thanks for defending our freedom

On july 4th, I try to pray for the soldiers on duty and those who have come back injured or killed in battle. They serve our countries through combat. All of those soldiers are willing to die for our way of life. I honor them for their service and their courage.

A few years back I thought about joining the military. I even went to talk to a recruiter at ucla, and watched the graduation ceremonies of their group of rotc at ucla. I was considereing it because at the time they were talking about drafting young men and women to serve. And my brother was over 18 at that time. So I told myself that if thomas is drafted then I would enlist as well. Thankfully the draft never came, so I did not choose a military life.

But later on, two of my cousins became interested in enlisting for the military. One of my cousins went through bootcamp, but they told me he was injured so they sent him home. Not sure if he will have to come back and serve once he is healthy.

Now I am a bit old for joining the service, so it likely would not happen now. Sometimes I wonder what would havppen if I had made that commitment to serve.

Now I find myself applying for jobs as a youth pastor and music minster. Instead of combat, it seems I am moving towards employment in god's army to pastor to young people. I pray that the interview goes well, I believe it would be a good place for me right now. I even offered to work with singles for christ and gawad kalinga as a full time worker, but so far they have not wanted me for that role. So I looked online for jobs in the catholic world. I saw youth pastor jobs that paid more in non catholic churches. But if I am going to pastor people, it would be better to pastor to catholics, becaue that is the religion I have been in since birth.

I pray that I will be helpful to the spiritual walk that these young people are going through at this time.

Thanks to all of the military soldiers on independence day. And I hope god will call me to be one of his soldiers and pastors in creating god's army to drive evil back into the darkness, and bring the light of jesus to these young people who are being molded into faithful adults.