Oh Summer, Why Do You Tease Me So?

You know, each June I feel the long hard school year pass away, and take a credible amount of joy in the coming months of summer...but as September peaks his head around the corner, I realize that it is not possible for these breezy, beautiful, care-free months to stay forever.
Having said that, it feels like our Grad Year is right around the corner, guys!!

Okay. I don't want to talk about that anymore. Too many mixed emotions. So Stoked, and So Sad at the Same Time.

Enooooough of that.

As per ritual, Summer usually permits me to go through old storage boxes in the garage, and having done so last week, I came across a favourite book series I used to be addicted to in the middle school years.

The Mandie Series. 

These books are super short but utterly delighting. I remember when it used to take me a week to read these books, and I still found them to be mysteriously engrossing. I picked one up yesterday and finished it in a couple of hours. Silly me. :p

I'm planning on finishing this series, but I'll have to buy some of them....I only have books 1-17 or something...and there's like....a billion. 

I remember as an elementary kid I used to read the "little mandie" books....based on when she was much younger; then as I turned 12, I found a much more mature series, and yet, as I turned 14 or 15 I gave up because I realized this series was unending. The excellent author, Lois Gladys Leppard, not only wrote on Mandy's younger days and teenage days, but also on her college years!

I'm sure I can finish them.

I just have to try.

Next on my great hunt, I found a book called "Authentic Beauty" by Leslie Ludy. It's a great advice giving, devotional, girlie book that my wonderful Mumsie gave me last year. 

I started reading it, and it's super great! It's about moving past the secular message about romance, and not listening to what the worldly culture tells us; rather to walk with God and find romance in Him.

I haven't exactly finished this, but it's a great book where Leslie Ludy describes her teenage life, and shares how she prepared her heart for God, and for her husband.

That's what I'm reading at the moment, but I'll let you know of any other great finds!! :)

Jazzelz.

Ode To Thee, Yee Hypocrites.

If there's one thing that I've learned in my short life span of seventeen years, it's the dirty fact that the noted exploitations of addictions, do not die easily. They may die hard and drastically, but they do not die easy.
No matter how loved you are...
No matter how many friends you've got holdin' you up...
No matter the dollars in your pocket, or the lack there of--addictions are just that.
I've prayed and I've lost.
I've known and I've wondered.
But this.
This has thus far amounted to be just too much.

From whence came forth your troubles and lies, sends heartbreak and love infused with my cries.

I hope you find God...who can lift you up, out of the spiritual debt that these addictions have buried you in....

And as a warning to those who like to meddle with trouble...
And those who persist to put their hands into boiling pots of water...just for the thrill of it (which I do continue to believe, the proposed does include us all, to some extent)....I pray you fight to stand up straight.

Exonerate yourself from the blames addiction has slowly piled upon your back.