Burning Flame

Burning Flame

Megan See

I sit here waiting while everything is in motion around me. My heart pounds. Everything moves faster and faster. My life is flashing before my eyes. My heart is burning with this passionate flame. It's like a fire. It starts out small and grows bigger and bigger. My faith is just like this fire. If it is not tended to it will die down and soon enough will die out... That's why I have to stay strong, so it won't fade away. So I won't fade away. It burdens me when I see one fade away and then die. I reach out to those fading in hope that I will be able to bring them back to a passionate burning flame but I don't always succeed, even though I may fail at times, I will never give up. For when I was fading He never gave up on me. He held me and stayed with me. He tended to me. He still is tending to me. So, that I will stay bright and passionate for Him. This is why I will never give up. I will hold onto the broken, the poor, the deprived and depressed. I will reach out and grab on forever in hope that they will be saved as was I. My flame may fade and maybe even go out at times but it always will come back to the burning passionate flame that He has called me to be. It always comes back because He has never let go and He never will. This day it is a bright, strong, passionate, crazy, and a wild flame for Him. There may be days when it's not but I will always have a little spark. For this little piece is what brought it to become this raging flame. A little flame is all it takes to become a raging flame. I'm here to do exactly what was done to me. Someone lit a tiny little flame in my heart and look at me now. I will light little flames in those who haven't seen. I will light them because someone lit a flame in my heart. Then we will go out into all the world and shine. Shine with our raging, wild, beautiful, bright, crazy, and passionate flames. Our flames will become fires as we grow and we will shine for all and all shall see.

Fairy Tales

Fairy Tales

Megan See

I will try to believe. But it gets so hard with everyone always pushing and tearing me down. I know a lot of girls face this problem of having low self-esteem or just feeling bad about the way she looks. It's so hard these days. The world is vicious and harsh and it's just waiting there to try and pull you in. To pull you into all the destruction. You sometimes get to the point where you can't bare it anymore and you just feel like falling. When you are feeling like falling remember. There is always gonna be someone there to catch you.

I believe that every girl has a fairy tale. In each and every fairy tale there will always be a knight in shining armor. Well, I believe that every girls knight in shining armor is Jesus Christ. He will always be there to catch you no matter what. Yeah, sure we all have our dreams of having that one special guy that we find. Well, I'll tell you this that one knight in shining armor has already been found, well, actually we didn't find him. He kinda sorta already found us. No matter what situation we are in. We can always fall back into his arms.

He already tells us how beautiful we are. He already shows us. So, why don't we believe it at times? Why do we go off and think bad about ourselves? Well, did I mention that in our fairy tale we have a "bad guy"? Our "bad guy" is Satan. He tries and goes after us. Just to make us fall away from our knight in shining armor and gets us all confused. But we have to remember who we are. We are the beautiful, gorgeous, amazing, princesses of God. We are made in his own image. To Him we are everything. I would say He would die for us but He already did that. But I know He would do it again. So, in our fairy tale "everything turns out okay in the end and if it's not okay. Then it's not the end." You, see we are His and He is ours. If people are tearing you down know this, we are made in God's own image. So, whenever people tear us down they're actually tearing God down.

So, remember we are absolutely BEAUTIFUL and there is nothing we can do about it.

Excellence

Life of Excellence

by Gabriel Downey

“How we do anything is how we do everything.”- Buddy Benson

Buddy Benson was a football coach for a high school team in Oklahoma, and he always told his team this at the beginning if each season. This was to motivate them to do their very best in practice because the effort they put in at practice would reflect their performance in a game. However, Buddy did not mean “play perfectly” he meant “play excellently.”

Luke 16:10 says, “If you are faithful in the little things, you will be faithful in the large ones. But if you are dishonest in the little things, you won’t be honest in the greater responsibilities.” NLT

Buddy was not, however, just referring to football; he was using this life lesson to demonstrate that being excellent in the little things, like homework, will make you excellent in the big ones, such as your marriage or career. If you choose to cheat in homework, then think of how your marriage will turn out or how your job will reflect your choices. The more you cheat, the more it becomes a habit in your life. Like Buddy told his team, excellence is about giving your best in all that you do. Therefore you must make it a habit in your life to be excellent.

Colossians 3:23-24 says, “Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people. Remember the Lord will give you an inheritance as your reward, and that the Master you are serving is Christ.” NLT

Excellence is based on God. God is One who is always at His best, doing His best, and offering His best.

Excellence requires a goal.

Philippians 3:14 “I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.” NLT

Excellence doesn’t mean “without mistakes,” Excellence isn’t perfect.