Despite all the sins, hurts, hate and wrongs in my life, I know I'm still living here on Earth. And every second is a choice to do better, to be better, and to surrender it all to Him.

Life sucks sometimes, but only because I make it suck. I know through it all, beneath it all, above it all and around it all I'm so blessed to have God's love.

"There is nothing you can do to God to make Him love you less."

One of the first lines about Him that I ever learned and it's something that is crucial to my well being. Sin does exactly as its supposed to and it's been doing so now... but it's power is nothing compared to the power of His love and mercy.

Whatever hope and joy that I experienced in the past is something I should realize to have come from God alone. My friends were instruments of His love, but the love and growth itself came from Him alone. What was once in the past is not lost, it is just time now that I find and apply these things to the present. To now. It came from different sources in the past, but that's the thing, it's the past. God wants to carry me through so many more chapters and take me to views of different highs and lows, but nonetheless ever closer to Him.

There's beauty not just at the view of the high mountain peaks, but in the low valleys where the forests and rivers are as well.