A Favorite Quote

I, once again, asked someone whom I consider to be a queen of blogging for an idea on what to write and she suggested a favorite quote so, here you go:

 'There is no fear of crooked walking

While the eye is fixed full on Jesus'

     ~Ruth Bryan

I highly encourage you to read her books: "Handfuls of Purpose" & "The Marvelous Riches of Savoring Christ".  They are both very excellent books of her letters and pages from her diary.

I hope you all are having a blessed day.

God bless and keep you!

Grace be with you!

Alive because of Jesus' Blood,

Katie Bekah

Christmas/Birthday Gifts From One Of My Best Friends

Hi-ho!  It's highly unusual for me to post again so soon but I'm hoping to fix that.
So, the 16th is my 21st Birthday and, yesterday, I got a package from my 'sis', Monica, containing both my Christmas and Birthday gifts so I wanted to share pictures with you.

A gorgeous snowflake ornament!

Body lotion and shower gel which smell divine!

 Pumpkin pie candle (which also smells divine!).

A make-up brush set.

Gorgeous and soft afghan she and her Mom made for me.

Beautiful ruffle edge which her Mom did:)

Y'all don't reckon I LOVE pink, do you? ;)

God has blessed me with the best friends and family ever!

Hope you don't mind my short post.  Ciao!

God bless and keep you!

Grace be with you!

Alive because of His Blood,

Katie Bekah

Sad Examples For Young Girls

I would imagine that most of you have heard of the singer Katy Perry.  New Year's Eve, my Uncle Randy and cousin Randi Michelle visited my Memaw and Grandpa so my Mommy and I went there too :)
Randi and I spent the day together and we got on their computer 'cause she wanted to show me a Katy Perry video for her song "Firework".  Oh.My.Gosh.  Now, it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be but, it wasn't nice, that's for sure.
First, they show this girl take off her clothes to reveal a terribly small bikini (not that any bikini is right in the first place) and then what made me go crazy was zooming in on two guys kissing.  There's everything wrong about that.  First the fact that there are young girls (my cousin is only 9!) that like her music and possibly look up to her and what the heck is a 9 year old supposed to think when she sees two guys kissing and doesn't know what it means?  
I was glad when she said that it was 'nasty' and she'll never watch it again.  
I mean, come on?  Don't people think before they go putting that trash on a video or anything for that matter, that a child might see?  She didn't understand why they did it.  I couldn't tell her, just told her that's one of the reasons I don't like Katy Perry, because she's 'nasty'.  
Another singer is Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus.  Wow, first of all, she claims to be a Christian, so far, I have never seen Jesus Christ in anything she has said, done, sung, or worn.  She might (that's a big 'MIGHT') have been cute at the start of her career but she totally went downhill as, it seems, most Disney actors and actresses do.  
So, this is the Miley that parents are letting their little girls be like:

Nice, right?  Wow, so wrong in every way.  There were other bad ones I saw but thought this would be fitting.


I looked for Katy Perry pictures but, honestly, it was too sickening and I couldn't bring myself to use any of them.  They were either (oddly enough) not revealing enough (for this post) or trash beyond trash.

Is this what we want then?  Our little girls to show everything?  Let guys like Miley's up there touch them in certain places?  I would hope your answer is 'no'.  
I'm sure that Katy and Miley and all other trash singers know that little girls look up to them: have they no intelligence? no common sense?  The pictures I saw, well, those things are quite clear.  They don't know so they don't care.
They don't care that little girls look at them with thoughts like, "I want to be just like her!", "I want to dress like her!", etc.  As long as it's about them, who cares, right?  Wrong.
The Bible tells us that, the older women are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine.  We are to teach what is GOOD. (Titus 2:3).  Train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled (Titus 3:4-5).
You know something sad?  Katy Perry used to be a Christian singer.  That's a complete turn around if I ever heard one.  The pictures, songs, videos, outfits, none of them say 'I'm a Christian'.
Not only is it awful that girls want to be like them, they look at them thinking they're not good enough and try to change to feel good enough.  
What about our men?  What about when they see a girl dressed (or barely dressed in most cases these days) like this?  It stirs up thoughts in their heads that no one should ever think.  It's the woman's fault that causes these thoughts and emotions.  I honestly don't understand how any parent could find it ok to listen to such trash and let their children see such trash.
Parents, how do you feel when your young men see girls dressed like that?  You can't possibly tell me you think it's ok.  How on earth would it be ok for a young man to see that?  How?
How do you feel when your little girls say they want to dress like these singers?  Do you mind that they go around 'showing off' everything?  Do you honestly, honestly not care?  How could you not?
Moms, even if you're not a Christian, you cannot honestly deny the fact that we are to teach young women what is good.  
Oh, Satan will do anything to warp our minds into thinking it's alright but deep down, we all SHOULD know, it's not.
You've no doubt heard of the show, "Toddlers In Tiaras" or something goofy like that.  What is that supposed to be?  Entertaining?  In my opinion, it's a sad show.  It's truly sad to think that those idiot parents encourage such absurdity just for money.  And, it's not for the little girls, it's for the parents, ALL for the parents.  They don't mind that their little girls are getting all messed up at such a young age just so they can get their money and fame.  As long as the parents have what they want, who cares about the child?  Let them scream, cry, whine, and whatnot, the audience will like it (for some strange reason), they'll enjoy it and think it's cute and continue watching.  Parents will get what they want, the little girls will miss out on being an actual child because they have to pretend to be grown up all because that's what their parents, make-up artists, and whoever else tell them to do.  Nice parents, eh?


Anyway, I've veered from my original subject:
Are we, as the older women, proud of the way younger girls are these days?  Are we doing everything we can to teach them what is good and what is bad?  What is right and what is wrong?  Does it bother you when you hear a little girl say, "Oh!  Katy Perry's new music video!  I love that song!!"?  Because that's pretty much what Randi Michelle said to me and I did not like hearing it at all.  I was relieved, though, when she had said earlier that she really doesn't like Miley/Hannah anymore.  She used to love her, so thankful that faze is over.


Katy and Miley are just two of the singers that I can't stand.  I'm no better than they but there are some things that a person should just know what not to do and say, especially if you're someone that almost every little girl knows and many look up to...and every guy sees.


There is probably still more I could say but this is already rather long.
Good night.


God bless and keep you!
Grace be with you!
Alive because of His Blood,
Katie Bekah

I Changed My Blog Background For My Birthday!!

Hello, been awhile.  First of all, I just wanna say that I have the best friend in the world, we were chatting on Facebook and she got excited that I was going to write a blog post and is looking forward to it :)  She's awesome :)  Then again, there are many reasons why she's awesome :)
Anyways, I wanted to share with you all pictures of Christmas, my Christmas gifts, and snow.

Our Christmas tree.  The prettiest one we've ever had!

 

32 inch flat-screen HDTV Tommy bought us for Christmas :-D

 

Me holding Charlie :)

 

My Christmas gifts: 

 

Snowglobe my Aunt Nana gave me :)  To this day, I LOVE Winnie the Pooh! :-D

 

Aren't these boots adorable??!!  Can't wait to wear them!

 

Bracelet my cousin gave me :)

I hope you all had a blessed and wonderful Christmas with your loved ones!  God certainly blessed us and I look forward to seeing what He has planned for us in this New Year.

God bless and keep you!

Grace be with you!

Alive because of His Blood,

Katie Bekah