Birthdays are always funny. The culture creates age requirements for different responsibilities, and we become accustomed to meet this standard which allows us to partake in some sort of activity – driving at 16, adulthood and tobacco use at 18, and drinking at 21. Along with the national age requirements, there are the ones within […]

On Friday, I took my last final, and my summer officially started. Seeing this summer as my last “play” summer (possible internship next summer and real life after that), I have high hopes and large goals to accomplish. With my focal points being seeing, learning, and changing, my intentions are to go out this summer […]

Remember back when learning English grammar, you learn the five interrogative question words: who, what, when, where, and why? With my countless number of questions about God and being a “vessel of ideas” (The Rain Fell…), I’ve managed to barely organize my questions into these interrogative questions. What is God?In the Christian tradition, God seems […]

Matthew 7:24-27 24“Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25“And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been […]

“Bear one another’s burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ.”-Galatians 6:2 “Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength and not just please ourselves.”-Romans 15:1 Community. Recently, the idea of community has be lingering in my head. The other day, I just finished my book No More Mr. […]

Lately, it seems God is really showing me the value of His Kingdom, that my focus needs to be on the Kingdom. I will admit that this school year has not be the best. With its ups and downs, it’s felt sufficient, but hasn’t been the “blast” that I was expecting. Friends from last year […]

Over Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, a few friends and I made the trek over to Tempe, Arizona where a friend’s aunt lives. With a long weekend, it would be fun to just get out of San Diego and see something different. Some may think it’s crazy that we went from San Diego to Arizona […]

Tonight, I was searching through some old Christian music I used to listen to, some of the core music I rested my faith on my senior year of high school when things weren’t the best. In February 2009, I took a straight month dedicated strictly to Christian music, and now it’s become basically my life, […]

As part of my New Year’s resolution, I’ve been picking up my guitar a little bit more. One of my favorite acoustic artists is Jon Foreman, lead singer from Switchfoot; but I absolutely love his individual material. It’s beautiful. I had started to learn some of his songs during the summer, but it wasn’t until […]

Has God ever totally caught you off guard? Has He ever show you that there’s a much bigger picture? Has He ever instantly brought you from a moment of laughter to a moment where you’re trying to hold back tears? He did that to me yesterday. The most shocking part, it was completely irrelevant to […]