P.E.: Pure Endurement

Yes I know that I just posted about the Me or You & the Lying thing... But I think you guys will be able to handle boredom right now ;)

Yes, I also know that P.E. really stands for Physical Education, but not right now!!! lol =D
So what I'm going to talk about right now is Pure Endurement (P.E.), and what do you think I mean by that?
Well first is Pure. Keeping your heart pure, your body pure, and just basically your mental and physical body pure. (Yes i know you've been told hundreds of times, but i'm telling you one-hundred-and-one times!!! lol)
Second is Endurement. Well I mean, come on, what can you endure and what can't you endure? Enduring is something that you try to take in, something you succeed in that people find hard.
Have you ever seen that show called Endurance? Where the kids have to endure hard challenges? They're fun, but they're still hard.
Well, what about the modesty endurement?
What about all that peer pressure endurement?
Have any of your friends worn ugly (aka: innapropriate) clothes? Especially the girls? Have the pressured you int odoing something like that?
I sure have been. I've tried to "endure" the no's, but sometimes it'll come out as a yes.
Sometimes I have to endure the teasing because I'm Christian and I act certain ways. Yup, I have friends who say they "are" Christian, when they totally act opposite. They'll honestly tell me what they do and don't like of other friends, or just me.
But this is why it's called Pure Endurement. Can you endure being pure? Can you stand it? Or can't you?
SO MANY CLOTHES that are so immodest!
So many drugs out there that make your body SICK!
So many people out there that want you to do the wrong things! Either sexual or just plain wrong. Smoking in the bathroom (i've heard of that one), cutting class in the middle of school, taking drugs, low-cut shirts or small mini-skirts. Yeah, they may think it's cool (and again you've heard this from your parents)--IT"S NOT. Trust me.
When you get older and you had actually taken the right path, it'll come back to you. Whether friends apologizing, whether people admiring you, or maybe something awesome happens in your life.
Some Bible verses: "For I can do everything with the help of Christ who gives me the strength I need." Phillipians 4:13
"But no, all have turned away from God; all have become corrupt. No one does good, not even one!" Psalm 14:3
One of my favorites: "For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so that we can do the good things He planned for us long ago." Ephesian 2:10

DID YOU READ THAT? We're his masterpiece. That makes me feel so great inside!
I've been having trouble with a couple of friends lately. One who doesn't know he's been creating problems, and one who sort of does, but she thinks she's in the right.
Both have apologized, but this makes me think. What started it in the first place? Sin, of course. And I realize (and this makes me so great at forgiving) that since we're all sinners, we just have to try to do our best. Keep ourselves as pure as we can.
Pure Endurement. That's it. That's all we need.
So many people pressure you into things you're not sure whether to do or maybe you are sure you're don't want to do it. Soooo many people. And the pressure is everywhere... Even when you're not with people.
Stores now basically have immodest clothing.
Places like Blockbuster are selling drugs.
Kids are smoking beccause they think it's cool. (wait till their lungs turn black and they're about to die.)
Guys and girls are having "relationships" and it's totally not cool. Especially when everyone, especially a little child, alive and well, are hurt.
This is SO ENTIRELY UNCOOL. Not awesome, not nice, not Christ-like, not positive in anyway, and the ydon't even realize it.
But we do. So we CAN make a difference (wow, a song just popped up in my head with that same line). =D

bookworm

What If His People Prayed & Zero

Again, I'm posting a couple more music videos or maybe at least one.. lol, I'm not sure.
I've posted like three times in 2 days, sorry if you're bored with me!! lol :P

This is a Casting Crowns video and I'm totally not sure if the song is called Pray or What If His People Prayed? but maybe you do... so you may correct me if you'd like ;)


I know it's not the actual video, but I couldn't find it, so i decided to post this one. :D


I'm not sure if any of you have heard of Hawk Nelson or dislike Hawk Nelson, but they're not that bad to me (unless they looks super weird in some of their music videos that i've seen--lol). I like this song, it has meaning to it other than relationships and so on...

