Sunday, May 16, 2010

A New Direction Toward Life

I'm back!!!! Man this blog has been gathering some dust over the weeks, hasn't it? Anyways, life can be hard to understand sometimes. For this post, lets try to make a list to make it easier for me to explain, shall we?

1) So a bunch of stuff happened from the last post to this one, and I'm happy to say that my dad and I are closer than ever. Our relationship had some bumpy times, but nothing is as smooth as you want it to be. You just have to deal with the mishaps and roll right along.

2 )In college terms, I found my general location: LA. I realized I can't leave my community within the church for a long period of time, because the church is my second home. It is where my heart lies, and where the deepest relationships are. Yada yada yada, you get the story. I'm pretty sure I wrote about that anyways somewhere on my blog.

3) My troubles with laziness is still evident, but I am being proactive with my work, and I think it's showing! It gets really hard with the ridiculous amount of work my teachers can give, but I'm getting through.

4) My spiritual life has grown so much. In the past couple weeks, I heard a whole slew of testimonies, both from my mom's experiences as a YN retreat leader and from a testimony shared at church today. Along with those and with the revision of my own testimony, I feel like a new person. Oh, also because I got confirmed into my church. Can't forget that one.

So basically, I'm writing this to just kinda summarize what happened over the long period where I didn't write anything. I'll go in depth with many of these topics later, but for now I just wanted to get this list out and show that I'm still alive and well.

-Phil