That's almost what this looked like only better!!! That was the first thong that popped into my head when I saw this view. Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ descending from heaven at his second coming. Then I realized something, Yes this world is a very very wicked place! However The Lord sends us little reminders that there is still hope! and that He is coming and he is coming soon! How soon I don't know. But soon all of this will be over there will be no more wickedness on the earth and the world will be at peace. If we can keep the fait hand flollow his comandments. We wont have to worry about the economy or weather or not we are making ends meet. The world will be made perfect and none of this hurt that we fell today will be there. President Hinckley and many other prophets and apostles have counseled us to pray for the second coming to happen. Now I can start to understand why and as I work to become a better person everyday I also look and pray for the second coming to happen and soon!
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
The world around me
I'm taking The book of Revelation class at the Orem Institute of Religion this semester. Its an amazing class! I have learned so much about that book and i understand it so much more about it now then ever before and will probably be taking this class for the rest of my life so that i can gain all the knowledge from it that i can. I'm not going to lie thought parts of the class can be kinda scary. Not in a I'm shaking in my boots kinda way but more in a doubting that I'll ever be able to measure up kinda way. We are talking about the 7 seals of the book we just finished the fifth seal and are on the sixth these two seals cover the last days. AKA the days that we are living in now. There is so much evil in this world today and for the past couple of days I have been looking at it as just that Full of evil and that's it. Well even though that its true I wasn't seeing any of the good in the world today either. Until today when i was driving back to school after I was out running some errands. the best part of My university is that there is this road that isn't that busy that if you take it up to campus you can see across Utah lake and at the mountains that are on that side of the lake. Today because of the storms that we have had the Mountains had TONS of white clouds wisped across them. At this same time the sun was getting ready to set. It was poking though the clouds and IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL! I wish that i would have taken a picture of it but i didn't. The best way to describe it is you know the picture of Jesus at the Second coming? Those clouds surrounding him and glowing in His glory.
That's almost what this looked like only better!!! That was the first thong that popped into my head when I saw this view. Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ descending from heaven at his second coming. Then I realized something, Yes this world is a very very wicked place! However The Lord sends us little reminders that there is still hope! and that He is coming and he is coming soon! How soon I don't know. But soon all of this will be over there will be no more wickedness on the earth and the world will be at peace. If we can keep the fait hand flollow his comandments. We wont have to worry about the economy or weather or not we are making ends meet. The world will be made perfect and none of this hurt that we fell today will be there. President Hinckley and many other prophets and apostles have counseled us to pray for the second coming to happen. Now I can start to understand why and as I work to become a better person everyday I also look and pray for the second coming to happen and soon!
That's almost what this looked like only better!!! That was the first thong that popped into my head when I saw this view. Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ descending from heaven at his second coming. Then I realized something, Yes this world is a very very wicked place! However The Lord sends us little reminders that there is still hope! and that He is coming and he is coming soon! How soon I don't know. But soon all of this will be over there will be no more wickedness on the earth and the world will be at peace. If we can keep the fait hand flollow his comandments. We wont have to worry about the economy or weather or not we are making ends meet. The world will be made perfect and none of this hurt that we fell today will be there. President Hinckley and many other prophets and apostles have counseled us to pray for the second coming to happen. Now I can start to understand why and as I work to become a better person everyday I also look and pray for the second coming to happen and soon!
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
My Little Tender Merceies
This past week has been a HUGE blessing. I was able to shake Elder Robert D Hales hand. which is something that at the time I took for granted bug time!!! I have had the opportunity to meet plenty of "bug names" in the church. And for the past little while have been acting like it was no big deal. while others from out of the state of Utah were saying how badly they wish that they could meet the people that i have been blessed to be in the presence of. One girl in particular commented every time on how lucky I was. Later that day I found out that a dear friend of mine has cancer. It happened to be the girl that kept commenting on my face book page. This hit me so hard. Why was i being so blessed when my friend, a 17 year old girl in her Senior year of high school was now going through treatment for leukemia. and would be for the next 2 years. why was she there and I here? we shared a lot in common when we lived near each other, we even found out that we are related. And now two and a half years later she has cancer. i would give anything to see her right now. but have no way to do so because she is in Minnesota and i am here in Utah.
