Just Have Hope

There was a knock at the door.    An accepted invitation.            A secret was shared.                 As they journeyed down the road.                                    On the road there is beauty to be shared.      Green leaves grow on apple trees.            Magnificent butterflies fly, and buzzing bees.              A majestic place, leading to the undiscovered.                         Pretty pink pansies grow on the si...

For the longest time, I have not liked reading poems. They never make any sense to me and I have a hard time enjoying them. Today I still don't like reading poems. However, I enjoy writing them.  Why do I like writing them but not reading them you ask? Well, probably because I know exactly what I meant by certain lines and I understand it completely. 😝  But... I like how poems are another form of writing something. They can express things differently and in unique ways. I think poems can empower us to do something or make us feel a certain way. I think they have a very big effect on what we feel.  I have written a few poems in middle school. All of them were assignments by teachers but I enjoyed writing them nevertheless. Fair warning: I'm not the best at rhyming. 😅 I prefer poems that just flow freely and don't always rhyme, however, they are still fun to read.  "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." ~Robert Frost Do ...

I have come to believe in life that sometimes the hardest challenges lead us to even better things. Right now many of us are going through a challenging time but I believe that one day we'll look back and think about how much that experience really helped us.  "Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us." ~Nicole Reed I have seen this in my life many times. We had to move in November of my fifth-grade year. That year I had a really tough time understanding math and I was struggling. Then on top of that, I had to adjust to a new school when we moved.  However looking back, my fifth-grade year in my new school was the best school year I've ever had. Math ended up making a lot more sense to me at my new school. That year I also had the best teacher for Science and History. I loved that class so much and that led to me really enjoying my 5th grade year. Remember that sometimes bad things wil...

This quote hung in my 8th-grade Science teacher's classroom. I have always loved it.  "Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you'll land among the stars." ~Les Brown I think there are many ways to interpret this quote. I think this quote teaches us that even if we don't get our biggest dream we will still be viewed as someone who accomplished something great or who had a goal completed. I think this quote also teaches us that even if we didn't get as big of an outcome as we thought we still succeeded in our own way.  I have had an experience with this with one of my writing websites. I finished writing my first book after being on a writing website for a while. I really wanted to get a good number of followers. (Fifty or one hundred would have felt like a huge accomplishment to me.) However, I only had thirteen followers in the end. I was slightly disappointed but I have now realized my star or big accomplishment was me completing my first book not the number o...

We all know that popular saying when you are learning a sport or learning to play an instrument. "Practice makes Perfect."   Except I can't help but disagree.  Humans are not perfect. It's true. We all have faults and each of us will make mistakes. So, as my family now says:  "Practice makes Progress." ~Leighanna Lindsay And it's true practice will make progress. Even people who are professionals at a certain sport or talent can't do what they do perfectly. They mess up just like we do, even during a performance. In fact, they are still improving to become better with their talents and abilities every day believe it or not. So, if you make a mistake at something you are learning, remember that you are not perfect and that you can always improve.  What are you trying to practice or improve right now? How is this helping with your progress? 

I came across a quote one day that hit me really hard. I couldn't help but agree with it.  "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." ~Maya A. What a powerful statement!!! I have seen this quote in my life many times. I knew a girl in Elementary school who wasn't nice to me. I remember very little of what she did or what she said to me. However, I do remember how she made me feel and that did not feel great at all. Any time we mention her today, I still remember that I don't like the way she treated me.   Many of us have or will be made fun of, or bullied in our lives. These things will stick with us for the rest of our days. Hopefully, we can all learn from these experiences and it is my hope that no one comes away from this entirely broken.  No one likes to be ignored, but sometimes time away from someone can do that. I have felt angry and sad over those who have...

During Covid, I have learned something about goals...  Most goals in order to be accomplished mean that we have to choose to do them. For example, I have a goal to exercise every single day, in order for that goal to be accomplished I would need to choose to exercise every day. This sounds like common sense. Of course, we would need to exercise every day if we wanted to accomplish this goal. 😝       However, we have to make that decision every day in order to accomplish that goal and sometimes we may not want to. There have been plenty of days where I have internally debated whether or not to go running. But, I keep pushing myself and I have come to enjoy running during the week.   So after realizing this truth about goals I came across a quote that I thought really supported this theory.  "The strongest principle of human growth lies in human choice." ~George Eliot I could never agree more with a simple quote. If our goal is to be nicer to peo...

I was reading a book several months ago in June. I found a beautiful quote on one of the first few pages. It reads: "True love knows no constraints, no locks or bars. Past every obstacle, it makes its way. It spreads its wings to soar toward the stars. No earthly power will make it stop or stay." -Matthias Claudius  I couldn't help but love this quote when I saw it. (Pun intended.) I really like how Matthias worded this quote, you can't help but agree with him.  I think love is the most powerful emotion we have. It connects all of us and brings us closer together. The greatest things that have happened in history were because of love.  I know love will stand forever. Even for our loved ones who have died. We will see them again. I am grateful for the love in our lives. ❤  ~What does love mean to you? 

I came across a quote one day and I was greatly impressed by it. It made me look at patience in a whole new way. I am grateful that I found it because it comes to mind often.  "Patience is far more than simply waiting for something to happen. Patience requires actively working towards worthwhile goals, and not getting discouraged when results don't appear instantly or without effort." ~Dieter F. Uchtdorf   I learned a lot from this quote when I read it. It made me think of how I act when waiting for something. For example, if we are waiting for something to happen in our lives or for the right person to walk through the door we can do more than just wait. We can work on current goals in our lives and keep trying, while respectfully waiting until what we desire happens.           -Side note: This quote also goes a lot with learning something new and being patient until our practice starts to pay off. I know it's hard, especially when we really...