Passion: strong and barely controllable emotion.
Without passion what are we? Passion is what drives us to be the best we can. Passion ignites a fire within you and burns for all too see. Passion is what gets us out of bed every day and keeps us going throughout the day. Yes, you can survive without it. Your not living though.
If you do not have passion its easy to get into a routine of waking up, drinking some coffee, going to work, coming home and going to bed. Over and over again. Your life is meaningless and I feel like it is very hard to be truly happy with passion. Something you care about. Something that really makes your blood boil, your heart melt or your brain expand.
You could be passionate about anything. Maybe your passionate about children? Your job? or maybe seeing homeless, starving people ignites something inside you. Maybe your passionate about traveling? Painting? Flowers? Sports? It could be anything. Its the thing that pulls you through the hardest days and love and desire of doing, experiencing, changing.
-ColdCoffee
Friday, April 18, 2014
Character.
"Be more concerned with your character then your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." -John Wooden
"Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly." -Lawrence G. Lovasik
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." -Billy Graham
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." -Helen Keller
Character. Probably the most overlooked value a person can strive for. Everyone tells you to work for power, greatness, education, money, reputation, your never taught in school how to achieve character and thats probably because it cannot be taught. It is formed out of trial and error, achievements and failure, hardship and learning. Sure you can make a living by building up a huge corporate company and sitting behind a desk overseeing a hive of ants and overlooking your empire. Some might say this is greatness, an ability to control a section of the world. But is that greatness? You've worked so hard to create this empire that the rest of your life has passed you by. You come home every night to an empty house and switch on the TV, just letting life go on around you. This is not greatness, this is achievements.
Character. Without it you are just another ant hiding under a rock of an easy life. Although achieving character is forged through fire and hardship, through these experiences you are able to rise out of a crowd of people and lead them with strength with a sure, true foot. People of character are the people who make a difference in this world. Who decide to leave the rock of comfort behind and strive for true greatness and think of others before themselves.
Without them, we are nothing.
-ColdCoffee
"Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly." -Lawrence G. Lovasik
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." -Billy Graham
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." -Helen Keller
Character. Probably the most overlooked value a person can strive for. Everyone tells you to work for power, greatness, education, money, reputation, your never taught in school how to achieve character and thats probably because it cannot be taught. It is formed out of trial and error, achievements and failure, hardship and learning. Sure you can make a living by building up a huge corporate company and sitting behind a desk overseeing a hive of ants and overlooking your empire. Some might say this is greatness, an ability to control a section of the world. But is that greatness? You've worked so hard to create this empire that the rest of your life has passed you by. You come home every night to an empty house and switch on the TV, just letting life go on around you. This is not greatness, this is achievements.
Character. Without it you are just another ant hiding under a rock of an easy life. Although achieving character is forged through fire and hardship, through these experiences you are able to rise out of a crowd of people and lead them with strength with a sure, true foot. People of character are the people who make a difference in this world. Who decide to leave the rock of comfort behind and strive for true greatness and think of others before themselves.
Without them, we are nothing.
-ColdCoffee
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Dressed To Lure or be Pure?
If you were to look into your closet right now what would you see? Would you see sweat pants? Jeans? Miniskirts? As women of God, it is EXTREMELY important to think what kind of message you are sending about who you are based on what your wearing. The first thing most people notice when they meet a new person is how they are dressed. Even men. It not only our job, but our duty to keep those poor men's thoughts pure, not lustful.
I understand some women like that kind of attention and provoke those thoughts on purpose. Don't get me wrong. Almost every women likes to look her best, some more then others, but overall we want to look nice. The world tells us that if we want a mans attention or even just want to look good we need to wear tight miniskirts, crop tops, short dresses, butt-flashing shorts, anything that shows as much body as possible. No doubt that WILL get a mans attention. But, is that really the kind of attention you want? Do you want a swarm of men following you around because they love your body? or because they like you as a person? And truthfully, the kind of men you should want to attract actually appreciate a women that dresses modestly.
No, you don't have to wear a nun dress. But how about a pair of simple jeans, white blouse, light brown jacket and flats? You can look fashionable and classy instead of, lets face it, a slut.
Men are bombarded with these kind of imagines everywhere. Almost to the point that they can't get away from from it. And it's kind of embarrassing.
So, next time your getting dressed look in the mirror and ask yourself:
"Am I dressed to lure or be pure?"
Thanks for reading!
