When you fall down, you're supposed to get up, right?
How can you get up when you don't have the strength to go on?
How do you stay happy when the happiness seems to have been leeched out of your life?
I'll tell you how.
Christ took upon all our pains so we wouldn't have to suffer.
"Come unto me, all ye that are heavy laden and I will give you rest.
"Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
"For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."
If we desire our pain to go away, we need to go to him and let him carry our burden. If we don't ask we will not receive.
I have had to learn this. Sometimes we don't want to do anything about our pain. We just want to sit and feel sorry for ourselves, and wait for someone to take it away.
I would rather do a little and not have to suffer, than do nothing and have to suffer immense pain.
He doesn't want us to suffer, he wants us to live full and happy lives.
Something computer generated is not necessarily beautiful.
Real beauty comes from inside. It is found not by having the most beautifully sculpted nose or the thinnest waist. It is found by helping others, by
People who should be considered beautiful usually do not have the worldly meanings of beauty.
However, they are usually told that in order to be considered beautiful, they have to look like this:
Because this is the way the world makes us view beauty, Dove surveyed women and girls worldwide and came across these alarming statistics:
Only 4% of women worldwide consider themselves beautiful
Only 11% of girls are comfortable using the word beautiful to describe themselves
72% of girls feel tremendous pressure to be beautiful
80% of women agree that every woman has something about her that is beautiful but do not see their own beauty
54% of women agree that they are their own worst beauty critic
How did the world get like this?
We are supposed to be beautiful by being righteous, by being kind, compassionate, caring, loving, and charitable. When a person is truly beautiful they have the light of Christ in their eyes.
She doesn't have the light of Christ in the before or after. It's sad. We think that people who have cold expressions and unnaturally thin waists are beautiful.
This is beauty. You can see she has the light of Christ in her eyes. She is beautiful.
Little children have this too. They have the purest spirits that you can see they have the light of Christ in them. Little children are beautiful.
She is beautiful.
"You don't have to prove your beauty
In the eyes of men.
You are divine within,
You were sent here to become
Like Him."
I want to be like Him, not like a cold-hearted computer generated model.
So, over the weekend, I went and saw a lovely movie called John Carter.
It was really good. I loved it!
I liked it a lot partly because it was kind of like my favorite movie, Avatar.
The whole plot line in John Carter is that he gets teleported to Mars and so he needs to find a way to get back home.
While there he meets Dejah Thoris and falls in love with her. However, her father has promised her to a different person, Sab Than. Sadly enough, the man she is promised to is the bad guy who is destroying Mars.
Like Avatar, the two cannot be together, and it is so tragic. As well as trying to be together, they must save Mars.
They have the epic final battle, and of course, they win by a landslide.
Dejah and John Carter get married, and the rest...you'll have to find out for yourself.
I love the tagline at the bottom of this photo. In case you can't read it, it says:
Lost in our world. Found in another.
It is an amazing movie!! Go see it if you haven't already!
It is almost, but not quite, up there with Avatar.
I'm not quite sure what exactly this is...but here we go....
So the whole deal with the Liebster Award is that your supposed to award it to 3-5 blogs that have less than 200 followers.
I, obviously do not have 200 followers, even 5 would be nice....
Rachel over at There and Back Again awarded me this. She really has a great blog, and, she's my sister, so go check her blog. It's super amazing. She's such a good writer!
Anyways, my awards go to...
Larry at The Magnificent Adventures of Larry Blotter. It's kind of more of a silly blog, but I love it! It is anonymously written, but it is pretty darn funny! If you love to laugh, go check it out.
Miss Aubrey at A Day In A Life. She is such a fun writer and there are so many cool pictures you can't help but want to read it all the time. She also has had her blog for a lot longer than me, so hats off to her perseverance!
Abby at Head Strong. She is a great writer and has her own quirky style of writing. She has such a good way of writing that I admire, so go check her blog out as well.
My mom at Brasier House awarded my sister this. She has an amazing blog. She has so much creativity and her quilts and other projects are so beautiful. She loves followers, so go follow her, you won't regret it!
I'm sitting in my PJ's staring out at the sad piles of snow that have melted.
Isn't it so sad? There was almost three inches of snow this morning.
