My apologies to those who couldn’t log in earlier today and yesterday. When I renewed the web site host, I thought that I was also renewing the domain name as well. Unfortunately, this error caused cletusyouth.net to suddenly “vanish” from the web for a brief period. I won’t go into the details of how and why, but if you’re interested, bug me sometime and I’ll tell you how DNS works.

Hopefully, you’re reading this right now, so naturally you shouldn’t worry. It’s all taken care of… until next year.

Peace out.

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This weekend (starting Thursday) has probably been the best weekend so far. Although very busy, I have gone through it without any feelings of being rushed, which I must say can be very relaxing. The first reason that it has been one of the best is that I am in the process of moving in with 2 of my best friends and I know that it is going to be awesome. Besides the fact that I am now only 8 miles from work compared to 20, it will also make me a better person by doing this. Living with 2 of my best friends is going to hold me personally and spiritually accountable to only make me a stronger servant for God. Outside of that it will also strengthen my relationship with my family, by allowing me to be separated from them, I will once again be with them because of my desire for them compared to being with them because I live there and have nowhere else to be. I can only pray that God will continue to bless me in the ways that He has, and to bless this house. Since I started moving in here, I have been trying to take my prayer life to the next level and in that I have started to pray a blessing on to this house every time I pull up to go inside, it is a prayer that I got from a prayer book Father Jeff let me borrow and I think it is an amazing prayer. It goes:

Hear me, Lord,

and send your angel from heaven

to visit and protect,

to comfort and defend

all who live in this house.

May the Lord of peace give us

peace

all the time and in every way.

The Lord be with us.

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I was listening to a cd today that I had made years ago and a song came up by Incubus, “I Wish You Were Here”. The line that held my attention was “…and in this moment I am happy… happy”. It described exactly how I feel right now.

I am happy

I am excited. I am pumped. I am thrilled. I am waiting. I am happy.

Nothing has made me this way… I just am. I’m beginning to learn the importance of living in the moment and really being where you are. Right now, in this moment…. I am happy.

I have no deep thoughts to share with you, no questions to pose, no ‘what if’ situations to make your mind wander. Just that song lyric…. do whatever you want with it, but “in this moment I am happy…happy”

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It is amazing how much one persons world can change in the span of 24 hours. This is how I know. All this came to pass in the past 24 hours.

For the past month I have had a growing sense that something huge was on the horizon, something that would change my life and be the start of an amazing journey. It’s no surprise to me that this feeling began as soon as I began to ask God to show me what His will for my life was. Unlike the many times I have asked before, this time I had the faith, “faith that could move mountains”, that I was ready and He would give me the guidance I needed. Like I ended my previous blog, everyday I would pray for, not only, the guidance but the eyes, ears and hearts to recognize His voice calling out to me.

After this weekend I can safely say that I believe I have experienced God calling me to my journey. In fact, I think He has bee more than persistent as, looking back, I have ignored many signs over the past month. This recognition came when God mad a straight forward expression, one that was a slap to my face and impossible to ignore, this Sunday. One thing I can say with certainty is that, at least in my situation, God did not speak with a loud booming voice from the sky. Instead He spoke to me through dreams that seemed to linger over me with tremendous power, through off the wall comments from people surrounding me that could easily have been pushed off as coincidences. He also spoke through those closest to me by having them challenge and support me.

So knowing that God was calling me to take the next step, I was suddenly on the doorstep of that ‘big change’ there was a decision to be made. I had to decide whether I would follow or turn away and hide behind the fear of the unknown. Every time I would contemplate what I was supposed to do, one thought constantly popped in my head. When Jesus approached His Disciples to follow Him they did not hesitate, they didn’t say ‘ let me think about it’, Jesus didn’t offer them a week to think it over and promise to return. He asked, they heard His voice, dropped everything and followed. After finding that there was no easy way to decide, I chose to do the one thing that I had always hoped to have the courage to do. I decided to come out from behind the fear, listen to my heart, and follow the call that Jesus was making.

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This week has been one non-stop high that I hope never ends. It hasn’t been a high because of it being non stop good times. It has been a high for a much deeper reason than that. This week has been full of plenty of reasons to be happy. From going on an aweome retreat with the Life Teen group to going to 2 awesome concerts I have been experiencing the greatest spiritual high. But for me those were not the greatest reasons why this week has been such an emotional and spiritual high.

This week was the beginning of the Lent Season and my first Lent that I will celebrate. Coming into the Lent I had a very limited understanding of what it meant to truly celebrate Lent. But after learning why we celebrate it, my decissions on what I was going to do became easier and at the same time tougher. I decided that I would truly try to better my life, spirtually and emotionally, by giving up something that has been rooted deep inside and also by giving of myself to others.

We all know that God promises us that He will never give us more than we can handle and that He will never leaves us alone on our journey. And even though I know that when I began to set out on this, life changing, event I was still worried that I would be all alone and fail early off. Well, all I can say is How wrong I was. This week has been full of many tests and stumbling blocks but God has been there through it all. He has been there in many ways, from a great spiritual friend who is making the same sacrifice as myself to a co-worker walking into work at the exact right time singing ‘Here I am to Worship’. Everytime I have begun to slip or start to become weakened, God has reached out through someone in my life and held me up.

So, this Lent season I pray daily for the strength to come more fully to God every day. I pray for the ears to hear Him calling me forward as well as to hear His cries admist those in need. I pray for His eyes to see my path chosen at my feet as well as to see the obstacles that lay ahead. And I continually pray for the constant guidance from your Holy Spirit.

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