Creepy Witches 'n Such

"Faith and fear cannot coexist", right?

It's a great saying and I believe it... however I still have fears.  I guess I'm still working on creating perfect faith in my life!  As we age, our fears change and take differing forms.  

Those ages two through seven typically fear things such as monsters in the closet or the dark.  When I was about 6 years old, I was terrified of the wicked witch in the Disney movie, Snow White.  At night time, I would hide under my covers in my bed because I was afraid that she'd come and pull down the covers and get me! Look how creepy she is....  

It was traumatic... still makes me shudder! :0 

When I was a little bit older, my parents loved watching old Alfred Hitchcock movies.  They were suspenseful and almost always involved a murder.  I still remember some of them.  I lived on a small farm growing up, so a lot of times I would have to go feed the horses in the dark.  My imagination would do the craziest things to me.  I remember begging and pleading for someone to come with me to feed the animals because I was scared but they said that I was just being lazy and wanted help.  So I'd run out there as fast as I could and pray and I was running back that I would out run any scary men that were chasing me and wanted to kill me.  

Ok... I may not have passed through this developmental trend... I still get scared of getting murdered when I was home late from campus or scary creatures chasing me... However, I do get scared of much deeper things... not being able to fall in love, schooling, failure, Hilary Clinton becoming President, and losing someone.  

Wow, now you all know a deeper side to Crystal 0:).  Let's increase our faith that although the world can be a scary place with people that act like witches, people that aren't nice and hurt people, and Hilary Clinton has a lot of supporters... that we have an all-powerful Father who will take care of us. 

    

Life Without IT

At the beginning of the semester, I was challenged to go a complete day without technology.  I happened to attempt this feat on what was seemingly the most technologically used day of the entire year.  I figured I was smarter than everyone and tried to do it on a Sunday- the fabulous day of rest.  However, I used a powerpoint presentation in my Sunday School lesson, there was a Young Adults Devotional, and my parents were trying to get a hold of me.  Yikes.

During the long weekend, some of my friends and I went to Enterprise, Utah- a small farming town in Southern Utah.  Because I had T-Mobile (love the provider except when I try going anywhere 5 minutes out of town...), service was spotty for most of the weekend and we were going on adventures where I didn't really want to risk losing or breaking my phone.  For the majority of each day, I didn't really use my phone and OH what a fun time I had.  Instead of mindlessly scrolling through news feeds, I found cool new things to do.  This weekend, I felt rejuvenated, happy, carefree, and ready to take on the world.  I found that I had greater confidence and less stress.  I realize that the wonderful weather, happy friends, and exciting adventures helped with all of these things; however think of the displacement theory.  What are we giving up by mindlessly scrolling?

Life is good in the hood.  Put down the phone and try to LIVE instead of scroll.

  

$30,200,000,000

^That's a heck of a lot of money.  Gee whiz. $30,200,000,000.  Look at all those digits.  

Every couple of days, I see on the news the new amount that the new Star Wars movie has made.  The number previously mentioned is the total Star Wars Franchise Revenue!  Yikes! Am I right?!

Harrison Ford made a grand total of $10,000 in the first produced Star Wars film.  

  

Decades later he is estimated to make upwards of $35,000,000 for the new movie!  

                              

If an actor is SO well off, why do they continue to act?  Especially at their age?  Is there no such thing as actor retirement?  Do they do it for the money?  The recognition?  To make the fans happy?  Do they love it?

What do you think?  

Oldies but GOODIES

This past week, I sang to the old folks at the "old folks' home" with a couple of my friends.  At first, we started singing hymns and song from the Children's songbook.  These sacred hymns, do something good for the soul.  It moved me to reflect on my testimony of Christ.  My favorite of all was "How Great Thou Art".  In my head, we sounded as heavenly as this beautiful angelic choir that we're all so familiar with.

After a few songs, some cute and totally sassy lady said, do you sing any oldies?!  In my Adult Development class we learned even when people with dementia listen to songs from their youth, they will start to remember specific experiences that they had when they were at that age.  Crazy, right? Music is SO powerful.  It just got me to think, when I'm 99 years old sitting in an old folks home, will I really get nostalgic listening to Kesha, Beyonce, One Direction, Pink, etc?  probably not.... so which songs will I still love and remember?  Probably the classic songs that have been around for decades, the songs I grew up with, the songs that never got old or overplayed- songs that I will ALWAYs love, especially these ones 0:) .....ENJOY.  

What songs will you really remember?