A greeting (and a challenge!)

Are you open-minded? If you truly, really, honestly are, then you won't turn a blind eye at the mention of the word "God" and you'll read on.

Many non-believers label believers in God as being "narrow-minded", among other things, but if you decide that you're above reading a blog like this because you think God is not for real and that you don't need to learn anything about Him then perhaps, just maybe, you're also as "hypocritical" as non-believers also accuse believers of being - that is, perhaps you're just as narrow-minded as they supposedly are!

On that warm note ;0) I officially welcome you to this blog! (I'm really not that much of a bear!)

So why am I starting it? There are times in my life when I'm just blown away by something that I've realized about God, something that I'm convinced He's allowed me to realize, but I forget to write or type it out. This blog is one man's attempt to record some of these things.

What's my goal? My goal is NOT to tell you what I think you should believe. Believe me, I know from experience how annoying it is to be force-fed something I don't want to deal with or think about! Besides that, everyone's already brainwashed by something, and everyone already serves a 'god' of some type - either spiritual or material, and whether or not they realize it or like to admit it (sex, money, job/career, education, gambling, shopping, drugs, etc.). Therefore, my main goal is simply to get you thinking by being straight up and honest with you. Where you go from there is up to you.

If you're a non-believer, I hope you'll start thinking outside the box you already know. I started looking 'outside the box' in my early 20's because I wasn't satisfied with what life - minus God - was offering. (By the way, I was looking for everything but God at that point, but perhaps I'll explain this more in a future post ...) I wanted something more but I wasn't finding it through what I knew (and thought I knew). But if I had stayed inside that box because of narrow-mindedness, my life wouldn't have been transformed so radically and permanently for the better.

If you're a believer, I want you to develop a personal passion for God like you've never known before - a real, genuine, deep relationship with your Creator that gets people wondering about what makes you tick. Far too many believers today either wag the finger, or even worse they blend in with and take on so much of the world's characteristics that people can hardly tell them from a non-believer. The latter base their faith on what their family, co-workers, and so-called "friends" think instead of desiring what God thinks!

So put on your thinking cap and leave your narrow-mindedness at the door. It's time to learn some cool stuff about God that He's allowed me to realize over the past several years!