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My AdventuresMadeline Fiolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16736863119856535960noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7727525155976396585.post-55537938479610189192016-03-23T13:11:00.000-07:002016-05-09T17:11:49.153-07:00Where Are the Answers?<div style="text-align: center;">
When you pray, ever feel like you're talking to no one? Slapping the air with each syllable? Bringing your deepest fears and dreams to an empty void? Sometimes I feel that way, yet other times I know God's listening but...</div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">where are the answers?</span></div>
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I know that He brings hard stuff into our world to build us up and bring us closer to Him, but sometimes I pray for help over and over and...</div>
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On one of those nights, when anger was twisting a knot in my heart and I had to make a choice but I didn't know what to do, I prayed. </div>
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{I love to curl up on my bed at night under the moon light and bring my sorrows to my creator}</div>
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But that night it felt like I was just tumbling over my problems and getting no where. Desperate, I flipped through my bible and randomly landed on a page</div>
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One glance at the title of the chapter and my heart sank. It was a section of scripture that had nothing to do with what I was dealing with, nothing at all. </div>
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sparks of anger ~ frustration ~ disappointment. </div>
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But grudgingly I read those verses...</div>
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I ate them up like, my soul hungry.They had nothing to do with what I was dealing with. It didn't matter. Those beautiful verses stared at me.</div>
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I saw it then. </div>
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I saw it there on the page,</div>
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my answer.</div>
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But the last verse of that section was the most incredible. It told me: </div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">God always listens to the prayers of His children, </span></div>
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Of course that is just one story out of so many...but my point is simply to remind you that your prayers are real. You are actually talking to the Creator of the Universe and He hears you. I'm reminding myself.</div>
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Just 2 Questions:</div>
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Do you pray to hear God's voice or to hear yours? </div>
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When you go to pray are you seeking answers or are you seeking God? </div>
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We have a world of voices shouting that we are praying to nothing. They say our hope is a lie. In the future we must take a stand and decide, is prayer real? </div>
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<br />Madeline Fiolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16736863119856535960noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7727525155976396585.post-47861337770635969212016-01-22T14:01:00.001-08:002016-01-22T14:01:57.889-08:00Traveler part one<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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Is the world so <span style="font-size: large;">big,</span> or am I just so <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">tiny</span><span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So... shout out from this stranger! I've been busy. I have a lot of excuses I could use for not blogging lately buuuuuuut I think the biggest reason is: I haven't felt like it. I can't write good post without feeling like it, I'm not that talented. The words spill out when they are ready. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm a C h r i s t i a n girl. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What's a Christian girl?<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> Does a Christian girl have to dress modest? Listen to Christian music? Read Christian books? Talk Christian? Get a Christian education? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I think for a lot of us a Christian girl means all of that. We're <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">a clan...a group of girls who are good, encouraging, nice. Jesus lovers. That's what a Christian girl means right? A nice girl who shines like Jesus. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When I was younger, I felt like I always had to prove myself...somehow prove I was a Christian. I posted verses and little 'Christian phrases' all the time online. Just like some people smoke or swear to be cool, I posted God girl posts online to be cool around my Christian friends. There was nothing wrong with the posts, just something wrong with my heart. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm a Christian girl... but that doesn't mean I always have the right words or I'm perfect. I guess if in the inside you really love Christ, and trust Him, and have faith in Him, some of that is going to seep out in your actions. You don't have to prove your a Christian, you either are one or you<span style="font-family: inherit;">'</span>re not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sooo... incase you feel like you've got to keep some holy reputation. Incase you feel like you have to be enough. Let's just think back to what that Christian girl really is. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Christian girl: <b>someone</b> who's not enough but believes in <b>Someone</b> who is, who is more than enough</span></div>
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The air breaths salt. The shells sleep along the shore, s C a T t e R d
pieces, broken, a graveyard across the bed of sand. Waves try to reach
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The beach healed me. </div>
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guess I was kind of stressing out and worried about this year and then I
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Slowly all my promblems didn't seem so big, not next to this and the Creator who made it. </div>
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Four years ago... my life changed. </div>
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It was a <span style="font-size: xx-small;">tiny </span>change. </div>
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A tiny change that transformed my entire galaxy. </div>
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My world before four years ago is kinda a hazy dream, half fantasy, half real. </div>
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to the future and am scared because I should know by now that if God
could be with me for those last four years, he'll be with me in the
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And all my petty dreams are scattered broken across the seashore like shells because God has a better plan. </div>
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But four years ago His plan didn't look better... it was.</div>
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Four years ago...</div>
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Memory: me walking on a beach only a couple miles from this one. Me before the change. Me when the change was just an echo. Me missing my home. Me writing a letter each day to my best friend. Me buying sea shell earrings for her. </div>
