OKAY, First Post, Here We Go!

Well it's been 2+ years since I've written a blog.

I used to love making picture blogs to chronicle important events and things I wanted to remember but with a combination of my digital camera being stolen and a general lack of inspiration it’s been quite awhile since something like this has come together.

Below you’ll find all of my old blog posts from the days that I used to use myspace’s blogging feature, I re-read all of them for the first time in 2 years and it made me want to start back up.

I need another creative outlet, I need to not watch so much TV after work, I need to get what I’m thinking about out of my head and re-read it. Just over a week ago I met someone who, although she wouldn’t claim this to be her “Life Philosophy”, believed that you “Never HAVE to do anything”. Now the brainiac inside all of us could easily refute this statement, but this girl wasn’t dumb, and she’s right... We never really HAVE to do anything.

This statement can be our key to freedom or our excuse for confinement; it can make life overly simple or unbridled with complexity, and it’s got me thinking about God. What’s his will for my life and is there anything I really HAVE to do to ensure it’s carried out?

In so many ways I’m in the best season of my life, I have an abundance to be thankful for and most everything is really good. However I feel like I’m avoiding dealing with the minority of things that are troubling me and the result of that denial has been compounding into me feeling far away from God. I’m good at turning to God when everything is going wrong and that time spent with him always pulls me through it. Now when the majority of things are going right and I slack on spending time in the word and in prayer it doesn’t take much to make me fall into destructive patterns I’d thought I’d grown out of.

The Point:
“Even storks know when it's time to return. Morning doves, swallows, and cranes know when it's time to migrate. But my people don't know that I, the LORD, am urging them to return.” Jeremiah 8:7

The Stork in the Sky Knows her Seasons as another translation phrases it, and birds automatically know when it’s time to migrate, it’s built in; Do these birds HAVE to do anything? I don’t know. I don’t know if I “have” to do anything but I know I want God’s plan for me to be built in the same way he’s built it into these birds. And even though I already knew that, the question of whether we HAVE to do something or not really got me thinking about all of it again.

I think this is ultimately what this blog is going to be about. Whether or not I HAVE to do anything I’m going to make choices regardless, time will tell if God’s plan for my life comes to fruition as a result of them.