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IT'S SPRING BREAK... finally!! I've been waiting for this week since Christmas break was over! Well, I'm down in good ole' Mississippi with my mom visiting her parents and some aunts and uncles. I'm having a pretty good time, I can't complain. I quite like going out of town because I get to get away from all the people I don't want to see everyday and just from my little town for a while. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Roxboro, but after a while it's nice to go somewhere where hardly anyone knows you and be around family. My family is pretty awesome and the aunt that we're staying with, Aunt Ruth... she is one of the BEST cooks out there, so I am eating GOOD! Anywho, what I really wanted to talk about it today.

Today just HAPPENS to be Easter. It's kind of a low key holiday in my household seeing that I'm the youngest and the Easter Bunny only leaves me a bag of candy. The thing is, we take Easter as more of a remembrance day instead of a HEY let's PARTY and buy tons of candy! Yeah, we come together as a family and eat and my Granny gets us all little gifts, but I know my family knows the true meaning of it all and I KNOW that they mean what they say.

"They mean what they say"

That's the main thing I wanted to blog about. I got on Facebook to find people posting statuses about "Jesus paid for our sins. Today is the day to remember." It's great that people are saying this, but so many of those people I KNOW won't think about it tomorrow or next week. It makes me a little upset that people put on this front of "Oh, I am so religious! I post statuses about how much I LOVE and worship Jesus," but they go out and do immoral things, party, get wasted, do drugs, and are just not the people they come across as. Now I'm not saying that I am any better than anyone in ANY shape or form because I know I make just as many mistakes as any other person, but I know I try everyday to be better and many times I fail, but I just keep on keeping on. I think that people just don't try as much anymore and it saddens me. Something in church today that I noticed was up on one of the bulletin boards that really struck me was this quote...

I think that was a Young Women's theme a while back, but it struck me. What if EVERYONE who put up a status about Christ today really and truly lived like they believed? The world world would be a completely different place! It would blow yours and my mind! I know I've made mistakes and I look back on them and I am trying to see the lessons I need to learn from them and see what I can do differently in the future. I know I can't take back any actions, but I can sure try and make things better in my life and I can do all this because of the atonement of Christ. It's been such a huge blessing in my life and I think it's taken me a while to gain a true testimony of this, but I KNOW that it so great now. I'm so thankful for repentance and the peace it offers me each and everyday I am willing to use it. That's the point, you have to use it! Boy, I didn't use it for a long time, but once I did GOSH it felt great! Talk about a HUGE weight lifted off my shoulders! I'm just really thankful for the atonement and the resurrection because it gives me comfort to know that there is more than just THIS life. Pretty awesome.

Alrighty, I'm all done for now. I plan to blog more soon because I have a few things I've been thinking about. I shall do that hopefully this week. Aight... peace homies!

-M. Philly