Reflections

Hi all again! It's been a great day. I hope everyone is doing well! I had my voice therapy today and my regular therapy. I saw a movie last night I'm super excited to share with you!!!! The giver is an amazing movie, and you should definitely all go see it when you get the chance!! It's so eye opening. I read the book in 8th grade, and discussed it through blogs with college students. College is coming up too! I'm so excited for that! ooh sorry off topic. Anyway, the book is a post-apocolyptic kind of book, trying to achieve utopia. The main character Jonas, has just graduated and is assigned his job for life. He will be the receiver of memories. He gets to receive all the memories of the past, happy and sad. The crazy part about it is the lives they are living currently in their communities. There are no colors, no holidays, no books, no music (ahhh!!), and worst of all, no emotions. I mean if you think about it, what kind of life is that even? Is a life with no emotion even a life at all? Sure theres no pain, but theres also controlling populations by killing smaller babies and the eldest members of every community. It's so crazy. And not to mention, WRONG!! I can't believe the inhumanity of it all. But Jonas finally realizes that there is so much more to life than the communities. He finally feels love, and sees colors such as red and greens. So I won't spoil any endings, but it is a great great great movie, and book. I strongly encourage all of you to read and see it! I know I could not live a life that way. No books, no music, no EMOTION! I believe the only life worth living of course is for Christ and Christ alone. but hey thats just me, I don't believe in forcing religion upon others at all. People can try, and I would love for everyone to be exposed to this great life. However, I know that is not a life for everyone. Anyway, I get to babysit tonight! I'm so pumped for that too! I mean really, I haven't been able to babysit in so long. His name is Wyatt, and he's not even one years old yet, but he's so cute!! He talks to me too! Mostly babbling but he is so darn cute and I just want kids so much. Too bad I need a husband and a degree first. hahaaa:) Also, I'm thinking about applying for disney college program. I wish I could do it! I just don't know if my parents would approve you know? But it's my dream. I have always wanted to work at disney. And it's for only 4-6 months to get paid. I think it would be a great experience. I just hope I get the chance someday. Well that's about it now. 

Much Love, 
Chloe

8-20-14

Hey there world! My name is Chloe, and I decided for some strange reason that I wanted to start blogging. So, about me. I love to sing, dance, everything disney, ski, read, and crochet or knit when I'm feeling crafty.  Right now I'm sitting at barnes and noble in blaine, trying to figure out exactly what I should say in this blog. I did have a good idea for a post the other day, so maybe that should go in here. I recently read this awesome book called Crazy Love by Francis Chan. (I definitely recommend it for all you Christians out there! :) ) Anyway, there was a lot of challenges in this book, but the most profound one that I found was based on the verses in 1st Corinthians about love. You know, love is patient love is kind...etc. So the challenge was to replace the word love with your first name. It ends up looking like this for my name:

Chloe is patient, Chloe is kind; Chloe does not envy or boast; she is not arrogant or rude. Chloe does not insist on her own way; she is not irritable or resentful; she does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Chloe bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 

Basically, this passage becomes totally false. This makes me feel pretty guilty, because God loves us this way, and He calls us to love others this way, our neighbors and our enemies. So I'm not trying to make anyone else feel crappy for disobeying this. I'm simply challenging all of you to try to make this a part of your everyday life, sharing this crazy and amazing love with everyone around you.

Now you have probably figured out I am a strong believer in Christ. I am nowhere near perfect, nor will I shun you if you are not Christian. I will simply disagree and pray that you will see the light someday. Too much? Sorry, thats me for you. Anyway, this is a pretty good intro I'd say. Oh! I move in less than a week to go to college too, at the University of MN! I'm super stoked, lol do people still use that word? Well I just did. Started a trend. JK not really. But yeah, I will be living with my bff from high school and middle school. I am planning on pursuing studies in biomedical engineering and neuroscience. So yeah! Exciting stuff! Now I think I'm going to read my book about how the brain works, since I am in a bookstore after all. I will post again soon! 

Much love,

Chloe :)