New "Business"

Hey everyone, I am just posting a little update for all my blog viewers to let them know about how I have expanded from AE Photography to AE Productions.  :)  My website was aephotography101.webs.com but now it is aeproductions101.webs.com!  Yes it's the same website but make sure you type it correctly!




This may get confusing because I changed all of my information on the website to say Productions but I am currently not using that website.  I will be changing it back to Photography so that can be linked back and forth between my productions and photography website... yes confusing I know, but in the end it will make sense.


Just bare with me while I figure out the "construction" of my websites.


Make sure you are going to the AE Productions website :). Thanks for your cooperation.

W.W.W.W.W.

WE WANT WHAT WE WANT can mean I, me, or myself.  Something that "we" want, "we" feel like "we" have to have it.  Everyone can be selfish, it's who we are or have made ourselves become.  Jesus' desire for His BODY is to be selfless but we sometimes are inadequate of that knowledge. "We" can always be swayed which makes us very weak or powerless of something that we "want". Jesus asked us to be a unity, ONE BODY, to live life through him.  We don't usually think about that in our daily lives.  We go about our day and whatever happens happens... forget about evening services, use foul language, actions that don't show Jesus to others.  We do those things because "We Want What We Want".

Two Sunday's ago our preacher did a sermon that made me think about all of this and I would like to share some of the notes we made during service:

1. Goal
His Note: Attitudes we should have about becoming a unity: Humility, Patience, Gentleness, Forebearing (Ephesians 4:2)
My Thoughts: I think that we should be all of the attitudes listed above, but I know that a lot of the time no one feels this way.  I can honestly say that I have very little patience and I personally need to work on it.  There's always room for improvement and time to ask God to help you.

2. We will we do as the body?

1. His Note: We will demonstrate oneness through His presence lived out in our midst. (John 14:16 & 20)

My Thoughts: We all need to live though his presence.  I have trouble doing that because I do what I want to do and I don't think about the say W.W.J.D. (What Would Jesus Do?) and I know that I need to work on that.

2. His Note: We will be a witness to the world. (John 17:21b, 23b)

My Thoughts: Being a witness to the world is one tough thing to do.  It is always easier said then done. Now I'm trying to think of something that I can do to be a witness for God! :)

3. His Note: We will reflect His glory! (John 17:22)

My Thoughts: Reflecting His glory?  I know I am no perfect Christian and I know I try everyday but don't you think it's a lot to ask from God to reflect something that's His?  I shouldn't even question what He asks us to do, but I don't even know where to begin to reflect His glory.  I guess I'll figure it out soon.

I hope that you can take this lesson I learned and take it to heart.  I may be confused but maybe you aren't about reflecting His glory.  Leave a comment to express your thoughts with me :).

Holding your tongue is a piece of work...

...and I sure as heck have figured that out the hard way.  No matter how old you are there will ALWAYS be some type of drama.  Can't avoid it, so might as well be in it and say nothing to keep it up.  I don't mean be in the talking behind someone's back "in it", I'm just saying that if you are apart of drama that deals with you then you have to be in the drama.  All you can do is take the high road and hold your tongue.  I feel some days that's like a job you should get paid for.  I mean seriously, sometimes I literally bite my tongue because I want to say something so bad but I know that if I do then it's all just going to go down the highway past 20 18-wheelers and almost killing yourself 15 out of those 20 trucks.  Probably a bad simile but oh well, made sense to me.  Anyways, my lesson that I've learned from the past few days is that holding your tongue and killing people with kindness make YOU feel better in the long run rather than just being a jerk to someone who does you wrong.



When you are tempted-
"Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trails of many kinds"
James 1:2