Well I think that's it for today....

OH YES!! VOTE ON THE POLL PEOPLE!! i don't care if you haven't been on my blog for weeks or whatever, since you're my friend you still count!! ahha, whatever... but yes, 'twill (have no isea if that's a word but whatev) help...yupp :D

bookworm

Me or You?

So0o0o0o, I decided to put up another post on my blog for today because i was thinking about "stuff" (lol) and i thought it was pretty important... So i'll just cut to the chase.

Yesterday I was in the back seat (or middle) of my van next to the window. My family and I parked next to this bank so my dad could get out and and go in. While I'm sitting there I see this man check this lady out, another person acting a little strange, and almost every other person on the sidewalk. Then my dad comes back and we drive on... What's the point to this? You'll see.
When we get to an intersection there were a lot of people old and young. I noticed this old couple walking on the sidewalk, a bunch of stores, a little girl with her family, and all kinds of normal people. Or maybe not so normal.
Have you ever thought about how people are judged? By goth, emo, peppy, "normal", weird, retarded,... can you think of any others? Nerdy (just 'cause we're smart), cool (because we're jocks and cheerleaders). Have you ever noticed that people are always in groups, or clicks, or however you call them? Homeschooled or public schooled? Oh yes, maybe you haven't noticed, but I most certainly have.
Now think about this: What if we narrowed all the people down? Not by religion, because there are billions of religions too! No, I mean, how about 2 groups? (nope not public schooled vs. homeschooled--NO OFFENCE to anyone!) I mean Heaven vs. Hell. Or Christ vs. Satan.
All of those people I saw while we were driving, that little girl, that elderly couple, all of them, I'll never know if they knew Christ or not. If they were Christian or any other religion. If they were with the devil himself. I'm not sure if my stats are right, but I'm pretty sure that the ratio is 2/10. Guess where I stand? Guess where maybe you stand? Yep, I'm in the danger zone.... The number 2. Out of a group of people, most likely we're 2, because that's all i see.
Peer pressure is out there, the kind where kids want you to take drugs, smoke, have "realtionships" (you probably understand that), whatever. Dress like them, have lots of money.... "Ya know, I'm rich. My daddy has a million dollars." "Oh really? Guess how much I have." "I have a cellphone... Is yours the new flip phone? Oh wait, you don't have one."
Naw, I don't have a cellphone ("guess what? I share with my mommy. so ha!" lol :P).
Nah, I don't have millions of dollars.
Nope, I don't have a boyfriend at my age... Maybe you, but not me.
No, I don't pay THAT much money on my clothes ("I get hand-my-downs...So I think I'm better than all of you").
No, I heard smoking's bad for you lungs.
Uhm, no, i don't do drugs ("Say no" sorry, that commercial's in my head)
But guess what? I am rich still. (yes i know you all have heard this from your parents, your pastor, but bear with me please). Because I have Christ.
HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT THAT WE HAD NO CHOICE FOR HEAVEN AND HELL? no choice until a very generous and merciful God sent His Son. That Jesus DIED on a CROSS (wow, very painful). And He was WILLING. Willing! I would never have the guts to save the world like that. Let everyone die! (just JOKING--lol).
But we do, and guess how many people rejected that? GUESS! Out of gazillionz and trillions of people JUST GUESS HOW MANY REJECTED. JUST GUESS HOW MANY ARE ACCEPTING. ya, they wait till their in trouble in Russia or China until they receive, which is very sad. They wait till they have the "perfect moment" (yeah before something tragic happens).
There are hypocrits and others... But there are few of us... Everyone tells someone to make a choice. It's like when a man with a gun forces to give him money and you're all like "Ok ok!" Now I'm not saying I'd be terrified, or i'd wann be murdered by a gun. I'd give it to him just like that. But how about being like, "Sure, sir. Here's some money..."
A friend asked what my special gift or something like that, and I said forgiveness because I forgive just like that. *with a snap of a finger* And she's like, "Ohhh, you're a Mercy." I had no idea that whatever she said existed, but i was like, yeah cool.
Jesus forgave us, but alot aren't receiving and i feel terribly sad for them.
Only then did i realize that those people on the street was like saying, "I'm literally probably never going to see you again." And it was so sad. Because no one ever realizes. And that makes me go into depression. Why can't just people listen? Why can't they accept that there's a One and True God?
Why?