I'm not a big fan of the snow, but it is so scary how fast everything can vanish faster than we can keep track of.
This is especially true of growing up and life.
My baby brother, Ryker, has grown up so much in the two years he's been with our family.
This picture was taken when he was about six months old. He was so little!
Now he's so big, and growing up fast! This was taken just about two weeks ago. As soon as he took the picture, he said, "Kelly, can I see?".
He's so adorable, and it makes me so sad to see him grow up so fast.
This is very evident in my own life.
This was two or more years ago. I think it was attempted murder that I committed on my hair...
This is me as of two weeks ago. I look a lot different. It's insane!
It almost scares me how much I change day to day or even hour to hour.
I look at my self exactly one year ago, and realize I have changed so much. I have gone through so many changes this past year.
If someone would have told me one year ago that I would be in 8th instead of 7th grade, that I would change wards, have a puppy, make amazing friends, and grow more than I have ever in the space of 365 days, I would have told them they were ridiculous, and should go check that they were sane.
All of those things are true right now.
I have learned that change is hard, but it is always worth it. I have also learned that help will always be there through every change we experience.
"For verily I say unto you, blessed is he that keepeth my commandments, whether in life or in death; and he that is faithful in tribulation, the ereward of the same is greater in the kingdom of heaven.
"Ye cannot behold with your natural eyes, for the present time, the design of your God concerning those things which shall come hereafter, and the glory which shall follow after much tribulation.
"For after much tribulation come the blessings. Wherefore the day cometh that ye shall be crowned with much glory; the hour is not yet, but is nigh at hand."
This one of my absolute favorite scriptures, found in D&C 58:2-4. It helped me through last spring. It encouraged me and told me that I couldn't see, but if I trusted, it would all be okay.
These were some of my best friends the past year.
This song as well, was one that got me through those hard months. It was a great reminder that I am never alone.
Several times I felt like I wanted to give up, but I kept going, knowing I would be better after all these trials, and I would emerge a better person.
My Stake President singled me out the day I heard the heartbreaking news that we would move wards and told me something that has stayed with me.
He said, "In one year, you will say this was a good thing. Just wait."
After it is over, the trial will be a good thing. You will emerge a better person. Just wait.
Recently, our Young Women's group decided to go to Salt Lake City to go to the General Young Women's Broadcast.
I woke up at five a.m. to meet them at six. We headed out and four hours later, we were in Salt Lake, getting ready to hike Ensign Peak.
It's not a big hill, but it sure is steep. I was out of breath by the time I reached the top.
The view from the top was breathtaking! You could see anything, and everything.
It was so sad, you couldn't see the temple stick out. Like in Idaho Falls, you can see it no matter what.
It just caught me off guard, and made me realize how different we are from Utah.
At the top of Ensign Peak we each unfurled a banner that we had made. It included something each girl in our group had said about them.
Our theme for this year is Arise and Shine Forth. The scripture to go along with it is Doctrine and Covenants 115:5, Verily I say unto you all: Arise and shine forth that thy light may be a standard for the nations. As well, our theme to go along with it is I Am.
After we hiked down and ate lunch, we went to the mall that had opened that day. It's called the City Creek Center.
This is the "city creek" that runs through the mall. Let me tell you, it was an amazing sight, but it was way too crowed.
We had had such an amazing spiritual experience and we were all bonding so well, and killed the Spirit almost instantly. There was just too much chaos, and it didn't seem to fit with the amazing experience we were going to have at the Conference.
Our leaders could feel that and they left not 20 minutes after we had arrived at the mall. We went directly across the street and were in a place the Spirit could prominently be felt.
We went to the South Visitors' Center in Temple Square and it was amazing. It just felt so safe, and I felt in such a good environment, that all my cares didn't matter.
Soon after, we went to the conference.
There is a lot of seats there. One of my leaders looked it up and found out later that there are 21,000 or more seats in the Conference Center.
It is truly an amazing experience to be in the presence of so many Young Women who are just like me.
As well, it was such a unique and moving experience to be in the same room as the prophet.
You could feel as soon as he walked in that he was a man of God. You could tell who he was even though no one had identified him.
The talks were amazing and the choir was powerful. I loved every second of the conference.
