You are treasured.You are sacred.You are His.

DAY 4

So lost in absolute LOVE for my Savior. His satisfaction should be all that I seek.

To every girl, [as hard as it may be to believe sometimes]
God thinks you are BEAUTIFUL.
You are treasured.You are sacred.You are HIS.

Everyone knows girls were made differently than boys, the female gender tends to seek self acceptance from other people. Which makes absolutely no sense at times. We seriously just want to be loved , but wake up and realize that what's here on earth will never be enough. It doesn't have to be miserable, because there's something else out there besides what we see .. His name is Jesus. Start seeking Him with all of your heart and that emptiness and self doubt will start to vanish.

Beautiful by Mercyme has totally shaken me the past few weeks.
Love songs inspired/sent from God beat Bruno Mars any day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C2o0jHNRuU&feature=related

What I am starting to uncover this week ..

Iam valuable because  :


- God made me, I belong to Him.
Psalm 100:3-
Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; 
we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.


-I am precious to Him.He would trade lives for MINE.        Isaiah 43:4 -   *one of my favorites!*

Others were given in exchange for you.I traded their lives for yours because you are precious to me.You are honored, and I love you.

- God provides me with EVERLASTING love.
Jeremiah 31:3 -

The LORD appeared to us in the past,saying:

   “I have loved you with an everlasting love;
   I have drawn you with unfailing kindness."

- I am worth EVERYTHING to Him.                                   Matthew 10:29-31   -

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care.And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

-- Iam His friend.

John 15:15 -

I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

- Through Him, I can be at peace with myself.

Romans 5:1 -

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace 

with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

To An Angel ;

   Mrs.Workman -

My memories of you have been nothing but wonderful. Yet, as I'm writing this tears are filling my eyes because it just hit me what has happened. Nobody knows the joy you brought to me. The way you talked about little Mindy, and the heart you had to adopt her. You showed her off like she was your precious china doll. You gave that little girl everything, and I loved being able to be apart of that. Giving Mindy dance lessons was the coolest thing.

You made chemistry so happy and fun, WHO DOES THAT?! I remember when you would walk to the back of the classroom and put on your little cheese hat and scream "IM FROM WIS-CAN-SIN"and tell us inappropriate stories about your family.
You definitely embarrassed the heck out of me in front of the entire class,but I don't even care anymore.haha.

You were so strong for each of your students and your family throughout this whole battle. I'm so proud that you "hung in there" as long as you did. You were truly an incredible woman of faith, and I'm so glad I got to be a part of your life.

Love you cheesehead.

REJOICE REJOICE AND AGAIN I SAY, REJOICE !

   Yesterday I woke up around 6:00am to get ready for school and the rest of the day. Soon after I woke up,my mom was awake. She had chemo scheduled yesterday,and on chemo days she doesn't sleep much. What the rest of the world didn't know,besides my family, was that yesterday was supposed to be her last chemo because of a lot of things that have been happening. Knowing it was her last time,there were a lot of  emotions running through the Hutcherson house. I got to hold my mom and cry with her for a little bit yesterday.  While the chemotherapy from hell was ending, and that was exciting , the fight still isn't over. There are some surgeries and other things down the road.
    I went to school yesterday sporting my mom's breast cancer awareness shirt and my breast cancer ribbon shoelaces.Right after I got out of school I rushed over to the chemo center.I got there and everyone was packing stuff up,I was so confused.  -The Doctor checked my mom's counts and wasn't happy with them,so they just decided she didn't have to go through chemo. Which means ..
NO MORE CHEMO THERAPY FOR MOMMY!

WOW. What a blessing. Nobody knows what happens behind closed doors during/the following weeks after mom goes through chemo. It's suckville.

After receiving the news,the fam went out to lunch to celebrate along with cancer survivor and friend Tammy Coleman. It was great !
Our family still can't process how real this is considering going to chemo and the doctor visits have been a regular part of our every day life for quite some time.

As said before,we're not completely finished.KEEP PRAYING!

Romans 8:37 In all these things we are more than CONQUERORS through Him who loved us

BOO! [bies].

 Some of you may know this amazing lady below.Yeah,that's my mom aka: Vern  aka: My hero.She has been awesom throughout her cancer battle,and I'm so proud of her.Prayers are always appreciated,we hope that she gets to end this fight with this nasty disease SOON! If you want to help support / spread my family's story visit http://inspiredlooks.org

I'm sure you've seen or heard all the ruccus. October is usually connected to pumpkins and Halloween and whatnot .. this year October has a totally different meaning for me. It's breast cancer awareness month. This is a topic very close to my heart [no pun intended].
 Around March of this year, my aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer.I thought that was tough..then on May 15th it got a lot more shaky when my mom told us she too had been diagnosed with breast cancer. My world was forever changed. I've had many experiences with friends and family having cancer, so I thought I knew what to expect.I was wrong. Nobody can ever say they "know what you're going through" unless they've experienced their own parent dealing with cancer firsthand.
   
