New location for Incorruptible Beauty!!!

Hello All!
I just wanted to post and let you all know that there is a new location for this blog and the podcast that goes with it that will be updated much more often than this one was. ^_^ Please check us out at www.incorruptiblebeauty.webs.com
Thanks!
~Aimee

“I Celebrate the Day”

And with this Christmas wish is missed
The point I could convey
If only I could find the words to say
To let you know how much You’ve touched my life
Because here is where You’re finding me
In the exact same place as New Year’s Eve
And from a lack of my persistency
We’re less than half as close as I want to be

And the first time that You opened Your eyes
Did you realize that You would be my Savior?
And the first breath that left Your lips
Did You know that it would change this world forever?

And the first time that You opened Your eyes
Did You realize that You would be my Savior?
And the first breath that left Your lips
Did You know that it would change this world forever?

And so this Christmas I’ll compare
The things I felt in prior years
To what this midnight made so clear
That You have come to meet me here

To look back and think that
This baby would one day save me
In the hope that what You did
That You were born so I might live
To look back and think that
This baby would one day save me

And the first time that You opened Your eyes
Did You realize that You would be my Savior?
And the first breath that left Your lips
Did You know that it would change this world forever?

And the first time that You opened Your eyes
Did You realize that You would be my Savior?
And the first breath that left Your lips
Did You know that it would change this world forever?

And I, I celebrate the day
That You were born to die
So I could one day pray for You to save my life
Pray for You to save my life
Pray for You to save my life.
~”I Celebrate the Day” by Relient K

A Cure For Madness…

“So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘what will we eat?  What will we drink?  What will we wear?’  These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your Heavenly Father already knows all your needs.  Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.  So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries.  Today’s trouble is enough for today.”

This is what it says in Matthew 6:31-34.   Remember my blog a few months back where I talked about worrying about my algebra class?  Well I prayed a lot and asked God to be with me as my final came up.  I also did my part too and worked very hard on studying and worked a lot with the tutor at my school.  And I got my final grades today and in my College Algebra class I got a……..B!!!!  God brought me through it and I got through with a great grade!  I am so happy and thankful to God for helping me with this class.  ^_^

So the other thing I wanted to talk about today is this….

I have always considered myself to be a writer.  And when I write, I get attached to my characters, and when I haven’t written about them for a while there are times where I physically miss them as if they were actually friends of mine.  Well I have this good friend of mine who is actually pretty wise, even if he may not think so.  Well I told him about how I miss my characters at times and he had a revelation.  He said. “God created us and knows us so well.  He even wrote our lives!”

This really blew me away.  I had never thought of it this way!  Sure I knew God created us and has plans for our lives but I hadn’t really thought of Him in the context of an author.  This really struck a chord with me, if I as a writer actually physically missed the characters in my stories, fictional characters, if I am away for them long, then how does God feel when we are apart from Him?  I know I personally hate it when I am missing April and Dominick, or Aruna and Delem, and they aren’t even real!  They’re fictional characters on a page.  So I can’t even fathom how God feels when we, His creations, who are real, living and breathing, choose to be apart from Him.    God who said. “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;  Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” (Jeremiah 1:5)
So how do you think we make Him feel when we decide we don’t need him, or that we’re “too busy” to spend time with Him.  I’ve felt a minute fraction of what He feels when we do this to Him, so I’ve decided that I don’t want to make Him feel like this anymore.
~Aimee

Mad as a Hatter…….. (That’s Me!)

Sometimes I feel like I am about to go crazy with all the stuff that is going on in my life… Mainly it’s school stuff that makes me feel like this, and usually it has to do with algebra. Math has never been my forte, although what usually trips me up in this subject is just stupid, silly mistakes. But still I let it get to me and stress me out. In the past week, I have actually been physically sick because of worrying about the algebra class I’m in, I am making a C currently, and I’m stressed and worried to the point where I will actually be very happy if I finish the class with a C and don’t have to take it again. The thing is, why am I so worried about it? I know that if I work my hardest on it and pray that God will see me through, but I still let it get to me. Satan sure knows what he’s doing when he uses worry to distract us from God. My time with God has significantly gone down since I started taking this class, and the time I do spend is not very worthwhile and usually involves me praying about this class because I’m worried about it. So what do I need to do? One of my biggest problems is procrastinating, so first off I need to start managing my time better. I am going to make a weekly schedule for myself, and I am actually going to schedule in time to spend with God. I know, I know, I shouldn’t need to schedule time with God, I should just want to spend time with Him. I know this, but the thing is, when I worry, I don’t want to do anything but sit and worry. So if I schedule time in with God, then I will get into the Word again, and it will whet my thirst for God, and when I start doing this, very soon I begin to desire more and more time in the Word with God. So if you have to write it down and set apart time for God, don’t feel too bad, just get into the Word. Really try to study it, and pretty soon you’ll thirst for it and spend more and more time in it… At least, that’s how it is with me. I actually started back on my quiet times this morning, and I’m actually feeling a lot better today than I have for a few weeks now. God makes all the difference!
~Aimee