I know sad topic!!! And I'm sorry for preaching to you, but sheesh this was a lot tot think about. It made me sad... But yeah... Ok my sister is begging for me to get off so I better do as she says!! lol

bookworm

Title Competition and Pictures (post #1 for the day)

Well, I'm not surprised that the votes for Click here if you wanna be random got more than all the others. Yes it won with 4 votes!!
ahha, naw, the title Soar won with 3 votes,
Trials got 1
Truth got 1 too... Which I thought Trials and truth were pretty good... but that's how it works!! lol so i'm OFFICIALLY gonna put the last poll for the title competition!!! yayayayayayay =D (YSSR! for you forumers, lol)
WOW, usually i take forever with posting for the title competition but not today!! i've got other things:PP

I'm posting pictures of the ocean where i live just to make one of my best friend's from the DIOM forum jealous (yes DoT, it's you--prepare to be jealous!! muahahahaha) naw, just kid. My mom said some of the pictures i could frame... I was like WHOA i never thought they were good enough to frame... Ya know, maybe a postcard, but... JUST KID, here ya go!









I hope you liked them.... I went with a family from Honduras to downtown so we could go to the big library and on our people mover. It was lots of fun, but then we went to the ocean (or they call it Bayfront), and that was cool too.
The last one is of a Street Preacher. I was soooooo surprised that we had them. I saw 2, but I only had a chance to take a picture of one. And this was in downtown... I've been there many times and yet never saw any of 'em. The picture of the Street Preacher is the second one i saw, the first one actually had a little puplit/table, he had a Bible, AND he even had about 7-10 chairs! Sadly, only one lady was there listening to him. But it was a little bit better than the guy in the second picture... He was actually yelling out his sermon in the middle of the area. No one was really listening and then they were. He was yelling out so many things though that it was hard to concentrate on where I was going...

WELL, i still ahve another post i'd like to put on so laterz:)

bookworm

To Lie or Not To Lie is the Question

So, wow, I had an idea yesterday to do a post about when people lie.... But guess what my daily devotion book was about today? Also about when people lie! *crazy coincidence* So before I head off to my Grandoma's (we're going to be there for most of the day today) I decided to talk about it. And I'm sorry if you're bored, and you've gotten this talk so many times, but it is important.

My devotion today was called The Princess and the Pea. Sounds familiar, eh? Well, anyway, it was about this girl that was with her grandma and she wanted a bedtime story, and so The Princess and the Pea was pciked and then her grandma tucked her into bed. Well, her grandma decided to be playful and started checking under her granddaughter's matress, claiming that she was looking for a pea.
"There are no peas under my mattress!" giggled Alonya.
"Well, I certainly hope there's none in your life also," was the Grandma's response.
Well the story went a little bit further but the whole point was that if we lie, or do anything wrong also, it's a pea in our life. But if we're also saved and we sin, it's gonna keep us "awake all night" (also in LITERAL sense of form), just like the Princess in the story.
Everytime I used to lie, my "conscience" always made me feel sooo bad, but it really was the Holy Spirit. I was guilty of a major crime and it was until I finally couldn't take it anymore that I would admit it. And then when I was caught by a very obvious lie or maybe not so obvious, but I was still caught by my dad or mom (my dad was the worst in punishing), I would get "the Whacker". Which is a sort of shorter belt, but it wasn't a belt at all, and get spanked by that, but it worked just like a spatula or belt would. A bendier spatula and a shorter belt (there ya go!). Anyway, just before my dad would havce himself or my mom spank me, he would tell me, "Lies are the worst sin in this house. You CANNOT lie in this house." He did it very solemnly. "You know why people get angry when you tell a lie? Because they actually believed you, and have gotten fooled." I never realized until a little later that it was so wrong, at least with my family.
So now I'm fully uncapable of telling a lie. I mean, honestly, even if it was to get out of my own trouble or something, you absolutely won't find me telling anymore. And even if it's for something more playful, like a joke or a prank, my friends will always say, "You know you're the worst liar in the world! I know it was you!"

