This - oh the momentous occasion - is my first ever blog. Of late, I have often found myself with various thoughts and ideas I wanted to express, more or less en masse, but desired a more dignified avenue through which to express them than mere facebook status updates, which I regard as relatively cheap communication. No, fine wines are not delivered in a brown paper sack; they are carried in an engraved wooden box. This blog is the engraved wooden box. By God's grace, the wine will not be cheap, but will be fitting for the box. I am determined this blog is not to be for common petty expression, but for conveying meaningful ideas. I have reflected a great deal on the fact that one day I will die, and I for one detest the idea of passing through this world and engraving no mark on it, or worse, leaving a smudge. Mind, I aim not to impact this world simply for itself, but rather recognize that what occurs in this world is the determinant of what happens in eternity, and I don't want to stop impacting eternity just as soon as I have entered it. Thus, I want to write, write well, and write a great deal. I even hope one day to be quoted (though I likely flatter myself). I have in my room a quote book from the works of C.S. Lewis that is a daily companion, and has impacted me on many occasions with brief, pithy expressions of truth, and also musings. Sometimes it has been the musings that have impacted me the most. Teach a man to apply an equation of physics and you have made him more knowledgeable. Teach a man to derive an equation of physics from a real particle in motion and you have made him a physicist. It is really the same for me reading Lewis; it's the musings that really set the wheels in motion. With that in mind, you can expect this blog to contain many mere statements of truth. Sometimes there may be no more than links to articles or sermons. But more than that, you can expect thoughts, reasons. I will write of my convictions, but not merely my convictions, but how I arrived there.
With all this talk of serious things like convictions and fine wine and the late old englishman, you might think that I will not post anything from mere day-to-day experiences. This is not so. Intermingled with musings, convictions, sermons, articles, and perhaps even essays, there will be pictures and stories. But they will not be frivolous.
Trains are great sturdy things, and train tracks are only built from one significant location to the next. This blog will be a train, not a taxi cab. I am glad to say it is now leaving the station. Include a picture of a train? I think so.
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