Someone's Gotta Say It...

Dating in the teen years...

Everyone knows that a relationship won’t last a lifetime... well... unless your planning on getting married.

That’s only your two choices in life.

Break up or get married.

When the break up comes along, it will hurt, there will be tears, it will be over. Once your in a relationship, you have to accept the fact that it won’t last. Be prepared.

Knowing this, it will make your relationship that you have more valuable.

You know you have a “short” time together so you start to appreciate the time you both spend together.

Relationships and break ups are a great distraction. It messes with your view and goals that you have at that time. We shouldn’t be worrying so much, or running around chasing boys/girls.

When we do this, we stop growing spiritually. We suddenly don’t have the time for God.

We get to caught up with relationships and dating and chasing. We put God to the side and focus on the relationship we want to have with this boy/girl.

We should be focusing on our relationship on God first.

Baseball and Broken Hearts

I’ve been playing baseball since I was five years old. Little League Tee Ball. I’ve always have a passion for baseball, I was so into it when I was smaller, and that passion grew bigger and bigger. When I was smaller, I always thought the best part of the game was when it was my turn to hit. I would swing that bat so hard and run as fast as I could to first base. I didn’t really enjoy playing outfield at the time. Most of the other kids were either sitting down, or playing in the sand, or standing there with their glove on their head. I was there to play the game! I was easily frustrated with the other kids. I was a pretty competitive kid at that age.

I got my first baseball trophy when I was 5 years old. I thought it was the coolest thing ever! I was so proud of myself. At the age of five, anything like that, something that you won or achieved, it was the best feeling ever.

We lived in Pembroke at the time in a town house. Near our house, there was the neighbourhood basketball court. (Which was a sweet hang out at the age of five) The day I won that baseball trophy, I was showing everyone. I decided to take it over to the basketball court to show the other kids.

That was the worse day of my life.

I dropped it.

The head on the trophy smashed on the pavement. I walked home crying and showed my mom. Later on that week, she took it downtown to get it fixed at the jewelry place. Once it was fixed, I thought it was even better then before. The man that fixed it for me, he personalized it, he changed the head on the trophy to a girls head. It shows a girl standing, holding a bat over her shoulder. I was the happiest kid on the block. (The trophies that got handed out, usually, most likely, had a boy on it.)

Sometimes you need to break things and get them fixed to become something even better.

Relationships work the same way.

You could go through a bad relationship, thinking it’s the worst. Once you go through the heartbreak and tears, it wears off and you move on. Once its time, you might be ready to be in a new relationship. And you know, this one is going to be better then the last! Once you get your heart broken, and move on, you will find something better! You will have to go through the break up, and the tears, and the pain. But in the end, you will get something better out of it. This is because- once you figure out what ruin the relationship from before, the things that didn’t work, you can fix that and make it work for the next relationship.

I cried over my broken trophy and I cried over a broken heart. But, in the end, I got a WAY cooler trophy then any girl could imagine and I got a WAY better relationship then any girl could ever want. Remember, all after the pain and tears, you will get something better!