A few days ago, I was in the basement working on my drumming. I was playing a particularly hard song that I had been working on for a while. And I had finally figured it out! I could play the song. I was so proud of myself and happy! But... was I forgetting something?
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This hasn't been the greatest week for me. Almost every day this week I felt upset, sometimes for no good reason. And when I feel upset, it's easy for me to start thinking about all the bad things in life, and all the times I've messed up, and all the reasons people don't like me. The latter has especially hit me hard this week.
So, like I said in one of my earlier posts, every January my church does a series called Awake, where we abstain from something in our lives that is taking up too much time, and use that time for reading the Bible and prayer. And I took it very seriously. I have done it before, but this year I've really been feeling that I am not close enough to God. So I was very diligent with it, and I spent a lot more time in prayer than I had been ever before. And that's when the trouble started.
I was thinking about my week and what I would post about today, and honestly, to me it was pretty obvious. Sometimes I have trouble thinking about what I want to write about, but this wasn't one of those weeks. It's been a problem that's been growing over the past month and needs to be stopped before it gets worse!
This week, I want to talk about something that I've witnessed lately that has really bothered me this week. Gossip.
I've heard people gossiping about my friends and that really makes me angry. Why? If you wouldn't say something to their face, why would you say it to others? That really upsets me. How would you like it if other people were talking about you in this way? Every January, my church does a series called "Awake." We start the year with prayer and fasting, and we take a look at our spiritual lives and how they are in relationship to other things in our lives. So, as a part of that, we looked at a list of questions to help guide us in the process. On the checklist, there were
Happy New Year! It's my first post of 2016. When I started this blog last May, I didn't really know how this blog was going to go. It's crazy that I've already been blogging for EIGHT MONTHS! I've really enjoyed it and I enjoy looking back at some of my older posts to see how much I've changed since I began.
At church yesterday, we had speakers from a ministry called Ripple Effect. They are a family of four that decided they were going to go full time ministry, and they now travel around the United States and teach the Gospel using a mixture of songs, skits, and sermons.
While I was thinking about what happened this week and what I could write a blog post about today, I realized something. I care too much what other people think about me! Very often, I choose whether I will do something or not based on what other people will think of me and not how it could help others or bless them. It's very selfish and it's not something I'm proud of, but it's the way I am. How can I break out of this?
This week, my church had an event called Walk Through Bethlehem. How it worked was there were tours starting every 5 minutes or so. The people in the tour would walk into our church building and watch a short video about 1st century Bethlehem. Then, they would walk into the foyer of the building, which
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