Inauguration

I suppose this is my official leap onto the Blogging Bandwagon. Today is Thanksgiving and I should probably wait a few days before I make my inauguration post. I somehow feel that I'm doing the holiday a disservice if I blog in such a way that the last line doesn't read "So what are you thankful for?" I'd really rather write about what the purpose for this blog is so please allow me a moment to petition for mercy:

"Thanksgiving, please forgive me for defiling the sacred theme of your day. I am thankful for your forgiveness."

Hopefully that covered my bases.

I write to think through things.

Often I don't feel like I'm able to think through ideas very coherently if the thoughts never leave my head. Sometimes, when I try to write my thoughts down I realize that when one thought had lead to another thought they had done so by no logical transition. Sometimes I realize that a trail of thoughts were about as profound as a line of unconnected chain links is useful. Sometimes I scrap the thoughts as worthless and sometimes I work harder to find the connection that my brain had so easily and intuitively conjure up.

Other times when I'm writing I don't realize the weight of a thought until it has been expressed in a more tangible way (written words as opposed to mere thoughts). I've found myself skimming over ideas that, while they were mere side notes when floating around in my head, instantly seem profound when read (I don't mean to say that I have greater or higher thoughts than other people. When I say profound I mean that the thought excites me, that I believe I can learn something by seeing where the thought goes.

I also feel that it's important to open up your thoughts to criticism. A lot of what I try to think through concern what the Bible has to say about God and living life. Many people of todays society feel entitled to believe exactly what they want to believe. And I'm hardly any different. We end up with definitions of what it means to live a moral, complete, purposeful, and worthy life that conveniently describes the kind of person we already are. Since the bible is objective truth you must be willing to have your thoughts challenged. Think for yourself, of course, but, i know for myself at least, i'm inviting delusion if I never allow other people to check and balance my thoughts about different things.

And to build off of that, I'm hoping that this blog ,and the people who might read it, could become something that would help hold me accountable to "thinking about such things"; pursuing the heart and mind of Christ and desiring to know him and his purposes for my life. Obviously there are other ways to seek the Lord than through blogging, but I'd this blog to be some sort of demonstration of the things that I'm processing through.

That's good, I guess, for now. I didn't think this first post was going to get very long.

umm... So what are you thankful for?