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Funny how different my world is today... and how I didn't know any of it that time four years ago before the change. </div>
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On one of those beautiful days, the kind of days that you're just happy
to be alive, I tripped upon a fact about myself that I'd never tripped
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<b>{The Fact About Myself} All it takes to make me happy is something small </b></div>
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I love, simply love, little pleasures. Books. Chocolate. Puppies. Fun small things mean the world to me. </div>
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tiny fury face can make me the happiest person in the world. I hope they bring some beauty into your world just like
these cuties brought beauty into to mine.<br>
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~ soooo I got a camera...not a fancy camera but nicer than an iPhone and better than my old broken camera so I'm thrilled. This is the first time I've been able to photograph birds because it's the first camera that has nice enough zoom~</div>
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Us girls are sprawled in the back of the car with books to take us to different worlds. I disappeared into 200 pages of mine, hours dragging by. We make it to the college campus, an interesting place for a writer. All around there are nervous looking teens and teary eyed moms and I keep putting myself in their shoes, trying to imagine what it might be like. That was enough to interest me through the long lines and traffic, that and my book. </div>
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I've just had that <i>fairly</i> content feeling you get after you've done some wonderful things and have some wonderful things ahead of you: </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">but you're unique and special and dazzling </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">That feeling. </span></div>
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If you're here at my blog looking for answers, I'm going to break something to you. </div>
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<b>I don't have them. </b></div>
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Last week started <b>hard</b>. The first two babies I ever babysat said </div>
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g o o d b y e </div>
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They aren't really babies any more. Little people with </div>
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big hearts, </div>
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"I don't want to leave you behind Miss Maddie. I'll come back, I promise," little girl tells me. </i></div>
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I babysit a lot of kids now, </div>
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but these ones... </div>
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they've left a soft spot in my heart.</div>
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"Are you going to miss them?" little sister asks me one night in bed. </div>
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I open up.</div>
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"Yeah, I'll miss them.</div>
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I won't just miss their smiles or their laughter, </div>
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I'll miss the way they made me feel special. </div>
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They always saw in me something that no one else did. </div>
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On those L o N e L y days when I felt like my world was </div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> little boy came and told me </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">in that childish way that pieced my world back together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Sure, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">I don't know why they liked me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Maybe it was because of the adventure we had when I rescued his toy out of the toilet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Maybe it was because of the surprises I brought in my purse. </span></div>
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There is a sniffle. </div>
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Then, two pitiful choked words.</div>
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"I am."</div>
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"Maddie, that is so sad. You may never see them again." </div>
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"But now they know how to tell stories. They can take that with them," I remind her. </div>
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"Can I sleep in your bed?" whimpers little sister. </div>
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"No," I return, "But you can come snuggle for a while." </div>
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and we try to understand. </div>
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all that to say -> I don't have answers. </div>
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I don't know why they left.</div>
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All I know is that God put them in my life for a season </div>
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took them out. </div>
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I'm so happy to be able to say I could be part of their story, </div>
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<br />Madeline Fiolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16736863119856535960noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7727525155976396585.post-29819220958013576582015-06-17T09:35:00.001-07:002015-06-17T09:35:58.257-07:00Someday<div style="text-align: center;">
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"This is what I do," the woman says smiling. "I hoped it would inspire you." </div>
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Little girl is wordless. <i>This is what I want to be. She's amazing. My art is so bad next to this, but maybe someday...</i></div>
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"That's very nice," The women tells her at last. "Someday you'll become famous." </div>
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<i>Its not good enough now... but maybe someday. </i>Little girl smiles. "Thank you." Stiff. Too short... <i>but what else can I say?</i></div>
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One stormy March day the woman moves on in the world. She leaves, but before she's gone she sees the little girl and she remembers. Did I ever help her? She wonders. Probably not. She goes. </div>
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And on one particular morning my creative mind was killing me so I wrote the beginning of a novel that I never intend to finish. It started out like this, </div>
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So we're barefoot Indians at my house. Hot. Wild. Almost free... free once the school is finished. We're chasing stories and sharing them, me and my sisters. Swapping books. Waiting for the pool to open. Loving the summer that has hardly begun. I've been finding my photography style and working on my novel. Summer here I come!</div>
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Ok. I haven't posted very regularly. I apologize. My life has been loaded with craziness. First we had company. Grandparents. An Aunt. And then out of town friends. All of that was followed by exams. Then graduation. And now? I am done with school...or sort of done. </div>
