New Blog

For anyone who reads this:

I made a new blog. I don't really keep up with it any more than I did with this one, but I like it better. So I won't be updating this one anymore.

http://nomore3by5s.wordpress.com
http://annaleighc.wordpress.com

They're connected to each other, so if you go to one you will find the other.

Suffering: a P.S. to the recent post "Growing"

"Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything."

Colors of the Day

Here are some great colors I saw today.







And a few other cool things.

Roses

My sister brought these roses home from the youth celebration night at her church. They were the most beautiful roses I've ever seen, and they stayed this way for days!

Growing

"...'I don't want to suffer any more--not even for the sake of more soul growth. At the end of two more years I might look back and be thankful for the development they had brought me, too; but I don't want it now.' 'We never do. That is why we are not left to choose our own means and measure of development, I suppose. No matter how much we value what our lessons have brought us we don't want to go on with the bitter schooling.'"