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For His Glory,
David

The Gift of Family

First off I want to say I'm sorry for not blogging in a while, it's hard to think of things to write sometimes. 

So a lot has happened since I last posted but most recently my family and I experienced a loss of a family member, my great grandma. She was 99 years old and she was an amazing woman of God. She touched a lot lives including mine. I'm grateful for the 15 years I got to know her and I will never forget her. She was a really sweet woman.  

This week I was in her hometown to be with my family to gather around and remember her life. There was one thing that stood out to me was who I was with when I was going though the week. I was with people who I'm not usually with. I was with my family. Now I'm not talking about my parents or siblings, I'm always with them though out the week but I with cousins, uncles, aunts, and even some people who I had never met before. Which to me, was really cool. I love all of them. I really enjoyed seeing all of them. 

Now I have  been though a lot of heart aches in my life, everything from rejection to people leaving. But this one was different, I felt like I was surrounded by people who were all taking it differently but were going though the same thing at the same time. I feel like I'm not making any sense right now, and I might not be this is really hard to describe. But it was really interesting to see and feel. 

Over this trip, I had two really cool memories that really impacted me. The first was after dark and my aunt and uncle, some cousins, and my family were all sitting outside and we were all making s'mores and to me it was really cool to watch and just observe because even though we all just had some we loved cross from this side of eternity into the next.  We were all laughing and simply having fun, and in that moment even though I was really sad and upset I knew that God was in control of it all and He had reasons for taking grandma when He did and now she is praising her Maker and King, and that's powerful. 

The second memory that I love is after we buried grandma and we all went to one of my uncle's and aunt's house for lunch and after lunch my mom, one of my cousins, and I sat down and we got look though a memory book that grandma made for that day. Some of the things that we read made us laugh hard but there were others that made us tear up. This was really cool because I learned a lot about my family history but it also got to thinking that life is short and how someone can make a big impact on many people. It got me thinking about what God has for me. It was really cool. 

That's all I got to say for now. 

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For His Glory, 

David W. 

The Journey of a Lifetime

             So the past two days I have been in this very reflective and thinking mood and I’ve been think a lot about how far I’ve come in this journey that I’m on and I know have a long way to go. However, I can’t help but stand back in awe of what GOD has done so far. He is truly the Greatest Artist of all time because who I was a year and half was a completely different person and I was not proud of whom I was. However, sometimes I can’t help but wonder should I be proud of whom I am now? I always say that I am blessed beyond words, but am I truly worthy of the blessings that I have received?

            The answer is that I’m not, but because GOD loved me so much that He sent His Son to die on a cross for me. Have you ever let that sink in? Jesus actually died a pain staking death for you, for me, for the world. When I think about that I feel so loved and blessed beyond words.

            On Sunday my youth group closed a chapter in our story, in this thing we call AXIS. We were challenged by someone who I am forever grateful to, simply do one thing, Show up. Show…Up… Two small but powerful words and two words I will never forget. That is now my goal, to show up in my world and in my faith. To be the point of change where ever I go. I hope that I’m cut out to do what GOD wants me to do, but hey, he’s in the business of making unfit things fit for His Purpose.

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All for HIM

     I have blogged in a while, and I wish I could do it more but school has started and it has made a life really hectic and hard to do anything that I want to do now. However, since school has started GOD has opened my eyes to a hurting world, where people are in desperate need of a savior that will love them. This breaks heart especially when I hear my peers tell me some of their stories and I want to help them but there isn’t much that I can do but pray. Then this Sunday my church had an amazing worship led by some amazing worship leaders and during the end of one of the songs I looked around me and I saw all of my friends worshiping and in that moment I felt at peace and loved by an amazing GOD, then I felt like GOD told me “what if the hurting kids at school got to experience my love the way you do?” Then I remembered what my youth group’s name symbolized, why we are axis, why I am axis. I am axis to be the point of change where ever I go.

     Now I will admit I was a little scared, what would people think of me and I what would happen if the rejected me because of my faith? Then I remembered our goal as Christians is to become more Christ-like and Jesus didn’t care what people thought of him when he was ministering to people. I can’t sit around and let my world suffer and sometimes I think I can’t change my world now as a teen but I realized that it doesn’t matter who young you are you can change people’s lives for Christ and that is exactly what I intend to I want to be remembered at my school as the kid who always loved GOD and wouldn’t shut up about Him. That is what I am called to do and I am going to do it all for him.

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David W.      

Love is my game

     So lately GOD has been teaching me a lot about love. He's taught me that love is not a warm fuzzy feeling; it's a lot more than that. Love is a whole lot of things according to the bible. I could write a whole post on what the bible says love is. 

     But the one thing I have really learned about love is that GOD calls us to love one another, and that sometimes means the people who have hurt us or we think don't deserve our love. GOD calls us to forgive the people who have hurt us because GOD forgave us when we hurt him and our goal is to become Christ like. 

     Now it kinda feels like I'm rambling and not making any sense. C.S Lewis put it in a good way, he said " To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because GOD has forgiven the inexcusable in you". Forgiving people to me is an act of love and everyone should be forgiven because GOD commands us to love one another. 

 

At least that's my two sense. 

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A Summer to Remember

     So my summer vacation is starting to come to a close and I decided to do a reflection of this summer. 

     This summer has been one of the best summers in a long time. It was filled with fun times, amazing people, and lots of Starbucks. I have gotten to know some amazing people a lot better; and I have to see some amazing people leave too. But I will never forget this summer and I think it's because of the "realness" of the people around me and for that I am grateful for. 

     I have been reminded that there are people in this world who care about me and GOD is gonna do big things with my life and He is gonna change people's life's. This has been a short summer but it was a HUGE blessing. 

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Love you all!!! 

A Simple Thanks

    So tonight I learned that an amazing godly man and I have to part ways and its for an amazing reason. GOD is calling him to lead others in a different place and its a blessing to carry out this calling, it also takes a great amount faith to do this and I look up to him this trait. So it's bittersweet because I'm happy because he gets to further The Lord's mission and that's a honor, but I'm gonna miss him because his teachings have impacted my life and I just want him to know that I am grateful for all he has done. It's gonna be a bittersweet next few weeks. 

Love you Pastor S. !!!!.

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