But the whole "lesson" today is: People believe you. No matter what. If you truly convince them of something, they bilieve. And then when it's wrong (what they believed), then they WILL get upset. It's happened acouple of times to me where I got so mad at someone I was praying so much to show forgiveness, but also for them to confess their sin.

Woo-hoo! What wonderful topic!!! lol

lOVE,
bookwormmm <33

News

The poll finished for this week!!! Whoopee!!! But then I realized that I only did three weeks when I wantd four so that all the answers would be full! So then I got to thinking, why don't I do another poll (which means another week of supsense) for the titles that got sooooooo close to winning! So now, that's what I'm gonna do!

Thi past week's poll was not very close. One title did get half of the vote of another.
Trials got three votes. Not very famous but more than the others.
The King (or Prince) got none. (which sorta surprised me, but no biggy)
Help (or Support) got ZERO. (which sorta surprised me too... I thought that one was pretty good, but again, no biggy).
Double Edge got six! The most so far! I was very surprised on that one. I wasn't sure if it would make it or not, but I guess it did:) Whoopee!!! *my daddy will be happy!* lol
Opus (or Composed) got nada. I was kinda thinking that Composed would be a hit, but that's fine;)

So her goes the new poll:
Trials
Truth
Soar

Sadly it's only those little three, but I'm excited to see what happens:)

now on to other things:
haha, I totally lost my camera so now i can't post a little bit of pictures that i was gonna eventually take, so now it's even more into eventually show you them... *ok that was confusing*. my bad...
(sort of relating to what I just said in my last starred sentence there) Everyone in my family each now have their own language. Mine is Daniellaic (like Arabaic), my sister is Carolynian. My brother is Santisian (pronounce Son-tee-sian, yes that's a little hard but oh well)... and the rest are al different. It was really funny, because sometimes me and my sibs won't make sense to other people, but all the family understands. =D

another news/random fact: I'm officially going to be travelling to Honduras on Aug.4 and won't be back till Aug. 18!!!!! I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EXCiTeD!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol, though we're going to be mostly doing construction... *woohoo!* lol, it'll be neat.

Well i think that's all!!!

danielle/bookworm

A Forward

I got this e-mail through a forward. And usually I'm not interested in those usually, but this one interested me a little bit. My family is defifnitely NOT voting for Obama, but when I got this i was a little offended in what he said:

Think you know who this man is?
This possible President of the United States !! Read Below and
ask yourselves, is this REALLY someone we can see as the
President of our great nation!!!!

Below are a few lines from Obama's books; In his words!


From Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.'
From Dreams of My Father : 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.'
From Dreams of My Father: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'
From Dreams of My Father: 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'
From Dreams of My Father: 'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my

father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.'

And FINALLY the Most Damming one of ALL of them!!!

From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'

Comment away! I would love to know what you think:)

bookwormmm

Like Whoa

Haha the subject is a title from this song that I was listening to today. :PP
Well I decided to have a post that did not just talk about the book I'm reading. But now I don't know where to start...
Me and my sisters have sort of gotten all dressed up to do this whole photo shoot just so we can put ONE picture in the new frame that each of us have. So we take a billion shots of Carolyn, my twin, and she'll dress up in yellow because her frame is yellow. Find the BEST picture, either silly or natural, and develop it and put it in. So mine's green (one of my favorite pictures) and I still need to take a billion shots. But oh well. I'll put up some pictures later when we have them.
Sadly, my church isn't doing a V.B.S. this year, we did a little one at my house last year but not this summer because this elderly lady from my church just had knee surgery so she can't do it... I think that's the reason. lol.
And now, i think i'm hungry. So maybe i should go get a granola bar or something. BUT NOT YET... because i'm still blogging:)
I don't know if i posted about this already but I finished 4 amazing books. Though they are NOT Christian, they were really cool. But they're kinda strange. So I don't know :PP I need new books though, or I'll die *suffocating*... just kdding!!
Well now I'll go.... BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Danielle/bookworm

