So, here we go:

Well, this would be the first post of my new blog. Tried it before but I didn't do it for very long because I got all emo. So instead, I will do what my old youth minister recommended and instead just talk about what God is teaching me, primarily through Scripture but also through prayer and walking with Him.

I will begin by explaining why I begin this blog now. God has been heavy on my heart these last few months, convicting me of sin, calling me to repentance and rededication to His work. So I have quit my job (which is not saying much as I worked for my Dad and still live in his house) and am now focusing on studying the Scriptures, prayer, and listening to sermons via podcasts (Alistair Begg, R. C. Sproul, Ravi Zacharias, and lately Mark Driscoll and Matt Chandler). So I hope to soon have something actually worth saying and also that does not blatantly plagiarize any of the ministers just listed or any others. When that happens I'll probably take this post down, but until then, at least this site is not completely empty.

One other minor note before I post this: apparently you have to be a Catholic to join a monastery. I have yet to find a Protestant monastery or even many Orthodox monasteries. In fact the one monastery I found that would allow non-members to go for an extended time turned out to be racked with scandal, resulting in jail time for some and a suicide by one. Very sad, very pointless. I suppose I could explain the nature of this aside. Suffice it to say I wanted to go to a monastery for a year but couldn't find one.