My Story

My name is Aimee, and I am 20 years old. I was born the daughter of a pastor, I had two younger siblings, one brother and one sister. I had accepted Christ at around 4 years old and life seemed to be going pretty well for me. But when I was 16 years old I started to have doubts to whether God was real, and if He was then why would He care about me? These doubts went on for a few months, then that summer I was at Church camp with my youth group and God used something in the sermon on that Tuesday night to prick my heart. I was still unsure about God, so I asked Him. “God, if You’re really there, then would you send a white butterfly to fly in front of my face when I say amen?” As soon as I said amen, a white butterfly flew in front of me and that night I went down to the altar and rededicated my life to Christ. Oh, and the butterfly, I not only saw it that night, but it circled my entire group while we were in tabernacle every morning for the rest of the week! After that I started growing closer and closer to God, until He started telling me something I didn’t want to hear. Ever since I had been 4 years old my dream was to become a veterinarian. And as I got older, I had it all planned out, what college I’d go to, and even the clinic I wanted to work in! But God started to tell me that being a vet was not in His plan for me. I didn’t like that, so I tried to ignore it. I tried to ignore it for two years… I could not hear God anymore; I didn’t spend any time with Him, because when I did He convicted my heart about being a vet. Finally when I was 18 everything changed. Two weeks before my high-school graduation, my father called my siblings and I into our parent’s room, we then found out that my mother wanted to leave… I will never forget that night, there was so much yelling and crying, and my mother just sat there indifferent. We found out later that she had been having an affair with an old boyfriend from high-school. It broke my dad’s heart. He had loved her with all his heart for 24 years. My mother left a few weeks after I graduated in 2007, the divorce tore my family apart, but one of the good things that came out of it was that my father, siblings, and I began to grow much closer to God. My brother had a complete change; you know how they say boys get their self-esteem from their mother? Well my mother was never really affectionate to any of us, and in fact would tease us and ridicule us about weight, or any of our interests that she did not like. So my brother had always been very shy and never talked to anyone he didn’t know. But God started working in him, and brought him out of his shell, and now he is one of the most outgoing guys in our youth group and I know he is going to do great work for God. During the summer of ’07 I grew closer and closer to God, I was closer than I had ever been to Him. But still, that fall when I started college, I was still majoring in veterinary medicine, even taking biology classes for majors. But two months into the semester God was working on my heart again about being a vet not being in His plans. My family cleans our church building, and one day I was sweeping in one of the preschool rooms, and a song came on my iPod that I had avoided like the plague for two years. The song was “Surrender” by BarlowGirl, and it talks about giving up our dreams, and taking up what God has planned for us. I don’t know why I let it play, but I listened to it and just broke down bawling. I finally turned my dreams over to God. I told Him “Ok, I’ll do whatever You want me to do.” And He started to reveal to me that He wanted me to have a career in the field of psychology. At first I just figured that I would be counseling in a clinic, but now God has revealed four possible paths to me, and He hasn’t said no to any of them yet! I am really starting to believe that I will be doing all four! They include, counseling, working with girls who have eating disorders, traveling around the nation speaking to girls about how God views them and how they don’t have to give in to our culture’s idea of beauty to have worth, and the biggest of these, and also one of the ones I am the most excited about… Owning and running a Christian based girls home. So even though some bad things have happened to me, I can see where God has brought the good out of it. And I thank Him for it every day.
~Aimee

“Made to be Me”, by Shell Perris (One of my personal favorite songs.) ^_^

How many times have I denied myself to be,
Who I really am? Yeah, You know me.
Am I ever gonna be more than just a girl?
Do You see me as having a life of worth?
All my life I’ve needed to hear,
That with me You’ve cried every tear

I have been waiting
Waiting for someone to love me as I am
I’m not taking
Anything less I’ve been given what I have
No more wasting
Trying to be someone I’m not meant to be
I was made to be me

I used to be told that I was nothing on my own
Now I realize I was not alone
Every weakness I’ve had to face
But now I’m strong because of God’s grace

I have been waiting
Waiting for someone to love me as I am
I’m not taking
Anything less I’ve been given what I have
No more wasting
Trying to be someone I’m not meant to be
I was made to be me

I’m running hopelessly falling
Trying to find
Someone who’ll satisfy what I feel
You’ve been there all this time
Now I finally see
In Your love I’m made complete

I have been waiting
Waiting for someone to love me as I am
I’m not taking
Anything less I’ve been given what I have
No more wasting
Trying to be someone I’m not meant to be
I was made to be me