Katie's prayer: Caedmon's Call's "Thankful"

But you know, I had to laugh at the same old struggles

That plagued me then are plaguing me still

Since middle school, I have written in a journal. Not always consistently. A few months here and there between entries. But yet, still something I enjoy. After I started getting into my faith, those journal entries went from "Dear Journal" to "Dear God." These journals are always good for re-reading. It's great to see how much I've changed and grown. And it's fun to be reminded of feelings I had back then, crushes I held, "struggles" I dealt with, worries, fears, etc.

When I heard the above lyrics, I realize I hadn't written an entry in quite a while (since May 09!) and it had been even longer since I re-read some of my entries. So I sat down, and looked through some. Ok, not just some, like half of one journal, and the like 15 entries in another journal. (: I couldn't help it! Usually, I focus on how I've changed. Today, I realized how much is still the same. Struggles I still have, some of them have been "resolved" in the past, but yet still came back. It makes me wonder, will I always have these same struggles? Five years from now? Ten years from now? I hope not, but at the same time, I think I might because I've dealt with some of them for as long as I can remember and maybe even before I have documented here.