A Glimpse of Lin

Living in America makes it so easy to get distracted when you set your mind to anything. As a Christian, you're definitely distracted by everything trying to pull you away from God. As a student, social media seems to call your name more than ever. As a husband or wife, worries seem to come into play along with everything trying to come in between you and your spouse. As a driver, everyone seems to text you at the worst time. As an athlete, the mistake that just happened moments earlier keeps playing in your head. You get the point, right? Distractions are alive and well all around us, heck, you might even be reading this as a distraction to whatever it is you were doing. I unfortunately don't have the solution to get rid of certain distractions. I'm currently supposed to be working on a few papers for school but I can't seem to get my rhythm going, but thankfully it's getting there little by little. So I'll keep this blog as one of my shortest yet and let me ...

In this society we feel the need to know the answers to everything. You know how as kids we used to ask why? Well, we still do so except we’re not as annoying about it. The most difficult time I’ve had is waiting for God to answer those “why” moments, and He’s answered a few but others I’m still unsure about. One question I tend to ask a lot is why do some people go through depression in their life? What causes them to feel that way? I’ve never been in that situation where I could say I’ve been depressed but I’ve been feeling some sort of way recently that is a bit scary. I don’t know how many people will actually read this or who’s actually been in a place of depression, but recently I’ve been praying more to God and I’ve felt tremendous joy, but then suddenly I start crying out of nowhere, and it’s not tears of joy. I begin to feel pain in my spirit, and I don’t understand why that is. All I can do now is continue to pray, even through those moments of pain. I don’t know why God is ...

The easiest thing that we could do when there's a task in front of us is to give up. Let's say we have to do some daily chores of washing our clothes, cleaning the dishes, cleaning the living room, finish a project, or START on a paper...we can so easily throw our arms up in the air and leave things as they are, we can go back to watching Netflix or playing Call of Duty. That is very simple to do, to give up, I'm speaking to myself. I've had so many opportunities that I have not taken advantage of and I'm realizing this at a very late moment. I was laid off of my job a little over a month ago and have been looking for something new ever since, yet have not found anything. I'm currently also finishing my first semester of graduate school but I missed what God blessed me with, TIME. I wasted a lot of time that I could've used catching up on my school work and getting things in order, and I realize this now. It's a little late but I'm getting on top of...