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For my blog, I didn't write an exact list, but I did work on discovering the meaning of communication in my life. I took it from a religious standpoint since that is how I have been raised!

There are many things that I do that set me apart from others. I have been raised in church my whole life, and I know that sometimes your actions will be the only Bible that some people ever read. 

I didn't have the best influence of friends when I was in middle and high school except for my best friend, my youth minister. The very first sermon that I heard him preached talked about his past. He didn't make the best decisions, but that is what developed his testimony. He then went on to say how he has yet to hear a person that has stayed strong, not faltered, and is proud to say that is their testimony. Most people believe that testimonies only come from people with dark pasts, but bright pasts bring encouragement and heaven closer to earth. I took this as a personal challenge. It was evident to me that I was not made to do drugs, drink, party, and go wild, but the world brings those temptations to us. 

I chose to develop relationships through living out my morals. I have seen people be a goodie two shoes around certain people, but I developed knowledge knowing that it gets you nowhere.  

Yes, I have made some mistakes that I am not proud of, but there are somethings that I choose not to do because I have developed my own path.  People will shoot me down, but I choose to get back up. People will have uncertainty about me and I will as well, but I choose to be faithful. My morals are from a religious background, and this right now might be a speech, but hopefully you will hang around me knowing that there is something different than me. That was one of my biggest deciding factors about becoming a Christian. It wasn't because of the fact that I had to, but my youth minister had something that I wanted. He had an overwhelming feeling of love that didn't run dry, and his actions affected my life forever in the best way possible. 

This however can have a negative affect. Being so much a church girl, I did come here wanting to be a different person. I wanted to use vocabulary words that the preacher wouldn't approve of, and have converstions that I wasn't ready for. This is one of those things that we have to watch for. Do you label yourself as one person and then be another? Are your actions putting a negative vibe on others?