Progress? Possibly?

So I've finally started making a real effort to memorize scripture.
With everything going on in my life, I've found it to be really empowering.
It's nice.

I feel like I'm finally on my way to becoming who God wants me to...sorta.
It's still in the very early beginning stages, but at least it's there.
I'm finally making real effort outside of high times like Freshwind in Toronto or the Engram youth retreat at my church.

I still have a bunch of stuff I have to work out of my life..a purification process I guess, that I know has to happen and I'm working on, but it's...fighting back I guess.
But the difference is that at least now I'm really trying harder than I have in the past.

I've memorized a good deal of verses in the past bit...

James 1:19 ~ Be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry

James 4:8 ~Come near to God, and he will come near to you

John 13:14-15 ~Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet; so should you wash one anothers feet. For I have set an example for you, that you should do as I have done for you.

Proverbs 24:3 ~Above all else, guard your heart, for it effects everything you do.

John 3:16-17 ~For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whom so ever believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. For God came into the world not to condemn the world, but to claim it as his own.[some versions say: "but to save the world through him"](yes, I already knew verse 16, but I didn't know 17)

and then in Psalm 144 it says "Joyous are those who put their trust in the Lord our God."

so...a good start I think...we'll see how it goes.