Pages From My Journal

                Tomorrow is another day in my life, but it happens to mark the beginning of a calendar year. I have never been good at keeping resolutions that start and stop at the new-year. I think that is mostly because there are not a whole lot of other things that use the calendar as a year. A school year is from September to May. (at least for me) My birthday is at the end of the summer so technically my year starts then. Sports are by season. And many other things have their own timeline. I have made goals for myself. Mostly reading, writing, and school goals, but I did very well with them. But, to be honest January 1rst is not a good starting point for me.   There are things that I hope to learn, try, or do within the next year and those are the things I will focus on.                    Things I have learn...

On September 10 th , I started the Go Teen Writers 100 for 100 challenge. I am proud to say that on Wednesday I completed the challenge with a total of 16,886 words. This challenge pushed me to the point where I am nearly finished my first draft of my work in progress.                 This challenge was great for me because I got continual words on the page that I would not have done if not for the motivation that this challenge gave me. With a busy school schedule I would always worry that I would not be making time to write. The challenge took away some of the anxiousness because I knew that I was going to get words on the page. While the chunks weren’t huge, I was getting words on the page and that is what mattered.                 I want to thank Stephanie Morrill for putting this all together. Over 200 people started the ...

“Aly. What’s heaven?” This was the question my almost four year old foster brother asked me as I put him to bed tonight. This is a little boy’s heart that is constantly confused by the system. People have been in and out of his life, and he can’t figure out who his mom is. He has had anger problems sense he came to our house two years ago. While he has gotten better he still has issues. He needs a heart change. When he asked me what heaven was, I didn’t hesitate to tell him what it was like. I told him about how it was God’s home. I told him that angels lived there. From here, I linked it back to Christmas and how the angles worshiped Jesus was born. I pulled out the pictures he got from Sunday school and showed him the magnitude of angles.   When he couldn’t count them, he thought that was pretty cool.   I told him how there was no crying, booboos, bee stings, mosquito bites, or anything bad in heaven. We also talked about how we both do things wrong. I asked him...