Later this week i found out that another one of my friends is going through a really difficult time right now. I wont say what it is but she is very strong because she is trying to make things right! she is suck a blessing to me.
that night i didn't know if i could handle anymore bad new for the week..not that all of it was bad but it was a lot of stressful news that's for sure. then i realized that my best friend just gave up a relationship with and amazing guy. She was totally happy with him and everyone approved of him. in fact i was so excited for them i thought for sure that they would be getting married within the nest year. and from what i understand so did they. But because they were having a bad feeling about continuing their relationship they called it off. Which is something that i cant even imagine doing or even imagine how hard it was for her. She has been such a blessing in my life and I really cant wait for the day that she gets married because she deserves to be so happy. she is my best friend and sister i don't know where i would be with out her in my life today.
these three girls have become my hero's this week. they have taught me amazing lessons. ones that i couldn't have ever learned with out them. I'm so thankful that the Lord has placed all three of them in my life. I am forever grateful for these girls and many many others. The Lord is looking out for us and he loves us! I know that if we rely on him we will be able to get through the worst. WE ARE LOVED! if only we could remember that.
Revelations 7:14-17
14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came aout of great btribulation, and have cwashed their robes, and made them dwhite in the eblood of the fLamb.
Later this week i found out that another one of my friends is going through a really difficult time right now. I wont say what it is but she is very strong because she is trying to make things right! she is suck a blessing to me.
that night i didn't know if i could handle anymore bad new for the week..not that all of it was bad but it was a lot of stressful news that's for sure. then i realized that my best friend just gave up a relationship with and amazing guy. She was totally happy with him and everyone approved of him. in fact i was so excited for them i thought for sure that they would be getting married within the nest year. and from what i understand so did they. But because they were having a bad feeling about continuing their relationship they called it off. Which is something that i cant even imagine doing or even imagine how hard it was for her. She has been such a blessing in my life and I really cant wait for the day that she gets married because she deserves to be so happy. she is my best friend and sister i don't know where i would be with out her in my life today.
these three girls have become my hero's this week. they have taught me amazing lessons. ones that i couldn't have ever learned with out them. I'm so thankful that the Lord has placed all three of them in my life. I am forever grateful for these girls and many many others. The Lord is looking out for us and he loves us! I know that if we rely on him we will be able to get through the worst. WE ARE LOVED! if only we could remember that.
Revelations 7:14-17
14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came aout of great btribulation, and have cwashed their robes, and made them dwhite in the eblood of the fLamb.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
random tagginness
Lacey Tagged me in a random-facts-about-me tag.
1. Make a link to the tagger's blog.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. List 6 random things about yourself.
4. Tag 6 people at the end of your post.
5. Let each person know they have been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.
1. I love making people laugh. I may not mean to do it all of the time but I do love to do it! Making them smile makes me smile and also makes my day!
2.I would love to move out to Boston Mass. some day and get my theater Degree out at Boston conservatory for the arts. That is only a dream though and one that I would be willing to give up for something better.
3.I have decided that i want to open my own bakery, because I LOVE TO BAKE! and i already have the name thanks to Ian Jones and Brigadoon senior year.If you know of the bakery "flower girls and dough boys" in American Fork, UT thats kinda what i want my bakery to be like. I want to name it Charmaine's corner bakery and yes there is a story behind it, k maybe i wont name it that but i am planning on opening one for sure!
4. I am trying to become more service oriented this year as one of my goals for the new year. the world is in hard times and i would like to help out as much as i can.
5. I LOVE TO SPEND TIME WITH MY FRIENDS! Especially my best friend tiff. We have so much fun together. with our caffeine free MT. DEW and out panda express and shoes shoes shoes my friends and i have a blast together no matter what we do we have fun!
6. My favorite place in the entire world is the temple. it doesn't matter which one they all bring me the same peace. My goal is to be married there to my future husband someday. I would love to be married in the Nauvoo Temple but like i said before they all bring me the same peace so anyone of them would do :).
I tag Shawnett, Annette, Jim, Holly, Ellen, Ashely
1. Make a link to the tagger's blog.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. List 6 random things about yourself.
4. Tag 6 people at the end of your post.
5. Let each person know they have been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.
1. I love making people laugh. I may not mean to do it all of the time but I do love to do it! Making them smile makes me smile and also makes my day!
2.I would love to move out to Boston Mass. some day and get my theater Degree out at Boston conservatory for the arts. That is only a dream though and one that I would be willing to give up for something better.
3.I have decided that i want to open my own bakery, because I LOVE TO BAKE! and i already have the name thanks to Ian Jones and Brigadoon senior year.If you know of the bakery "flower girls and dough boys" in American Fork, UT thats kinda what i want my bakery to be like. I want to name it Charmaine's corner bakery and yes there is a story behind it, k maybe i wont name it that but i am planning on opening one for sure!
