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People pleaser

   I'm a people person. I LOVE to talk and talk and talk... And talk some more. But how come someone who loves to talk would struggle with talking about her Savior? Well, not only am I a people person but I am also a people pleaser. In high school I wanted to get a long with everyone which caused me to keep quiet most times. Well not keep completely quiet... just quiet on speaking up on my faith. I feel that pleasing others is such a struggle for most Christians. We want to so badly be with the crowd and we want to feel a sense of belonging and acceptance but I think that we have forgotten we were meant to be set apart. As Christians our lives should stand out and be different. How would we reach people if our lives looked exactly like theirs? We are called to be lights in this dark world but that doesn't mean it will come easy.     Because we are living a life set apart from this world, people will try to condemn us and tear us down. The way you live your life m...

Let's get to work..

   Hello and welcome to my blog. I've been off and on about ever starting a blog but I finally felt that I'm at a point in my life where it'd be better to fill the free time I have with writing as opposed to mindlessly scrolling through all of my social medias. So let me introduce myself. My name is Jessica Lair and I am an eighteen year old cosmetology student in Los Angeles. Actually, a more accurate title would be "Princess Jessica: Missionary to L.A.". Missionary? Eighteen? LA? Cosmetology student? Should any of those even be put in the same sentence and make any sense? Well they do and it's my life. Let me back up a bit and do some explaining.     I've been a PK (pastors kid) for seventeen years. Well technically eighteen and counting considering the fact that my dad is still out preaching and he still has his credentials.. BUT ANYWAYS... I've basically lived at church my entire life. Growing up in the church I was able to understand a lot but th...