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Math is my raincloud that follows me wherever I go. We, Math and I, are not friends. The only thing acquainted with math that is my friend is... my calculator. And my calculator and I happen to be wonderful friends!</div>
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Leaving my sophomore year behind should be amazing but I am not parting with it easily. I loved my Sophomore year. Yes, I loved it even with Chemistry. I learned a lot from my Chemistry class. </div>
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Zach and I have experienced this whole education adventure side by side. In other words, next year will be the first time in MY LIFE that Zach won't be around to take my school books and hog the computer or help me study and answer the questions in class. When's a bigger time to realize your growing up than when you find out your classmate for life is going to college next year. I feeldreadfully old. </div>
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I guess I should say something about my big brother... I could say a lot. Zach and I have always been close. When we were little, we did every single thing together. His friends were mine. Even now, when we study, we end up talking like grown ups and that cool sibling bond is still there even though we are almost complete opposites. I hate the idea of his leaving our family, leaving it to be full of little girls and girl talk and girl stuff. Sometimes I just need a practical brother to even out all the girlishness in my family. Sounds strange coming from a girl, but that's how I feel. </div>
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Zach reminds me constantly not to be weird. Or maybe reminds isn't the right word, he pleads. He is always my dose of reality after I am lost in another world.</div>
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I've been the one in the circle, the one blind to those girls on the bench, but I'm ashamed of that. Please step up and speak to the people on the benches. See those ones who aren't brave enough. Make someone feel special. Don't hurt a human by never taking time to see them! This is as much a reminder to me as it is to you. </div>
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My mom is the doctor who always knows how to help me feel better.</div>
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My mom is the cook who created macaroni and cheese, my favorite meal, when Daddy can't even make an egg.</div>
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My mom is the teacher who makes spelling tests and math promblems not so bad after I thought they were impossible.</div>
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I see her as a beautiful hero. That hero I want to be just like.</div>
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M U S I C</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Aren't you in love with this dusty, creaky piano that I have? I can never play on any piano quite the same as this one. 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S I S T E R </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I'm really thankful for this stubborn, blunt little sister I have who is always a good model. 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F L O W E R S</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Yep, flowers make me happy and my tiny rose bush is starting to grow again. 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D R E A M S</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I am not sure where I would be without my dreams for company. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTrfw8HfV7mS-DeWiRLLbbhI3nXx6XwXHfJpSX16vztmuMHyXppiFh8RMwjmiGINKjmCzQ7Y_JUGBF7euoGuPC3ahIcbJFCJ8686lR6r2pBZa0px2HdbkciDsQoaBGK8D0nBShK-vDvyfG/s640/blogger-image--383370710.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTrfw8HfV7mS-DeWiRLLbbhI3nXx6XwXHfJpSX16vztmuMHyXppiFh8RMwjmiGINKjmCzQ7Y_JUGBF7euoGuPC3ahIcbJFCJ8686lR6r2pBZa0px2HdbkciDsQoaBGK8D0nBShK-vDvyfG/s640/blogger-image--383370710.jpg"></a></div><br></div>6. 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S U N</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I drive my family crazy because I don't like blinds or sunglasses. Sunshine is just too wonderful to shut out.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGzNGcUfhmJ4ParXCz4O7TNf11o0YMuAirf-mjeqyy8s_VnrF0JFV-5wIKrzzjqlqzgb4NW7w2eKGofvzZo_5WRXL7rxkIDLqEb8HLTtbt0Az1h-QD4w_NE49W1mkH6g7ritVeQTBRVkDY/s640/blogger-image-2013957106.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGzNGcUfhmJ4ParXCz4O7TNf11o0YMuAirf-mjeqyy8s_VnrF0JFV-5wIKrzzjqlqzgb4NW7w2eKGofvzZo_5WRXL7rxkIDLqEb8HLTtbt0Az1h-QD4w_NE49W1mkH6g7ritVeQTBRVkDY/s640/blogger-image-2013957106.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">8. 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G R O W</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This month I turned 16, Spring came, and everything beautiful is growing. I am totally thankful for that.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">~storyteller</div><br></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><br></div>Madeline Fiolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16736863119856535960noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7727525155976396585.post-30071352487202241732015-04-29T12:32:00.000-07:002015-04-29T12:32:33.086-07:00Traces of Spring Beauty<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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To be honest, it surprised me how grumpy a cold could make me. When the cold was not going away, I decided that God was trying to teach me something. But I just found silence: frustrating, irregular, steady silence.</div>
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When I get sick... I don't like to rest. I want to go and do everything and imagine I feel fine but with this cold after a week of suffering I decided to chill out a little and I read two books. They were just old fashioned lovely long novels, but they made me happy and reminded me how wonderful books are all over again. Books make me so happy. </div>
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Right now, I have moved on to a more modern book. I am also working quite faithfully on my novel, or as faithfully as possible with school. I am almost done with the first step of editing which is so exciting. This is going to sound stuck up, but I love my book. Since I wrote it in a month, I did not have time to bond with it like I do all my other novels, but now I'm in love with it. </div>
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And then it was in a dark hour on my bed one night this week when my cold {horrid rascal} was keeping me up that I got my answer. </div>
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I was thinking back to an earlier talk I had with a friend who has tons of medical problems. We were talking lightly about the future and our silly plans and my friend goes, </div>
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<i>I really want kids, but I don't want them to go through what I do. </i></div>
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In only those few words everything came together in my mind. What do I say to that? Here I am complaining about a cold when so many people have way worse issues. So when I am asking God why this cold won't leave, that was His answer. </div>
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~STOP complaining about your miniscule troubles, when so many others have real ones~</div>
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If only I could step out of my little showers and see other peoples storms. I have it super easy, but even after thinking this I continue to walk downstairs groggily and snap at my siblings and hate the world just because I missed an hour of sleep from coughing. </div>
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So I am learning and that is all I can say today,<br />
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