I believe in my faith. (Or is it I have faith in my faith? Anywho) Growing up I attended a Catholic elementary school, so from the beginning I was taught the beliefs of the Catholic faith, not only in school but at home as well. My mother made sure that we attended church every Sunday and then as we grew older we would attend LifeTeen or Edge which is where we continued to learn about our Catholic faith. I have extreme pride in my mother for her devout faith (and to tell you the truth, I am kinda jealous). She prays the rosary everyday and when we go to Mass you can tell that she is completely in prayer and has given her whole heart every Mass. Especially on this Ash Wednesday I have such a need and want to become more like her or becomes more like him every Sunday.
As I entered high school, I learned about another belief. The belief of agriculture. With those simple words scripted everywhere around the agriculture department in my high school. During my freshman year I memorized the words of E.M. Tiffany with gusto and have tried to live by those words ever since. Agriculture has taken me so far in this great life and I want to always be a part of it. I want my children to be exposed to the great things that I was and am still involved in
I believe in family, uncensored, sometimes hateful family. I believe the best families are the largest ones where even when people might not show up you are guaranteed to have at least 50 people at a family function. I am blessed to be a member of 4 different families, 2 of which are LARGE. On my dad's side my grandma had 8 brothers and sisters and my grandpa was one of 12. So, now that our family has grown so big, we have to have family functions in a churches gymnasium because we couldn't possibly fit in anyone's home. On my step-dad's side he is one of 7. So, combined with all of the children and grandchildren there is around 50 of us. This year we had our Christmas celebration at my Aunt MaryAnn's and decided that we are going to outgrow homes soon as well.
Some other things I believe that don't need a whole lot of explanation. :-)
I believe in a 3 phase life. 0-30 is Me time, 30-60 is We time, and 60-dead is depending on if my husband dies either him and I time or we just go back to Me time.
I believe in a providing a solid faith foundation to my family whether that be my husband and children (when I get to that phase) or my brothers and sisters who are still growing and becoming great individuals.
I believe that the key to great jam is to make it in small batches and not try to can more than you can handle at one time.
I believe that in order to be the best you can be you must first know who you are and that could take years....trust me, most of the time I still don't think I know who I am.
And finally (for this post anyway) I believe in love. Not the crazy, I am going to be psycho, if you can't be with me I don't want you to be with anyone else. I believe in the unconditional love, the kind that wants people to be happy no matter who they end up with even if it means to sacrifice my feelings.
If only the world could live in I believe statements.
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