having cute curls and for always being there for me when I need a hug, sholder to cry on and understanding heart. And for letting me use her camra 27 hours of the day.

For Grace for bringing me intertantment, for have Chuck, Joque and Arfy to make me smile. For helping me write and listaining to lots and lots of book plots also for speneding over six months plotting out a book with me and planing on writing it with me and For loving my characters as much as I do.

For Micheal for being the best brother a girl could ask for and even throughout Collage and studying has always found time to spend with us and make us smile.

For Rose for being the better Sunshine then any one else in the world and listaining to my plots, looking at photos and helping with endless crafts. Also for her tasty cookies.

For my parents, listaning to me, encuaging me, helping me relise when I was wrong, telling me what I'm doing right. For always having time for me and encuragiing me in what I want to do and for setting high goals for us.

For my friends, writing me emails and letters. For simply taking interest in me.

For if you actaully read this whole post.  If you did: your awesome random person.  :D

For colors of spring and fall.

For being able to make a joyful noise to the Lord because he dosen't mind if its offtune or not.

For having the most awesome life EVER and also the best siblings, parents and friends EVER.

For uplifting music like Speak Life by Toby Mac and music by Cloie, Newsboys and Josh Groben.

What are you thankful for this year?

Have an AMAZING Thanksgiving everyone! I'm going to go get writing in The Son of Robin Hood, Saturday is the end of NaNo! AH!!!!!!!!!!! :D
                                                    ~Mikayla~

Thankfulnes #4

Hello and welcome to my froth week of Thankfulness!

31.   For dishes to wash on cold days.

32.   For Texas winters.

33.   For family trips.

34.   For pets that make me laugh.

35.   For endless notebooks.

36.   For the person who invented the sewing matchin, it’s brought me endless happiness.

37.   For pretty forests to walk in.

38.   For colors.

39.   For living in the most amazing place on earth.

40.   For having the most amazing people surround me both in person and online. 

Thankfulness #3

Thanks for joining me for week three of Thankfulness!

21.   For siblings who listen to book plots even though I’ve told it to them ten times already.

22.   For snuggles.

23.   For fires on cold days.

24.   For encouraging blogs to look at.

25.   For e-mail, its brought me closer to so many friends.

26.   For whoever created Goodreads.

27.   For the fun jackets I get to wear.

28.   For all the plants in my room.

29.   For sketchbooks and pencils.

30.   For a piano.

Thankfulnes #2

Hello everyone! Here's week two of Thankfulness!

11.   To the authors out there, for giving me amazing books to read.

12.   For the most amazing mother a girl could ask for.

13.   For sunshine.

14.   For a sister that could drive any cloud away.

15.   For a puppy and kitten that don’t know there supposed to be enemy’s.

16.   For a friend who never ceases to make me happy.

17.   For TV shows that make me smile.

18.   For all the pretty flowers.

19.   For rain, and being able to play in the rain.

20.   For God because thanks to him I can dream for the impossible.

Thankfulnes #1

For November, since it contains Thanksgiving day I decided to post ten things I'm thankful for each week. I hope you enjoy!

1.      An amazing, awesome and overall perfect family.

2.      Great friends who e-mail me.

3.      A sister who lets me use her camera more then she dose.

4.      For pretty things to take pictures of.

5.      For mail, it makes me so happy.

6.      For a huge world to explore.

7.      For a mom who lets me use her computer.

8.      To God for giving me inspiration for writing thus making my days filled with excitement.

9.      For the seaside.

10.   To Rebekkah for still loving me despite all my quirks.