Intentions for Blogging

This morning I was inspired by a blog post that Angela Payne made for her husband's 30th birthday. The post was a series of 30 pictures, each with a caption telling the reader something about Ryan. What inspired me was not the insight about Ryan, but the moving display of God centered love in their relationship. Coupled with our conversation in CG (church small group) last night, I realized that the best way to share God's love is by sharing the very lives that He affects.

I hope to be able to keep a blog of the many many blessings in my life, all of which point towards God, as well as to document some of the sins in my own life. I will likely start small, and will try to make them relevant to society as a whole so that there is some benefit to the reader other than reading my dirty laundry list.

My deepest desires for this strategy are three fold.

• That people may see the grace of God in my own life and it may in some way show them God's love in their own.
  
• That I will have a record of my struggles that people can read and hold me accountable to for growth.
  
• That all said and done, the combination of praise and struggle will demonstrate for the followers of this blog the work of sanctification that the Holy Spirit is doing in me

In other words, I pray that somehow, through my humble attempts at maintaining a record of God's influence on my life (hopefully in a way that is humorous and exciting enough to maintain a follower or two), He will speak into yours.

Until next time,

Chris