4. I am trying to become more service oriented this year as one of my goals for the new year. the world is in hard times and i would like to help out as much as i can.
5. I LOVE TO SPEND TIME WITH MY FRIENDS! Especially my best friend tiff. We have so much fun together. with our caffeine free MT. DEW and out panda express and shoes shoes shoes my friends and i have a blast together no matter what we do we have fun!
6. My favorite place in the entire world is the temple. it doesn't matter which one they all bring me the same peace. My goal is to be married there to my future husband someday. I would love to be married in the Nauvoo Temple but like i said before they all bring me the same peace so anyone of them would do :).
I tag Shawnett, Annette, Jim, Holly, Ellen, Ashely
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
what to do?!?!?!?!
Okay so here's the thing. So there is this date dance coming up for the institute and i have a lot of friends that normally come with me to the dance so what do i do? I get them a date. i have almost set them all up...but then there leaves me...ops forgot to get myself a date. and to make it better i have no idea who i can even ask. or if anyone is planning on asking me...then i remember wait i was in this SAME position last year! and its makes me realize that i do this ALL THE TIME!!!! I have no probalem setting thenm up but i now makes since why i dont really even date anyone because im always finding someone last min. and it never means anything to either of us. So im wondering if you think that i should be more selfish and try and date for myself. i think i should but i dont know help me out here thanks love you all!!!
<3 Charly Paige
<3 Charly Paige
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
One Nation? Really?
Remember in elementary school and part of Jr high when we were allowed to say the pledge of allegiance? Well lets see if i can remember it
i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of America
and to this country for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all...wow believe it or not i had a hard time remembering that i almost stared it "We are da..." then i realized that that's the young women's theme lol. but really that's sad read the pledge again...ill wait............................oh wait i don't even have it right yet....................................................okay so they took that out of schools. And just take a second and think about what this nation now is compared to that
"I Pledge allegiance to the flag of the UNITED States of America" Wow when was the last time we were united? This election especially this country is pretty much torn in half now isn't it?
"And to this country for which it stands" How many of us will stand up for our country still i have some amazing friends that will!!! And for them i am so very very thankful!!! But with the war in Iraq more and more of the people in this country would rather run then stand which is really sad.
"One Nation" Again the election we have been More like the nation of McCain and Obama not the United States.
"UNDER GOD" Um pretty sure you all know where i am going with this. We as a country have forgotten God. When he is the only reason we are here. Honestly the whole reason why we are in the situation that we are in with our economy is because we have forgotten him. Don't believe me? President Uchtdorf said Gave an entire devotional on it when he came to UVU on the 28Th of last month. He said that it is because we have forgotten Jesus Christ that we are in this situation because we put our money and our wealth before our religion. he counseled us to be citizens of the kingdom of God and to carry that passport with us into our lives. If we put Him first we will prosper and somehow we as a nation have forgotten that and its really really sad!!
"Indivisible" yeah as i have said before our nation has never been more divided and its really sad that we have lost the fight that our for fathers had when they fought for us to be free!
"with liberty AND and justice for all" We seem to forget the and there everyone is all about everyone having equal liberty but no one cares much about the justice part. In the same devotional President Uchtdorf said "we all feel connected but no one feels responsible" he was talking about the woulds economic system but it works for this as well. We all want everyone in this country to have the same liberty's but the moment something happens like the judges in Cali making it okay for same sex marriage everyone out there just blamed them. Its not like anyone else out there putting the idea in there heads.
This election was a big one and it doesn't matter who won we all need to support them. 3 Nephi 11:29- Support and sustain your leaders, and if you find that hard to do Ether 12:4 hope for a better world. remember everything will be okay just trust in the Lord and everything will be amazing in the end.
i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of America
and to this country for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all...wow believe it or not i had a hard time remembering that i almost stared it "We are da..." then i realized that that's the young women's theme lol. but really that's sad read the pledge again...ill wait............................oh wait i don't even have it right yet....................................................okay so they took that out of schools. And just take a second and think about what this nation now is compared to that
"I Pledge allegiance to the flag of the UNITED States of America" Wow when was the last time we were united? This election especially this country is pretty much torn in half now isn't it?
"And to this country for which it stands" How many of us will stand up for our country still i have some amazing friends that will!!! And for them i am so very very thankful!!! But with the war in Iraq more and more of the people in this country would rather run then stand which is really sad.
