Life's Journey with God

“Step by step we're getting closer, Little by little we're taking ground." That is precisely how I feel right now. It's just been tiny eenie bitsy steps everyday closer to God. But truly all praise and glory to Him for allowing me to fall and yet rise again with much more fervent and determination than before.  It's a moment in my life where things doesn't seem like a mess, when it doesn't feel like everything's out of control. I know God's in control and I've been letting Him take control of it all (almost, I try). Things have change, I've changed. What was different is that not only have I managed to stay away from temptations to indulge in media content for the sake of satisfying my desires, I also have greater self control and self will to want to stay away from that because I know where it will lead me and how it will affect me. I have also been stressing out a lot about plans after graduation lately (the past few months in fact) and ha

I decide to restart journaling by writing reflection questions in my reflection book/journal as I think that will really help me keep track of messages to take away from the daily scripture readings and to gauge how much or how little I've grown spiritually, how I can do better, what has been good and what has been bad about this reflective approach in efforts to regain my connection with God in my prayer life. And then I decide to read back some of first few entries I made last year somewhere around July too and it made me realize I probably haven't moved forward at all. Things like being humble, being aware of my pride and cockiness, paying more attention to my actions and words. It's still the same things I have to work on, still the same stubbornness and pride in me that is causing me to stay stagnant and maybe even taking a step back. Worse, it's taken the same person to remind me of these bad habits I have. I'm really starting to wonder if I'll be able to