Yo

Hiya! It's the one and only me!!! yay! Just kid just kid. Well, the poll has finished and let me tell you, IT WAS VERY CLOSE. But the one that i thought would probably win, did!!!
Congrats to the title Raconteur!!! It won with 4 votes. I honestly like the title a lot, so I'm really glad it won that poll.
Alone got 1 vote. It IS more like a title for a book, but not for a series so I can definitely understand why it got 1 vote.
Um, Away..... Yeah, Away got none. AND that's TOTALLY ok... Away was not my favorite. That day i was trying to think of sooo many titles that some of them are a little pathetic...for at least series titles. I can see it more as a book title like Alone. But yeah:PP
Soar! It was SOOO CLOSE to winning that poll. I didn't think it'd get very many votes, but it got at least 3 and that's multi-choosing so yeah, it went well!
So far the Top 2 Titles are Blinded and Racontuer. That's cool. I like 'em both a lot.
The new ones for this weeek's poll are:
1)Trials
2)The King (or Prince) *
3)Help (or Support) *
4)Double Edge
5)Opus (or Weaved OR Composed) ~haha I think you get my meaning~

YES it will have 5!! lol I finally realized I had 1 more than 12 so i needed to add an extra title ;)
All the stars (***) I'm still wondering about. I don't know maybe if I should do something else other than the actual ones--so maybe those subsitutes to replace? You'll see why in my title explanation :PP Just in case you haven't checked it out. Also my Summary. so yupp.

Prayer Requests:
~Last Thursday my church had to move out totally from the property of another church. They owned the whole building and they needed us to leave so we moved everything in pick-up trucks to a moving truck. Going upstairs and downstairs with chairs, boxes (heavy ones too), flowers, and etc. It was fUN, but I was soooo sore on Friday. So we need some prayer for our church. We're doing fine, but we're stillrenting from another church, again, and we want our own property.
~I've had an acid-reflex problem since last January. And just going 3 or 4 months is the longest so far with out getting so sick i barf. *YES DISGUSTING, sorry*. But I don't get it so bad anymore, but still my stomach hurts every so often.

Well thanks again for passing by!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lol

~Danielle/Bookworm~

P.S. I just decided for Opus's substitue to be Composed instead of Weaved.;)

HeyHeyy

A TRAGEDY happened yesterday! I had to get shot and get blood drawn from me! UGH! I ABSOLUTELY hate shots, and more-- I am scared of them. Once they even say something about vaxines (when you have a huge family that has to go the Dr.'s office like every three months and you're homeschooled, you know what all those new words mean over there!) I will start sobbing. Yes, I know! "What a wimp!" "She's such a weirdo!" But it's sadly and unfortunately true. I had to get my meningitis (SO NOT SURE IF I SPELLED THAT RIGHT) shot, and then three vials of blood because lately I've been sort of "blacking out", where I will get up from my bed in the morning and once I reach the hallway, I sart feeling really weird and then my vision will start getting darker and I'll get a headache. It'll happen like twice a day sometimes, but it only lasts about 10 seconds. And then the Dr. says that he thinks it might be normal, that some people even faint. AND I"M LIKE NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. But hopefully that won't happen ;)
On to another HAPPY subject though! One of my forum buddies got a blog! Check it out! I added a link too (DoT) so yeah:)
Hm... I'm trying to think... Oh yeah! Some of you have been asking 'bout my being a twin or whatever, so I decided to post a couple pictures of use being together:) You guys will definitely be able to tell that we're identical! lol i will point out who's who.

