Far From Perfect
“I’m so far from perfect; I am a failure at best.” I am often reminded by these words from the band My Red Hot Nightmare’s song “weight of another.” Perhaps it’s because I seam to relate everything in my life to a song. Possibly, it’s because I like to focus on the negativity in my life. It could even be the simple fact the song has a catchy tune and pretty meaningful words. Whatever the reason is, the fact still remains that people fail, no ones perfect, and sometimes trying your best doesn’t get you anywhere.
I’ll try not to focus on the negative to much this holiday weekend but I suppose I often feel like: I lose my temper to often, don’t listen enough, take advantage of people too much, and not always try my best. Hence why I am far from perfect. I often encourage myself to try harder and not do these things but then I do maybe that’s why I like Christmas, it seams everyone has a little more grace and mercy at Christmas, a little more love, and a little more patience.
Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and a marvelous New Years.
If Jesus Had A Tattoo
I had an interesting conversation with a friend a couple of months back he made the comment to me that “Jesus had a tattoo.” Now, as someone coming from a fairly conservative religious background I’ve heard from birth that tattoos are evil and destroy your body. Therefore the thought of Jesus having one would be outrageous, right?
I now realize that tattoos are not “the mark of the beast” they are simply a form of art. We are all unique and we all choose to express it in different ways. As I thought of the idea of what if Jesus had a tattoo what would it be? Well blog community this is your chance to shine, take the poll today!
Also if you have any good ideas for polls let me know as I am launching the poll section of my website with this poll.
December = Snow?
I found it interesting, this week it snowed in Seattle. I come from a town where if it’s December and there isn’t a couple of feet on the ground something is seriously wrong. So when I moved to Seattle a couple years back and it snowed for like 10 min and everyone ran outside I was wondering what was up. Every year I’ve been here since it’s snowed at least once.
I love to watch the snow fall, but what I love to watch even more than that is how people around me like to watch the snow fall. It’s fun to watch there faces light up, watch them run to the windows or run outside in pure excitement and to watch frowns turn to smiles. It’s a small thing, a snow flake, yet it can instantaneously change the mood of a person. Snow is just one of the things I like about December it seams to be one of the many things that it coincides with is Christmas.
Christmas is one of my favorite season not because of the gifts, the hot coca around the fire, or even the occasional snow. It’s because of the way people treat others. The way they are more willing to help one another. The way they donate more money, time and energy to causes, the way people try to be jolly at Christmas.
I often like to think of this other times of the year. Yet, I can’t help but wonder why people aren’t like that all year around. Is it that we only have two months of good will in us and then it’s dry? Is it because we can only be nice for so long before we’ve had enough? Possibly it is because we put ourselves as priority number one. I honestly don’t know why it is. I would like to challenge you to think about the way you treat others, how generous you are all year around.
Have a happy December!