Emotional Peaks and Valleys

As you'll see, I haven't updated this whole thing in a long time. Maybe that's because I haven't had any interesting pictures to post along with a new blog, maybe not. But I've been really busy with work and homework, and dealing with a lot of personal changes.

God's really been working hard with my life, so the past couple months have been filled with a lot of emotional peaks and valleys. I guess it all started back before I made the decision to get baptized, which was the end of April. I had decided that I was playing a spiritual game and holding onto my religious pride and piety for too long. Pride and piety never saves anyone, so I don't know why I held onto those for so long. Once I made the decision to get baptized, I decided to give my testimony to all of my friends and family. I didn't do it because I was trying to change anyone else, but just to explain how God was changing me. So getting through that was somewhat of an emotional valley... I had to think about how I'd lived the past several years and how I'd talked the talk, but walked a pretty crooked walk.

But the baptism was amazing... It was actually more emotional than writing my testimony because I never thought about what I was really writing. But when it was read back to me before I was dunked, that was the first time that I really knew what I had written... So it was powerful. That, and the fact that my mom had a camera 2 feet from my face...

So that was a pretty big high, and God's still working on me. (He will until I die, because I'm nowhere near finished.) He's also been generous throughout this changing... I've got some really great friends out of the "ordeal" and He's even given me the opportunity to date an incredible girl. I've been really blessed...

I'm still working on getting a new job, but I'm definitely being patient. God's been really gracious lately, and a new job would be fantastic, but I also know that I haven't deserved anything that I've been blessed with thusfar. So whenever it happens, it happens. Until then, just keep plugging away at the whole school thing until I get that all-important piece of paper.