Yes, we do like taking funny pictures:) That's Me on the right, and Carolyn on the left.

She just got a new camera so we were goofing off :P That's me on the left and her on the right.

haha same thing. her on the right me LEFT:)

That's me on the front, lol

My brother Santi, Carolyn, and Me :D

Well I hope you like them! Not the best pictures. ALl the better ones are on my other computer...

tootaloo!!! lol

~bookworm

So0o0o0o0o0o0o

So it might be a little hard for me to post anything this week...Or maybe not. I'm finishing up my 8th grade homeschool year this week and I might be busy. Plus all that foruming business on the DIOM forum. I've made really cool friends on there. PLUS writing in my story. I literally only am on my third page! *WOW* So totally UN-AMAZING. I like writing, but sometimes it's really hard. Tyler (one of my main characters) is getting extremely annoyed that I'm not writing enough details and giving the settings enough space. So therefore I just need to sit down and think. But I'm wayyy to lazy, so we'll see how it works! lol
I think I might post a couple of pictures of me, but I'm not absolutely sure... Maybe with my twin and stuff so you guys can see how identical we look ;) I'm sure you guys would love that!!!
I was also thinking of posting the first part of my story on here too! Because you "bookworm readers" are the first to actually get the inside peek! So there ya go!! lOl
The poll is getting a little one-sided! I thought that might happen. That is one of my favorite title's that i thought up of, so I'm glad it's taking the lead. But feel free to go on ahead with voting for another. It's a multi-choice poll so there ya go...
I think that's mostly it... I'll post more when I think of something fun!!

tootlez!!!

danielle~bookworm

This week, next week, more!

The poll has been officially closed. The winner was Blinded! I actually really do like that title... But there's still more to come! It was very close with Truth, and yes, ultimately it's up to me to decide the title, so it will still be in my noggin even when this whole thing is finished!
I noticed that Similarities wasn't that famous, and that's ok... It did sound good to me, but I can use it for another story, too.
The Time, yeah felt that way about how many votes it got. 1 (same as similarities)vote, but I wasn't to big on it either. SO that one's out.
Now the new four titles in the poll will be Raconteur, Alone, Away, and Soar. Now from some of you who have posted already what they've liked, I think I might know which one is gonna win. But it all depends on you guys for the winner, so I might be wrong:PP
I've been writing, but my characters aren't getting into the right place. They seem to be complaining about their attitude or whatever it is. *Tyler especially*
For more information about the titles Click Here. Or for info on the book Click Here.

Now for totally RANDOM stuff:
~My twin sister is going through a devotional book called A Young Woman After God's Own Heart. I recommend it for other girls:)
~My church is moving. Pray PRAY PRAY! for us please!
~um.... i have really nothing else....
~I totally forgot something I could've said but whatever!! lol

Well thanks for stoppin' by!

~bookworm~

"Giggling Ethan" and more =D

This is a picture of me with an employee at Borders. I'm holding the Beyond the Reflection's Edge book (i did a review somewhere in this blog, if you don't know about it...haha it's in the May section), because I needed to find the book for the contest I'm in. Ethan was nicknamed by my mom and I, the "Giggling Ethan". Because, well at least where I live, taking a picture with an employee is just strange. So he was embarrassed about taking it and to cover up he was giggling or laughing or whatever you call it until my mom was finished taking the picture and and he walked away. It was really really funny. Haha, I started laughing too.


This is my video for the contest too! Since we could do videos I decided to do this one.

Also I joined the Dragons In Our Midst forum. And it's great! Very welcoming people:PP YBT has a bit of a bite though (just kidding), but I recommend it to anybody who loves the Dragons In Our Midst books and Oracles of Fire AND Echoes from the Edge. If you do, tell me your username, I'd love to be friends with you on it...

