The Question
"Everyone tells me that God is loving and kind. If He is, why is there so much pain in the world? Why doesn't God come to the rescue of those who are suffering?"

I won’t condone it, I tell you! For years, the trumped-up, silly story of “Sleeping Beauty” has been circulating the world. It’s been the subject of multiple books, collections of stories, and even a movie was made about it! Its madness! Hedge of thorns? A dragon? An enchanted sleep?
Puh-leese!
That’s not the real story. I should know. I was there, as one of the fairy godmothers. Flora, in fact. And I’m not a chubby, orange-clad silly-nilly with an obsession with pink, like the movie showed me. I’m sensible and graceful, whatever they may say.

I want to discuss two things here. 1: "Virgin" Mary and 2: oh wait, it's about Mary-praying to Mary. First we'll talk about her being a virgin, or not. Some people might get their feathers ruffled but if they believe the Bible is true, they shouldn't get riled.

July 30, 2008
Eleven years of age

Dear My Fellow Apricotpie.com-ians,

I love the way you cry when we watch a sad movie, and the way you insist on watching something manly when the movie ends, like boxing or football.
I love it when you write notes to me during the preacher’s sermon in church. Each note always has a piece of your heart in it, and that always makes me happy that I’m the only one who receives them and understands them.
I love the stupid things you say. I love even more that you don’t realize what you said until I start laughing so hard that tears flow from my eyes and I can’t stop.

It's okay to smile,
It's okay to laugh
even though the ones we love
from this life and world do pass

It's okay to dance
feeling music and joy,
even though we know that death
is something we can't avoid

It's okay to love
and give your heart away,
even though you know it might
be broken to pieces someday

It's okay to grin,
to be happy isn't wrong,
even though the ones we love
from our sides have now gone

I wrote this out at the beginning of the school year, as a writing assignment. I've been thinking alot about the subject of Global Warming, and so, here is my opinion on it as a Christian. I'd like you to comment and tell me what you think. I'd especially like to hear opposing viewpoints.

Dear Blog-Blog readers,

'Twas a dark gray night on the old North Shore
- And the wind and the waves were wild -
That the black-caped traveler came to her door
And begged to rest a while.

An hour's rest from the savage wind
She dared deny no man,
So graciously she asked him in
To sit and warm his hands.

She stirred the fire and bade him sit
Before the merry blaze.
Sit he did, and stared at it
With a lost and distant gaze.

Chapter the Twenty-second