A Little Advice

Advice? What am I talking about? Who am I to give advice? Just someone who has gone through this situation and has been disappointed quite a few times.

Wait, what situation?
Let me explain.
But in order to do that, we need to go back about 5 years.

So picture this...I'm 13 years old. I'm in my room. And I have a CD on; bobbing my head and screaming at the top of my lungs.

Any guesses on who I'm listening to? If you know me even a little bit, you'd probably guess The Jonas Brothers.
And you'd be right.

I was 13 when I first heard about the Jonas Brothers. It didn't take me very long to really get into their music and to want to know more about them. When I found out they were Christians, I was ECSTATIC! I can't even explain.

I think the reason I liked that so much was because, since they believed like I did, I thought maybe - oh, just maybe - I could end up marrying one of them. Mostly because I knew there weren't a lot of Christian girls in Hollywood, and they'd probably have to go outside of Hollywood to find a girl.
And I was outside of Hollywood. And a Christian.

I L.O.V.E.D. the Jonas Brothers. Too much, really.

I idolized them. I had hundreds of pictures of them on my computer. I had posters on my wall. All their CDs on my iPod.

So now that you know all of that about me....I'm going to say something about what I've learned from this experience.

First off, you can't expect the people in Hollywood to be perfect. They are going to make mistakes. They are going to get ripped apart because they're in the spotlight 24/7. They aren't perfect, therefore, we have no reason to idolize them.

They are normal people just like you and me. Well, maybe not normal, but you get the point.

I'm not going to lie. I have been disappointed by the three guys that I looked up to more than anyone in the world. I'm only going to touch on why, because being judgmental is something that I need to work on, and I don't want anyone to think I am that way.

One thing that I will touch on, because it REALLY made me disappointed, was Joe's explicit song on his album, Fastlife. I'm still trying to understand this one. How can a professing Christian have an EXPLICIT song on his album? I really don't understand this, and truthfully, I don't think I want to.

Call idolizing what you want: obsession, love. But I think it's just that: idolizing. I used to say I had OJD : Obsessive Jonas Disorder. What the heck was I thinking? Looking back, I realize I was stupid.

As Christians, we need to realize that obsessing over anything but the Lord, and his plan for our lives, is dumb. Plus, we're just going to watch the people that we idolize fall and that will only cause disappointment and anger for the person.

So I don't know. Maybe it's a lesson that every teenager has to learn - to hold someone up on a pedestal and slowly watch them fall. Maybe it's God's way of showing us that they're human and they're going to make mistakes.

My advice to you is: if you're a Christian, prove it. Don't just say it, because talk is cheap. Show people through you ACTIONS that you're a Christian. It's the only way for them to truly know that you are.

Like Blimey cow has said, "If I spend a whole day with you, and I don't know that you're a Christian, you're doing it wrong."

Jonas Concert (originally posted September 3rd, 2008)

I NO LONGER LIKE THE JONAS BROTHERS- I AM JUST POSTING THIS SO THAT I DON'T LOSE THE POST!!!

WOW! You wouldn't believe how hard it's going to be for me to try to explain this concert. Not because it wasn't good, but because it was SO good it's hard to explain.

Our seats were really good, for not paying that much for them, and we had a really good view of the singers.....(Sam, I think that our seats were better than yours, just because you had a pole in front of you, and because you were farther back than us.) We were close enough to take good pictures without zooming in too much, and being able to see them on the pics! LOL!

Here is a pic of Mom, Gracie and I at the concert, right before it started:

The first band that played was the Veronicas, and well, I didn't really like them, so I didn't take any pictures of them. The sound was really bad when they were playing, and I could barely hear them over their music. But that's ok, I didn't like their sound anyway! LOL!

Demi Lovato played next, and since I really liked her before, I had a lot of fun listening to her sing in concert. She was really good. She was a lot of fun to watch, and she had some really good songs, so I'm definitely going to buy her CD when it comes out. Here are two pictures that I took of her at the concert:

I have a lot of videos, but it takes SO long to upload them to photobucket, so if I have the time, I'll upload them, but at the moment,I don't really feel like waiting for them to upload. But you can look at my pictures of the Jonas Brothers that I took. They were TOTALLY awesome to see in concert, and would've never given up going. I don't think that I've ever screamed that much in my entire life, because I screamed SOOOO much when the Jonas Brothers were on stage. They were SOOOO good. They sang most of my favorite songs from their two CDs, and they did really good on them. They had GREAT special effects, and had fire coming out of the stage when they came in, and fire during the song "Burnin' Up". It was a lot of fun to see.

Here is a picture I took of Kevin...(I'm sorry it's dark, but it's the best that I could do....but I had to post one, cuz Kevin is my favorite Jonas....):

Here is a pic of Nick: (Ok, I have to admit, on this picture, Nick looks really cute! LOL!) :D

Here is a picture of Joe (it's kind-of dark, but better than the one of Kevin):

Here is a few pictures of all three of them that I took:

Here is a picture of Nick's hand, playing on his guitar. It's a very random picture, but I really, really, really like it:

Here is one of Nick, playing the drums, holding a BIG drum stick! LOL!:

Here is another of Nick singing..I had to post it, cuz it's another cute one:

OK~ this one is really hard to see what it says, but in the flames, there are the letters "JB"....:

Here is another darkish and farther away picture of Kevin:

And here are two pictures of Joe:

Here is another of Joe (if you look really closely, you can see that they are up in the air...but that's when you look REALLY close):

Hope you enjoyed the pictures.......