Today has been such an emotional day...and "all I did" was wake up and go to work for 6 hours and then come home.

Maybe it stems back to last night/early this morning. I recently stumbled upon a blog that puts much more eloquently and much less confusedly many of the things I have been thinking lately. As I thought today, I came to the conclusion that many of the things this woman writes are representative of the "devil" on my shoulder - things that I am forced to consider just by way of living in this world, and things of which I am terrified. It is as if she has already walked the path I am currently on and that she followed it to the conclusion at which I am terrified of arriving.

And I feel compelled to walk this path. Intellectual, academic, and spiritual responsibility requires it of me. I'm terrified, yes. However, I come to this path from a much more grounded perspective than I came four years ago when I almost lost the faith of my youth, for:

I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.

I believe in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord.

He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary.

He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.

He descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again.

He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father.

He will come again to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,

the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints,

the forgiveness of sins,

the resurrection of the body,

and life everlasting.