A Long Time Gone...More to the future

I have not posted on my blog in so long! It truly is sad. I have added to my bucket list and done amazing things. I have direction in my life and I am truly excited for my future. I am looking at it with wide open eyes, as a child who is amazed with the amount of presents under the Christmas tree.

God has started to deal with me on some things. The thing He is really working on me about, right now, is that I am here for such a time as this. I was not born earlier, or later. I was born when I was supposed to be born, in the year I was born. My time, place and purpose is here and now. So I cannot be dwelling in the future and what my life will be like. My life is here and now with the people I love. Through hardships I have made it and I will continually keep going. No matter what the world throws at me with God on my side I am able to take on anything. Thank you God for that!! :) My God is truly amazing and wonderful.

Well this is a short little something till I get more into the swing of my blogging again.
Love and Blessings.

Long Time Gone and a Mistake

I have not written in what seem more like years. I guess I have failed the bucket list of writing at least once a week. And to tell the truth I have truly missed writing. So here goes for a new post.
I love God so much! But as I move closer to Him I feel I fall into some sort of temptation or sin. And as this happens I feel I have to start all over in my walk with God. Is this true? Do I really need to start completely over? I wish I had a clear a definite answer yet sadly I do not. All I know is that I have apologized and even if I am truly starting all over in my walk with God or not, I am giving my complete and total self to Christ. I pray that my words are His words and my actions are His actions.
Even though this entry is super short, I just had to get this out some how. And plus side I was able to get on my blog. And next time I am on I am hoping to have a few more items for my bucket list!

Love and blessings,
Nicole

Oh God, My God

Oh God, My God.

In life and death I want to glorify my King.

I want to shout Your praises with my last breath.

Oh God, My God.

To see the world on fire for You.

To look in amazement at your glory.

May my life be holy and pleasing to You,

A holy and pure sacrifice.

May my relationship with You never parish.

Oh God, My God.

Mighty and awesome to be praised are You.

Your mercy is new every morning.

My words could never be enough to tell You that I love You,

That You are Great and all powerful.

Oh God, My Go

By: C. Nicole Hilton

It started out for randomness and ended with hope

So I really want to write something that is deep, thoughtful and very meaningful....but nothing is coming to mind. I want this blog to mean something to people. Well to the few that read it and I can not think of one thing. I could write about how I love the book Hebrews in the Bible.  I could talk for hours and hours on how I love my church.
The funny thing is...as I am writing this I came up with something to talk about.  Isaiah 1:18
The verse goes like this:
"Come know let us reason together," says the Lord "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool."
I love that verse! I love that it says that know matter what you have done you are always able to be washed clean! You are able to be forgiven! No matter what. And Jesus is saying this.
The fact is everyone has sinned. The bible says in Romans 3:23: For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
This means we all have made mistakes. Guess what no ones is perfect! We all make mistakes! And I can sure say I am glad to know that I am not the only imperfect person out there.
Here is the next shocker all sin to God is the same. This means the little child that tell his mom he did not eat the last cookie fib...is the same as Mary Bell the 10 year old killer. Believe it, even though it is a huge diffrence its true. My sin is just as bad as a gang members or a murder or a thief or a drug dealer. ALL SINS ARE THE SAME! Are you getting the point yet because I am sure I could go on with all these diffrent exmples.
What I am trying to say is that no man is better then another. Every man's sins are equal no sin greater then another. All sins are able to be forgiven if we lay them down at the alter. No sin is to great to ever be forgiven and it is never to late to be forgive.
Call on God and He will answer you He will be with you in trouble. He is always there and will never leave.
This is super great news!!!! All you have to do is repent, tell God you are truly sorry and mean it with your whole heart and you will be forgiven. Easy as that.

Well I felt like i should say that and I did. :)
Think about the words that were writen. They do mean something. And there is a loving God with arms wide open waiting for you.
Love and Blessings
Nicole

Crossin Something Off My List!!!!

That's right!!!!! I ate squid!!!!! It was very chewy!!!! :p I can say I will never ever get it again! It really does not even have a taste. And that gives reason to why i do not mind saying I will never get it again.
An new update on another bucket list cross off! Tomorrow the 8th of February I will not have my phone on me. I will hope to go the whole day without a phone. SOOOOO I really hope it is gong to be a snow day...and I better get all of my texting done tonight!
My challenge for you is to make your own bucket list!!! It is petty cool when you are able to cross something off.
Love and blessings
Nicole

More To My Bucket List!

