You are Wonderful

We all have the potential to be wonderful, beautiful, glorious, smart, and generally just amazing. Pick anybody in the world, and you can find some good things about him/her. Treat people like the people they can be, as perfect creatures.
You have qualities to develop and enlarge also. It's not just people in general that are amazing. It's each and every one of us individually. Consider making a list of some qualities that you have that are awesome, and that you can work on to become even better.
You are each different, and beautiful in your own way, just like different types of flowers. Don't forget that.

You Only Live Once

if you were to die, right now, what would you regret most? Would you regret that you never got to see the movie that all your friends told you to watch, that somebody had more fashionable clothes than you? Or would you regret that you didn't strive to be better, to love and serve others?
I personally would regret that I didn't give more time doing what God has told me to do, that I wasted time judging instead of loving, and that I didn't be generally more kind and gentle.
 So, how are you going to improve your life so you have less to regret when you do die?

Reading

This is a blog post that I really like. Fiction today may be really entertaining, and seem to have no harm, but is it really helping you in anyway? If not, you might as well put it down and read A Tale of Two Cities, Les Miserables, or a modern classic, such as The Hunger Games.
A lot of fiction today doesn't have good morals, quite a bit of it has bad morals, and some of it is just pure fluff, even though some of it is really good.
When you think about, there really isn't that much time to read. We only live approximately 80 years, and we should use our lives for good.

http://familymatters.net/blog/2012/04/11/love-darcy-a-classic-reminder/

Learning

Learning goes on infinitely. There isn't any end to the amount of ways that things have been written, to new ideas that haven't been learned, new views on things. We should learn new things every day of our lives, that we may improve ourselves and refine our souls.
Here are some ways that we can continue learning things:
Reading books, preferably that teach you a lesson.
Doing new things, like learning to knit, ride a horse, or keep bees.
Talking with other people, yourself, and God about meaningful things.
Writing down ideas that you have.

Why we Need to Improve our Moral Standards

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."
- C.S. Lewis
An education is an excellent thing. It helps us to do what we're supposed to do and make informed choices. Get an education if you possibly can.
But good morals and values are what we really need today. In our world today, it seems like less people see right and wrong, and more people view morals as relative. It doesn't matter what people do. It all depends on what they think is right.
Please, make sure to have morals and standards. It will improve yourself, your family, and everybody who comes in contact with you.

Following the Savior's Example

"But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;"- Matthew 5:44

We must truly love and forgive those that do evil things and hate us. In Hamlet, a play by Shakespeare, Hamlet doesn't forgive his uncle for killing Hamlet's father and marrying Hamlet's mother. In the end, this just leads to everybody dying, including Hamlet himself.
Although the results of not forgiving people aren't always like this, they are still horrible. It makes the person that doesn't forgive foster hatred in his heart, which makes his heart grow tough, and unsensitive. It squashes love, kindness, generosity.

Jesus forgave everybody, He prayed for the people that were nailing him on the cross. He died for us, that we may be free from sin. We can all follow His example by forgiving others, as He forgave us.

John Jay

I wrote a thing about John Jay for my school, so I thought I might as well post it on here.

"John Jay was born on December 12, 1745, in New York City, New York. The thing that he is most famous for is being the first Chief Justice of the U.S..

He also wrote federalist papers two, three, four, five and sixty four, served as president of the Continental Congress, served as governor of New York, was Secretary of Foreign Affairs under the Articles of Confederation, and an ambassador to Spain and France.

He was educated at home until age fifteen, when he attended King's College, now Columbia University, and graduated four years later. After college, he studied and went into law. When he had the opportunity, he established his own law office.

In 1774 he married Sarah Livingston. They had six children.

His father was very loyal to England, and even when England started increasing taxes and restricting our freedom more John Jay wished to avoid separation. However, when the Revolution started, he became a staunch patriot, and declared that separation from England was inevitable.

Jay did not support slavery. He drafted state laws to abolish slavery, but they failed. Sometimes he would buy slaves and then free them when their labor had payed for their price.

“...we have the highest Reason to believe that the Almighty will not suffer Slavery & the Gospel to go Hand in Hand. It cannot, it will not be.”- John Jay

During his term as Chief Justice, he only had four cases, because the Court wasn't very big at the time. In one of them, Chisholm v. Georgia, Alexander Chisholm came to court because Georgia owed him money. This led to the eleventh amendment, and it was the first major case of the court.

Jay was a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church of America.

"Real Christians will abstain from violating the rights of others, and therefore will not provoke war. Almost all nations have peace or war at the will and pleasure of rulers whom they do not elect, and who are not always wise or virtuous. Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest, of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."

Jay died on May seventeenth, 1829, in Bedford, New York. His wife had died in 1802."

John Jay

Sarah Jay