[ in the beginning ]

So, it is my first post on this crazy little webworld known as wordpress.  Do you like my cheap advertisement across the top of the page?  Hehe, gotta get it in where I can…

Well, I’m eager to start yet another blog page.  When Mike and I were discussing the possibility of having an entire body of believers keeping a blog of their spiritual lives, my mind went aflutter with all the opportunities that poses.  It could be so many things: 

1. I’ll finally consolidate my many blogs into one.   Yay for me and for you and for my fingers and for my keyboard.

2. It forces us all [especially those who feel they aren't skilled in the art of materializing their feelings or spiritual growth into words] to repeatedly reevaluate the things God has been teaching us as we write.  We then analyze better because we are articulating the experience to ourselves and in an understandable fashion to others.  Lameman’s terms: you’re re-chewing everything God fed you so that you soak in more nutrients.   And, of course, teletubbies taught us that repetition makes for successful learning [I detested that show].

3.  It keeps us accountable.  To ourselves, to our commitment in a walk of faith, to our Father, and to one another as brothers and sisters.  I can be the first to admit that I might be horrible at keeping up with this thing.  My Xangas of yesteryear proved that I can drop the ball.   BUT, if we are constantly reading each others blogs, then we are able to keep up with each other spiritually and in our daily life experiences.  We can share with each other what God is accomplishing in our lives whereas Sunday mornings can’t always provide full time for such.  We can be the body of believers God intends for us to be.  Not just a pretty face on a Sunday morning that we ‘worship with’ but aren’t actively engaged with. 

I love you and want to intimitely know you the best I know how.   When I share things with you, I encourage you to reply with comments, whether private or openly, to keep me in accountability.  If you disagree with something, sharpen me with that iron, baby!  If you have applicable and fruitful thoughts or words of wisdom, write it!  I want to know how my life entertwines with yours since God put us in the same path.   In so saying, I pray you’ll allow me to prune you in the same manner and that you’ll share with me God’s AMAZING work in your life.

Let’s see how this goes…