I just started this blog and I'm not a blogger.  I tried blogging in the past but it didn't stick with me because, truthfully I don't really write what I think out much.  However things have changed in my life since then.  So, I'm going to attempt to do some blogging here with some specific goals in mind.

Recently, withing the last few months, it has come upon me my absolute need for Jesus Christ in my life.  Not just to be my savior and that's enough but rather to press in and desire his and the Holy Spirits involvement and leadership and companionship in my life.  To put it shortly I want to know him more.  This has been driven by several things in my life that I can identify beyond the most obvious one of his calling me to be close.  His call seems to be often circumstance driven but I don't think it always is.

Anyway, I want a way to record my thoughts, record what I've learned and done and experienced and this also shares it.  However sharing it isn't really the goal.  If not one person ever reads this it will have no bearing on what I want out of it.

So, I have some catching up to do now.  I've been pressing in on Jesus and spiritual warfare with what knowledge I've gained from just being my parents son.  But also I've been reading some books.  I finished reading Pigs in the Parlor and I'm in the middle of Deliverance from Evil Spirits.  I have found these two books both hopeful and tremendously frightening.

Sunday I bought a bible even though I have several that are collecting dust. It was a journaling bible and I like it a lot.  I bought it for the journaling aspect because I felt it was time, it was more than time to start my own quite time with God.  I'm modeling it after my own fathers quite time.  He would be up early in the morning and spend a half hour to an hour reading the word and praying.  So Monday I did the same.

I got up at 5:30 and rather than hitting my snooze about 9 times, I actually woke up. I went into our living room and sat on the love seat and I didn't know where to start so I decided to start in Genesis... you know, start at the beginning right.  I'll post what I learned and thought and a conversation I had with my mom the following day later.  Today I continued and again got up at 5:30, however I was so groggy I decided to have some breakfast first.  Cookie Crisp and Bananas for the win!  I got dressed and then around 6 I started, or tried to start.  Rather I couldn't start so decided to read some of "Deliverance from Evil Spirits".  I read a chapter of it and then I prayed and continued reading in Genesis.  I'll post about that one also as something occurred to me about the Tower of Babel section.

Anyway, off to interview a guy for a job at my work.