To Hell and Back

I remember saying to a friend of mine, "Oh goodness, I love you to hell and back!" I meant this, of course, in a positive way. Like saying that you love someone to the moon and back, but more intense.
Okay, yes it does sound a bit morbid; but that is not the point of this story.
Anyways, my friend told me that it sounded better to say, "I love you to heaven and back." And for a while, I said exactly that.
But, after I had given this more thought, (Why I gave it more thought I have no idea) I decided that I meant what I had originally said.
I have grown up in the church, and so I have heard countless times about Heaven and about how Christians have Jesus in their hearts. And you know what? I don't think Heaven is as far away as we make it out to be. If you are a Christian, the holy spirit of God (the God who dwells in heaven) is inside of you and your spirit. Your spirit then, is really quite close to heaven. If you really love God and talk to him often, it makes sense that your mind is quite close to heaven as well.
I also believe that we can catch glimpses of what Heaven is, if we know how to look. Heaven is essentially being with God. So, when you do things that bring you closer to God, you taste what Heaven will feel like.
When I was on a mission trip in the Dominican Republic, I spent most of my time with a little girl named Milagros (miracle). I didn't do anything huge for her, I just loved on her constantly. Even though that week was a hard one, I think I tasted Heaven through a little girl who shared my Abuela's name.

So, the distance between Heaven and I is not such a great distance. The distance between me and Hell however, is a distance to brag about in His name. I will NEVER go to Hell. No one can ever snatch me out of my Father's hands. Not height or depth, not death or life, not rulers of the darkness of this world or spiritual wickedness in high places can take me from God's hands. The distance between the children and saints of the most high God is a distance to be reckoned with; Farther than the sun is from Pluto (which is totally a planet). Hell cannot touch us, it is too far away.

Although it sounds dark, to say that I love someone to Hell and back is to say that I love them infinitely. But the real point is that for God's kids, Heaven is everywhere we choose to seek it out, and Hell is so far away that we may breath easy.

That's my opinion,

And that's all she wrote.

Hello world, I am a writer.

When people ask me what my major is, I used to be tempted to lie every time and say that I'm going for an engineering degree, or a pre law degree. I am studying English and Creative Writing at UCF, and you know something? I love it.
If one more person looks at me and says, "Oh... so you want to teach then?" I might be tempted to throw a large book at them. Because of my major, people scrutinize my grammar (at which I have never excelled), question what on earth I can do besides teach, and shake their heads at me when they can't understand my poetry. But I love what I do, and that's all that matters. I'm using the gift that God has given me, and I have never been happier =]
For anyone still wondering, I do not want to teach. I have no idea what I want to do... but I will not be standing before a class diagramming sentences for the rest of my post-college life. Not that there is anything wrong with doing that, it's just not who I am.
So, to everyone who ever cared to read Dickens for pleasure or Oscar Wilde for a laugh, this is me.
I am a writer. I don't always make sense, my grammar can be atrocious, and I write straight from my heart. But one thing that my words will never be, is boring. My poems like to rhyme, and so do my stories.
And so, dear readers, I hope that you will be entertained. Don't worry about meaning, it is what it is. Just let the words flow and twist and come alive.

And that's all she wrote