Ben Pettit

I’m blogging today from poolside. Kids are out here being kids and parents as usual being themselves. Its a little loud out here but has its peaceful moments.

I like the place I am at right now. There’s no where to go but up. I’m single, jobless, freshly graduated and hopeful for the future.

Well I’m off to run a couple miles with rod rod.

It blows my mind that the worse murder case in 50 years for Anderson County happened this week.

Pray for the family and friends of these victims.

Why Mary is a wise women.

I don’t know how much this helps, but everybody makes mistakes. It shows how strong you are when you admit it and try to become something better.

So blogging is not about your readers. It’s not about worrying about hurting someone feelings. It’s about you getting your thoughts out on paper. Some of the things you say may not even make sense. I use to blog all the time but then something I wrote hurt someones feelings and I ran away. I just got back into updating a lot and then out of nowhere I offend someone I shouldn’t even been able to offend. I don’t care what you think, this blog is my thoughts so if you don’t like it, stop reading it.

In the past four weeks I’ve committed the following charges (yes charges, not changes). I dropped a bad habit. Actually this seems like it should be a list so here we go…

1. Dropped a bad habit
2. Prematurely let my heart be open to someone just to get it handed back to me.
3. Prayed every single day and felt the Lord very close to me but yet so far away.
4. Prayed so loud one day that I was screaming.
5. Did everything possible to act in a mature manner but with the circumstances I was in, it was so hard I seriously didn’t know how I could make it through it all.
6. I learned how hard forgiveness is.
7. I learned how hard it is to have patience.
8. I learned that love doesn’t stop. It doesn’t bruise, break, or run away. Love was created by a man, Jesus Christ and loving someone takes guts, balls, sweat, and tears. Love is not easy.
9. I learned that love is worth having some heart break and it seems almost necessary at times.
10. I learned that I will sit at the feet of my Father for everything. I will reach up.

And some will never experience true intimacy with the Father, but will live in sin.