Tangents on Religion

Ya know what's irritating? People who claim to be Christians but then act nothing like Christ. There is a big difference between "church people" and "Christ people."

Church people are fake. Basically. Church people are the kinda people who go to church every Sunday, say their prayers, and probably read their scriptures every so often too. They are the people that proclaim to be Christians, but for the most part only act like Christians for an hour or so once week.

Then there are Christ people. Christ people are Christians who actually live their faith every day. They act like and follow Christ every day. They make an effor to help everyone they interract with, and they treat everyone the way Christ wold treat them. They act like Christ even when they aren't in a church setting.

It really irritates me to interract with those gunhoe "church people" who are so outward with their faith and kinda Bible pushers, but then don't act like Christians. It irritates me even more when those "Christians" claim that because I am Mormon, I am not a Christian.

First off, don't be ignorant. My church is called: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. There ya go. Right in the name: JESUS CHRIST. But no, you're right. We're Satanists. Psh. Ignorance. Second off, if you're going to claim to be a Christian, don't judge others. Pretty sure that's a big lesson Jesus taught. And when you judge others with ignorance, you just make yourself look even worse.

It honestly doesn't offend me when people accuse me of not being Christian, because it's so far from the truth. When somebody makes that remark to me, I just chuckle to myself. It's funny because not only do they clearly know nothing about Mormonism, but they know even less about who I am as a person. Clearly, anyone who knows me, I am far from being a Satanist. So I take no offense, but it does get exhausting and annoying. Especially because I feel I've been getting asked questions so much lately because of two things: the "I'm a Mormon" commercials, and that sister wives show or whatever it's called.

Let me clear up the air: Mormons are not polygamists. It is against our religion to practice polygamy. If you do, you are excommunicated from the church. Those who do practice it and call themselves Mormons, well they're wrong. I guess they just wish they were Mormons? I dunno. But they're not. So no, we do not practice polygamy. Not even in Utah.

I'm not sure what I think about the "I'm a Mormon" commercials. I like that they get people talking and asking questions about the church. I like that they help people see Mormons are "normal." But I think they kinda make Mormons sound arrogant.

Even though it gets kinda exhausting always getting the same questions about church, I really do love talking about Mormonism and answering any questions anyone has. I love the opportunity to bear my testimony, share the Gospel, and help people draw closer to God. I love the chance to break down stereotypes or help people understand the truth about being a Mormon. I could talk forever about Mormonism. Ask me anything and everything, and I'll answer you openly and honestly.

I dunno where I'm going with this post. I feel like I've gone off on like a dozen tangents. Well, to sum it all up: If you're going to claim to be a Christian, act like Christ. Don't be ignorant. Don't judge. Mormons are normal people who don't practice polygamy. And you can ask me anything.

Our Fairytale

When I was just a little girl
In dresses pink & white

I learned of princesses in faraway lands

And their handsome charming knights

 

The stories, they’d all end the same

With “happily ever afters”

And as I grew, as little girls do,

I’d dream of my own ending chapter

I’d dream the days and nights away

And doodle in my notebooks

Sketches of my future prince

Complete with stunningly good looks

As years passed by, the dreaming stopped

Out of the clouds I had to come

Charming princes just weren’t real

I’d have to settle for some average bum

 

It was April 14, 2006

I was seventeen years old

That’s the day my thinking changed,

The day my prince entered my world

 

He’s charming, polite, too good to be true

He’s funny, so sweet, and so cute

He’s playful and witty, a barrel of laughs

And he’s always a flippin’ hoot

 

I’m his angel, his princess, the love of his life

He reminds me every day

“Together forever” we tell one another

No matter what life throws our way

 

Living on bliss, walking on sunshine

My life then a fairytale

Dreams do come true, magic does happen

True fairytale love is for real

 

But suddenly the world stopped spinning

The sky came crashing down

My heart lay shattered in my chest

While in my tears I drowned

 

Goodbye to my prince charming

Goodbye to fairytales

Curse you Mr. Disney

You taught falsely “love prevails”

 

As much as I despised that man

Creating such false hope for me

I drowned myself in all his films

The only things that helped me breathe

 

I soon discovered something grand

My eyes and mind were opened wide

Never had I seen before

The message Walt had seemed to hide

The Little Mermaid lost her voice,

For love’s true kiss she had to fight

Belle was captive by a beast

Living constantly in fright

 

Tiana kissed a talking frog

And wound up worse for ware

Poor Cinderella lived a wretched life

With a family that for her never cared

 

Snow White was stuck deep in the woods,

And poisoned by a witch

From ogre to princess, day to night

Fiona’s always forced to switch

 

Jasmine had that jerk Jafar

Who tried to keep her from her man

The feisty Meg was bound to Hades

A forced puppet in his evil plan

 

Don’t you see what I now see?

Don’t you understand?

Fairytales truly do exist,

But there’s work to reach the end

 

Every princess has her mountain

She’s got an obstacle to climb

So it’s no surprise at all, my prince,

I’ve got to work to call you mine

 

I don’t just get to close my eyes,

Or breathe in deep and make a wish

Just as the Little Mermaid had to do:

I must fight for true love’s kiss

The days are long, the nights much longer

My heart aches every minute

But this life I’ve been living still’s a fairytale

I must just open my eyes and admit it.

 

I now never question, I now never doubt

If we’ll have our happily ever after

I now understand there’s just a mountain to climb

Before we reach our own ending chapter

 

We’ll grow old together, make lots of babies

Be sealed in the temple forever

We’ll have lots of puppies, play piano together

In a love that won’t die now or never

Forever my prince, forever I’m yours

Living this life that’s too good to be true

Forever my heart rests safe in your chest

Forever we’re one not two

Moving Forward

Sometimes, ya just gotta let go.

That's something I'm learning. Something I feel like I have been learning for a long time. It's so stinkin' hard to let go of things that make you upset or have hurt you, to forget the past and move forward. It's even harder when what you're needing to let go is a person, not moment or memory.

Sometimes, it hurts more to try and cling on to something that's not there anymore. To constantly be trying to remember how things used to be, and then just get slapped in the face by reality. That is never fun. Or pretty. It's a rather harsh awakening. But learning to forget the way things used to be and accept the way things are is one of hardest things for me to achieve.

So how do you do it? How are you meant to just let go of something that is so much a part of who you are? How are you meant to cut this piece out of you and just forget about it? And then move on forward like everything is okay, when you just feel like you lost a piece of your soul?