Scattered Thoughts.

So the whole trying to say what I think and not caring what people think thing is going pretty well. I think it eliminates a lot of confusion.

Anyways I was kind of worried about the concert this weekend, but it turned out great! It went a lot better than I expected it to and we raised a lot of money. I also found out this morning that we raised over $6,000 for the 30 hr famine!

Anyways, this morning in youth group we talked about abortion. There was a unanimous agreement that abortion was wrong. But people seemed to have different opinions about under what circumstances and what not. I really thought much about it all until this morning and always thought that abortion was wrong and that was it. I never really put myself in someone else's shoes and considered why people do it. So this morning I determined that my opinion stayed the same. I believe abortion is wrong under any circumstance, but I also understand where people are coming from. My opinion is that in life you get things thrown at you that you didn't ask for. A 16 year-old girl could get raped and become pregnant and have a lot of problems because of it or a 7 year-old girl's parents could fight and drink all the time and eventually get a divorce and that would cause a lot of problems in her life as well. A girl's dad could have cancer and not want to go to the doctor to get treated for it and the whole family might suffer. In any case it's unpreventable on the girl's part. The girl may suffer the consequences, but none of it was her fault. I think that all you can do is deal with it. I mean that's why there are ways to get help. I mean accidental or unplanned pregnancies is what adoption was made for.

But I don't believe that we (as humans) have the right to determine weather someone will live or die and that's that. We have no right to play God.

Anyways. I think everyone in my youth group knows me as the girl who gets really worked up about children who suffer in third world countries and would adopt all of Uganda if she could. Which makes me happy. :p

ANYWAYS. wow I'm really bouncing from subject to subject. I was listening to Dennis's sermon this morning and it made me think about how much stuff that people here in America really need and how much stuff we are seriously convinced that we need. Honestly if we really only used money for the things we needed then we would have a ton left over. I just think it's kind of crazy about how convinced we are of stuff that we don't need. One thing that I think I don't need as much as I think I do is clothes. I mean I have plenty of clothes. And the reason I think I need more is because I'm dissatisfied with how they look or fit me. How retarded, right?! But Yeah I hardly wear half the clothes I own, so why do I need more?

Anyways I'm out of space in my journal and don't have the time or money to go get a new one just yet, so I'll probably possibly be blogging a little more until I get one :p

So I hope everyone has a fantastic week! :D