Random Things

As y'all might have noticed, the content here has been changing a bit since I started. I'm including more everyday things- deliberately. I want to share life and all that I'm learning through the little everyday things, not just the serious. Something that I've realized is that it's the everyday things that end up being important in the end. I'm starting to understand that more important than just having a theoretical understanding of abstract concepts is how you live and share your life with others. This isn't to say that I'm discounting the importance of thinking about and working through the hypothetical, the theological, and the philosophical. Those things are all great! It's just that when it comes down to what I think I'll find important at the end of my life, it'll be about the time that I shared with friends, the encouragements, the smiles, the laughter, and the fellowship with others. I realize that I'm busy right now. Like busier than I ever wanted to be after graduating from college. Well, okay, maybe that's not entirely true. (I enjoy being busy.) However, the way I'm looking at things is that I should never get to the point where I am too busy to have time for my friends for an extended period of time. I can see myself being busy for days at a time when I'm in crunch mode. It's neither healthy nor worth it to live a life of just work and no relationships. Isn't that what life is really all about? What does it really mean to love your neighbor? If the love is theoretically there but not there in the everyday it really isn't worth anything, is it? So, yes. Do expect to see more of the non-theoretical, serious things I'm thinking about on this blog. Those things will probably pop up on their own over time, but I think a lot of it is going to get recorded in a different place. Because recording those thoughts and re-reading them later on is usually so much fun- and usually such an encouragement.