I Don't Know Everything...There I Said It

It is been 6 months since I created this site for you. One post is all I managed in 2021. What a hell of a year that was. It was the events, the sufferings of 2021, that led to this site. They prompted a desire to communicate and hopefully leave a record for you of what I think is most important. But as is the case with a lot of my good intentions I never made the time to write. A couple of times I sat down and the words just didn't come. I hope to do much better at posting in 2022. Wouldn't it be great if I could manage one post per week? That is a good goal.

When I have my time in the morning in quiet with God and the saints, during my prayers and scripture and devotional readings, I often have thoughts that I want to write and share on this site for you. So my prayer is that the Holy Spirit guides me heart motivation and inspires my thoughts and helps my typing fingers. I don't want these thoughts to be doctrine or theology lessons but more about what I have learned and how that has changed and moved me.

I know that I joke about knowing everything. By now you are clued in that this is in fact not the case. But what I have always been (by God's grace) was interested in Jesus and willing to follow, learn, admit what I didn't know, challenge what I was taught, and be changed by the truth. Truth isn't relative. The concept that truth can be relative is illogical on its face. One key truth that has impacted me is that I cannot be whatever I want. I can only be what God made me to be and equips me to be. This quest to find out who God made me to be within the parameters he sets and not my own desires has made this life journey so very interesting.

In that vain, when I was a kid I thought that I might have a vocational calling to be a pastor. This was something God put there. I continue to have a calling for ministry. But my first vocation was to be a husband and not to just anyone I liked, but to Danielle. She has been the perfect gift to my life and journey. This is because we share and pursue what is most important - our mutual love and drawing close to Jesus - on Jesus' terms. There are some things I know to be true and one rock solid truth is that husband and wife must share the same faith and unite in practicing that faith. The consequences for this not being the case are grave and the blessings for unity of faith are eternal and immense.