Final Days

     The year is quickly approaching its end. This week is my graduation from Biola and it's crazy to look back at the road of life that has been traveled to get here. As I approach the end of the Vow I see how much can change in one year let alone the four years I've been at Biola. This year alone has seen so much change in my life and in the world.  
     This year has been fantastic on a personal level. When I first started at Biola I was still wrestling with the ideas of Christianity and still not sure if I considered myself one. I was still holding on to the ways of the pagans and Wiccans and didn't want to join the group of Christians becauseto me it represented Ignorance, Fear, Lies and even Hatred. Four years later I am confident in my faith and enjoy learning more about the origins and history surrounding it. I've been re-reading the Bible this year and will continue my Journey Through the Book until I get through it. I am thinking of doing a parallel blog of the New Testament since there are so many refrences and parallels that refer to the Old Testament and at the rate I’m going I’m not sure how long its going to take to get to the New Testament.
      I used to be a voice to challenge the faith and now I use my voice to support and defend it. Its such a 180 from who I was ten years ago when I set out on my life as an adult. This year has really opened me up to the ideas within Christianity and the balance of science and reality that need to be a part of that for a balanced spiritual life. I am still learning and won’t achieve my ultimate goal, true knowledge of God, until I die. Even then I may not know. I don’t worry about the afterlife too much. I try to focus on being a force for the Light in the here and now. What I have enjoyed about this year is that I've really taken on the challenge of bringing up the hard questions of God, and even to a degree Christianity, and presenting these questions to my non-Christian friends. Sometimes they will bring up the questions I've always asked and now I can finally try to answer them. Even if it doesn't change minds I at least can have the knowledge that I know what I believe and not just repeat what I've been told.