Best Cupcake Ever?...well you can decide that!

This evening I was on Pinterest and I kept seeing pictures of yummy looking desserts, so I decided I was going to make something! I wasn't sure whether I wanted some type of cookie or a cake. I Google'd "cupcake cookie" and my first search result was from Allrecipes.com "The best cupcake ever!" It looked good so I chose that one! Everyone wanted the cupcake cookies pretty quickly so I didn't get to follow the recipe to a T. I didn't chill the cookie dough balls for 2 hours, I’m not sure if it would have made that big of a difference but I guess next time I make them I will find out. I also didn't have cupcake papers so I just sprayed the silicone cupcake pan I used and they slid right out after they cooled. (Which silicone cools pretty quickly so I think it makes the cupcakes cool faster, personal opinion.) My cupcake cookies didn't look as fancy as the ones in the picture on the website because I made my own chocolate icing instead of using icing from a can. After all of the baking/icing process we finally got to eat them and they were very good! I would make them again and I’d recommend them to anyone. If they aren't "The best cupcake ever," they're pretty close to it! 

Hope you try them soon!

Yours Truly, ~ Emily ~

Something so simple....yet so hard to do at times.

What sparked me to write about this topic was the newly released song "Forgiveness"by Matthew West. I've heard this song on the radio for a few months and have recently memorized almost all of the words because they are so true! Why is it so much easier for us to hold a grudge against someone, instead of saying three simple words "I forgive you" or simply forgiving someone in our hearts? Maybe because we're human, but to me that's not a good enough excuse. Everyone at some point in their life has been guilty of holding a grudge against someone, for 5 minutes or over 10 years. Maybe someone hurt you so bad or did something so awful to or against you, that you think "I could never forgive them!" But when we think that, we aren't having the right heart about it. In Matthew 18:21 Peter asks the Lord Jesus "how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?" In Matthew 18:22 Jesus replied to Peter "I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven." Seventy times seven is four hundred ninety. If we follow what Jesus said, and can forgive someone four hundred ninety times surely we could forgive multiple times after that. But if reading the Bible and seeing the words of Jesus in red saying we need to forgive four hundred ninety times isn't enough, remembering that God sent his only son Jesus to die on the cross to FORGIVE all of our sins, should be enough to make us forgive others! Seriously who am I to hold a grudge against anyone? I am an unworthy sinner who’s saved by grace through faith!

Quiet Time daily...was not so daily!

This past Sunday Aug 26th my youth group started these new "Quiet Time" devotionals, by Word Of Life ®. I'm just going to be honest last year was a flop for me. When I started it, it went great I didn't miss a day and was doing pretty well off spiritually! But then...I missed a day because I was tired...honestly in my heart I was going to catch up the next day. But just like a diet if you mess up one day, it's super duper hard to get back on track. I don't know about anyone else, but when I personally get behind on things I have an extremely hard time catching back up. I have a little pinch of procrastination in my blood, but I'm a die hard planner 99.9% of the time. I think the thought of falling behind scares me so much that i think more about that, than the fact that I've  gotten a little behind on something. Anyways so far I'm on a steady path of doing my devotions, although it's not been a full week yet. I'm praying that i can stick to it this time and not get behind. I really don't want to miss something great God has planned for me! So far the devotions have been great. Some were about how we really need to show God how thankful we are, because we are abundantly blessed. The others were about how God has our back always. Psalms really is a great book in the Bible! That's all i have for now. :)

Yours Truly, ~ Emily ~