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Blatherings of a joyful tired boy. (P.S. 1 year to go before I am officially no longer a teenager)

So yeah… I really love when people are pursuing God. It makes me super happy. I kind of see people’s lives as a line on a graph. x-axis is time and the y-axis is something related to our relationship with God, or maybe faithfulness. It really doesn’t matter what our y-intercept is, but the main thing is that we have a positive slope. Maybe someday I’ll draw my little graph, but this small description is rolling through my head right now.

Well today at family Christmas we went around giving our new year resolutions, but with a focus on prayer, and what our family members could pray about for us. It was really encouraging. There were some common themes such as laziness and lack of proactivity that needed to be worked on, but overall I loved seeing my family (this is my maternal grandparents and all there descendants) seeking God’s will in their lives. I am so blessed to be part of such a great family.

I always want my focus to be on God’s will, but in particular I want to use my time for God with his direction. At college there are so many good and fun things to do, but my plans pale in comparison to God’s. So with my limited time at school (and while at home too) I want to be doing what is most pleasing to him. So that includes how I spend my weekends, what church to go to?, club or ministry involvement?, track participation?, what bible studies?, what role video games will be in my future? I don’t want my next semester to be as uneventful and purposeless as the last month-ish of first semester was. So please God, pull me on track. This is not something I can do on my own. Te necesito todo el tiempo. 

Also pray that I shine to all those around me during these brief 2 weeks left in AZ. I want to make the kind of difference that pushes people toward Jesus, the kind of thing Christians should be focusing on I suppose. So yeah.

I hope everybody is having a fantastic time with family or friends to celebrate our Savior’s birth. It is so AMAZING that God fulfills his word and saves us all. It should be something that blows my mind really, but the full impact just doesn’t always hit me like it should.

A final note before I go to sleep on this couch as all my siblings are in the same house (a very special and rare occasion for us all to be together) is that…. uhmm… oh… forget but remembered but never mind. Good night world. (to think people from the around the world actually read this, bah! I guess it is just a phrase)