Today, We Live

Today I woke up, the sun was shining through my window, the sky was blue, and even though it was cold outside, there was a warm feeling in the air.
Oh, do we know how blessed we are to live in such a world where we can witness theses things? Do we see the many small blessings that surround us?
This world that we live in is so beautiful, even on it's bad days. Yet, we go around ignoring it. We chose to put screens in front of our faces and wires in our ears as a way of coping with our lives. We think that if we block out the world enough that it will eventually disappear and leave us with the universe that we've created in our minds- our imaginary world. We cover the sounds of the world with music, and live our lives locked up in a room away from family. We chose to read about our friends' latest Facebook drama rather than picking up a book, and for what? We as a people have been desensitized by modern day technology, and maybe we don't mean to, but we are slowly drawing ourselves away from the beauties of the world.
With all these distraction, we miss so much.

And then, even without the distractions, we take it all for granite.

We take the little blessings and cast them aside as if they are nothing. We bring upon ourselves bad days, because we refuse to see what good has been placed in front of us. We look over the fact that today we are alive, that we are able to get out of bed and breathe. We look over the fact that we have the chance to do something with our lives, and maybe even make a difference.

Three years ago, I didn't understand this. In a way, I was the one that put myself into that hole. I couldn't look past the hitting, the yelling, the criticizing, and the rumors long enough to see the world. I bottled up all the emotions and eventually led myself to a costly decision.
The world that I had made myself live in wasn't real, it was the world of my own making. There would be times when I would lock myself in my room and not come out for days, all because I didn't want to face what was real. I thought I could cope better by myself.
The things I missed while hiding behind those walls were innumerable, and I don't want to miss a second more.
I'm storing away the earphones, and putting the phone on silent. I am going to live.

I thank you all for the parts you play in my life, I know that if it wasn't for you I wouldn't be who I am today.

Stay strong out there.

"In the beginning..."

Today I am going to write something a little different. This week I will be finishing a college class I am taking on science, and as part of the finals I wanted to write a little bit of what I learned. I know that some of my friends reading this are probably rolling their eyes, because they've heard it a million times, but I promise I'll shut up after this. :)

Let me just start this off by saying that when I first started this class I wasn't as open minded as I should have been, and so when it came to things such as the big bang theory, it took me longer to grasp what they were saying. My original thought was that there was no way for science and religion to exist on the same plane, that they can't compliment each other. My thought was that science was something people believed when they couldn't except that there is a God. And you know what? That's what it has been made to be believed as. The human society has been made to believe that science has created its own world, that it is a way to strip the Bible of it's real meaning. Well here I am to tell you: we've got it wrong.
Science, my friends, isn't suppose to take away the idea of a God, but instead be used to prove the idea that He exists.
In science we have our laws and our theories. The laws are what we see (apple dropping, etc.), the theory is our explanation for why it's happening (the wind blew it over, etc.). All that science is, is just a bunch of theories to why we think stuff exists. Now, I think we sometimes forget this part and that is where we get science and religion on two different planes. Some people just start teaching their theory (or their explanation for something) so strongly that they might even start believing that it's a law. In reality, there is no way to prove a theory as a law, because theories are just our way of explaining something, and they will always be changing.

But, one of the parts in science that I personally think proves there is a God, is the big bang theory. I know what you're thinking; that had to be the last on my list, but it's true. In the theory it states that earth was created by chemicals and matter combusting, and then there was a cooling stage, after which, we can start seeing water and plant life emerging.
 Well, who said that the earth wasn't created in that way? If you read in Genesis it talks a lot about the same things, with the cooling, then plant life, then animals... etc.
 Another thing, in the Bible it talks about the earth being created in 6 days. Here's a question, were those counted in earth days, or were they counted in God's time? Because one day for God is about 1,000 years for us, matching up to how long scientists think it took the earth to form.

What I am trying to say isn't that the big bang is true, but rather that science doesn't have to go against the idea of there being a God. You don't have to agree with me, but I hope that you won't push the ideas out completely.
Keep an open mind, because there is a whole world to learn about, and science is just another way of looking at it.

Have a beautiful Sunday. :)