SMILE! =)

So I have come back from dropping off the edge of the blogging world. I've been so supper busy the last...oh you know, year or so. I'm graduating in exactly 14 days! Memories night is tomorrow and I'm so stressed about that, being on the memories night team is really fun but really stressful. It's frustrating when ideas get shot down by authority, it's nerve wracking when people don't meet deadlines and it's scary trying to live up to expectations. But tomorrow will be the end of it!
And today is the day we take pictures in our caps and gowns. Very exciting. I tried practicing my smile in the mirror but I gave up because I have a goofy smile. I'll be the one on the wall of Fountianview fame who when people walk by they'll stop and say "who was that goofball?" and some student will answer "oh that was Moriah!" But I decided that goofy smiles aren't entirely bad because at least they'll make other people smile, I mean if you see someone with a funny face it's hard not to smile right? Exactly. I'll make the world smile. Mission accepted.

“The definition of heaven is the presence of Christ”

Without God there is no good. The origin of good is God; the nature of man is evil. If God is good and man is evil then without God there is evil.

 Psalms 16:11 says “In your presence is the fullness of joy” As humans we tend to look for joy in all the wrong places, we think that love from others will bring it, or when that doesn’t work sometimes people try momentary joy from drugs or alcohol or sex. But although it may bring us temporary satisfaction in the end we are left joyless. Only in the presence of God is there found “fullness of joy”.

If heaven had no God then it would be just as evil, sad and sin filled as earth is. It would be like a kitchen without food, a veggie burger with just bread and lettuce, a book without words, modern art, contaminated water, a race with no runners, drugs, and a fly with no wings… basically it would be pointless. Because there is no heaven without happiness. And he is happiness. He is the very definition of happiness, because without him there is no true joy.

Without God, heaven would be hell because the definition of hell is complete separation from God.

Senior Pictures

Why did the Worm cross the road?

As I was walking to breakfast today I noticed that it had rained, the ground was wet and all across the road little pilgrims were attempting the long and treacherous journey across the road. Hundreds of bodies lie scattered in the gravely abyss, poor little souls who never made it to the other side. But the others kept on truckin, past the bodies of their dead wormy brethren, past the the battlefield of doom and onward to the grassy slopes of the orchard!
I decided to help one little fellow along in his trek, I picked up his squirming body and towed him to his destination. Then the thought struck me "I wonder how long his journey is in worm time?" I mean, if I were a giant it would take me only one step to go from school to the dorm, but it takes me like 5 minutes. So maybe when I picked up that worm he felt as though he was being lifted unto the very heavens! Souring like a plane above all that he had ever known.
And then I wondered, why did he try to cross the road in the first place? Maybe he simply liked the look of the greyish grass, or perhaps he was doing a worm marathon,  like a "hunger games" of sorts, to see who could prevail and reach the other side, the rest left to die in the gravel.
These are the questions that plague my mind.

A false Christianity

I was just on godtube looking at different christian videos and by chance came upon something having to do with an Islamic man threatening the USA. It wasnt the video that bothered me, it was the comments. Actually...it was that the people commenting claimed to be Christians. Here's a few of the comments.

"Satan is his god! I am more and more proud to be a Christian!"
 "Bradley what ever u say is 4 u and just 4 yourself. islam is not 4 me. You people are controlled with blood trusty devi called allahl. your solution is killing but ALMIGHTY GOD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH WOULDN'T LET YOU DO IT"
 "Genetic coded into them at birth.. it's their culture to believe our way of life is evil and must be eradicated in the name of their invisible "friend" Allah, of the Akbars.. Someone forgot to give them the memo that medieval times are over, the barbarian era is so last millenium... They just need an update, a lifestyle makeover.. Or we just need to get them OUT OF HERE and quit dealing with knuckle dragging heathens who have no concept of civility...."

