My Kim Kardashian prayer project was a success. It was the first prayer project I completed in which I did a fifteen-minute session every single day (instead of forgetting in the middle of the month and playing catchup with spiritual binge sessions).
This month, I have been focusing on myself. God has convicted me of a personal failing that I have and has told me multiple times through the Holy Spirit and fellow believers that He won't bless my plans to serve Him until I deal with it. I will reveal what that personal failing is in my book, "That Was Then, This Is Now", which will be a memoir of the harsh life lessons which I learned after I left Peace Corps. Not to mention that I believe that I will be reunited with the woman who is meant to be my future wife soon, so it's time for me to finally grow up.
Speaking of growing up, I have let go of my "star-crossed lover." I will just call her Juliet, for obvious reasons. We never actually dated or anything. We were just good friends who met at a church young adult group and developed strong crushes on each other. However, I moved out of state and when we tried to meet up outside of church when I would visit, our schedules clashed. After a couple of years, Juliet eventually gave up and moved on to focus on her career. I tried to hang on a little bit longer, but God has made it clear that it's time for me to move on, too. The fact that "West Side Story" music would play in my head every time I prayed to God regarding her was a pretty clear sign in and of itself. Since Romeo (re-imagined as a New York teenager called Tony in "West Side Story") dies in both versions, it's probably for the best. Nonetheless, Juliet was there for me during a really dark period of my life, so I will always be grateful that I knew her.
"When I was a child, I
spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but
when I became a man, I put away childish things." 1 Corinthians 13:11 (KJV)
