This Blog's Purpose

Some blogs share tips, keep family updated, give advice, promote a product or a philosophy, or express ideas the creators wish to make popular.  I guess mine used to be the "express ideas" type before. But I now feel to use this blog to also record a more personal journey of applying truth.

The last two years I have written what I have come to call "app papers."  It began with this blog and my first post.  That led me to take a religion class and as an assignment for the class, we were to record sincere efforts to study, pray about and apply truth - eternal truth found in scripture ancient and modern.  As time went by and I wasn't required by a class, I continued to write such "papers." 

I have struggled against the growing feeling to share personal applications of truth here; these miracles and tender mercies and insights; divine signatures that have and are shaping my life.  How to do it without things getting too personal? Without it being "all-about-me"? 

So, at first, I compromised. I shared on this blog only indirectly those truths I was applying, but much has been held back.  I let the more direct "app writings" pour out in other ways.  I have slowly come to realize, that witnessing how God works in my life can be all-about-God.  I'm hoping to practice that here. To make it a place that more strongly witnesses of that divine power I believe in; of how we are personally known and watched over.  Of how he is working in our lives.  But not forget that He is working in our lives so we can better work in each others' lives.

 A poem I love reminds me of this:

Indwelling
 
If thou couldst empty all thyself of self,
Like to a shell dishabited,
Then might He find thee on the Ocean shelf,
And say — "This is not dead," —
And fill thee with Himself instead.
 
But thou art all replete with very thou,
And hast such shrewd activity,
That, when He comes, He says — "This is enow
Unto itself — 'Twere better let it be:
It is so small and full, there is no room for Me."