Lightning's Blog

I have a bit of a problem and it concerns someone over the internet, who is a girl.  She was adopted and her father beats her and her mom and she is trying to get away.  Supposidly, this has been going on for years, and they (her and her mom) are too scared to do anything about it.  So she's now trying to get away by running away of sorts.  I asked her if she would want to come live with someone that goes to my Church while I am at college and to talk it over with her mom.  Shes under the impression that if she talks to her mom that she will immediatly say no, even though her mom has been trying to get her to leave with someone before.  I told her I wouldn't try helping her unless she told me to, but now I am running out of time because in 3 weeks I start college and I will lose contact with the people I know that will help her.

I really want her to talk this over with her mom, so that she can get the transcripts from her high school and so that her mom knows that she is safe.  It's obvious to me that she does love her and wants her to be safe, and if she agrees to it, it would take a load off everyone that would get involved in this...  I just don't know what to do and I am trying to explain this to her, but she doesn't understand and is being stubborn, thinking she can do this all by herself.  It doesn't work that way.....  Anyone willing to give me advice? 

Edit:  Also, She's 16 years old, from Bakersfield, CA.  She gets beaten for pratically no reason at all, usually when her dad is either drunk, or high on Meth.  She is not a faceless person because I have had a webcam chat with her and talked to her on the phone countless times.

Concealed weapons on campus? I have been one of those people all my teenage life that thinks the only way to stop gun violence is to allow anyone, who is mentally fit, be allowed to carry heat, and maybe even have it being allowed to be shown in public. This would put an end to mugging/robbery, but also allow people to defend themselves if they are put into a situation where their life is in danger. I believe that if someone in these campus shootings had a gun they could have ended it before if got to the point where it ended. But, I also know that in the case of what happened in Kirkwood, it wouldn't have done a thing, because it happened so quick. Those people are going to commit suicide anyway, so they would try to to take out as many as they could, but it would end with a lot less innocent deaths if someone could kill the person. and end up saving countless lives.

Please, Do not start a fight over this..... It is my idea and it is because I am actually starting to become afraid of going to college over whats been going on lately.

The story that made me think of writing my blog is here.....

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Wishes and Dreams - Keith Stobaugh 4/20/07 10:24 p.m

Wishes and dreams
Are they truly something to believe in
or are they deceiving
Tearing our lives apart

Wishes and dreams mean everything to me
They include you in everything that I want to do
Without you my wishes and dreams mean nothing
and I would start to fade away
Fade away into nothingness, sorrowfulness, sadness
Because I would be left with nothing to believe in

But, I wont fade away
I wont fade into this blackness
Of sadness
Because I believe in my wishes and dreams

With my wishes and dreams
I'll withstand all of hell
To hold your hand
Just for one last time
For all eternity

I'd withstand anything and everything
Just to be with you again

As days go by and time wears on
My heart will remain yours
Until I know that there is nothing that I can do
To get you back again
God help me if this takes a lifetime
But I believe that one day I will be
Yours and you will be mine

I won't fade away into this blackness
Of sadness
Because I believe in my wishes and dreams

I'll withstand all of hell
To hold your hand
Just for one last time
For all of eternity

I know I can withstand anything
To be with you again
As long as I believe in
My wishes and dreams

 

Revised April 23, 2007 at 6:54 p.m.

This is something I wrote today when I was in dispair. I deleted the blog with it in, but I shall repost for those that might feel the same way as I did earlier.

Love is nice while it last, but when its gone it feels like your heart is ripped right out of your body and is thrown on the ground of a crowded sidewalk. Everyone walks on it and your whole life starts to fall apart. Everything you've worked toward, everything you've sacrificed for them, everything you've done for them is gone in an instant, all up in smoke. Flames lapsing against the house of your soul, with the walls eventually falling, dreams dying, your whole world collapses around you, leaving you standing in the middle of nothing. It's as black as a night sky, except no stars are shining, no lights are burning. All you have is the burnt remains of your life, spirit, charred heart. The world you once loved has caved in around your broken, stepped on, heart and no one can save you. Only you can persevere through this and with God's mercy you can move on and live for another time and day.