I saw this on facebook, and I loved it. So, here it is :]

1. If you choose to wear shirts that show off your breasts, you will attract boys. To be more specific, you will attract the kind of boys that like to look down girls’ shirts. If you want to date a guy who likes to look at other girls’ breasts and chase skirts, then great job; keep it up. If you don’t want to date a guy who ogles at the breasts of other women, then maybe you should stop offering your own breasts up for the ogling. All attention is not equal. You think you want attention, but you don’t. You want respect. All attention is not equal.


2. Don’t go to the tanning bed. You’ll thank me when you go to your high school reunion and you look like you’ve been airbrushed and then photoshopped compared to the tanning bed train wrecks formerly known as classmates – well, at least next to the ones that haven’t died from skin cancer.


3. When you talk about your friends “anonymously” on Facebook, we know exactly who you’re talking about. People are smarter than you think they are. Stop posting passive-aggressive statuses about the myriad of ways your friends disappoint you.


4. Newsflash: the number of times you say “I hate drama” is a pretty good indicator of how much you love drama. Non-dramatic people don’t feel the need to discuss all the drama they didn’t start and aren’t involved in.


5. “Follow your heart” is probably the worst advice ever. 


6. Never let a man make you feel weak or inferior because you are an emotional being. Emotion is good; it is nothing to be ashamed of. Emotion makes us better – so long as it remains in it’s proper place: subject to truth and reason.


7. Smoking is not cool.


8. Stop saying things like, “I don’t care what anyone thinks about me.” First of all, that’s not true. And second of all, if it is true, you need a perspective shift. Your reputation matters – greatly. You should care what people think of you.  (You should care what people think about you to an extent. You should show Christ in everything you do, then people make the choice of whether to like you or hate you. That you have no control over.)


9. Don’t play coy or stupid or helpless to get attention. Don’t pretend something is too heavy so that a boy will carry it for you. Don’t play dumb to stroke someone’s ego. Don’t bat your eyelashes in exchange for attention and expect to be taken seriously, ever. You can’t have it both ways. Either you show the world that you have a brain and passions and skills, or you don’t. There are no damsels in distress managing corporations, running countries, or managing households. The minute you start batting eyelashes, eyelashes is all you’ve got.


10. You are beautiful. You are enough. The world we live in is twisted and broken and for your entire life you will be subjected to all kinds of lies that tell you that you are not enough. You are not thin enough. You are not tan enough. You are not smooth, soft, shiny, firm, tight, fit, silky, blonde, hairless enough. Your teeth are not white enough. Your legs are not long enough. Your clothes are not stylish enough. You are not educated enough. You don’t have enough experience. You are not creative enough.


There is a beauty industry, a fashion industry, a television industry, (and most unfortunately) a pornography industry: and all of these have unique ways of communicating to bright young women: you are not beautiful, sexy, smart or valuable enough.


You must have the clarity and common sense to know that none of that is true. None of it.


You were created for a purpose, exactly so. You have innate value. You are loved more than you could ever comprehend; it is mind-boggling how much you are adored. There has never been, and there will never be another you. Therefore, you have unique thoughts to offer the world. They are only yours, and we all lose out if you are too fearful to share them.


You are beautiful. You are valuable. You are enough.

Google and YouTube

I hate Google.

Today, I went to YouTube, ya know, how I always do.  But when my computer loaded, it was logged into my Google+ account, which I haven't got on since the day I made it.  So I proceeded to log out and delete my Google+ account.  Then I went back to YouTube to find that my account had been deleted.  I had no idea that my Google+ had anything to do with YouTube!  I tried to recover it, only to find out that they charged a fee.  My goodness.  Soooo, I made another YouTube account.  Now you have to go through Google to even MAKE a YouTube account!  So I deleted that one to see if I could make one without having to go through Google.  You can't.  I was very irritated.  I must be going through a test, because God knows that I hate it when websites that I go to often change.  Grr.  They better not touch Facebook and Twitter, because if they do, I'm never using the internet again. -_-

Journal Challenge :)

So, I'm on day four on Heather Lindsey's journal challenge!

For those of you who don't know who Heather Lindsey is, here's the link to her blog: http://heatherllindsey.blogspot.com/

This has really helped me with my walk with God!  I've re-committed my life to God, I've been reading a devotion from "Jesus Calling" by Sarah Young every morning and reading my Bible every chance I get! (No, really, I've read Acts, Romans, 1 Corinthians and most of 2 Corinthians in less than a week!) I've gotten more personal with Him, I've actually started calling Him "Daddy"! Eeeeeek! I'm excited!! Jesus is amazing! :D

I pray that you will accept this challenge. 

Jesus loves you!

Kaylee!

My first blog post! Yaayyyyy!!

First off, my name is Kaylee!  I'm in 8th grade at Raleigh High School! I was baptized July 31, 2011 and saved not long before that by God's amazing grace!!  I attend Oak Grove Church of God, which I loooovvveee. <3 I can't really think of anything else to say right now, sooooo..

That's it for now! <3