New Direction for This Blog

If you are a regular visitor to this blog, you may have noticed that about half of the postings have disappeared.

I haven't written anything on here for awhile, and I realized this week that this is because the blog has lost the purity to me that it had early on, taking away much of the invitation to continue writing.

I am not really a "blogger" type, in my own thinking. My family, my work, and my personal devotions are all that I really consider being at the core of my life, and I am anything but an extrovert. Anyone who has known me for awhile will remember that this was not always the case, but it is now. Marriage, having a son, and having a real career has changed me. It is difficult for my friends to even get me on the phone for 10 minutes most weeks, and this is not so much that I am incredibly busy as it is that I am certain about where I belong and who I need to be available to.

This blog became important to me because I saw it as an opportunity to synthesize conversations that I would not ordinarily be able to have, especially regarding the intricacies of what God has done in Christ, which I am fascinated with from both a scientific and humanitarian point of view.

I have somewhat misused the privilege of this forum though, not as though it were offensive to anyone else, but in that doing so took away the better use of it from me: I want to write about God, and in such a way that appreciates the idealistic nature of writing - that I can exclude all the ordinary thoughts that occur to me while considering the extraordinary; that I can get away with thinking through things that you would easily see I am not qualified to speak about, if you knew how ordinary and unacceptable I can be.

This blog is a place where I can explore the very best, even if unnatural, thoughts that interest me, and I do not want to fill it with common emotionalism or careless expression anymore.

I am purposing now to use this forum only to expound upon the study of the gospel of Christ:

I believe that to continue on in studying the gospel beyond its initial inception is useful in that doing so will persuade us, progressively, to stop working for what we already have.

In the good words of Watchman Nee, "We work because we have not seen the work of Christ."

So I will now devote the use of this blog to bringing people onto the proper side of that equation - to see the work of Christ more fully, that we may cease to work ourselves and may find more thorough rest and peace in the grace of God.