Epicness in one Eyebrow (because that sounds so cool for a title!)

It has been forever. Not really, but I haven't posted in kind-of a long time so I really need to today. I HAVE ALMOST 1000 PAGE VIEWS and I am so excited to reach that monumental goal! I would be so grateful if you would share this blog with anyone you know who might want to read it. Another thing you could do is leave comments for topics that you would like me to cover! I am always open to ideas because my mind is usually quite blank. Right now I'm just buying time because I haven't thought of an exact topic yet...so here's where my mind is as of this minute:

 Oh, hello Zac Efron...thank you for stopping by <3

This one had to be bigger so you could experience the incredible cuteness in larger scale

Robert please stop. I can't even. Oh yeah...here...

Olivia thank you for that fantastic video which is my new favorite currently.

Alrightie now that I've wasted about 15 minutes I should get down to the meat of this. I don't know if that expression works but I heard it and I looked it up and I thought it sounded cool...so yeah. 

Books. Christian Books. I haven't read nearly as many books as probably most of you have, and not all of them were good. But there are a choice few that I would absolutely recommend to anyone. Actually not really anyone, more like teen girls. Wow, that really narrowed it down. 

The first book I want to talk about is called, What Is He Thinking?? What Guys Want Us to Know About Dating, Love, and Marriage by singer/songwriter Rebecca St. James.

The basis of the book is Rebecca asking guys of all types (from single 20-somethings-to older mentors and even her father) to share their thoughts about a wide variety of topics, like how women can respect themselves and the men in their lives, modesty, purity, taking it slow, friendship, letting guys lead, and more. The guys on the panel answer the questions candidly and they pretty much take the opportunity to tell us girls everything they think we should know about guys and relationships. Some of the questions taken from the book are:

• What is the most attractive quality to you in a woman? 
• Is modesty truly attractive?
•  Is neediness a turn-off? 
• What do you find beautiful? 
• How can we be dependent on God for our identity, not on you? 
• How can we help you with boundaries physically?

I loved this book because it really helped me in understanding how we (females) should act around guys and it gave me a window into how they think so I can be mindful of the effects of what I say and do. 

The next book I want to talk about is Emotional Purity by Heather Arnel Paulsen.

I won this book at a one-day convention and I didn't read it until several months later. At first I was like "I totally have all this stuff down. I don't need to read a boring book about it!" Guess what? I didn't have it all down and I DID need to read a (non-boring) book about it. Here's a brief synopsis of the book:

"Have you ever given your heart to someone who didn't love you in return? Have you had your heart broken over and over? Everyone's heard teaching on physical purity, but probably little about emotional purity. Often times Christians become emotionally intimate with male-female "friendships" but with no commitment to pursuing marriage. Many people have more than one of these relationships and consider themselves pure, but do they realize that they have given a piece of their hearts to each person that should been reserved for their spouse? Emotional Purity will show you how to set boundaries in your relationships so you can learn how to guard your heart and keep it emotionally pure." 

This is something that I had never really given thought too. Like everyone knows that you aren't supposed to be physically intimate before marriage, but emotionally intimate? As I followed the characters in the story I slowly realized that I had been giving my heart away little pieces at a time and not even realizing it! 
The last book I want to recommend is Beautiful in God's Eyes for Young Women: Looking good from the inside out.

 This book by Elizabeth George is a study of Proverbs 31-the Proverbs 31 woman. It is very in-depth and there are so many ideas and thoughts that are presented that i've never heard before even though I've studied this before. Throughout the study you find purpose and confidence and you start to feel really beautiful in God's eyes. The most recent thing I've realized as i've been going through is that I need to work on taking compliments. Often times we feel like we aren't very talented and the things we know how to do are insignificant because other people can surely do them better than we can, but it totally isn't like that! God gives us the abilities that we have so when someone compliments us on something we should thank God instead of saying "oh I'm not really that good at such-and-such."

That's all the typing I can really do cuz my fingers hurt...for whatever reason...so I would love it if you would check some of those books out!

XO Charlotte