Jess's Journal: Life Unscripted

In about three months, my time as a Corbin High School student will come to an end. When I look at the past four years, I have lost and gained friends. I had a few obstacles that caused me to stumble spiritually. While the youth is preparing to go to discipleship camp in Fort Walton Beach, I attempt to brace myself for what's to come on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. This time, I am adamant on my refusal to participate in youth activities, especially since I have made a promise last year that I have broken. This year, I have a different mindset. I don't have to do what everyone else is doing, nor that I don't have to post what I'm doing with the youth on social media like I've seen people at youth do. Maybe I'm distancing myself from the fun and games. Maybe I'm bracing myself for the tough times to come in college. Maybe I'm experiencing the tough times as of now. Maybe I'm just trying to match up my actions in private with my actions in publ...

After months of tears, torture, and an endless amount of sleepless nights, it's finally Christmas break. My last Christmas break as a high school student! I can now say that there is one more semester left before I can toss my cap in the air. But enough of all the senior year shenanigans. I can now talk about Christmas! To be honest, I'm perfectly fine with people calling it X-mas. Now before you get upset at me for falling into the secular attempt to remove Christ out of Christmas, let's just say that the abbreviation of Xmas for Christmas is neither modern nor that it is disrespectful.  There is no 'X' in Christmas. Although we all see the English letter X, what it actually involves is the first letter of the Greek name for Christ. Christos is the New Testament Greek for Christ. The first letter of the Greek word Christos is transliterated into the English alphabet as simply the letter 'X'. The letter X has been associated with a long history of th...

Honestly, I am not sure how to start this post. When I have last blogged, my life looked totally different. I was on the journalism staff for my senior year of high school. I became the football homecoming queen. I started going to the home games. I got accepted to the college I was looking forward to attending next fall. I was actually happy, or at least I thought it was. Right now, I am at a crossroads in my life. I'm no longer on the journalism staff for reasons that I can't even mention at this time and as a result, I am now a peer tutor. Honestly, this wasn't what I had in mind for the rest of my senior year, but I'm getting used to it. Basically the sad part of it all, being on journalism staff, was that it was all an illusion. Like I said, I really don't want to get into it at this time.  One thing has remained a part of my life: and that is feeling the full measure of God's grace. Through it all, I will be strong and courageous through this tryin...