We drove home afterwards and got home at 11.
The next day I felt so amazed and awed that the previous day I had been in the presence of the prophet. How many people can say they have. So many people will not have the opportunity to be in the presence of a prophet it really made me realize how lucky I am to have had the opportunity to do so.
Every person dreams on going on an adventure. I have never been exempt from that group of people. I always wanted to go on an amazing adventure, meet the man of my dreams, get married, have kids, and live happily ever after.
I always figured that an adventure would be impossible for me. I live in Idaho! There is no adventure in the bare expanses of this boring place!
I thought that up until about three months ago.
I bought these babies right after Christmas in a giddy After-Christmas sale. I instantly fell in love.
My sister, Rachel, affectionately nick-named them my "Robin Hood Boots", and the name has stuck.
I felt like it would be possible to be in an adventure if I was wearing my adventure boots. Robin Hood had plenty of adventures in similar boots...so why not me?
One of my favorite types of books are adventurous....romance, adventure, conflict, a teeny tiny bit of fantasy to mix it up...you get the picture.
I always want to be the heroine of my own adventure, and reading is a way I could pretend that I am.
When I got these, I also got an awesome black, long coat.
My friend calls it my "ninja coat" she also calls my fun boots "ninja boots". Other friends of mine call it my "secret agent" coat.
After these fabulous nicknames were created...I really got pumped. I want to be in an adventure!
I realized, it is possible. Maybe not in the magnitude I think I want, but it can happen. I can have an adventure, even in the dusty, boring expanses of Idaho. I can change the world if I want, and have a lot of fun doing it.
So, for the very few of you who are wondering why the heck my blog is called "my blue eyes", I am going to make the questions as easy to understand as possible.
So, in case you don't know me... I have blue eyes, and I've been told that's the first people notice about me.
As well, I like old words. Well, since, that is a little redundant because all words are old, let me explain.
You know how words may have two meanings? Well, I like the words that have meanings that are out of fashion and timeless, yet have been lost to our generation.
One of my favorite old words is rather, as in "that is rather hot!" or "I rather dislike spinach".
One of my favorite "old" sayings is "The eyes are the windows to the soul".
I believe this in full. My eyes will betray what I am really thinking and feeling before my mouth ever will. If you ever want to truly know a person, learn to be able to read their eyes.
So for my blog name, I decided to use that. Even though, you can't see my eyes while I'm writing these blog posts, my soul can be the windows to what my eyes really look like.
Or, for those of you who have seen my eyes, this is a chance for you to see deeper into my soul, and to find out what really is behind my eyes. This is expanding the windows to my soul, and letting all of you see a part of my soul that you may not have already, and hoping you enjoy what you find there.
Even if you don't enjoy what you find in my writings, I will still enjoy writing them, because I'm honestly not a big fan of journals. So technically, this is a blog for nobody but myself (I'm sorry it seems selfish, but that's the way it is!), because I benefit more from this than most of my readers will...
I didn't believe that this day would ever come, but look! Here it is!!
Anyways, so, to start off, I'm a little crazy. It's probably because I read, and write, and watch movies, and listen to music, and do several other things, too.
To start off, you need to know a little background about my favorite things.
First off, I love James Cameron's Avatar.
I didn't originally go see it in theaters, almost all the rest of my family did, but I refused. So, naturally I missed the whole 3-D experience, but, ironically, we rented it, and I've been in love with it ever since. I love the beauty in the story and the courage and strength that shows in several of the characters' actions.
Also, I am an avidreader.
I started to read when I was 4 years old, and I never was the same after that.
My bookshelf has had to be upgraded from a shared, to a hand-me-down, to a full-size bookshelf that allows me to fit every book and more inside it...
I read from science-fiction to fantasy, to historical fiction, to classics, and everywhere in between, and I love almost every one I read.
Last, but not least, I believe that music can be applied to anything, anytime. So, naturally I have an iPod packed with songs I like, songs I like on some days, and songs I absolutely hate.
I have a passion for classical music and movie scores. However, I also like to listen to all sorts of other music, like some music you can dance to, and others you might think would be a good cry-along song.
So, anyway. This is me. I've got a blog, and if you want to hear more...well...you'll just have to follow me!
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