Watch What You're Sayin'

You look within the small crack of your bedroom door, down the hall, and into the kitchen where you hear their voices.

Arguing. Mad. Yelling. Then you hear those words they tell you not to say. The extra bad words.

But they're setting that example for you. And now you're 17 yelling those words back at them because they won't let you go to a party. And you just run back into that same room you were in those nights you heard them fighting.

So instead what are you going to do? Change? Fix it? Because you know they regret that decision for you to hear those words. You don't want your teachers, your grandparents, your mentors, or your God to hear those words anymore.

You set the example. The example that may or may not have been set for you in the past. Be the one who can show others what to say.

Whether they are swear words, mean words, rude words pointed to others, or hurtful words. Don't say them.

Say the kind words, encouraging words, thoughtful words, and good words to lift other people up.

Because I know the more you don't say bad words, the more it becomes a habit. And then you forget them. Sort of. You know that they are there but you choose to no longer spit them from your mouth. Because you made the decision to not say them.

Watch what you're sayin'. Make sure you would want to hear your own words spoken to you, before you say them.

~Michlyn

The Little Things...

 

Somtimes there are those moments.

When you just sit in the silence or the laughter and think....

My life is great. I don't want anything to change.

Being grateful & happy & feeling beautiful.



It's those little things in life.

Where you need to stop and thank God for.

Maybe it's a shopping date with your mom and you find the perfect pair of jeans.

It could be a night hanging out with friends and you make the best memories.

You could be in school and a teacher doesn't assign homework for the weekend.

Or maybe you're in church and you see that white rose on stage and you realize that's another person for your family in heaven.

Anything.

 

~Michlyn

We Are

I've heard this on the radio a lot lately.

I love it a lot.

Up beat and it tells a great message.

What we are. What we should do.

"We're the light of the world. We're the city of the world"

We need to spread the light and the word.

God tells us.

We need to obey.

~Michlyn