Oh, yeah, I'm almost done with my Last of the Nephilim book! Less than a hundred pages to go!!! yayyyy:) And my book is sorta going a little slow... But i'll kepp working on it!!

bookworm

P.S. Sorry! The first time i posted the picture, it didn't come out, so for those of you who came here, my bad...lol now you can see the picture!!:)

Ho-hum...

~YAY, my mom had pre-ordered the book Last of the Nephilim, from the Oracles of Fire series!!!!! For those of you who are not familiar with the series it's by my ALL-TIME favorite author, Bryan Davis. He's a Christian/fantasy/sci-fi (or are those the same things?) author who does the most amazing books. True they are not devotional books, but they're the type you read for fun and still get something out of. Your faith in God still grows, and some people have said that the book really helps them get stronger (I know I have), so yeah. I'm now half-way through and still super excited. I have NO CLUE what's gonna happen to my favorite characters....lol.

~So my dad's a pastor, and he was doing this really great sermon that sooooo entirely true (well it's not like he's gonna lie, but yeah). It was about how EVERYONE not just some people are sinners, and that we're all under the wrath of God and we're all gonna be judged someday. And I'm thinking WHOA. Can you IMAGINE being judged by God... I mean we're already judged by people, but that's not the same. So I was thinking, we really have to make an effort to help other people. Some people don't even know about grace and God. And i feel sooo bad for them....

Well those were my totally random thoughts!
***thanks for dropping by***

bookworm4god

TAGGED!

I have been tagged by Zoey!

Rules
Link to the person that tagged you, post the rules somewhere in your meme, answer the questions, tag six people in your post, let the tagees know they’ve been chosen by leaving a comment on their blog, let the tagger know your entry is posted.

Who is your all-time favorite author and why?
Bryan Davis (of course!!!)

Who was your first favorite author and why?
Carolyn Keene. The Nancy Drew series were very popular i guess in my mom's time, so she got me into them too! i read alottttt of 'em...lol


Who is the most recent addition to your list of favorite authors, and why?
I really like James Patterson. He has a series called Maximum Ride. Though it is NOT Christian, I still liked them.
But I also like Wayne Thomas Batson. I JUST started his books in the Door Within Trilogy.


If someone asked you who your favorite authors were right now, which authors would first pop out of your mouth? Bryan Davis, James Patterson, Wayne Thomas Batson.


I tag...

Amber/ybtolerant
Sapphira
Carolyn
Elliot

my poll and story

kkkk. so i put a poll up for the titles of my book... This is totally not meaning i'll actually use that title, but it is nice to see which one people like better:) lol. so the poll is gonna work like this. i put up for titles now, then next week i will up four other titles and so forth. by the last week, i will keep track of all the MOST popular title from those 3 or 4 weeks and put up those titles... can't wait to see!!!

haha, i went to borders the other day and i found the ONLY copy of Beyond the Reflection's Edge there, because the rest were intransit.... I thought maybe there'd be a whole section, but i couldn't find anything. no Bryan Davis book. So my mommy found this employee and asked for him to ook for the book... and there it was....sitting so lonely by itself on the shelf (hey that rhymed!!! lol). So then i took a pic and i have to upload it soon!!! but it's kinda cool, seeing that since there was only one book obviously a bunch of others were sold!!!! :)

well i'll post soon!!

bookworm/danielle

Summary!!!

lOllll. ok, i had someone say that it was hard to pick a title because they didn't know what it was about.... But i haven't really gotten into the book, i've just started a little bit... but i'll keep working. So i'm giving you guys a brief summary about it:

A boy named Tyler is searching everywhere to find where he belongs. His mind, his soul, his family... He doesn't know much about Faith either. But when a girl who supposedly "just moved in" on his block starts hanging around telling him these weird things about her being from another world, which is basically the future earth, and him being "the One", he decides to go on a trip with her... Back in time! There he learns about Jesus--EVEN SEES HIM-- and much more! Will he be able to save another world, well at least help them? Will he find what it really means to sacrifice for the world? Or will everything just go down the drain?

