Week 1: Beginning my journey

Here it is. I'm starting fresh. My walk with Jesus begins. I like the term Jah. Heard my big brother use it and it sounds refreshing.

The purpose of this blog, is to help understand, teach, express, learn, and encourage my spiritual growth with God. I'm trying to get closer to him. Closer than I've ever been. And remain somewhat consistent in this process. That's why I believe blogging about my experiences will help me visually see my growth while at the same time giving me an opportunity to voice frustrations and document testimonies over this period of time.

This will be my personal spiritual growth journey. I'm excited.

I work for a company that licenses and supervises foster parents who take in foster children with behavioral diagnosis. Well in my job we give care plans to our clients. Care plans list the issues the client is struggling with, the goals, and the interventions to be used to gain the goals. As weird as it sounds, I need to take this idea of a plan of care with my spirituality growth.

Now I have many issues...but the main issues I really really really want to see progress, even if it's a little progress are:

1. Building my faith
2. More giving / caring about others
3. Learning and applying basic principles from the bible to my life, especially when needed.

Those are the simple goals my plan of care consists of. Now-- also in my job we do check up's with our foster parents to see how our client's are doing. Weekly phone contact is a must to see how the child is doing with their goals. For this purpose- I would LOVE to blog each night about an experience for the day and how I handled it, or didn't handle it. But I know myself. And I'm not gonna make the mark so high it's depressing. But I will attempt to make at least weekly contact, writing a blog entry at LEAST once a week. And I want to document some issues I struggled with during that week and things I've used to help get through them (words from my pastor's sermon, Joyce Meyers pod casts, songs I like, bible verses, etc)

Also-- we have quarterly reviews with our clients. We do reviews every 90 days to see how the client's overall progression with their goals. And annually we do a reformulation. Seeing what need's to be adjusted. I'd like to do the same thing. This whole principal seems stupid, but hey- it's what I need to do to stay close to him. And at this time I've realized I need him more than ever.

I think this blog will be a great testimony of my struggles as a normal person. I'm not big on religion, but I think it's SOOO utterly important to have a personal relationship with God. And I guess I'm not afraid to document my journey publicly, I'm not a perfect person and I don't expect judgment to be passed in my documented mistakes. In fact-- I dare anyone to try this with me. You don't have to open a blog. But whenever you come across a post--maybe that will inspire, encourage, and even challenge you as a person to grow stronger in your spirituality as well.

God bless--