My Search for a Purpose

Happy Saturday! SO! Like I told you: a retrospective commentary on my third sermon from a perspective of 3.5 years in the future. Basically I'll be quoting large sections of my blog and replying to them in bold and underlined  lettering. I hope you enjoy! I know this is a really fluffy blog post, but y'know finals. And I know that's a bad excuse, but it's not as if this is my last blog post ever. Okay? Okay. Here we go: “Nobody’s Perfect” (But You’re Enough) The third Sermon of Jamal Davis Neal, Jr.  " Jane did a fantastic job with her sermon “You’re Enough” Don’t you think? And she’s only in 7th grade! It takes so much courage to stand up here and share a story, especially your own. I think she deserves a round of applause." It was actually such a coincidence that Jane and I did this; it was crazy! I texted her the idea that I had had and she told me that she has the same idea and told our assistant minister that morning! I'm gl

Hey! Sorry for not successfully posting these past two weeks... also sorry for lying three weeks ago when I said the next post would be "Ohana & Anchors." Things got a little hectic when going home from school two weeks ago and last week and things are still a little hectic now... So here's a blast from the past... A Sermon that I wrote in freshman year. A lot of it is addressed to my church congregation, but I'm certain that it still contains a powerful message. “Nobody’s Perfect” (But You’re Enough) The third Sermon of Jamal Davis Neal, Jr.  Jane did a fantastic job with her sermon “You’re Enough” Don’t you think? And she’s only in 7th grade! It takes so much courage to stand up here and share a story, especially your own. I think she deserves a round of applause. So. Let’s switch gears now. This is the third sermon I’ve written. My first was in 6th grade and I shared it with the Youth Group. It was about bullying and how I dealt with bullies back

Happy Saturday! Let's make a disclaimer before we start this blog post: This post isn't pointing any fingers at anyone. This post isn't centered around subtweeting anyone or mentioning any person in particular... yes, there may be references to some of my failed friendships in the past, but it doesn't extend anywhere beyond that.  And I no longer feel the need to waste time hating any of the people referenced in this post either, so don't think this is out of spite or anything like that.  Anyway.  Abandonment.  This is something that a lot of teenagers around my age understand extremely well... I would say that they know this topic much more than the one they should know better... loving themselves. So what am I going to talk about in this? I'm definitely going to share with you my experiences and such and also attempt to provide advice on how to deal with abandonment. And, for the record, this is going to mostly focus on friendship abandon

Happy Saturday! For many of you who know me, you should have assumed that this was going to be my first post! This is the first time I'm going to talk about this, and it definitely won't be the last time that I'm going to talk about this, because this is probably the most important message that anyone needs to hear and know at all times. LOVE YOURSELF . It's that simple right? I should be done right there! It's only two words; only three syllables. So why does it take people so long to fall in love with themselves? Let's explore this deeper, together. Let me just warn you, though. Getting deeper may be too harsh for some readers and I apologize if you're offended by my words.  Now for many people that know me, they'll also know that I'm not the biggest fan of high school relationships. Before we start pointing fingers and suggesting that the reason for that is because I  myself didn't have too much luck in finding "love"

So as many of you guys know (if you're coming from my Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, that is) that I've been trying to start this project that I've labeled as "#soon". Well this is it! Welcome! This is my blog and I'm starting this and I'm not sure how far I'll get, but this is what I have so far. Obviously I'll keep my social media feeds updated and whatnot with new posts, but I hope you'll subscribe and find meaning through my words. Mostly throughout this particular post you'll find out why I wanted to do this, a little bit about me, and stuff sort of like that. It won't be particularly inviting in terms of what the blog will mostly be about, but it will give you some insight into the author of the blog and I think new projects like these require new beginnings, hence the name of this post. (Many of you know who I am,  some of you even on a pretty deep level already, but I sort of want to equalize your mindset of the blog with t