Arie Belle Blog

I was sitting with my Grandfather Demetrios Kepas at the pharmacy as we waited a long while for their prescriptions to be filled which took about an hour. We sat there and watched as people came in and out of the store, at one point two young men came and sat near us and they started talking about the one guys broken arm. Eventually my Grandpa joined in on their conversation and started sharing his many years of knowledge with them. After finishing a couple different conversations he turns to me and the one guy who was left and said  If you took apart a clock, and set all of the pieces next to each other on the ground and waited, would they be able to put themselves back together without a master clock maker to put of all the pieces precisely where they needed to be in order to make the clock work. No, of course they wouldn't be able to put themselves back together, no even in a billion years. There had to be someone to put each part in its place in order for the clock to funct...

This past Sunday(yesterday) the over arching theme of our church meeting was God's love for us, and this video reinforces what was spoken of so tenderheartedly yesterday. But it applies to all stereotypes, its not just Gays and Lesbians that get mocked, and hated upon, its almost any group that another group deems "abnormal". But every single person on this planet is different, yet at the same time we are 100% equal in the eyes of God. No matter what someone does in this life, God will not stop loving them. Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ's love for us is eternal, never failing and always available to us. It bothers me so much that christian people sometimes think down on Gays or Lesbians. Because they are just in the dark and hiding in their fear which causes hatred for other people. If the people who "hate" homosexuals were to step out of their own closet of darkness and misguidance they would be able to get to know the person as a child of God. No di...

Good Timber The tree that never had to fight For sun and sky and air and light, But stood out in the open plain And always got its share of rain, Never became a forest king But lived and died a scrubby thing. The man who never had to toil To gain and farm his patch of soil, Who never had to win his share Of sun and sky and light and air, Never became a manly man But lived and died as he began. Good timber does not grow with ease: The stronger wind, the stronger trees; The further sky, the greater length; The more the storm, the more the strength. By sun and cold, by rain and snow, In trees and men good timbers grow. Where thickest lies the forest growth, We find the patriarchs of both. And they hold counsel with the stars Whose broken branches show the scars Of many winds and much of strife. This is the common law of life. Douglas Malloch

I tend to avoid talking about my religion in public, at school, and with new people that I am meeting and getting to know. Maybe I feel like they will judge me when they hear that I'm Mormon, maybe they won't want to be my friend, but if someone were to judge me and not be my friend based on my faith then they aren't the type of person I need in my life. Sharing my views on my blog is a way for me to share my faith and get it out there also it helps me to be less afraid of what people think of me, but instead of just throwing it out there that I am Mormon, I want to tell you about my faith, my beliefs and what it all means to me personally. I'm not writing this to convince any one there is a God, faith is a choice, joining a church is a choice, not believing in any God or higher power is a choice. We are all free to choose whatever path we want to go down, be it wrong or right, good or evil. Anyways, I've been thinking about my beliefs today, and for fellow LD...

Wilderness was a really tough spot for me, and this is something i wrote while i was in wilderness about prayer. I learned that praying really helped me get through though sh*t, I talked to God as if he was right next to me, i told him all my stuggles and frustrations, i cried to him and with him, i asked him directly for help, for hope, for forgiveness, for acceptance, for love and for strength. God was my only friend at the time, he was the only one i felt safe with talking to. I wish we could truly, undeniably know that he exsists and that he loves every single person on earth no matter what. I wish everyone felt his love, and i wish people didnt blame him. Life is life and God doesnt control it, he just puts everything here to see how we handle it. Life is all a matter of choices that we all make on a daily basis, its a test with no real "right" or "wrong" answers. with love, Arianna 

Recently alot of things have been happening that arent so great, but instead of just getting more and more sad i've started to look at things from a more positive point of view, being happy is a choice, we can either choose to look at things like its the end of the world or just something we have to overcome to get to something better in life. I haven't ever really prayed with intent before but let me tell you a story that really made me know that God is true and real and that he loves all his children. So I have a friend of mine who is actually my best friend and always will be, but they have been going through some really bad stuff lately, their depressed and lost in the world that has been so cold to them. I wish i could just make him believe that it will be okay, but it takes alot of faith to look past all the bad things especially while in the middle of tons of trials hanging over you. But over the last week i have been praying that he will be okay, and that everything w...