   Watching someone be in so much pain scares the living daylights out of me.Especially when it's my own mom, one of the people who could always make me feel better by giving me medicine or doing other motherly things like simply kissing my booboos to make them go away. Now she's the one who's sick and there's nothing I can do about it. It sucks. It's not something you can just give her some medicine and she's good to go. The weeks alternate on how she feels,some weeks she just straight up throws up everything she has eaten,which you probably didn't want to hear, but you know in that situation there's nothing a person can do. Other days she's stuck in bed because she's in so much pain from her chemo. Everyone around her is helpless.
    I wouldn't want anyone to have to go through this nightmare.
GIRLS; please please please take care of yourself. Check yourself. And older women,make sure to schedule your yearly mammograms , it can save your life.
*treasure your chest*
   

Every sixty-nine seconds a woman dies of breast cancer, but believe it or not , women aren't the only ones who can be diagnosed with breast cancer.Men can get it too! No matter  the gender of the person diagnosed,it completely changes the lives of those who love that person. 69-seconds.org

God,come to me.Make me who You want me to be.

     Entering your last few years of high school , everyone faces the questions "Where do you want to go to school ?" "What do you think you want to major in?" .  At first it felt like everyone around me had their lives already figured out. It made me nervous for a while , then I soon realized that wasn't exactly the case and I didn't need to be nervous. Those people didn't have their lives all figured out, and some of my older friends have already changed their major a multitude of times. Just that little bit of information made me rest assured that I would be fine. I'm already in college and I still have no idea what exactly I want to major in or where I want to transfer to. I have ideas , I'm just extremely indecisive in general. I don't want to make a wrong decision.
   The other day my friend's dad stopped me in the hall at church and we talked about my school life and what not. I told him about my situation and my indecisiveness, and at the end of our conversation he laid his hand on my head and told me he would be praying for me. I can't tell you how good it made me feel to hear that. To know that somebody else would be praying for God to show me what I need to do not only gave me peace , but made me come to the realization that I need to be praying about this situation more myself.
   Throughout my life leading up to where I am now , I've learned from personal experience with my own family not to necessarily go with what's going to get you more money, or do whatever so and so tells you to do. Go with what God says , and he'll take care of the rest. He's proven himself faithful to my family in that aspect.
                                            Philippians 4:6

Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. 

Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.

  This verse was first brought to my attention at a young age, I'm pretty sure I was in third grade.

   In kids choir we sang a song "Don't worry about anything , instead pray about everything.Tell God what you need and thank for what he has done..If you will learn to do this, God's peace will come. You won't understand it , but God's peace will come." We did the hand jive to it and everything. Pretty legit for a bunch of little kids leading worship.  

This verse has helped me through so much. Who knew a cute little song could be so useful ?

Needless to say, I'm extremely anxious for what God has in store for me. I just want to hit the ground running already and start my life. Right now, he wants me to wait and I'm starting to be ok with that. Regardless, I can't wait to see what he turns the little girl that I used to be into :)

What can I do but offer this heart oh God completely to you.

 Mom had to go to the hospital this morning because her counts were lower than they've ever been and she was now anemic. She had to get her first blood transfusion today. It was seriously the weirdest thing watching somebody else's blood going into my mom's port.
At first just getting used to the idea of my mom having a port and seeing her  hooked up to medicines in general was strange for me, now THIS?! Where the usual bag of clear fluids or chemo meds usually hung , there was now a frozen bag of blood .. GAG ME. To make matters worse, the nurses came in and were like "oh cool this blood is blue!" and would make other comments that made me want to turn and be like "REALLY?! I'm kind of trying to eat my lunch here people."

Through it all , mom had a great attitude as usual. I don't know how she does it.

Thank you to the donor , wherever you are , for helping make my mommy better.
We're hoping to not have many blood transfusions in the near future, but if needed, I'm sure it would make us feel a lot better if we actually knew who the hecks blood was going to be flowing through my mom's veins. She is O+ , if that means anything to wannabe donors out there.

Allow God to move through you to "fuse" into somebody else's heart today.They just might need it :)

Love others. Love yourself.

  It has been two years today since my friend Stephen committed suicide. I don't know if anyone could have stopped him from doing what he did , but I know I don't want anyone else to go through anything so horrible.

There's an organization called To Write Love On Her Arms [TWLOHA]. People wear their shirts all the time, and write "love" on their arms every few months but not everyone knows the story behind the organization and why they're wearing that shirt or writing love on their arms. To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. They have a really cool story , and it's faith based. If you want to read their story / buy merchandise now that you know what exactly this is , visit http://www.twloha.com/ .


1 Corinthians 6 : 19-20     "You are not your own , you were bought with a price."
I repeat :YOU WERE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE. A pretty large one at that .. 
Jesus died so that we could experience LIFE !   "You are not your own." - who are we to decide when we should leave this earth ? It's like slapping Jesus in the face. 
If you're still alive, there's a reason ! 


Ironically enough , it's suicide prevention week. Crazy.  
Everyone can do their part. Reach out to someone this week. And don't let it stop there, continue even after this week is over. I had no idea Stephen was going to do what he did to himself , but I know that if we all knew what was going on in his head , we would have tried to help. So I'm starting to reach out now , before those awful thoughts enter another person's mind and it's too late. 


The Bible tells us to love one another as we love ourselves. If you're totally content with your life , share that feeling with others ! 
John 15:17-"This is my command : Love one another."
It's hard to love others when you don't love yourself. So build someone up today. 
Sometimes it can be tougher than it sounds . At times the people you love the most are the ones we fight with on a pretty regular basis. But try making an effort , it's the first step :)


Don't let today pass by without telling or showing the people you love how much you care.