Well, the deed is done!

My first blog entry! Exciting. This time two months ago I would never have had even a vague inkling of desire to start up a blog, and yet here I am. You see, I think I am by nature a private person, and so to throw my diary onto an almost infinitely big "cyber" table and let whoever just flip through the pages willy-nilly wasn't all that enticing. But I'm starting to see more and more that borders (such an innocent sounding word) are insidious, evil little things. "Running is just not something I do", "I'm not the blogging type"...slowly but very steadily these borders become a smaller and smaller box around you. Pas bon! Besides, vulnerable spots are perhaps the best spots to be in. "When you're weak, you're strong", no? I mean lets face it, we weren't brought here, into this life to be comfortable right? I think the quicker we can accept that fact and all the discomforts it implies, the quicker we'll start to run with an elegant form and with supernatural speed! So here I am bombing a border.

God once asked me if I would be willing to stand up and preach if I knew before hand that no hearts would be touched, changed or encouraged, but just because He asked me to. This question got me. To put yourself out there, be the centre of attention (not a fan), and assume the responsibility of preaching the very Word that judges the thoughts and attitudes of my own heart (Hebrews 4:12), but then having abundant fruit returned from it, well, that's one thing. But to put yourself up in that vulnerable spot and have nothing but blank faces staring back at you...Eesh. That's a toughy. I guess this blog thing is kinda like that. This little box thingy doesn't type back - nothing but silence and a whole lot of opportunity to misunderstand. That's ok, in the end, I decided I was willing.

Anyway, this is all pretty deep stuff and that's probably because it's 2am, so I promise to try post the next one at a more earthly hour! It'll be less somber, I'm sure.
Nighty-night!