A New Journey

I have always loved writing.  I wrote to release frustration or to express joy or a prayer.  When I couldn't say what I needed to out loud, I wrote it down.  While in counseling, I've always been encouraged to write it out.

If you've been around for more than a minute, you know my life has been anything but a cake walk.  Now, don't get me twisted, I've had many great tragedies but I've also had oh so many great joys that outweigh those tragedies or at least help ease the sharp edges of them.

I've thought and had many others tell me I should write a book.  My thoughts go to "no one would want to read this" and "I'm not good enough to write a book" and "nobody knows me so why would I write out my life".

The past two years have been a struggle at many times and I keep coming back to "tell your story" and "write your book".  Who knows where this will go, but here is my attempt to get my story out there.  You, my blog readers, will get chunks of raw story bit by bit as I make my way through it all.  Some of you will know parts all too well because you were there and lived it with me.  Some of you will only know bits and pieces.  In the end, I hope to express myself plainly, full of vulnerability, and transparency.  I hope to bring glory to God because in the good and in the bad, He is sovereign and deserves all praise.

So….here we go...instalment #1


There are three things that have been a constant in my life: faith, food, and family (the biological kind and the friend as close as a brother kind).  My earliest memories are of my Dad being in ministry.  Church was a staple.  If you aren't on your deathbed, you were at church and even then you should be so people could pray for you.  Dad was always singing and going to school to finish his MDiv (Master of Divinity).  On mornings after being up all night studying Greek or Hebrew, I would walk to the kitchen to find loaf pans filled with bread dough covered with every tea towel we owned waiting on them to rise.



Okay....that's all so far.  It's not much, but to me it is a huge step.  Stay tuned!