blogging*

One of the reasons I like to blog is it helps me remember things. I want to pattern my life according to Biblical values and writing these things down helps me to clarify and remember. Searching the scriptures for a subject guides me in my thinking. I also want to model this lifestyle for others. Becoming a Christian has been the most important decision of my life. It has helped shape my values, helped me determine a course of action in many things, helped me to be a kinder more compassionate individual.  As I blog about scriptures and issues, I find things I think need to be a core value of my life. I am in the process of making a list of what I think my core values as a Christian should be. As I blog and think about these things, I find areas that should be actual core values and they are more aspirational than actual. I need to feed my self spiritually, and this activity helps me to do that. I express my opinions and my beliefs and I feel that anyone that reads my blogs is entering my space and they don't have to read what I write. I don't feel that I am shoving my religion down any one's throat so to speak as I once accused of doing by my son. I want to share my testimony, my experiences, but I want to do it in such a way as to not be offensive. This is my space, these are my thoughts. Most things are not original with me, there is safety in that. When I feed myself from what others are saying, it helps me keep on track. I want to present the same old gospel, I want to present the same Jesus that has changed my life, my attitudes. I do not want to be offensive in the things I write, but a blessing and an encourager in life. Perhaps I can help someone else along their journey as I help myself. We all have a day of accounting some time in the future. I want to hear those words well done. Jesus changed my life, how will anyone know if I don't tell it somehow? Christian principles work, they need to be developed in our lives and hearts and shown to the world. I remember in Ethics training on the job and how I thought this is some of the same stuff I was taught in Sunday School and here a major big business has come to realize those same principles are good for business. Christianity works. God bless, LVZ.