Countdown

Time keeps moving on and things keep changing. Sometimes I feel like my life is just a series of countdowns moving towards an end goal. Right now my end goal is moving to Montana to be closer to my better half, but within this countdown I have school deadlines, and moving days that I have to get through first. When I go to bed I will sigh and say "one more down.". Many of my friends are family are also in this mood just waiting for the coming of Spring.

In these times of monotony, that is typical to winter, we need to remind ourselves of the little things in life that are important. Completing the day may just seem like putting another check mark on the calendar, but think, what did you do with the 24 hours you were given that day? Did you get coffee with an old friend? Make a new friend? Learn something new? Share a special moment with someone? Watch the sun rise, or see the glimpse of a shooting star? All of these things easily don't seem important to us as we look at our extravagant new beginning that seems to be barely inching closer, but these are the things that can help us get through the tedious time and ultimately increase the joy in our fresh start!

So embrace these moments. I could say that I have 69 days till life starts again, and just go with the flowing monotony of work and school just getting through till May, or I can say that I have 69 days to hang out with the great friends that I have gained over the years, and show them some of the kindness they have all shown me. Out of these two I choose to Vivre la joie!

 
Countdown Clocks

The Masterpiece

Only the artist can truly enjoy the artwork. Others can enjoy the masterpiece that has been carefully composed by it's creator, but they will never truly know the true emotions and hard work that have been dedicated towards making such a piece. They will also never feel the pride that is gained by displaying the artwork in it's completed form, and cannot know the feeling of a kept secret when the audience gazes upon its beauty. The audience will always take a piece of this secret that has gone through their presuppositional filter and will create their own version of what the artist was capturing.The artist is knowing of the pieces every flaw, but understands how each "flaw" adds charter making the piece what it should be.

Now think about God as our artist, and us the artwork. We are beautifully and wonderfully made in his imagine, and we are being displayed for all to see. Every "imperfection" is perfectly placed to make you what you are meant to be. Your Composer is displaying you for all to see and finds great pride in you. He knows the secret hidden inside of you, and has designed you so your secret will shine within you and add the final finesse to his masterpiece, you.

Poem

Here is a poem I wrote a while back. Thought I might share it now.

Lost in the woods with no way out
Lost in the woods of my own doubt
Like the sun the truth I seek
If only a glimpse, a ray, a peek
From it's warmth I'll know what's true
And like a flower I will burst anew
With petals that are full and strong
It's for this resurrection that I long
When the leaves no longer blind my eyes
I will take a stance and boldly rise
Rise and embrace the blessed day
All my burdens carried far away
Burdens that were once so strong
I could not even see the wrong
My Gracious Savior holds them now
It is my freedom this does allow
For my freedom I praise His name
My life will never be the same
This boundless JOY I long to share
With all the people everywhere
All should know that it is true
You may know my Savior too

Curve Ball

Life is one of those funny things that I never lack being surprised by. You think you have everything figured out, life is good, and then all of a sudden your whole world turns upside down, and you realize that you were missing out on something wonderful that you would have missed out on if you had continued living in the comfort zone that you had created for yourself.

When I was 17, if you had told me that I would be buying a house when I was 18, and when I was 18 you had told me that I would be dating someone 2000 miles away when I was 19, and when I was 19 if you had told me I would be selling my house to move 2000 miles away to be with said boyfriend when I was 20. I definitely would have told you that you were off your rocker.

Sadly, I wasn't lucky enough to have someone state the future to me. Not even for the pure enjoyment of laughing at the absurdity of their prediction.  Instead I found out my “future” the old fashioned way, taking each life curve ball as it came, and I can honestly say that I am glad about this. Though it would have been a good laugh, I am happy that I didn't know where I was headed in life. The ever changing times, the friends gained and lost, the experiences good and bad, have shaped and molded who I am today, and all of this was set into place for me to have the experience and confidence to be able to handle the current and future life situations that I find myself in.

So, even though three years ago I was simply excited about the fact of being able to rent an apartment, be single till 25, and always live in the state of Ohio. I can honestly say that the changes in my life have all been for the better. I am thankful for each and every change that I have had in my life, and I am excited to see what is around the next corner. 

This is just my reminder to myself to Carpe Diem, live with no regrets, and to remember YOLO in it's purest form.

Emoto's Ice Crystals

Masaru Emoto is a Japanese author and entrepreneur who conducted many experiments with water crystals. Emoto would take polluted water and fresh spring water from all parts of the world and would then proceed to freeze the water so that it would become a crystal (snowflake) and quickly discovered that the polluted water took on little to no shape at all, and the fresh spring water took on extravagantly beautiful shapes. This doesn't come across as to much of a surprise. Even to the unscientific mind,  there isn't too much of a shock, good water equals good crystals, bad water equals bad crystals, not rocket science right?

Polluted Water

Fresh Water

Well, Emoto decided to run a new set of experiments. This time he decided to have a battle of the bands. He played Mozart to one set of water and heavy metal music to another. He then froze the water in the same conditions and photographed them accordingly.

The outcome rather fascinating , it seemed that the water that heavy metal was played for did not turn into a crystal at all, and the water that Mozart was played to created a nice beautiful shape.

Emoto was intrigued. He realized that outside sources could affect water, and he decided to try something even crazier than playing music to water. He decided to write words to the water and see what the outcome would be.

Again a rather shocking outcome. Emoto took this information of writing phrases such as, You make me sick, I will kill you and Love and Appreciation. Again Emoto was shocked to see that this had an effect on the ice crystal. He took this newfound information and went a little bit different direction. He then took the polluted water he had collected that would not form ice crystals, and froze it to attempt to make an ice crystal which we have seen doesn't work out the greatest. Then he would take the water and pray to it, and refreeze it. The outcome was absolutely astonishing.

The water after being thawed blessed and refrozen went from a formless shape to a gorgeous water crystal!

Dr. Masaru Emoto is considered to practice pseudoscience by professionals because of his lack of being able to maintain a controlled experiment because of biases by the photographers. Though, Emoto defends this by saying “This is one of the more difficult areas to clarify. However, from continuing these experiments we have come to the conclusion that the water is reacting to the actual words. For example, for our trip to Europe we tried using the words “thank you” and “you fool” in German. The people on our team who took the actual photographs of the water crystals did not understand the German for “you fool”, and yet we were able to obtain exactly the same kind of results in the different crystal formations based on the words used.”

So, though Emoto may not have the most scientific way of handling things he may still be on to something. Only time will tell as scientists test his theory and expand on it.

Let’s just keep this information in mind and revel at Dr.Emoto’s findings. Let’s also remind ourselves that the average human is made up of 50%-60% water. 

Citations:

http://is-masaru-emoto-for-real.com/

http://www.highexistence.com/water-experiment/

and of course Google images.

Julie & Julia

In an attempt to keep my ever failing sanity under control I have created this blog. Do I expect anyone to read it? No. Its pure and simple purpose in life is to be my sounding board, and the possessor of all the things I discover and find interesting.

In my Julie & Julia moment of creating this blog. I have decided not to take on any crazy challenges like cooking a different recipe everyday. Though as I go through the learning process of how to properly utilize a blog a few personal challenges may come up.

What lies ahead...How am I to know...So here is to trying something new.

 I'm not much of a writer so this should be pretty interesting.

Vivre La Joie
(Live the JOY)