Survey!

1. What's your favorite time of the day, and why?
Morning or early evening. These are my magic moments when the world seems to come alive with thoughts and sights that seem to melt away in the bright sunlight. These are the times when dreams are made, and do I love to dream!

2. If health wasn't an issue, what food could you live off of?
My mom's greek salad! It is the best food IN THE WORLD!!! It's got all my favorite foods: olives, feta cheese, tomatoes, artichokes... YUM!

3. If you could have one wish granted (besides wishing for more wishes), what would it be?
To buy Barns and Noble AND Border's bookstores.

4. What's one thing that you get teased about a lot?
I don't like to be touched. It makes be feel threatened and uncomfortable. People, for some reason, take joy in tormenting me with ceaseless poking and petting!

5. If you could choose one movie, book, or TV show to spend your life in, which would you pick? What type of character would you be?
Either Stardust or the Princess Bride (I can't decide between the two) I would be the damsel who is usually in distress, but I can turn around and help the hero with my secret abilities.

6. If you could have one talent that you don't already have, what would it be?
To be able to learn any language quickly and easily OR to be able to read any book at lightning speed!

7.If money were no object, where would you go on vacation?
I've always wanted to go on a 1-2 year world tour. I want to visit all the major sights in Europe, see Turkey, India, Japan etc. I want to see the WORLD!

8. If you were an awesome singer, which genre would you sing?
Rock. Like Chris Daughtry, but the girl version.

9. If you could have a $10,000 shopping spree to one store, what would it be?
Jo-Ann fabrics or Hobby Lobby, I could make all the costumes I dream of...

10. If you could live in any point in time, when would it be?
I like it right now (with all of our tchnology and modern convineces) but I think it would be really cool to live back when ladies and gentleman held balls and huge dance parties.

11. If every outfit in your wardrobe had to be one color, what would it be?
AH! One color? I love blue. But I love red too... I guess all different shades of blue.

12. If you were one of the seven dwarves, which one would you be?
(Doc, Grumpy, Sneezy, Sleepy, Bashful, Happy, or Dopey)
Somewhere between Doc and Happy ;)

13. What's the last album you listened to?
Seth Lakeman's Poor Man's Heaven.

14. What's something we'd be surprised to know about you?
I put yogurt on my cereal -- not milk.


Now it's your turn! Have fun with it, and post a link in the comments below, I'd love to read your answers!

Think on These Things

I originally wrote this article for my beloved Passion Magazine. If you'd like to read the original click HERE.

So often we do things and don’t even consider the ramifications. We watch movies, read books and we don’t even take a second thought as to what we are doing to ourselves. I wanted to address some very serious side affects that most people don’t know about. Let me start with an excerpt from Leslie Ludy’s book Set-Apart Femininity.

“A close friend of mine was really struggling with spiritual attacks upon her life, waking up with horrible nightmares and battling fearful irrational thoughts on a nearly-constant basis. One afternoon as we met together for prayer, she casually mentioned that she’d just come from a movie. When she told me which one she’d seen, I was taken aback. It was a horror/suspense film and though it was one of the milder ones it still was leaving a gaping breach in her life though which the enemy could gain access. Paul said, ‘Whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy – meditate on these things.’ (Philippians 4:8)”

What we put into our minds either makes us spiritually stronger or spiritually weaker. I’m sure most of you never thought that you could be demonically attacked because of what you watched or read – I sure didn’t!

Please understand that I’m not trying to insight fear or paranoia about what we watch in movies or read in books or listen to in music, but you must know that these things DO affect you.

Not too long ago, whenever I felt lonely or depressed I would listen to music. That music, however, tended to be either very dark or very provocative in it’s lyrics. As time would pass and I continued to fill my head with the sound of this music, I found myself spiraling down into sorrow and (even though I never did it) self-harm. I was poisoning myself with the music I was listening to.


Another example would be of my wonderful mother. When she first got married, she had to move away from her very large family. She was depressed and lonely, and in her efforts to relieve the sadness she would watch afternoon soap operas and reality TV. In a few short weeks, my mother was plagued with nightmares, severe anxiety, paranoia (all of which were demonic attacks). As soon as my father found out, he posed the question to her, “Could it be what you are watching?” That was when it dawned on my mother. All of the un-godly, pagan television she was watching was poisoning her mind and soul – leaving her open to attacks from Satan. As soon as she stopped watching all of her regular programs, the nightmares and stress melted away.

Another thing that can be very damaging is books. The first thing that usually pops into our minds when we think of “books that we probably shouldn’t read” are romance novels, but I want to delve into something much more popular...manga.

Manga and anime are some of the most popular reading materials out there. Both girls and guys go crazy over the latest issue of their favorite comic – never mind that over 90% of them are filled cover to cover with extremely satanic and sexual messages. I don’t mean this to be a rail against manga, there are some very good ones out there, but the majority of the comics are anything but “holy”. Is this really something we should be filling our heads with? Leaving, as Leslie Ludy put it, “a gaping breach” in our lives? Everything affects us. It is, however, up to us what we allow into our lives – be it the Internet, movies or novels.

Our thoughts stir up our emotions. Our emotions stir up our desires. Our desires trigger our actions. The most important battles we fight are those of the mind. That is why Paul is so insistent on “Whatever things are true… meditate on these things.” Whatever time we spend cultivating in our minds will effect our actions. Constant baragement from evil things will cause us to be more and more prey to our sinful actions. But, daily devotion and prayer will strengthen us and draw us closer to the Lord for He has given us the power to, “Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” (James 4:7b)