That's Life

      A couple of years ago, I had a series of prayers, where I asked God for wisdom. I knew that I really, really wanted it.     People now have been telling me that I'm really wise and I think that this is a result of all those prayers. This shows just how powerful prayers are and how generously God gives wisdom to all who earnestly seek it. I've learned a few things since being rewarded such a precious gift. Wisdom isn't given to you overnight. I've found that it comes mainly through people, you just have to listen.     Recently, a man started a conversation with me at a park. We had a good talk and he told me that he was 40 but never had dated in his life because God didn't bring the right person and he was still happy anyway. He said, "What God puts together, let no man separate, not what man puts together let no man separate." He didn't know that this was just around the time when I was struggling with dating stuff. This piece of wisdom really he...

           For the past couple years of my life, I've always had this idea in my head that life was super boring, unless you had a romantic interest. I may not have admitted it out loud or even to myself, because even then, it seemed like an unhealthy outlook on that aspect of my life.     After recent experiences, which I won't go into too much personal detail about, I've deeply changed my opinion. I no longer feel depressed if I don't have someone to think about on Valentine's day. I would even go as far as to say the past months have changed my life. In order to tell this story the best possible way I have to start where every good story starts. The beginning.     In an earlier blog post I told about Teen Bible Quizzing. There was a youth conference that I went to and there, they held field team qualifiers. I was trying my best to stay focused that weekend, but I met an awesome girl. I got to know her over the weekend and I started to...

     I am a proud Teen bible Quizzer. If you are reading this then you probably are too. But in case you aren't, this is how it goes.     At the beginning of each year, we start studying a book/books of the bible. We just finished Romans and James. It was very awesome. It wasn't that much material and I memorized James but not Romans. Everyone studies the books and then after a while we come together and two teams at a time sit on pressure sensitive seats so that it can detect when a person stands up and makes a beep noise. Cool right? So there is a person called the quiz master who asks the questions and the first person to stand up gets to answer the question. Sounds easy enough but wait, there's more. If you jump before the quizmaster is done reading the question, then you get to finish the question for them and then give the answer. This makes it really intense, but it's easier than it seems and you can get the hang of it really quickly.     ...

  I'm a perfectionist and plenty of other people are too. It's a fact about me people have helped me realize recently. Now in case you didn't know, perfectionism isn't all bad. It can help me do a better job in certain easy tasks, but in other cases, I completely abandon a task because I know deep down that I could never do it perfectly.     Recently, I decided to join a musical theater class at my co-op. At first, I got scared, because I know that I'm not the best singer, and I might not do well, but I took a step back and asked myself, am I not doing this class because I know I wouldn't do perfect, or because I wouldn't have fun.     After thinking about this for some time I realized that I'm okay at singing and I would enjoy myself so much if I just took this class. I accepted that I could never do perfect. So I took the class.     I hope that if you are struggling with perfectionism then you would hear this and take a step back like I did and accep...