23. Eat snail
24. Backpack around Europe
25. Spend a week to a month in France
26. Travel the world
27. Go to a country that I know nothing about....and survive!
28. Drive a slug bug
29. See the Great  Wall of China
30. Ride a motorcycle
31. Go a day with out saying the word the!!!
32. Tell all the people I love that i love them
33. (I don't know if I have this but) Jump out of a plane and soon man!!!!

That is all my updates for now!!!! I better get going on doing some of these!!! I need the adventure anyway!!

What Does Not Kill You Makes You Stranger!

I am going to bet that you have most likely heard someone say, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." Recently I had a friend add to the very end a lovely addition which was, "or just kills you." That is pretty encouraging don't you think?! Well I was thinking, God will never give us more then we ca handle right?! Ummm does He not see me almost bending down at a 90 degree angle? I can't lie, with stress and the pressures of life I don't think I could take anymore....but wait...right when you think you are good and it seems that the sun is starting to shine through the clouds...something new comes up!!! Right smack in the face! Not very encouraging I know, trust me. But here is the encouraging part!! God wants us to give Him the things that are burdening us, the things that have us bent over at a 90 degree angle. Our daddy wants to take that stuff that is weighing you down away for you! Great news right!? The answer is right! Now if you are like me you have to work on that note. I am learning that I need to give God the things that are weighing me down, the stuff that seems to be breaking me. I need to give it to Him. In the past that has not been the easiest thing to do. I think that it is easier to keep that heavy load for my self to carry and well I think it may be starting to show. Which I can not lie, its not a good thing.

So my challenge is for you to try and start laying your burdens, and the stuff that is weighing you down, at the thrown of our Heavenly Father. I myself am going to hold myself accountable to this challenge because only God knows just how badly I need to.

Love and Blessings

Nicole

I Do Have Something to Say...Who Do I Say It To?

Have you ever had a lot on your mind? A lot of stuff on your mind? You just want to talk about it but it is rather unimportant or if it is important it is only that way to you? That happens to me A LOT!!!! Well what do I do? I could type it on here but I worry you will start to read it and just stop reading!!! Ahhhh!!! Well I have a new solution. My daddy! Okay not my earthly dad. You know what I mean? I can say anything to God and well He listens!!! Shocker to me because half the time the stuff I talk to Him about...I would not even listen to!! Is that not funny to you though? It is to me! Well I just love talking to Him! I pray and everything, yet when I am having a problem or I really just want to talk, He is the person I go to!! I have been thinking about it and I am pretty sure to Him there is no stupid question or dumb problem. To me I think He wants to talk. And personally  it would be a lot harder for me if I did not think that way. Because who do I go to when there really is no one there to talk about a certain something. Plus good news, His line is always free! Do not even try and get me started on that because I have no idea how He is everywhere at once, can hear and see everything at once. All I can say is He is God and that is the way it is suppose to be. But thank goodness He can always hear me and be there for me because if He was not I know I would be a little...okay a lot more crazy then I am now and I would be a total mess. He is my one person I can always count on to be there for me...and He is the only person I am truly able to tell everything to. He really is like my dad. :) Woohoo for that!!!!
Love and Blessings
Nicole

I am dog sitting!!!!

I am sitting right now in my friends house watching her dog! It is not to bad! I'm having fun! But as I sit here i thought i would say hello! I was going to sit down and start talking about something deep and meaningful. Well I really do not remember what I was going to say :p so I had to deal with should I just not write anything or should I? Even if I do type something it is not going to be meaningful. Oh well.. I am now able I posted something on complete NOTHING!!!!!!! I have no idea why i find this soooo amazing! Oh well I am going now!!
My challenge today is to have fun and have a great amazing weekend!!!!!
Love and blessings
Nicole
PS i am not going to reread this soooo my mess ups are staying in!

Have you lost your voice?

