Well...Here I am...again.

Hello everyone who reads this...or lack thereof. So I was reading through all of my posts and I realize that I have yet to get one comment on my Blog...starting to think no one is actually reading this, but what is the point of having your own journal? I guess just to get your thoughts out on paper i'm assuming.

Recently I started reading this book called "Messy Spirituality". It talks about this guy who's about 60 years old and he talks about what he's been through spiritually throughout the years of his life as a pastor. He talks about how going through his journey as a Christian was many times very mundane. He thought as a teenager things would be much better with his walk once he was older and more "wise". But he realized that this was only wishful thinking. He embraces the messyness of his Christianity and I feel as if thats a really big step to understanding it someday. He talks about how he's never really done anything that would make him fall away and continue on doing things besides "Good" things. It's really true, if we don't constantly feel some type of a "presence" from a "God" then as Christians we feel very distant from the faith. In churches we put out this spiritual sense that everyone has everything together and everyone is extremely spiritual and its as if God is directing them in every single thing they do. How realistic is that?

I'm not sure about all of this sometimes...I know as a Christian life can be very stale and mundane at times, but I feel like God is giving us the chance to do good for him. It's almost like he gives us this defining moment and encounter to understand and to follow him, but then he tells us to "go". "Do Good...do the things that I would do, occupy your life with the example I left." I feel like thats what he tells us...maybe thats just me?

Take care.