And so it begins…

With this day I take the first steps towards a new life, the shape of which—in its actual contours, colors or character—have yet to be discerned. And yet it will be a life involving words and thought, bringing reflections on things religious, artistic, political and cultural, informed by an evangelical theological mindset.

With this blog, I take a tentative step toward the habit of daily writing. I have long sensed a desire to write and yet I am a reluctant extrovert— prefering to keep my counsel close, sharing my thoughts with a few in close conversation. However there is this growing, irrepressible sense that my purpose intersects somehow with the written word, thereby rendering this push-me-pull-you relationship I have with the act and process of writing as something to be overcome. And so, like all things should be, writing here will be an act (and work) of faith. It may be many things; it may be nothing. For better or worse, it will be a source of self-expression, a means of contact to a world awash in communication yet devoid of communion. And it will be an act of obedience to a calling I have yet to understand.

It would be nice to have some company on the journey, but given that I have chosen a road less traveled, I will not be surprised by the silence, nor the gap between meetings with fellow wanderers.

And so it begins… and decisively not with a bang. There are billions of voices out here already, a vast reverberation of opinion, plaint and need. I pray that my voice will not add to the cacophony. I seek instead to learn to listen to the quiet and share some of the reflections produced in that sacred space. Shall we walk?