Sorry, i really am pretty bad at summaries, though i hope it sounds good! tell meee:)

Title and BtRE

So even though i am already writing my story i haven't come up with a title. i was thinking of a bunch of stuff, but i didn't want any of them to sound....LAME. lOl... So i was either thinking of the title series (if it will be a series that i wanna do) called (obviously not in order):
1)Help (or Support)
2)The King (or maybe Prince--depends)
3)Double Edge
4)Similarities
5)Truth
6)Opus (or Weaved)
7)Trials
8)Raconteur
9)The Time
10)Alone
11)Away
12)Soar
13)Blinded (or Blind)
Yupppp, i only came up with 13 titles. I'm not very good at title naming. If you guys could give me four of your favorite titles here, I'll probably put it as a poll:PP so yeah... The idea of the title "Help" came sorta from my dad. He's a pastor and he said that if he ever wrote a book it'd probably be called S.O.S. and i didn't want to take that title away from him... so i came up with Help:) "The King" i came up with because of my "outline" that i have in my head. It came because of the story line, Jesus, and the main character. I'm just trying to figure out if it should either refer to Jesus or the main char., that's why if it was for the guy it'd be the Prince (i think). lol. confusing huh? =D Double Edge is actually the name of my youth group/sunday school. My dad came up with it because in the Bible it says something about Jesus or His wrath is like a double edged sword. Opus isn't supposed to refer to a song, just that life here on earth is like God's opus:) Reconteur actually was a word i found randomly searching up words to see which synonyms would be a nice title!!! lol ;) Means the storyteller or something about storytelling. Thought maybe it'd be perfect for it! haha lol. Yep, so those were some ideas and definitions. It'd really make me happy if you could help me out!! lol haha, whatev:PP

Now besides that... I have actually been really trying to earn some points on the BtRE contest. But i'm wayyyyy behind, so hopefully today or maybe tomorrow i can go to Borders or Barnes and Noble to see if i can find the book in those stores:PP

God Bless! :)
ookworm4god

w00t!

haha, ok, i FINALLYYY came up with an idea for a story. it's kinda confusing, BUT it's still coming! it might come slow to me, but i'm REALLLYYY gonna try to make it happen. I haven't come up with a title yet, but i have written in it recently... i'm probably going to put up a word count thingy-ma-jig... lol. but yeah, prayyy for me:)

Also, this is a video that i sooooo had to post because i'm homeschooled, and maybe some of you are and maybe some of you aren't, but it has to do with what seperates us. lOl, it's hilarious, at least to me, but ya. I think you'll enjoy it!

*this is not to offend ANYBODY*



well i hope you like it!!

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bookwormmmm/danielle

WOW

Usually everytime I pray, it's about asking God to help me with my weaknesses. OR to help my friends. It may sound weird praying for your friends (especially if they're kids) to you, but it works. I've found God in the middle of work with them sometimes. But now I realize (and right now I'm listening to "Our God is an Awesome God") that instead of just praying about helping everyone, it should be more PRAISE. My dad is always asking me, "so when you pray do you praise God that much?" And I never really thought about it. I always assumed that God knew how powerful and almighty He is. But, when you think about it, everyone is good or great at something. But even though we know we are, isn't it NICE to hear other people praise our works? I keep asking God to help... And now it seems like I'm just taking advantage. "God, help me in this" "God, help so-and-so" "God, help this issue that just arose". But it was never "God, You're sooo amazing!" "God, what a powerful God you are" And now I'll do that more often. Cause if you think about it, praising God is REALLY important. He was here when nobody else was. No beginning (no end either, but it's the point that's important), yet when He was alone, He created everything that exists today. He made alllll of us. And when we had ABSOLUTELY NO CHANCE to live in heaven He sent Jesus and Jesus died for ALL OF US. And now, *sighs* NOW, He's invited us all to live in HIS house. TALK ABOUT GENEROUS! You can still ask God for help, but now I'm going to praise a lot more, too...:)