I am really struggling lately with how messed up society is with our relationships with each other. This is partially based on how people interact with each other, but more importantly because of all the politics and stigmas associated with them.
Our society places so much “risk,” for various reasons, on even just being with people, that it almost prevents us from doing so. It greatly hinders our relationships with others and is slowly making us a people more and more separated from one another. Read the rest of this entry »
Dear children, let us not love with
words or tongue, but with actions and in truth.
~ 1 John 3:18
Our world is often a cold, lonesome place. A place filled with darkness, death, violence, fighting, killing. A world where over four thousand innocent babies can be murdered in a single day, in one country alone. A world filled with so much despair that someone will
claim his or her life every forty seconds. A world where interaction and caring for others only continue to decline, where being understood, cared for, and loved is becoming less likely with every second that passes. It is a world that shoves people away from each other, alienating them and turning them against each other more and more.
A recap of my Lenten journey.
One of the things I decided to really focus on this Lent, as far as improving myself, was not worrying so much. I’ve always had a problem with worrying and stressing out about things. Consequently, it’s had a very immense negative effect on my health. Now, I’ve always trusted in God, and I know that God will take care of me. However, I still can’t help but worry about things and try and take things into my own hands as well. I decided at the beginning of Lent that I would do my best to work on this, and many blessings have happened to help me grow in this way. Read the rest of this entry »