Before I start may I just say WOW!!!! Two times in one day that has got to be like ground breaking for me!!!
Anyway I have started to notice some stuff as of late. Where have the Christin's voices gone? I mean really, come on, where is our boldness why are we not standing up for the little people? Why have we sub come to gossip? We now even partake in it! It has become horrifying to me!!! Christian's seem to have lost their voices!!
I am even guilty of it! But today i am making a promise to myself...I am going to use my voice! I'm going to use my vocal cords, those lovely, weird looking (yes i have seen mine and well they were not what I thought they would look like) things that i have and start talking!!! Enough is enough! Start standing up for what you believe in! Be bold!!! Bold as a lioness protecting her cubs!!!! I'm pretty sure that may be as bold as you can get!
When you see something that is going on that you don't approve of say something!!
My lovely English teacher told a story today in class. She told of how one day after leaving school she saw a fight going on. Many people where there encircling the group of kids who had knocked one boy over and they were kicking him. Other adults were there just watching as the fight go on. But my teacher said she could not just stand around doing nothing! She got out of the car and was yelling at the people to stop, she even called the cops. My point is that if one lady who is not a Christian has enough boldness to go and try to help a boy who is being kicked on the ground what would it have been like if it had been a Christian. My teacher shows an amazing example of using your voice!!!!
(PS never ever ever try and stop a fight like that!!! It is unsafe and the outcome could have been a lot worse for her!! Call the cops and let them take care of it)
Anyway my challenge for you is simple. Start using you voice, dust off your vocal cords and let your voice ring out!!!!
Love and blessings
Nicole

My Bucket List

I recently watched a movie called The Bucket List. The movie was rather sad and it made me cry :( It had a totally different ending then i ever would have guessed. Anyway the main part of the movie is two older men who are dieing try and complete a list of things before they die. The list contained things that were important to them, like jumping out of an airplane or driving an old car.
The thing that really bugged me the most about this movie was that they waited till the end of their lives to fill out there bucket list. Anyway I was thinking about making my own bucket list...and I'm going to. I have a friend who started one of her own and i believe i am going to myself. A long time a go I had a little list of things i wanted to do before i died...I have no idea where it is now. But my new and improved list I cant misplace...and I will be totally 100% set on finishing it if its out in the open. My plan, I'm putting it on my blog!
So from now on when i think of something to do I will put it right here! :) When i accomplish a task I will write about it and put it right here.
my bucket list:

1. To truly help someone.
2. Go skydiving
3. Dive off a diving broad
4. Eat squid
5. Eat eel
6. Eat octopus (there is a difference between squid and octopus right)
7. Eat sushi (with raw fish)
8. Travel the world
9. To read the whole Bible (not rushing, taking my time)
10. Go a day without my cell phone
11. Tell the people in my life who mean the world to me that they really do mean the world to me
12. Make a difference
13. Save a life
14. Stay up for 24 hours
15. To love and never worry about getting hurt
16. To see a changed world
17. Learn a new language besides Spanish...like French! Or Chinese!
18. Go to collage
19. Go a full week with no make up!
20. Be the change I want to see
21. To write on my blog at least one time a week
22. Do something the complete opposite of my normal self
23. Do something adventurous and daring

For now I think that is all I have. As I think of more I will put it on my blog. :) If you have any ideas to add to my list let me know! And if I know you (hehe most likely do! :D) or even if I do not, and you think that I have completed a task on here let me know!!

P.S. I have eaten raw sushi before with fish in it but when I started thinking of this and putting stuff down i had not so I still put it on! It was good! Not all fish eggs and octopus eyes like my cousin said it was when I was little!

My challenge for you is to try something new and adventurous! Have fun doing it! Maybe even make  you own bucket list for others to see, read and enjoy!!!
Love and Blessings 
Nicole

Its is still here!

MY BLOG IS STILL HERE!!!!!!!!!! I was so not happy when i was unable to get to my blog awhile back but its here now and i am on it!!!!! Woohoo!
But it made me think of some stuff, thinking my blog was gone...
Have you ever had a person in your life, they really ment  lot or they maybe didn't, and they slipped out of your life? That is always painful. I have had it happen to me a few times and it is never fun.
What happens when randomly one day you think about that person and you want to talk to them. No one ever truly replaces the person who is no longer in your life.
I know for me when that happens I just hold it in. no one ever gets to hear about it. It just stays inside till the now not so important topic goes away.
My challange is that you try and really reconnect with a person who has fallen out of your life. Let them know you miss them and try talking with them...like you use to. Im sure there will be plenty to talk about!!!!
Love always and blessings
Nicole