-ColdCoffee
I understand some women like that kind of attention and provoke those thoughts on purpose. Don't get me wrong. Almost every women likes to look her best, some more then others, but overall we want to look nice. The world tells us that if we want a mans attention or even just want to look good we need to wear tight miniskirts, crop tops, short dresses, butt-flashing shorts, anything that shows as much body as possible. No doubt that WILL get a mans attention. But, is that really the kind of attention you want? Do you want a swarm of men following you around because they love your body? or because they like you as a person? And truthfully, the kind of men you should want to attract actually appreciate a women that dresses modestly.
No, you don't have to wear a nun dress. But how about a pair of simple jeans, white blouse, light brown jacket and flats? You can look fashionable and classy instead of, lets face it, a slut.
Men are bombarded with these kind of imagines everywhere. Almost to the point that they can't get away from from it. And it's kind of embarrassing.
So, next time your getting dressed look in the mirror and ask yourself:
"Am I dressed to lure or be pure?"
Thanks for reading!
-ColdCoffee
Laughing
"She is clothed in strength and dignity and she laughs without fear of the future." -Proverbs 31:25
You probably laugh every day. If not, I am severely sorry. I am generally a happy person, and laugh basically every day. You may laugh at anything. Maybe your friend or co-worker cracked a joke, maybe you read something unbelievable like:
"GAS IS ONLY NINTY-NINE CENTS!"
If you think over this past week you probably laughed at a lot of stuff. But. Did you laugh without fear of the future? Maybe this is just me but when I laugh I just laugh because something is funny, not because I'm not afraid of the future.
I think everyone struggles with worrying about the future, or just worry in general. We worry about all kinds of stuff from big problems like "will I be able to afford dinner tonight" to "to watch another episode on Netflix or not, that is the question." (I must admit I struggle with the second one) Although God tells us that He will take perfect care of us, even better then we could, it is extremely hard to let go of all that worry.
I encourage you that next time you feel that wave of anxiety or worry. Just laugh. Laugh without worry of the future. God will take perfect care of you. We can take peace in that.
Thanks for reading! :)
-ColdCoffee
Hey!
Hello everyone!
This is, of course, my first post here on this blog. I was inspired to write a blog because I have all these ideas and thoughts swirling around in my brain and just don't have enough time to write a book about all of them.
Through this blog, I hope not just to inspire others but to get all these ideas out into the world and maybe see some action taken from them. I am not entirely sure what this blog will be mostly about but I hope to just write whatever I'm feeling, going through or ideas I may have. I also hope to do some fashion posts later on.
My blogger name, as you might already know, is ColdCoffee and, as you also might know, that is one of the names of the brilliant Ed Sheeran's song. As you might get from that, I enjoy music, reading, singing, fashion and writing.
At school, I am one of the "cool" kids and, sadly, am automatically put into the "shallow" category. People judge me without even knowing who I am or what I can do.
I also hope that this blog will change that. Although I do enjoy fashion and usually dress up slightly for school, I AM NOT SHALLOW. I know who I am and embrace that.
I am also a Christian. I have been a Christian from birth and am strong in my faith. I hope that this blog will reflect God's glory and people will be able to see Him through what I write.
Thanks so much for reading! My next post should be more interesting. :)
-ColdCoffee
This is, of course, my first post here on this blog. I was inspired to write a blog because I have all these ideas and thoughts swirling around in my brain and just don't have enough time to write a book about all of them.
Through this blog, I hope not just to inspire others but to get all these ideas out into the world and maybe see some action taken from them. I am not entirely sure what this blog will be mostly about but I hope to just write whatever I'm feeling, going through or ideas I may have. I also hope to do some fashion posts later on.
My blogger name, as you might already know, is ColdCoffee and, as you also might know, that is one of the names of the brilliant Ed Sheeran's song. As you might get from that, I enjoy music, reading, singing, fashion and writing.
At school, I am one of the "cool" kids and, sadly, am automatically put into the "shallow" category. People judge me without even knowing who I am or what I can do.
I also hope that this blog will change that. Although I do enjoy fashion and usually dress up slightly for school, I AM NOT SHALLOW. I know who I am and embrace that.
I am also a Christian. I have been a Christian from birth and am strong in my faith. I hope that this blog will reflect God's glory and people will be able to see Him through what I write.
Thanks so much for reading! My next post should be more interesting. :)
-ColdCoffee
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