Juliana Elizabeth Travis

             If you haven't noticed yet, I get a lot of my ideas from seeing things and hearing things.  For example, I was listening to a song on my Country Pandora station and the song "From The Ground Up" by Dan  + Shay came on.  Totally not what you would call a Christian song, but what came to mind when I heard it was amazing.  So the song says: Beside you I'll stand through the good and the bad We'll give all that we have And we'll build this love from the ground up           As I heard these lyrics, my first thought was "Oh, that's like our relationship  with God."   Think about "Jack and the Beanstalk" and how the beanstalk grew straight up into the clouds.   We start at the bottom with God and we must build our way up to Him in His spot in Heaven.  Each step we  take  in the right direction, the closer we get to Him.             However, whenever we make mistakes and start walking down the wrong path, we start to