Counsel with the Lord

I was once asked by a friend, a couple months back, if I would go to the same college as him; at this time I have already attended a year at UCLA, so repeatedly I told him that I was going to UCLA. This went on for a time until one day he asked me if I would pray about it. My immediate thought and response was "no", why should I pray about it? I attended school already, enjoyed it and wanted to go back to UCLA. Almost immediately after I responded, he wanted to know why I wouldn't. As I thought, I realized that my only reason why I did not want to pray about it was because I had my mind set on going back to UCLA. In my desire to go to UCLA, I did not want to pray in case God would tell me differently.

The Restoration

While on my mission, a strange thing happened; Twinkies, along with all other Hostess products, went off the market. When the news came that Hostess was going out of Business because of a strike, many people flocked to the stores, Twinkies were being sold for high prices online as people prepared for a life without Twinkies. The time came, and Twinkies vanished from the stores, and soon many other companies started making their own version of the Twinkie. I never was a fan of Twinkies, but it was unexpected news, the snack that could survive a nuclear war could not survive the life span of a business. As I was shopping one day, something caught my eye, and I rushed over, and in joy, I bought a box of Twinkies. The snack that was once lost was restored.

Commandments For Our Protection

In my lifetime, my family has had many cats: Chester Tiger, Marvin K. Moonie, and Boingo just to name a few; in fact, our family almost always had at least one pet cat. What happened to all of these cats? In most cases coyotes happened. Our cats were allowed free access to the outside whenever they wanted, so long as there was someone to let them out, and so many were out during the night. These cats then fell victim to the many coyotes wandering the city at night, one of them, Dog, even fell victim twice. With all these lost cats my father was hesitant to get our two current cats, Cow and Skimbleshanks. We agreed on something new with these cats, when the night comes, the cats come in. Cats being Nocturnal animals and loving the outdoor protest almost every night, begging to go back out, but out of love and for their safety, we keep them in knowing that coyotes lay beyond the threshold of our door.

Atoning Blood of Jesus Christ

I hate needles; When I was younger, and it was time for me to get a shot, I would breakdown.Why I have such a fear of being stabbed by a needle? I don't know, but it has stuck with me. While at college, many of my friends were participating in a blood drive, something I had never done before because I never got the courage to allow a complete stranger to stick a needle in me and take something vital to my body. I decided though, that it was going to be different this time; I was going to give blood. Still apprehensive about it, I convinced one of my roommates to do it with me. We got down to the center and of course some of my friends were there also for the blood drive. My roommate backed down from giving blood, but for me, I could not, my friends wouldn't let me. As I sat there filling out the donor sheet, fear grew within me as I got ever so closer to actually giving blood. A finger prick and later, and I was in the chair; The needle now drawing blood from me. Moments later, I was released and given free range on all the juice and snacks I could eat.