Starting Out

One of the greatest and most effective spiritual disciplines is journaling.  Spiritual disciplines are not liturgical regulations that you follow so that God is more pleased with your effort.  Spiritual disciplines are practical measures that we can take to place our lives on the proverbial "tee" so that God can stripe us down the fairway toward our destination & purpose.  Any attempt at purpose-driven anything outside the guidance and mystical direction of God will be fraught with frustration & an infuriating lack of fulfillment.

So, this is an attempt at journaling.  In a public sense, because that's where we've come as a culture.  "Hey, look!  An open kimono!"  I'm not a writer, my wife is.  She rolls here eyes at my insistence on using semi-colons when I should probably employ commas.  But, the beauty of this forum is that the grammar police are forever stuck in the linguistic donut shop of futility.  Journaling (now blogging) I believe is a powerful tool for aligning and clarifying the clutter of the mind, and then sharing that experience with someone else who has likely experienced the same foibles in their journey.  That's called community, and done well, it can be very healthy.

Off we go... (somewhere a hairy-footed Sean Aston grabs an equally follicle-blessed Elijah Wood and they set off on their journey).

A new friend named Kem told me yesterday that people no longer ask "what is truth?"  Instead, they ask "what's the point?"  I would agree that our culture has moved in that direction, but would amplify it by saying that we also are most prone to ask, "what will work?"  That drives most of our decisions:  "What's the point; & what will work?"

This is my journey into exploring the Word & mind of an infinite God in an attempt to answer the question "How come!?" with an emphatic and celebratory "So that!"

Giddy up.