A Child's Heart, page 10

First of all, I am sooo sorry it took forever and ever to write another page of this... since it was summer, and I was totally stuck (for some reason it's easier for me to write about actionish stuff than normal stuff) I kinda took a break and never got around to completely finishing this page. (I'm absolutely pathetic, I know.) I would like to note that all the story pages I have posted, and all the ones I will continue to post, are the first drafts. There are definitely some changes that will be made in the end. But until then, I hope you will enjoy my feeble efforts at writing this little tale. :)



With all the stress and excitement of the past few days, the children enjoyed a refreshingly calm day. They spent most of the day outside exploring. Wendol busied himself with making a collection of pretty rocks and Rylen sat and drew in the dirt with a stick. She was just putting the finishing touches on her stick people, when suddenly, something small and green came flying out of nowhere and landed on her lap. She shrieked and jumped up in surprise. Justace, who had been sitting beside her, burst out laughing. “It’s only a frog!” He informed her. Rylen joined in his laughter. “That varmint just about plum scared the livin’ daylights outta me!” Wendol came running. “A frog? Where? I want to catch it!” He exclaimed. The frog, however, didn’t fancy this idea, and quickly hopped away. It was quite amusing to watch Wendol running and tripping along after it. “Wait up, Wendol!” Rylen called as she ran after him to help catch the speedy little frog. “I have a family at last.” Justace thought to himself. “…And what a wonderful family it is.” A smile spread across his face as he ran to join in on the chase. After running for a while though, he became puzzled. Rylen and Wendol were nowhere to be found. “Hello? Guys?” He called. “Where are you?” No reply. He searched just about every place he could think of, but still couldn’t find them. He was just about ready to give up, when he heard muffled giggling from above. He quickly looked up towards the direction of the sound, and there, sitting atop a large tree branch were Rylen and Wendol. “How’s it goin’ down there, Just?” Rylen called. “We were hiding from you!” Wendol said happily. Justace chuckled. “I can see that.” He said. “How did you get up there?” “Wylen helped me.” Wendol replied. “Come sit up here with us!” “Okay, here I come!” Justace said. But try as he might, he just couldn’t make it up the tree. Rylen burst out laughing. “I finally found something I can do that you can’t!” She said amusedly. Justace just smiled and shook his head.

Explanation

You may be wondering why I'm always raving about something or another in this blog... expressing my anger about various things. Well, last night at a teen rally I went to, the preacher said some things that explain it very well. When David heard Goliath mocking God, he was like, "Am I the only one hearing this? Did you hear what he just said?! Is there not a cause?" When we hear something wrong, we need to take a stand, even if no one else is. You know the saying... if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

The Best Feeling Ever!

As most of you know, there is a boy who I call my older brother, that my parents were going to adopt years ago. Well, the other day I found out that he is saved! I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HAPPY TO HEAR THAT!!! I consider him my family, ya know? It would have been a terrible thing for me if he would have died unsaved. I had been hoping and praying with all my heart that he was saved. And now ahh, the joy that is in my heart knowing I'll get to spend eternity with him! I can't imagine a happier moment.

Ultimate Happiness

I was just thinking of a song I wrote a few years back. It's just a short imperfect little song, but God; who gave me the song, inspires me with this thought. Here's the first verse and chorus: "There's a man in a country far, far away; and he wonders if he'll even get a meal today. You may think he is the saddest man there could ever be, but he'll tell you, "Jesus Christ is all I'll ever need." Jesus satisfies my longing, how could I ask for more? I am just so thankful I'm the one whom He died for! Praise His name, praise His name." Like my dad was saying last night, it seems that a lot of times poor people (especially in other countries) that literally have nothing are among the nicest, most giving people in the world. While very rich people can be very stingy. I ask myself why. That is totally the opposite of what it should be, and it's just plain illogical. I heard a missionary story of a family that saved up for... a month or so, I think, just so they could give the missionary one meal. It's humbling, really. But to be honest, even after puzzling over this for a long time, I cannot figure out why this is how it is.

Contradiction

Do you ever feel a certain way and don't know why? I had been wondering why I enjoyed being around this one guy I very strongly dislike. I think I have just figured out the reason. It is because I love a good debate and challenging conversation, and sometimes it's nice to hear the other side of things and be with the other type people who believe oppositely for contrast and amusement. Maybe I'll be a lawyer when I grow up or something, I don't know. Yah I'm strange. But it teaches me a lot. (BTW, the main reason I don't like him is because he's always harshly putting innocent people down.) And a friend of mine has decided not to believe something ONLY because they love arguing about it with me. LOL (That really is what the person said to me!)

Bible Verses Of The Week

This whole chapter is good, so we will probably do more from it.

"For truly my words shall not be false: He that is perfect in knowledge is with thee. Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: He is mighty in strength and wisdom. He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor." Job 36:4-6

True Beauty

It is high time for the world to stop judging people based on how they look. What matters is what's inside. I think a person is only truly beautiful if their face bears a genuine smile and on their face is plainly a glow of happiness. A lady is only beautiful if she has an air of politeness and humbleness about her. Attitude is everything. I mean really... if someone is a jerk, who cares if they have great hair or they are skinny or whatever? No one should want to be like them. I have a friend who is kind of cute, but not gorgeous, but people have said she is the prettiest person they know, because she has got to be just about the nicest girl on the planet. They are absolutely right. I heard about a reality show where there were all these models and they thought they were being judged on appearance, but what they didn't know is that they were really being judged on personality. I hear they didn't do well at all. And I saw a commercial that was about a true story where a high school or something had a beauty contest and there was this girl who had Down's Syndrome, and as you know people that have that look kind of different, but she was the winner of the contest! Do you know how happy that made me? The joy I had after seeing that? That is how we ALL need to be!