Mighty Mariah : June 2013

In loving memory of Megan Hoogeveen
December 30 1992-June 29,2011

Hey Everyone! How is everyone doing on this beautiful morning that the Lord has made? This blog update is going to be about one of my friends who died of a rare disease called HLH. If you don't know what that is you will find out in this update. I am going to be honest I did not know Megan Hoogeveen very well! She did inspire me very much though! Megan inspired me to live life to the fullest and to enjoy the moments that come to me! Megan inspired me with her smile and when I saw her she always had a smile! That smile is so beautiful just like she was! Now the disease she had was called HLH that is short for (Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis). This is a rare disease that I do not know much about. Today is the 2 year anniversary of her passing and what her family is doing is such a blessing to help fight against HLH and to raise money to find a cure for HLH. Megan's parents and brother started a website called Megan's Legacy and I will post the link to her page. I encourage you to check it out! I know when I did I learned some things about HLH I didn't know before! The only thing I knew about HLH is that it is a rare disease! Also on this page also known as Megan's page you will see poems,videos and pictures of Megan Hoogeveen and you will read about her story as well! I hope after you check it out that it touches your heart just like it has mine!

I want to give a personal shout out to the hoogeveen family as this is a difficult time for you! Someone once told me that once you love someone they stay in your heart FOREVER! Megan is watching over you everyday and is with you even if you can't see her or be wiith her!

I have a couple of songs that I think describe the long fight that Megan fought. There is one man who fought for Megan always throughout her life and throughout the lowest times and even when she was fighting the HLH. That man is God. A bible verse that now means so much to me is Jeremiah 29:11 It says For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord! Plans to prosper you and not to harm you! Plans to give you hope and a future!

The Lord will watch over our coming and going both now and forever more! that is from Psalm 121

So the songs I want to dedicate are:

1. - Open up our eyes-Elevation Worship

2. White Flag-Chris Tomlin

3. Skin-Rascal Flatts

I hope you find this blog update inspiring!

I hope Megans story touches your heart just like it has mine check out Megans Legacy page!

Blessings to all

Mighty <3 Mariah

Hello everyone! I hope you are all having a great day! Today is Father's day so I want to give a special shout out to all the dads out there, for all you do for your families and the love and joy and care you bring to this world!
So this blog post is going to be about one of the messages I heard this past week at a youth conference I went to with my church family in Florida at Panama City Beach!
So we have a morning session and we have a night session then in the afternoon its just hang out on the beach. You have a choice of playing volleyball or basketball or swimming or hanging out in the sand! So it was fun to have that opportunity to hang out with friends as well! I want to talk a little bit about what one of the sessions were about. We talked about friendships and he described this as we are sitting in the middle and we have people on either side of us. Who's sitting next to you? Who are the friends that impact your life the most? The way the speaker laid the message across he used a thermometer and a thermostat! Let me explain. A thermometer takes the temperature you could set it outside in hot weather it would go up no question asked and it has no control whats so ever whether it goes up or down no matter what it will change by whats surrounding it! We do that don't we? We have friends that we hang out with and then we end up following into there ways. Where they go we will go! Maybe they smoke or do drugs and we think in our minds I won't ever do that until we become the thermometer. We change because of the people we hang out with and say we need to be a certain person we need to act a certain way to be accepted...NO not true!! God loves us He loves us for who we are WE DON'T HAVE TO CHANGE! Maybe we just need to be a thermostat and start something in our schools or at our work or in our homes! Cause I can guarantee you people will notice and some will be inspired but some will be the attack and will say to you "What you are doing is the impossible! Well let me tell you this...anything....ANYTHING is possible when God is on your side! Are you hearing me? Be a thermostat not the thermometer
So to sum up quickly the rest of the week here's what we talked about
Day 1: was about walls in our life
Day 2: Friendships in our life
Day 3: fear we hold in our life
Day 4: Approval we think we need in life
So for me personally I could connect and I think I speak for many people this was AMAZING! God was on the move! I gotta wrap up my message other wise you will be reading a 5 page blog! but One thing that stuck out to me is what God sees is more then what we see. He sees his children doing great things, things we can't even imagine doing yet. So my prayer that week and continues to be for others as well is that God would open up our eyes to see what He sees. If you are reading this and you forget everything I have typed DON'T FORGET THIS...GODS REALITY IS BIGGER THEN YOUR REALITY! He sees his children doing great works to advance his kingdom! So GO be the light and shine through the world! If you have a passion for traveling the world, pray ask God to guide you and He will lead you! Or maybe you want to go to college...ask God to lead you to the right school that He has planned for you. Or maybe you want to look for a job...ask him to open your eyes to see what He wants you to do. Answer the calling God has called you to do! Now what was one word that was repeated in those last sentences? ASK! Ask what God wants to do with your life and I guarantee you He will show you! It doesn't always happen right away no that's not it sometimes you just have to be patient and wait on the Lord!
Amen?
So I have two songs that I want to share with you.
The first song is called I can't stop singing and literally when you are listening you can't be sitting when you hear this song it just makes you want to get up and dance so here it is I can't stop singing!
I can't stop singing-Seth Condrey
The next song is called Cornerstone! This song just makes my heart skip a beat its just an amazing song! Enjoy
Cornerstone-Hillsong
Heres some pictures from Bigstuf 2013!!!!