Sunday, 03 May 2009

• Testimonay!

  I just posted a medium-sized, heartfelt, honest, serious blog and my internet connection went wonky and it was lost to cyberspace.

  It was too important to just leave though. So I'll summarize it and hopefully it will go through. Apparently God didn't like what I said in the other one and said, "Nope! Time for a second draft."

  Basically, what's been happening is this:

  I withdrew from Xanga for like a month. It started because I was busy, but then it was like I just got disconnected. What I realized is that this is my Xanga church, my online church.

  We just recently left our old church, and about a year ago I stopped going to my youth group. So I didn't have much of a physical support group around me, a church. I wasn't plugged into anything. We only just got plugged into a new church, and we've settled down. But during that whole transition period, from last summer until now, I had Xanga! When I started blogging again, I immediately got really involved in Revelife, reading every post hungrily, faithfully posting comments on each. After being involved for a while, my subscriptions widened to include other Christians who challenge my thinking about faith, life, and politics.

  I've learned so much here. I've learned to be open-minded. I've learned to hear other people's opinions. I can't even imagine what kind of a person I'd be if I didn't have this community. It has changed me incredibly. I know now that God led me to this place.

  So, like I said, after not being involved in Xanga for so long, I've withdrawn in my faith. I've been forgetting to read my bible, squandering my time in the mornings and showing up late to class. I lost self-motivation to continue forward in my faith. It was at this point that I realized that you are all my church. I'm more involved with people here than I am at our current church.

  I guess I want to thank you for being that for me. I've been so blessed! I don't like being out of touch here. Xanga is really important to me. I never thought it would end up like this, I never thought I'd have a Xanga testimony, but here it is.

  I'm starting now, renewing my relationship with God like an old library book. And I'm hoping you will see that reflected in my blogging and other activities on here.

  It's good to be back!  

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