Hi! If this is your first visit to my blog… welcome.
This blog is about a rather frightening journey that I have decided to take. I’d love to have you walk along with me if you wish, but as I said in my first blog entry, this is a journey I must take whether anyone joins me or not. If you want to know where it all started you probably need to take a look at the first couple of blog entries.
Also, you need to be forewarned. My journey buddies and I have started walking up this high mountain to get a lay of the land to determine where we want to explore and identify what dragons we want to slay. Along the way we’re just chatting.
In my last blog I mentioned that I had something to share that may cause some of you to stop walking along with me.
I can assure you of this… somewhere along the journey I will offend you. Not intentionally, but it will happen. The question once again, as it will always be, “Is the call (or for some the longing) you have to learn, grow, and explore greater than your immediate irritation or discomfort?”
Okay, here goes… my confession.
What I want to share with you about myself is that I am a Christ follower. I can hear it now, some of you just said, “Oh SHIT”.
In two sentences I have successfully alienated those who do not follow Christ and most of the ones who do. I don’t know much about blogs but this is not a great way to build readership. But once again, this blog is not for you… it’s for me, and what I must do in response to this journey to which I am called.
But before you stop reading, please hear me out.
To the non-Christ follower: I needed to share that I am Christ follower so you will know where I am coming from because it shades my every idea, thought and belief. If we are going to hang out with each other it must be a transparent relationship.
My agenda is not to make you believe what I believe, think what I think, or love Christ the way I love Christ. If I have an agenda it is that my blog be a safe place for anyone to explore anything… without pressure.
Just so you know, my last statement really bothered a lot of my Christian friends. It bothered them because many feel that I should take every opportunity to help you believe in and accept Christ. Frankly I used to believe that way and most likely I turned more people off than helped.
The reality is, you will believe what you want to believe and no one can make you change. I don’t know about you but I get really pretty hard headed when I feel pressured to think, believe or act a certain way.
Side Note: I believe in the depths of my being that if a person is a genuine seeker of Truth, they will find it. The key word is genuine.
I have met many who say they want truth but only explore places they wanted and were not willing to openly look everywhere. I continue to be a seeker of Truth and this means I have to be open to faulty beliefs I may have and be willing to take an honest look.
I am not here to preach to you. I promise I will never do that… or make judgments.
Hopefully, I offer an insight or say something that is meaningful to you on your journey in this life. And if our journey together helps you see Christ in a new and different way… sweet.
Whether you realize it or not, I believe our paths have crossed for a reason and not by accident.
To the Christ follower: Get the hell over my saying ”Shit”. Sorry… I just had to say it again.
It may be hard to believe but I am not a curser. And I really understand why most of you might be offended. I too would have been very bothered by it a few years ago.
The point I want to make is this… for me (I am not putting this on you) …for me I love my Lord with all my heart, but was caged by the rules which kept me from a fuller and deeper relationship with Him. Now I don’t believe that gives me a license to curse like a sailor but I also believe God is bigger than my using the “S” word.
In my time of devotions I pray for sensitivity to the Holy Spirit. If I felt in the slightest that writing the “S” word was not pleasing to my Lord – I wouldn’t.
I believe that many Christians are trapped in religious thinking and don’t even know it. This is much too deep of a conversation for now but somewhere on our journey I’m sure it will surface.
But I promise the same thing to you that I promised my non-Christ following friends, I am not here to put anything on you. I promise I will never do that… or make judgments.
If I offer an insight or say something that is meaningful to you on your journey in this life… wonderful. And who knows, maybe something will be said that causes both of us to experience Christ in a new way.
And as I said earlier, whether you realize it or not, I believe our paths have crossed for a reason and not by accident.
Hopefully I didn’t scare any of my non-Christ follower friends or scar my Christ follower friends. Maybe I will see you on Monday.
Ciao