Nothing

I am nothing without You.
I hold nothing.
I complete nothing.
I finish nothing.
I hope in nothing.
I love nothing.
I forgive nothing.
I live nothing.
I see nothing.
I taste nothing.
I feel nothing.
I reason nothing.
I hold nothing.
I believe nothing.
I am strong in nothing.
I joyful through nothing.
I am faithful through nothing.
I am nothing
without You.

Be the thread of my existence. Be the glue of my life. Be the unification that replaces my justification. Be my atmosphere. Be everything inside it. Be everything that is greater than all of it will ever be. I love You, I feel You, I believe in You. I trust You.

Happiness is a choice :)

I just want to encourage you guys today with a little piece of wisdom spoken to me by a sweet starbucks girl who has no idea how much she has touched me. I went in to get my starbucks and she was sweetly talking to the children of the customer in front of me, goofing around with them and stuff. She was talking to them as if she already knew them and they were being very sweet back, but you could tell by the mothers lack of conversation that they really had never met before and the sweet starbucks girl was just an extra social person. :) So it's now my turn, the girl asks me what I want 'n' such and the whole time has a huge smile on her face. You'd think the girl just got proposed to for marriage! She asks me how I'm doing with a bubbly attitude, to be quite honest this wasn't a better day for me. Now, I don't remember why, but I do remember that this girl just totally turned me out from what I was and how I was feeling. Anyway, my sad little self replied, "I'm pretty good, how are you?" And what do you think the happy girl said? Good...of course! She responded as if she was living in a fairy tale. By saying this, I do not mean that she was acting like she was riding a unicorn and singing melodies of Sleeping Beauty. That would be more like an acid trip. No, by saying that I mean that it seemed as if she was living like none of the problems around her could change her attitude or steal her happiness. As the quote below says, that we carry seeds around inside of us, well her seeds were seeds of joy! And no negative circumstance in her life would ever change that! So, when I asked her how she was, she said, "I'm rockin!" I asked the happy girl why she was so happy and she said, "Well, I have no reason not to be! Happiness is a choice, it really is. People think I'm crazy because I'm so happy ALL the time." Anyway, I hope this girl touches your soul the way she has touched mine :)

Martha Washington
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.