You must cross your heart and kiss your elbow...

What an amazing quote. If you can name the movie it's from, you and I are destined to be best friends. If you can't, it's alright, we can still be friends :)
It makes me think about promises. Pinky promises, cross your heart and other silly sayings that we hear as children. I still use pinky promises quite regularly. To me, breaking a pinky promise is one of the worst things someone can do. It's an unspoken rule that you just do not break a pinky promise. So many things going on in the world today. It can overwhelm a person if you think too hard about it, so I try to focus on the positive things in life. I'm blessed beyond belief. I have amazing friends, family and an all around great life. But, I can't imagine my life without a relationship with Christ. He has gotten me through the toughest times of my life. I realize that everyone is entitled to their own beliefs and opinions, but not trusting Him and believing that it gets better after we leave this life is something I simply do not understand. How can someone be satisfied that this life is all there is? With all the pain and suffering in the world, it helps to believe in something. Someone. We are promised an eternity with God in heaven if we turn from the ways of the world and accept Jesus Christ as our Savior. It's better than a pinky promise. Or crossing your heart and kissing your elbow. It's a promise that will not be broken.
I realize that I haven't been punctual with writing this blog, but I tend to forget about it at times. When I do remember to write, I have all kinds of different thoughts rushing around in my head and it's difficult to sort them out. I apologize if they are all quite confusing.
I used to have a serious problem with keeping my mouth shut. I tend to speak before I think. It's an issue that has gotten me into lots of trouble with my parents and probably cost me a few friendships. I tend to say what everyone else in the room is probably thinking but just doesn't want to say. Honesty may be the best policy, but in my case it's not. You can be honest and state an opinion without being so abrasive. I didn't realize how difficult it is to be around someone who is like that until recently. I was raised to believe that there are some things you just don't talk about in polite conversation. Politics and your health. The reason behind this being that everyone has a different opinion about politics and no one is really interested in hearing about your collicking baby or your nasty sinus infection. Politics tend to make my skin crawl and I usually refuse to discuss them. I'm not saying that others shouldn't, but politics center so much on personal experience and opinion that it's almost impossible to talk about them without someone being offended in some way before the end of the conversation. That being said, I should probably point out that while I'm not liberal I'm also not highly conservative. I'm kind of in the middle. I realize that people will say that's a cop out. That's fine. As I said before, you are welcome to your opinion. The problem I have is when people try and force their politics down your throat. The backhanded comments and cynical views expressed by so many over facebook and other social networking sites are simply ways to get attention. Liberals are not all crazy and conservatives are not all....well, never mind. I come from quite a conservative background. One thing I truly appreciated growing up was that my parents never shared their political opinions with me. They let me form them for myself. While I may not be the most conservative being, I still find it rather offensive when Republicans are called "uneducated".
Politics and religion (or lack thereof) tend to go hand in hand these days. Promises seem to be broken way too easily. The days of crossing your heart and kissing your elbow seemed so much easier.
By the way, the quote is by Holly Golightly in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" in case you didn't know :)