This is sick! I am absolutely sickened at the thought that these are the people that are giving a representation of Christ to the world.
Here is my comment on it "Will you people PLEASE just listen to yourselves? Is this the way Christ reacted? This is a christian website yet I have yet to see one single christian minded comment. Are we here to condemn the world or show them Christ?
What right have you to call someone else a heathen when Christ died for them just as much as Christ died for you? It is better to not be a christian at all than to profess Christianity but treat our brothers with the same hate that Satan has for Christ.
Satan is his god you say? Maybe that's true...But his god is the one controlling you."

I cant even express to you the pain I feel after reading those comments. I cried when I saw the way Christ is being misrepresented. How can someone who has Gods message of love treat other humans this way? I'm ashamed to be American, ashamed to be Christian until I remember that those people are not Christian. They are Satan's tools to send his message of hate around the world. And hwat a good job he's doing of it.
I beg you! Counterbalance it! Show the world that Christ's message is one of love and not hate. Don't let the world rot in their hatefulness any longer.
Please come Lord Jesus, take us away from this horrible hateful world. All of us, those who know you as Christ and those who know you as Allah. Take us all home together, as brothers in you.

Bucketlist Mishaps

So here I am reading through my bucket list and I come to one that says "cliff diving" and I just look at those words and think to myself"what are you, some kinda stupid?!!"
I don't like heights, seriously...I have trouble jumping off my bunk bed. So I think cliff is going to have to be a very broad term. Like...a bluff!A little one.and diving might have to mean be pushed. So when it says cliff diving I really mean get pushed off a 4 foot bluff. :)

Then I see "backpack across the Himalayas. Really Mia? REALLY??!!! You don't even like hiking girl! So then I thought to myself, well...how big can the Himalayas really be? I saw it in a movie once! What was it again? Oh yeah...ice age. Well let me just show you a map of the Himalayas just in case your like me and don't research things before deciding to do them. So when I say "backpack the Himalayas" I really mean backpack PART of them....the small part.
When I made this list I thought to myself "self! I'm going to live life to the fullest!" But apparently I didn't think about the fact that I'll probably die long before finishing my full life list.

Because He first loved me

"Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not."
I came across this quote today and was shocked at the timing. I'm not going to go into it really but I've been having some serious questions about my faith. Some people were telling me that I have to rely on my won good works to go to heaven. And I let them tell me that I was going to hell. But that is not the God that I serve. I serve a God who loves me so much that he died for me. If I had to be perfect to go to heaven then why would God have died? Our works make no difference in how much God loves us, our works should eb as a result of his love. Not us trying to repay a debt, because it cant be payed.

"God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, ⁵ even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ-by grace you have been saved- ⁶ and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, ⁷ so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, ⁹ not a result of works, so that no one may boast."( Ephesians 2)
I'm saved because I believe in Jesus, because he loves me and I am humanly, feebly trying to love him. Not because I'm a vegetarian. Not because I dress conservatively. Not because I don't have piercings. Not because I listen to good music. Not because I'm a virgin. Not because I don't do drugs. Not because I don't drink. Not because I pass out glow tracks. Not because I go to church. Not because I don't swear. Not because I'm a Adventist.
The ONLY reason that I am saved is because for some reason God looked at me and decided to love me. And because He first loved me, thats why I love Him.

Baby Time!

I'm back! I know...I've been gone a long time! First there was Cali tour and then Christmas break and then GYC and now I'm finally back in good ole Canada.
Christmas break was awesome except for the fact that Mom and Dad couldn't make it :( But my sister was all pregnant and she dragged me out shopping and to midwife appointments and basically everywhere she went. So that was pretty fun, not so much relaxing, but hey since when do you relax at Christmas right?
The baby was so cute! I mean...yes it was still inside her tummy, but it kept kicking and punching and doing cartwheels inside there! I thought it was awesome but the poor Mommy got all bruised from all the violence in her tummy.
So on spring break I'm going back to FL for the birth! EEEEE! Now tell me that is not cool. I'm gonna be such an awesome aunt. I'm gonna take it bungee jumping and skydiving and I must by all means bring it to it's first rodeo....and first football game. It will like football. And if it doesn't, then it will like all the hotdogs it will get to eat at said game. :)
Anyways, I have to go read. Well, technically I don't have to, I'm just ditching y'all cause my book is really good!