So, hi everyone!

This is the beginning of the rest of my life, the newest chapter of my life. Heck, this even feels like a completely new book. But I have finally started and it feels good. I realize that I have been living my life chained to the burdens I have carried, and have never really let the Holy Spirit into my soul. I have never received the baptism of the Holy Spirit, but since I have been here, I now live my life only with the Spirit of God and follow Jesus Christ our Lord!

He leads, I follow

So, since I last wrote, quite a lot has happened! I had a lot of time to rest after I left camp, then I went to Gainesville, GA for training camp! And what an experience that was! Going in, I knew I was going to be leaving everything behind and I wouldn't be able to see many of my friends or family for a long time. So going in, I was very excited to see what God had for me. I also met the best people and having spent so much time together and learning so much about them individually, I have come to love each of these people who are on my squad. We each care and love for each other just as Jesus does and we help each other when we are being led a stray. And for a little bit, while starting the race, I believe I was starting to be controlled by my past and the fears that live in them.

I was starting to live in the ways of my past by believing that I wasn't good enough for the race, that I somehow wasn't worthy of something like that. The fears of my past were causing great pain in my life that I really didn't want to have at this moment of my life. But God healed me. He HEALED ME! I have been saved by Jesus and washed by the Holy Spirit. I have forgiven myself of all the burdens I have placed on my life and I can see as clearly as ever how much GOD LOVES ME! I am His and He is mine. I am accepted through Christ and because He accepts me, so can I and so can the rest of this world. I am enough for the World Race.

I have been baptized with the Holy Spirit and I am living a new life! So with that said, I have begun the newest chapter of my life and I couldn't be happier with how God is leading me!