Pretty little pics 1

Pretty pictures I have come across this week. Enjoy!!!

1. pretty floral bike and sunset.

2. Pretty garden and gate.

3.Pretty little letters and bow.

4. Pretty VW pretty love.

5. Pretty tree and pretty building.

Photos: weheartit

6. Pretty outside nook and pretty pillows.

Photo: Verhex

7. Pretty scene.

Photo: dimitri caceaune.

8. Pretty buttons.

Picture: craftyangel

Photo coutesy of "from my bookshelf" on etsy.

Lately I have been trying to not have regrets. To not let myself wish I could go back and make different decisions than the ones I have made. Obviously there are decisions that were probably not the best ones, but those sometimes were the important ones... the ones that I learned from. I often get dramatically carried away into the hard decisions I am going to make in life.... mapping out outcomes and thinking of every possible consequence that will happen through my decision. I then try and decide what to do based on whether I would be able to handle the consequences or not.

But, it's comforting and easier to make decisions when I know that life will be good no matter what.... that if I choose what I shouldn't have chosen, the consequence may be hard at the time, but with time it becomes easier to deal with and ultimately something that I learned a valuable life lesson from.

AND Sometimes it's things that happen in life that were never really a decision of mine, but someone else's that I wish they hadn't made. People's decisions almost ALWAYS affect those around them.

For example: I sit here listening to my dad and Jordan playing the guitar together and feel a happiness and peace with the way my life has turned out thus far. I look back to when I was a sixteen year old girl crying for hours in bed because a boy broke up with me. I remember my mom saying what everybody hates hearing when they are dumped. "Hailey, there are plenty of fish in the sea, and trust me, you will find a better fish." I remember rolling my eyes and thinking, "I don't want anybody else." If I would have trusted her, or known that in the future I would have met someone like Jordan, then my heartache at that moment in time would have been pretty much nothing.

My life has turned out better than I ever thought it would. Better than I could have ever imagined.

So I have tried... tried to stop making things harder for myself than they have to be. I have stopped listening to what people around me tell me to do, and what my mind tells me to do...Because my mind thinks too much and makes webs of thoughts.

I try to do what the church says to do... SIMPLIFY!!!! I simplify my thoughts without being so gosh darn analytical, make a decision, go to the Lord about it, and ACT upon it.

Because there is no use in going back to yesterday... cause today I am a different person because of yesterday. And when I get all caught up in decisions, I begin living in the yesterday, because those decisions should have been made then.

It is in moments like this when I realize the faith and trust I have in the Lord with my future and my life. For years I have worried and hoped for a certain future, but the Lord knew better than me what would really make me happy. And here I am happier than I ever thought possible because I trusted what the Lord threw at me and went with it. I am trying a lot harder this year to exercise that faith and stop worrying about what will happen in my future. because I know it will be glorious.

Lets stop living in yesterday and tomorrow.

We Are the World.

I look up to people like this. I always tell myself, "Someday I will be like that. Selfless, caring, and dedicating my life to making others happier." But, I need to stop saying someday and just start. I would absolutely love to just go and live in another country for a year and just give... But until I can afford that, I am going to try my best to help the thousand of people here in Utah that are less fortunate than me. They go so unnoticed.

My mother works at an elementary school where more than half of the kids are in poverty and worry everyday whether they will come home to their parents home or in jail. I spend just a small amount of time with these kids each week giving service, and the small three hours a week makes such a large difference. For them to have somebody they can look up to and love is all they need.

I know a lot of people who disliked Michael Jackson. And yes, there may have been some things he did that were not good decisions, but I like to try and focus on the good that people did in their lives... I loved Michael Jackson. Not just because of his music, but because he was so into making this earth a better place.

I have shared this video on here before.... but I thought it deserved another post. :)

What is life all about.?.