New Beginnings for Us All

Greetings to you all in the name of our risen Lord, Jesus Christ! I hope that this latest blog entry will find you in a time of peace and comfort.

It has been a while since there has been an updated blog written for the I AM youth blog. However, today, that changes.

As we all know and are experiencing now, the season of school, homework, exams and all the stress that comes along with that is upon us. Long nights of studying and reading seem to devour our lives as we try and slip in every ounce of energy to keep your eyes from getting to heavy to keep open. Eventually, our bodies win and lets your brain know that it has done all the work it could handle in a day. Finally, you get ready for bed and you go to sleep at 12, 1 or 2 a.m. only to wake up at 6 to start the exhausting routine again.

Now I do know that school is an exciting time and there are wonderful things that happen. Your brain gets stimulated and challenged to work and think in ways that will indeed make you a brighter person. You have the opportunity when you walk through those doors to control your own future, to be attentive and responsible with the work that is required or you can go to school to just be and seek no stimulation except the hands on the clock. Either way, when you are at school, your choices, decisions and responses to what the school/teachers offers makes or breaks your experience and essentially your future. How you make your experiences, how you work at your homework, how well or poorly you do on an exam is no one elses fault but our own for neglecting what it is we should have or need to do to prepare for such tasks. One could say the ball is in your court.

Take time to be who you are however it is you do that. School is important but nothing in our lives needs to consume it to a point where we have nothing else.

As we continue to move towards the end of Ordinary Time that marks an ending to our Christian calendar and prepare to enter into Advent, let us also begin to find ways that we can allow God to be more vocal in our lives. In what ways can this be done? In what ways are we neglecting that which ultimately sustains us, the Spirit? In what ways am I encountering God in those times I provide for it?

For those whom are reading this entry, I say all of this to prepare you for our Spiritual Journey here at First Presbyterian Church. As a group of young persons, we have the ability to see God in a variety of forms. We have such life and posses many talents and skills and abilities that can provide life to people in both the community whole and the church at FPC. So as I end my first of I hope many blogs, I ask this question to you, one that I hope you begin to ask as we enter into a new beginning here at FPC, I AM, youth group, Where is God moving in your life?
Peace, blessings, seek rest and joy in the Lord.
Adam