You should try and shake it offffffff.

 Weeeell, this week has been pretty hectic for me. So what I have to say is quite limited.

What I have been learning this week is to truly trust Jesus. It is so incredibly easy to pray "Lord, I trust you with everything in me! However, can you just leave this one thing out? I really don't like that idea." kind of thing.

To completely trust God means to completely trust God.

I've been struggling a lot lately with knowing where I'm going to go to college. I had a conversation with my Papa (aka my dad) about what I should do. He simply asked me "Hanna, have you given it to God?" Naturally I said yes. Then he looked at me and said "I bet you prayed 'Dear Lord, I give this decision to you... But I'd rather not go here and here.."

When he said that I couldn't argue because that was exactly right. My papa challenged me by opening my eyes to the fact that we have a Creator that loves us and wants the very best for us every time.

Now, knowing this, how can I NOT trust him?

We have the coolest God :)

and she's buying her stairway to heaveeeeennn...

How many times do we hear from our parents "HEY! What are you watching? What are you listening to? Garbage in, garbage out!" I for one, hear it pretty often truthfully.

Sometimes it feels like they're just trying to rain on your parade, y'know? Well, I  happened to watched a video called "Hells Bells: The Dangers of Rock N' Roll" yesterday with my family.I must start out by saying  I think classic rock is seriously the best! That is why I began watching this film critically.

After the first few minutes I already had the craaaaaap scared out of me! They started out with a quote with the guitarist from AC/DC saying something about every time he'd go on stage he'd be possessed by something, that he wasn't the person who playing his guitar. I also was extremely shocked about all of my favorite bands deeply being into Satanism. Jim Morrison is a perfect example. For he and his witch wife drank blood at their wedding which is a satanist act of worship. On top of that, he even admitted to killing a man and not thinking much of it!

Now, lemme tell ya, I loveeeee The Doors. Hearing about the craziness of Jim Morrison made me upset. However, that video drew to my attention the crap behind what I'm listening to.

Music is an extreme part of my life! It has been that way since I was birthed into this world. I'm not saying that everyone should just stop listening to secular music cold turkey. NOOO! I'm just raising the point that we should be more aware as to what is going into our subconsciousness.

I'm urging people to watch Hells Bells on youtube.
Click on that link and it will take you to the youtube page where each part is located.
It's soooo worth your time!

 In conclusion, we should really focus on putting uplifting songs into our hearts each and everyday.
Music is suuuuuch a power thing. Instead of getting in our cars and playing our ipods or listening to "Kiss fm" every time, we should take sometime and just sing our favorite worship songs.

It's not too hard to do. If you think about it, we spend millions of hours listening to other kinds of music, why not add worship in once and a while?

I'm more or less saying this to myself. I need to have more grace when it comes to filling my head with this and that. It'll take time to get used to, but it'll be worth it.

let's begin, shall we?

Since this is my first blog, I am going to write about my recent thoughts.

I'm just going to be as straight as possible. I've stopped reading my bible every single night.Wanna know whyyyyy?

I'd find myself saying, "Seriously, Hanna. What is the block here? Why aren't you like this, this, and this person? It is the rules that I must read my bible every day.What is my issue? In all reality, I was completely missing the point.

Now, I'm sure I shocked many of you with my news of not reading my bible as often. But, my reasoning is way deeper than just defining my personal relationship. Ever since I was 11, I have read  my bible out of pure fear.

I used to lay in bed at night hoping and praying that I could fall asleep that night without having any fear. Sequentially, I decided to pick up my bible and read it when I was scared, which was every single night. Over the years that solution to my fear became an addiction. If I didn't read my bible that night, I could feel that fear and also guilt from simply not reading sink back in.

After going to a different youth group one day and hearing a sermon on religiousness. I found that my habit of reading the bible everyday was not something to be proud of.

 What I'm trying to say here is that we should WANT to know more about God and hear His words, right? Right! That's why I am taking time off of reading my bible "religiously" so that when I do get into the habit once again, I know for sure that I'm doing it out of relationship. Not out of fear, not out of religious satisfaction, but out of true and humble desire.

In basis, I believe that everyone's relationship with the Lord is everyone's relationship with the Lord. I am not one to judge others, and it is not their place to judge mine.

I love Jesus with all my heart. Sometimes that means extreme reevaluation of ourselves in order to love with our whole hearts and not be robotic which is exceptionally easy to do!

 (I'm watching "Star Wars" hence this picture as my example of being "robotic" . I couldn't resist :) )