"One Nation" Again the election we have been More like the nation of McCain and Obama not the United States.
"UNDER GOD" Um pretty sure you all know where i am going with this. We as a country have forgotten God. When he is the only reason we are here. Honestly the whole reason why we are in the situation that we are in with our economy is because we have forgotten him. Don't believe me? President Uchtdorf said Gave an entire devotional on it when he came to UVU on the 28Th of last month. He said that it is because we have forgotten Jesus Christ that we are in this situation because we put our money and our wealth before our religion. he counseled us to be citizens of the kingdom of God and to carry that passport with us into our lives. If we put Him first we will prosper and somehow we as a nation have forgotten that and its really really sad!!
"Indivisible" yeah as i have said before our nation has never been more divided and its really sad that we have lost the fight that our for fathers had when they fought for us to be free!
"with liberty AND and justice for all" We seem to forget the and there everyone is all about everyone having equal liberty but no one cares much about the justice part. In the same devotional President Uchtdorf said "we all feel connected but no one feels responsible" he was talking about the woulds economic system but it works for this as well. We all want everyone in this country to have the same liberty's but the moment something happens like the judges in Cali making it okay for same sex marriage everyone out there just blamed them. Its not like anyone else out there putting the idea in there heads.
This election was a big one and it doesn't matter who won we all need to support them. 3 Nephi 11:29- Support and sustain your leaders, and if you find that hard to do Ether 12:4 hope for a better world. remember everything will be okay just trust in the Lord and everything will be amazing in the end.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
The little things in life
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So this isn't an update on my health...although i should say that it has been decided that nothing is wrong with my heart (so my title will probably change to something else)...
So i have been thinking a lot lately about my life and how i can see my friends doing everything that they want to do in life because they have that one or two of three things that they are amazing at. Then there's me i have things that i like to do but there isn't on or two or three things that i can just do because i have the talent there. pretty much everything that i do is mediocre an don't get me wrong i don't want to seem as though i am down on myself but i feel like my life cant really go anywhere right not. maybe that's just because I'm not in school yet and they are ( i cant wait for next semester to start so that i can be taking classes again and feel like i am doing something with my life). Anyway a couple of days ago i was really really not feeling great about myself. That same day i was in charge of watching my niece Caydice and my nephew Colby. Their mom (Teri) had just left, Caydice was fast asleep in her car seat, and Colby as usual was crying because he hates being left. He normally comes tired so when he first gets here we just grab a blanket with ties (for some reason he will only go to sleep if one of his blankets has ties for him to hold on too its cute). He likes to be rocked and it will normally calm him down but this time it wasn't working so well. So i asked if he wanted to hear a song he moaned i don't know if that meant yes or no at the time but i started singing anyway. I think i was singing you are my sunshine and he calmed down and almost fell asleep. I was singing to Caydice today when i was watching them again and she feel asleep to it (which was nice because she was really fussy today).
Anyway the point of this is it hit me. I will probably never be a be musian like some of my friends. I will never have a drawing of mine published. I will probably never make it into another play for the rest of my life, or be a great background dancer or even a dance teacher, but I will always be preforming for an audience of one (or in this case two) I can sing them songs to put them to sleep, and teach them how to play the piano or violin, I can draw them funny pictures and tech them to draw, I can use my imagination while i am playing with them instead of just entertaining them. And i can dance with them whenever the dog is singing and dancing to you make me want to shout. I never realized how much more important that was until now. i don't need others to lift me up more then my family already does. Their little smiles are all that i need. Caydice is just learning how to smile and its the cutest thing in the eniter world. its also one of the most beautiful things in the entire world. Its so simple but really what more do you need the a simple smile from a loved one everyday? Exspecially when it comes from someone so Innocent and pure. Then you can know that it is full of love.
just food for thought thanks for being amazing guys
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Im radioactive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay so here is a quick update. A couple of weeks ago i went to the doctor and had a treadmill test. Its pretty self explanatory, but what what that is is the hooked me up to an EKG machine and then they put me on a treadmill and had me walk then they would increase the speed and the incline
about every 3 min throughout the test. This test however has shown that my heart is working fine at least that is what the EKG says (an EKG for those of you who don't know just monitors your heart beat). So the doctor decided that we were going to cancel the echo (an ultrasound on my heart) that i had an appointment for and the schedule an cardiac MRI.
That Wednesday I went in for the MRI and other then throwing up the meds that they put in my body though an IV to stress my heart the test wasn't to bad.
