Food for Thought #8

Let me start off my side with saying I am pretty sociable. I tend to be a little hesitant to talk to people at first, then I warm up and you can’t get me to be quite so I make friends pretty often. Well, it so happened I had the great blessing to make two beautiful friends when I was around eight. And then, they both moved away. Now I’m also a very stubborn person. I wasn’t (and am still not) the kind of girl to give up a friendship just because there is some distance between us. And so I took up writing to these two girls, as I got older our correspondence changed to emails where we were able to grow our friendship with how quickly we were able to talk. 

From emailing I got to where I was really good at communicating almost exactly what I meant through the written word. Then I started going to a few other social Medias and met some really wonderful girls, some of which the friendships have lasted, some of which have not. But in short, internet has been one of the best things that happened to me because I have been able to maintain/make friends through it so much easier then I would any other way.

I actually met one of my best friends online.

Now, I cannot tell you how many times people have told me or I’ve read a blog saying that there was no way online friends could be anywhere close to ‘real’ in person friends.

Nor could I tell you how many times I’ve read posts about how we all are on social Medias too much and that we need to get off them and spend time with our ‘real’ friends.

So what does real mean anyway? Do you think just because I write these posts on a computer I’m a fake blogger? No. It’s just a different way of communicating. It’s the same with friends, if you think just because they have to type out what they say instead of having the pleasure of meeting up to talk that they are not really friends I really am sorry.

I understand completely that sometimes we spend too much time on social Medias instead of spending time with the people around us but sometimes they can be the best things for us.

Because I can tell you for sure, that I would never have met two of my best friends if I hadn’t been active online, I would have never written three of my books, I would have never had the inspiration for at least ten more, and I would never have had the wonderful pleasure of getting to talk to ya’ll.

Think the next time you’re going to tell someone to get off social Medias.
Think of all the joys God could be storing up for them there.

Think of the friends they could meet.

Think about the book that they could write.
Think about that person they may be able to encourage by being online at the right time.

Not all online friendships are as deep as some of the ones I’ve been blessed with, and I still love meeting with my friends in person. But I can tell you for sure, being on social Medias has changed my life for the better.

-Mikayla-

My life (In as many posts as it takes) #36

As most of you probably already know, I'm a Texan. And since my sister is a big Roy Rogers fan I grew up watching a lot of his films. (Which I enjoyed as well.) My favorite of his films was "The Yellow Rose of Texas", and so I have grown up with a love of that song and yellow roses in general. So I was really excited when one of my sisters returned from a trip and we bought her a thing of yellow roses. Being the awesome sister she is she gave me one. 

Yeah, that was a long rambling thing just to say I got to take photos of a yellow rose. Sorry. 

Yeah, see the cup there? Thats because I didn;t really have a vase. ;)

And now onto random pictures of spring. =)

Rebekkah and I were out on a walk so we decided to do a little photo shoot. =) 

Thanks for reading! 

-Mikayla-

Food For Thought #7

I hesitated to do this post at first because it’s a “The Real Meaning” post, but sometimes I feel like we all get so caught up in making sure that people know the true meaning behind Christmas that we forget some of the smaller holidays.

Saint Patrick’s Day.

I love Saint Patrick’s Day, it’s one of those holiday’s that is always fun. My family doesn’t do a lot to celebrate but still, I get to wear green, a color that looks awful on me, with the excuse that’s it’s for Saint Patrick’s Day. It’s pretty much symbolizes the beginning of spring and there’s usually a lot of chocolate coins around.

But is that all?

Sometimes I think we’re all caught up with Irish accents and four leaf clovers that we forget something.

Saint Patrick’s Day is a celebration of a British man named Patrick. At age sixteen he was captured and taken to Ireland as a slave. He stayed there six years before he finally escaped and got back to his home. While at home, he had a vision from God of the Irish, pleading for him to come back to them. So he went back to the land of his captivity and spent his life preaching to the Irish. One of the ways he preached Gods word was to take a three leaf clovers, and explain that God was three in one, just like the clover. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirt. All distinct, yet all connected.

Saint Patrick’s Day is to honor the man who did so much for a country in which he was not born, and had been a slave in.

I love Saint Patrick’s Day. What about you?

-Mikayla-

My life (In as many posts as it takes) #36

I'd love to give you a long update on all the things I accomplished this week but unfortunately, I have nothing to share. I was a procrastinator this week, I wrote some but that's all. I even slacked off a lot on school. Yeah, I'm hoping to do better next week but oh well. ;D

My desk while I'm working on art.

I've mentioned my art a lot before and done several previous posts on it but I thought I would do an updated post on how I do art. Again, mainly what I do is sketching so this is just art with pencils.

This is my profolio with all my pencels, earasers and pencel shapaner.

My Crayola chapstick. It seemed befitting. ;D 

My music and lotion. I like mainly gentler music for when I'm drawing, Avalon is my favorite. I also have pretty dry hands from washing them so much and its gratting the feeling of dry skin on paper so I use a ton of lotion while I'm drawing. ;D

A castle I drew.

Sorry this looks pretty faint, I drew it lightly.

A lilly.

Cherry Blossems.

I didn't do extremely good with America but oh well....

Thanks for reading! 

-Mikayla-

Food of Thought #6

You are who you are, that beautiful.

I'm pretty sure most of you have seen one of those movies with the "You need to just be you" message. 

Now I happen to be one of those people who never really minded who I was. Yep, I was that kid in class who might have been tease for her clothing options but didn't mind because while they were verbally attacking my cloths, I was mentally thinking how weird theres was. So I probably have to much self confidence but it brings up an interesting question,

I am trying to be like Christ or am I to obsessed with trying to me?

In general I would just tell you to listen only to God, and those people (like your parents) who you know have your best interest in mind.

Don't believe the kid who tells you that your weird because he probably just out of the nut house himself. ;)

I could go on for hours, but I decided to cut this a little short and share a poem. 

I feel like my writing is really choppy right now. Sorry everyone. =P 

Heres a poem I wrote last night. 

You are who you are,
That’s beautiful.
You don’t mind your scar
That’s beautiful.
You aren’t afraid to be you,
That’s beautiful.

You have so many good qualities,
I couldn’t list them all.
How you always laugh at parties.
How you don’t mind if you fall.
How you always speak your mind
How you try so hard to be good
And you attempt to be kind
And would give your life for someone if you could.

You are who you are, 
That’s beautiful. 

You never pretend to be someone you are not,
Because you love the person God made you to be
And anyone who wants to change you will be fought
But your personality we all see.

You are who you are, 
That’s beautiful.

You have your issues and you know it.
But we all love you for your willingness to be who you are,
And how you refuse to change to fit.
You truly are a star.

You are who you are, 
That’s beautiful.

-Mikayla-