Classic Mary Moments: My first selfie!!!

Thursday, April 11, 2024

My first selfie!!!

YES ITS TIME TO TELL YOU ALL ABOUT MY FIRST SELIE… i literally ACTUALLY remember it!!! Except back in the day they weren’t called SELFIES… it was just taking a picture 🤳 of yourself!!!

SO HERES THE STORY…

The first time i took a selfie IS ACTUALLY the first time i thought i was pretty as well!!!! It was the summer after 5th grade and before 6th grade, now don’t get me wrong, i never thought i was ugly as a child, the truth is that i just never really thought to much about it either way. As a child people would FREAK OUT about my eyes… OH LOOK AT THOSE BIG BLUE EYES… buuuuuuut i couldn’t understand what the big deal was!!! I just never thought much about my looks either way…

Then this summer day i looked in. the bathroom mirror 🪞 at our house 🏡 out in Cave Creek AZ and i thought, HEEEEEEY IM PRETTY!!! I’m ACTUALLY pretty!!!! And i grabbed my mom’s camera 📸 and snapped a picture so i could see if it was real in the picture too!!!

And when my mom got the film 🎥 developed i looked at my selfie 🤳 and i was liiiiiike OMW ITS REAL!!! I really AM PRETTY… it wasn’t just my momentary figment of my imagination… IM ACTUALLY PRETTY!!!! 😱 I was sooooooo surprised!!!

That summer my best friend at school was moving to a new school and i wasn’t going to see her anymore soooooo i gave her MY FIRST SELFIE 🤳 PICTURE as a goodbye gift… she literally has NO IDEA that picture is probably worth millions now 😜… anyways after she had been gone she called me and said that one of the boys at her new school saw my picture and thought i was as pretty and wanted to meet me, and she invited me to come to her new house 🏡 and meet this boy!!!

My heart just exhilarated… A BOY ACTUALLY THOUGHT I WAS PRETTY!!! Buuuuuuut of course i did the right thing… oh that’s cool but i don’t like boys that aren’t Pentecostal! I told her! She was like, well that’s really narrow minded to feel that way! I was liiiiiike well it’s my belief! 🤷‍♀️

And that’s pretty much been the story of my life Church ⛪️ guys don’t look at me but i still telll them worldly men… NO!!!!

AND i have NO REGRETS being my NARROW MINDED,

SELFIE-TAKING-SELF!!! 🙌

After all, i don’t need a lot of guy attention BECAUSE…i’m ONLY MARRYING ONE MAN and that’s the only attention i really want!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

PS tomorrow you get to hear about WHO I FIRST HEARD THE WORD SELFIE FROM!!! HINT: It was a MINISTER!!!!

The Votaws!!!

He has preached all over the US, China, Taiwan, the Philipines, Vietnam and many more Asian countries. He preaches in underground churches in communism countries. He converted a man on death row in prison to Christ and 3 hours before that man died he baptized him in Jesus name. He prayed the first man in Vietnam to kill and americn soldier through to the Holy Ghost and Baptized him in Jesus name. He has converted trinitartin preachers all over to the Oneness doctrine...BUT ABOVE all else...I thank God that I TOO am ONE OF THOSE souls he reached out too...he gave 7 years of his life to New York City!!! I thank God that he answered the call!!! It wasn't until his 6th & final year as pastor there, that our family came into church...we were there for 9 months before we came to AZ and then right after that the Votaws left NYC for the mission fields of Asia...I THANK God that someone had a burden for NYC!!!

Sis. Kathy!!!

This is the woman that invited my Momma to a Pentecostal church!!! She told me that she was actually new in the church herself and that she would see my mom in the front yard of our house playing with us kids and she just wanted so badly for my mom to have what she had just recieved herself. It may have been just one person that she was witnessing to at that time, but that one person has had an affect on her own five children and now its her Grandchildren that are still recieving the blessing of Sis. Kathy's witness. 25 years ago, it wasn't just my mom...I may have only been two at the time, but it was ME she was winning too! I thank God she wasn't afraid to be a witness and that she didn't give up on my mom. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. (Acts 2:39) When you decide to live for God it doesn't just stop with you!