Letting go

Today was a sad day in our house as we said goodbye to our Tai exchange student Lai. This got me thinking about how much I hate saying goodbye or just letting go of friends in general but this also seems to be an area of my life where God wants to work because it seems I am forced to let go of my friends more and more each day as they either go to college or start dating and more and more of there time gets consumed by other things and less is spent hanging out with me. It seems that this is God's way of telling me that I need to draw closer to Him so that while saying goodbye and letting go may still be hard I can do it knowing that I have a friend who I never have to say goodbye to or let go of and who is always there no matter where I am. This is what I see as God's new chalenge for my life to draw so close to Him that I can let go knowing that my best friend is always there. Sometimes I forget that and let the fact that all my friends are leaving or moving or dating or whatever and instead of being happy and excited for them I usually get depressed and think oh great I won't see them anymore or won't see them very often at least. I need to change my heart and learn that letting go is allright and that God will guide me through these times and that he has a perfect plan that I don't understand.

Down!!! But not Out!!!

Over the last month my life has been a mess. I have been struggling and now am on the precipice of being defeated. This month has tested both my faith and mind in many ways. To really explain how I got to this point we have to go back to last summer and the beginning of last fall. To a time in my life that I can only describe as complete twitterpation as Bambi describes it. Complete and total bind love for a girl named Kahla. This continued until on a fateful Halloween night in which my heart was torn in half and trampled on. This left me in complete and total depression which crippled me for the rest of the year and continues to affect me even today from time to time as wounds like that don't heal quickly or fully heal at all for that matter. Now lets move to some more recent history... about a month ago I was involved in a car accident that basically totaled my car leaving me car less if it weren't for my generous aunt who is allowing me to use their KIA. However this is only for a time and trying to find a new car that is both functional and affordable is not fun. In other areas of my life I am also being attacked vigorously as I have both forgotten about and been late for work at Anthony's 4 times this month :(. My personal life has not been exempt from this barrage of attacks by the devil as I am struggling with being lonely and wanting a relationship with someone. This has been magnified by my desire to seek that relationship with more then one person. All this gets topped off by being caught up in so many lies that sometimes its hard for me to distinguish what is truth and what is fiction. I feel like two different people. On one side I have my body and its desires and one side I have my spirit and its desires and at one time I am my body and at another time I am my spirit but the two never come together as one. Its kinda scary and its tearing me apart. I now stand here finding myself in sins and going how did I end up here only to fall right back into the sin later that day. I feel as if I have no control over myself anymore and certianly no control over my situations. The only comfort I get nowadays is in writing and singing. Everything else is empty. I am a slave to my sexual desires right now and I feel as if I can't get out of this hole. Everytime I am close to steping out I fall all the way back to the bottom and right now I am down and I have the choice: stay down and just countinue in this sin and let it rule my life or get up and with God's help conquer this sin once and for all. I know this is something that I can't do alone because of the countless failed attempts to do it on my own. So now I am asking for help. This is my cry for help! Just as we talked about this morning in Fun Zones at CTK when Peter took his eyes of Jesus and began to sink in the rushing water that he was standing on. He called for help and Jesus grabbed him and helped him back to his feet and now that is what I must do so now I cry: "JESUS PLEASE HELP ME! Even though I don't deserve it, PLEASE SAVE ME!" But this is not just a cry to Jesus I am also asking you my friends to help me and to keep me accountable. I have been blessed with amazing friends but I all to often fail to use them because I let my pride get in the way. I am so focused on what people think of me that I won't ask for help even when its what I need the most. So here I am DOWN!!! But not OUT!!! (QUE: ROCKY MUSIC) HAHA :D