Pressing on...

Okay, so obviously this is a new thing for me. I like the idea...but wow, now I have to keep up with it!

In all reality, my objectives for this blog are to keep in touch with friends and celebrate the gospel together. I'd like to share with you my joys of walking with Jesus....big/small, struggles/triumphs, confusing/clear...you get the picture.

In that case, I don't know if this blog is going to be for you or for me? Since I haven't been so consistent with my journal lately, maybe typing my thoughts will offer the short-term therapy and long-term reminders that so freely come when we record our days. I'd like to be "stirred up by way of reminder" as I reread entries from previous events, heart struggles, or specific times of character development.

It's a discipline, you know. One dictionary defines discipline as "training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially training that produces moral or mental improvement." May my considerations of heart and life here serve as training exercises, producing an inner character growth that manifests itself in ever-incresing dying to self and leaning hard into Jesus. May this discipline be a part of my "rhythm of living" that engages my heart, keeps me accountable, challenges my growth, and affirms the truths of the gospel in me.

And this is where you come in. It's no fun to be alone. We were made to live in community. You're probably reading this because you are, in some way, part of my community.

Thank you.

Thank you for sharing your life with me. For whatever time God allows, I'm thankful for walking this journey of faith with you. The founder of my organization always reminded his coworkers to "press on, for it's a worthy cause." Let's press on together.