When I won a contest

When it was Christmas and I was with most of my family in North Carolina, I had entered this contest that an organization called Hydro Angels Over America had. The contest was to help them reach 8,000 likes. All you had to do was comment in the post saying you liked them, and share the contest post on your Facebook page. Well I did all of that. The next thing I did was wait, and I was hoping I would be a winner, but there were a lot of people who had entered. So then they had posted the 8,000 likes Facebook contest winners and I was probably the eighth winner out of the twelve people who had won that day. I was so excited, because it was my first contest that I had won from their page. I was emailing them, and giving them the information they had needed and then the president of Hydro Angels Over America emailed me, I replied back, and then a few days after I got back home, I waited and nothing came, and then I did get a package from them in the mail. The package include: three t-shirts, a necklace, a hydrocephalus bear, earrings, a wristband, they sent a pamphlet to tell a little about what they do, and the president of hydro angels over America wrote a very nice card for me. I was really happy to receive the package from her because it was very cool when I got to meet her in person at the medical research rally in Washington D.C.

Feeling accomplished and happy at the same time

I don't know how to put into words or how to even express how I am feeling, but I am feeling good and happy that I accomplished putting a story of mine together into a book, and now I am going to continue writing stories, so that I can be published. Once I put my story in that book together, and finished it, it made feel good about myself, because it made me realize that if I could do that, then I certainly can write another story or even more stories, and then be published one day, and have people read what I write. Being an author is something that I have always dreamed about being, and I hope that one day that I can be one so people will like what I write, and want to read more of what I write because I love writing stories...............

A scripture and a message for encouragement

Deuteronomy 31:6-7 says: Be strong and courageous. Don't be afraid or scared of them; for the Lord your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. ''Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, ''Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land which the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it.'' Have you noticed that it says to be strong and courageous i...n the first part of this scripture, because if you have then that's a good thing. The reason it is a good thing, is because sometimes we need to be reminded about how being strong and courageous through difficult times can help us, and help others. One reason it can help others is if they are struggling through a tough time, but they are being strong through the difficult time and they have courage through whatever tough time they maybe going through and they know God will help them, then they don't have to be afraid. Another reason it can help us is because when our friends or family members need us or need our help when they have a problem or are going through a difficult time, then we need to be strong, have courage and help them, but when we can not help them in any situation, then we must leave it up to God to help them, because God will protect them, and watch over them. There are times when we might be afraid but remember this: If you feel afraid or feel like you can't talk to your pastor, youth group leader, parents, family members, or friends, then remember that God will always be there to listen to your prayers, and he will always be there to listen to the problems or struggles you maybe facing. I want to share one last scripture for tonight and that scripture is John 3:16 and it says: For God so Loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. What that scripture means to me is, that God loves all of us as his children, and because he loves all of us, his love will never fail, it will always remain, and he will always take care of all of us.