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Marianne Dashwood--a romantic, poetic, young lady who is easily swayed by any man who can recite poetry with feeling.

In the movie sense and sensiblity, we meet this young lady and immediately love her. We know she always has best intentions at heart, and she loves her family more than anything in the world, but her romantic side makes us laugh.

When they move to a small cottage, Marianne meets a certain heartbroken colonel who falls in love with her. She likes him, but he's not as romantic as she has always dreamed of. Because of some rumours which have been spread about the two of them, when he calls she takes a walk to escape from the house--and consequently changes her entire life.

It begins to rain, and she slips and sprains her ankle. Out of nowhere, the most charming, dashing man she's ever seen runs over to help her up. He carries her back to her house where they realize that they both love poetry, and in the blink of an eye Marianne falls in love.

Willoughby and Marianne do not care what other people think about them, but show their love to each other more openly than anyone else in the entire area they lived in, and rumours began to spread like wildfire--but Marianne is too in love to notice.

Suddenly, the formerly rich willoughby loses all of his fortune, and he runs to London on urgent business--leaving Marianne.

Marianne does not give up. She thoroughly believes that he will come back, and continues to write him letter after letter with no reply. Suddenly, the perfect oppurtunity comes up! They are all invited to London! she goes, and sees Willoughby at a dance where she sees him with other ladies. She goes to talk to him, but he is indifferent to her, and treats her the same as he treats her sister. She spends days after days crying, and her heartbreak eventually leads her to putting herself in danger of death. Eventually she learns that Willoughby lost all of his inheritance because of an affair he had with a girl which he then abandoned, so she was now alone with his child she bore.

The Colonel has not given up on his beautiful Marianne, though, and through it all he helps her. I always start crying when he runs out to save her while she is standing in the pouring rain on the hill overlooking Willoughby's house--even though he knows that she's only going because of her love for his enemy. While she is on the brink of death he does whatever he can, and at the end they get married.

How often are we like Marianne, girls? How often can we look past a man's character and only see the romantic outside? How often do we focus on the sweet things he whispers to us or the hugs he gives and look past the past relationships he's had and what he did to them?

We may say "he loves me. He'll change." But he might not. "How do you know, wife, whether you will save your  husband? And how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?" we don't know. that's the point. Don't open yourself up for heartbreak. To quote Taylor Swift, "Look before you fall."

Even if someone is the most romantic, sweet guy you've ever met, they can hide terrible things. Some of the most amazing looking guys are great actors. Be careful. Guard your hearts, for they are the wellspring of life.

But there is a happy side! There will be a perfect husband for you. God is preparing him for you right now. Save yourself for him, mind, body, and soul.

If the guy you have a huge crush on right now is the one for you, HE CAN WAIT. Hear that? If you're 14, and you think you're in love with someone, give him the biggest test of love in the world -- TELL HIM TO WAIT FOR YOU.

I'm praying for you all girls! Don't give yourself to a guy who doesn't deserve you. Wait for the perfect prince.

BeCcA

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I've been watching a few people I know over the last few months. Over those months a girl (let's call her Meghan) has become very close friends with a guy (let's call him Tim). However, Tim has now got a girlfriend (Hailey), and seems to be completely distacted from everything else. Now Meghan and Tim hardly ever talk.

Meghan's heartbroken, because she hoped he would be her Christian, big-brother mentor she's always watnd. She dreamed of having a guy-friend who could give me good advice and brotherly love. Because of that, however, she made herself vulnerable to him. Opened up to him. Poured out her soul. She let him have enough of her heart that he was able to break it. And he did break it, when he decided that he would give back her heart and take Hailey's.

Now there's a choice Tim has to make.

two girls want two different-yet strangely similar- things from the same guy. Meghan wants brotherly love and affection while not being in a relationship, but Hailey wants his love WHILE being in a relationship.

he has to choose. If he chooses to keep Meghan, he loses both the girl he believes he loves as well as the thrill of being in a relationship. He loses one more thing as well--his security. He has placed his worth in her, and when she's gone, so is his worth. He placed his worth in something temporary.

If he chooses Hailey, he gains the joy of having his "love" all to himself, and has the thrill of being loved back, but he loses Meghan, his Christian mentor who has been with him during his spiritual walk for quite some time. He secludes hiself with his newly found girlfriend from all his old friends, including Meghan.

He chose Hailey. Meghan hasn't talked to him in two months, because he's not interested in talking on facebook anymore, since he's too busy talking with Hailey. Also, he just moved, so she can't see him anymore.

Why do teenagers seem to seclude themselves from everyone else when they're whisked off to their "land of fairytales and dreams come true" relationships? I've been forced to stand by and watch while my friend has had her heart broken by a perfectly nice Christian guy!

Just remember that your girlfriend or boyfriend might not always be with you, but your friends will. If you don't push them away from you. I know a lot of you don't have relationships at the time, but is there anything else that's separating you from your friends? A bad attitude? A best friend? (not that best friends are bad, but remember that there's always other people who you might be able to help, and if you push everyone else away and you and your friend just go and hang out you won't have anyone when she's gone.)

What's your answer? why do teens do this to each other? It happens every day, but no one seems to DO anything about it!

What can YOU do?

Go and reach out to that person who needs a friend right now. It doesn't matter what they're like--everyone's the same in God's eyes.

BeCcA

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Hey everyone!

Just to let you know, my blog is going to have a total makeover on the entries. they're going to be about my life, yes, but mostly about stuff that I write during my devotions or stuff that i just pick up that sounds neat. Something like my last entry.

Sound good to you?

I'm really excited about it. :) I right a bunch of neat stuff in my journal (if I do say so myself) and i think it would be cool if I could share it with you girls. And guys. If I have any guys reading this.

So yeah! I'm going to start officially today.

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(this is where the real entry starts, btw)

I wrote this a while back when i was at camp. Hope you enjoy it!

"I'm doing devotions now, and something really stood out to me:

1 Corinthians 15:41=
the sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another, and the stars another; and star differs froms tar in splendor.

How often do we look at another star (person) and their splendor (talents, clothes, looks, friends, etc.) and completely over look our own splendor?

And star DIFFERS fom star in splendor, not and some stars have better splendor than others.

Next time I begin to put myeslf down about my looks, my clothes, what I say, what I do, how I act--anything, I'm going to remember this verse and remind myself of my own splendor, and how it differs from anyone elses splendor. 

It takes every star there is to light up a night sky. We just need to let our splendor shine, and we'll become part of the beautiful blanket of light in the sky.

How am I making my splendor shine?"

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So now I ask, how are YOU making your splendor shine? Or are you hiding it behind a cloud?

You have a beautiful splendor, and no one can take it away from you or copy it and call it their own. It's yours--use it for the King!

BeCcA

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Hey everyone!

here's something I just wrote in my journal yesterday, and decided I might as well make it into a blog post:

So it was Melissa's last Sunday at church yesterday. Soon she'll be leaving for university. It's so weird to think of my friends going off to different cities for university. I just want to feeze time--make everything stop. there have only ben a couple times I've wanted to stop time.

Wen Ali and I talk for hours at sleepovers.

When Mommy and I were on a walk together--just the two of us.

Chatting with one of my friends in a raspberry field eating all the while.

Singing with the kids in Africa.

The really nice times. the little things that--at that time--make your world. It's hard to explain. I feel like an idiot whenever I try to explain it. but I think everyone feels it. everyone has that one time--whether it was a split second or a year--that they wish they could live for the rest fo their lives. During that time they know they're safe, and nothing bad will happen.

Because to them, that *s e c o n d* was *p a r a d i s e.*

BeCcA