The first of many hopefully!

This is my attempt to enter into the blogging world. I have avoided it thus far because I truthfully didn’t have the patience to read everyones crap. This was until earlier this week when I saw value in a friends blog. I saw potential to change or at least challenge peoples worldview. Jeremy thank you for being bold and real and loving all at the same time. I hope I don’t imitate exactly what’s been done but rather expand upon and spread to you the reader the things that impact me. I don’t claim to speak truth on everything, but I know who he is. I don’t claim to speak and act in love in everything, that’s the goal, and I hope to imitate who love is. I hope to bring a bit of humor to things. I don’t like being too serious all the time. With that being said, I don’t want to be ignorant about what’s happening in my life and around it. I hope to address real practical issues and yet maintain a heathy balance. There’s a lot to be distraught over, but I think there’s more to be encouraged by. I look for the good of things because I know someone who uses all things to be made good for his sake. I claim to follow Christ but I hesitate to use the word Christian. It’s meaning now in everyday life has become bastardized. How can someone claim to be a Christian and not make even an attempt to know who he really is? Therefore, I hope you read this and understand my heart. I want to address life as it happens from the perspective of the biggest influence in my life. That is Christ. I don’t want to be labeled as just another one of those crazy religious people. I want my actions to speak before my words. I want love and compassion to be what I’m known by rather than someone who doesn’t do anything but point fingers at the world yet sits by and does nothing while it implodes. Thank you to my friends and may this be the beginning of hopefully an encouraging and challenging time together in this world we call a blog.