I might not be able to talk but I can smile!

I have just begun to realize how much i love to smile! Some people try to tell me that we should be solemn in the presence of God, but that is not at all what it says in the bible! If you love someone you would be happy to be spending time with them, you can't just sit still and talk quietly! It's the same with our relationship with God, if we love him and his name we will rejoice and shout for joy... How can we not smile and laugh throughout our daily lives? If God is omnipresent then shouldn't we always be praising him and rejoicing in his amazing goodness and grace? 

Recently I went thru a phase of acting like Mary from pride and prejudice, I had to show I was mature by sitting quietly and saying things that I thought were sensible, but then I realized God has called us to be joyful and glad of his mercy. How could someone who wasn't a Christian want to change from their old life if all they have to turn to is a dry empty faith? I'm sorry this is so long maybe I should have put this in my blog but it's really something that has been put on my heart, that i need to grow in. I have always smiled and laughed a lot, but not in the Lord so much as because I was happy. I have a better reason to smile now,  my trust is in a much better place.

But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.

             -Psalm 5:11

The literary ball!

This Saturday was another ball! I always forget to take pictures and I'm sorry but here are a tiny few that I have. The first one is to show you my costume! Now with the literary ball we were supposed to go as your favorite book character... So I wanted to go as a pirate!  I made a pirate shirt and everything (which was way fun by the way)! But it was not to be... Firstly, i didnt want to go dancing at a ball in pants cause thats lame and i couldn't find any good pirate pants, next the day before the ball I began losing my voice, and so by the time of the ball I had just a squeak of it left. So I brainstormed trying to think of characters that had no voices, trying to make it comical (cause evidently that's the way I am). Drummmmmroll please.... I'm Ariel. Only because she had no voice. But some people pointed out that I also have almost the same exact costume as Anna from the new Disney movie frozen. So who knows? Maybe I was both.... All I know is I could barely talk and dancing was way fun :) Anyway here you are, more pictures. I hope you enjoy them and that I will someday convince you all that dancing is incredibly fun and that you CAN dance you scaredy cats.

Aren't they beautiful haha :) adieu!