Then the doctor appointment after that was the following Monday. the doctor came in and said as far as all the test they did not show anything wrong what so ever. everything looked perfect there was only one small problem. because i threw up the stress test meds the stress test didn't work so we weren't able to find out if my arteries are blocked or not so my options where to forget about trying to figure it out and go check with a doctor who is pretty much an electrician with the heart or for get about my heart entirely and move on to a stomach doctor (cause i have had A LOT of symptoms that have to do with my heart and i guess that there is this huge nerve in your body that connects everything and if one thing has a problem it can make it look like it is something else even though its not) But because if all of the heart problems in my family we decided that it was best to know for sure that it wasn't my heart so we decided to get another kind of stress test done om my heart. the best part of this entire visit was A DOCTOR FINALLY LISTENED TO ME!!!!! I told the doctor about the fact that my energy will just leave me at random points pf the day nothing causing it and all this over stuff about nothing causing the chest pain and disyness and things lik that well he figured that i should be tested for mono ( why i wan't tested for it in the first place i have no clue but ya know who really cares at least i was getting it done)
we went done and got blod taken and the scheduled an apiontment for this other stress test (it starts with a th but i dont remember what in the world ot os called) a week later (this last monday) we went and had the stress test done and in order to do it they put tracers in me that were radioactive making my body the same way (and i will be until about the 13 of october lol) anyway they put me bcak on tyhe treadmill for about 3 min. and guess what was back?!?! the nasty heart stress meds from before they made me sick again but i was able to breath though it (i think it healped not being in a tube and being in an open area instead) so we will figure out the results from that on the 7th of this month and i will you know what the out come is with that.
other then taht life is amazing and great!!! I just had a good friend get home from basic training and it is really good to see him around even if he has to leave again soon. thank you all for being so supportive of me and my health i couldnt get though this with you you rock!!!! I love you all!
oh and i dont have mono :) thank goodness!!! that would have beenm random since i havent been kissing anyone! (im still not so dont ask)
thanks again for being amazing!!!
<3 Charly Piage
about every 3 min throughout the test. This test however has shown that my heart is working fine at least that is what the EKG says (an EKG for those of you who don't know just monitors your heart beat). So the doctor decided that we were going to cancel the echo (an ultrasound on my heart) that i had an appointment for and the schedule an cardiac MRI.
That Wednesday I went in for the MRI and other then throwing up the meds that they put in my body though an IV to stress my heart the test wasn't to bad.
Then the doctor appointment after that was the following Monday. the doctor came in and said as far as all the test they did not show anything wrong what so ever. everything looked perfect there was only one small problem. because i threw up the stress test meds the stress test didn't work so we weren't able to find out if my arteries are blocked or not so my options where to forget about trying to figure it out and go check with a doctor who is pretty much an electrician with the heart or for get about my heart entirely and move on to a stomach doctor (cause i have had A LOT of symptoms that have to do with my heart and i guess that there is this huge nerve in your body that connects everything and if one thing has a problem it can make it look like it is something else even though its not) But because if all of the heart problems in my family we decided that it was best to know for sure that it wasn't my heart so we decided to get another kind of stress test done om my heart. the best part of this entire visit was A DOCTOR FINALLY LISTENED TO ME!!!!! I told the doctor about the fact that my energy will just leave me at random points pf the day nothing causing it and all this over stuff about nothing causing the chest pain and disyness and things lik that well he figured that i should be tested for mono ( why i wan't tested for it in the first place i have no clue but ya know who really cares at least i was getting it done)
we went done and got blod taken and the scheduled an apiontment for this other stress test (it starts with a th but i dont remember what in the world ot os called) a week later (this last monday) we went and had the stress test done and in order to do it they put tracers in me that were radioactive making my body the same way (and i will be until about the 13 of october lol) anyway they put me bcak on tyhe treadmill for about 3 min. and guess what was back?!?! the nasty heart stress meds from before they made me sick again but i was able to breath though it (i think it healped not being in a tube and being in an open area instead) so we will figure out the results from that on the 7th of this month and i will you know what the out come is with that.
other then taht life is amazing and great!!! I just had a good friend get home from basic training and it is really good to see him around even if he has to leave again soon. thank you all for being so supportive of me and my health i couldnt get though this with you you rock!!!! I love you all!
oh and i dont have mono :) thank goodness!!! that would have beenm random since i havent been kissing anyone! (im still not so dont ask)
thanks again for being amazing!!!
<3 Charly Piage
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