Please DON'T Read This!

Why do I blog?  I only have a few followers of my blog and I get a few "likes" on Facebook. So why bother?  I ask myself this once in a while. Matt Walsh blogs and he gets thousands of followers, both likers and haters.  My wife, Corinne, blogs. My Life and Fortune Cookies (shameless plug for my wife). She gets hundreds of views and likes. I admit, my wife has more friends, is a better writer, speaker, and is much wiser than I. So why? 

I started the blog shortly after my daughter Rachael died.  I needed an outlet to grieve. So I posted my poetry and miscellaneous thoughts.  Every now and then God gives me an insight that I share.  Those insights have become more and more my focus. Yes, I still use it as an outlet, but now I prefer to use it as a tool.  So what if no one ever reads it.  I know that a few will. Maybe I will impart some wisdom from God to them.  Maybe I will make them laugh, cry, or even enrage them against me.  I do hope above all else that my posts make any reader think.

We live in a country where not only is everything spoon fed to us but we want it that way.  We were created in God's image, a creator, a loving father, a perfect judge. Does it not stand to reason, that He created us with the desire and ability to create, to think, to discern, to love?

So as you read my posts, think, feel, enjoy.  I am open to any opposing conversation as long as it is respectful.  You may not share my beliefs or opinions.  That is OK.  I am far from perfect and believe me, I am very far from omniscient.  With the exception of my grief, I am not emotionally invested.  You need not be either. Agree, disagree, but I would encourage you to think with your brain before you think with your heart.


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