This is a blog. I can accept that this is a blog. I'm blogging, and that makes me a blogger.
I am a Christian. This means that, to no credit of my own, God has shown me grace, and I've accepted it. Now my goal in life is to share that grace with others, because I want to be more like God.
I am painfully human. This means that I am still flawed; the lowest of sinners, and undeserving of the grace I am endlessly shown. This is a permanent condition, for as long as I am living in this dying husk of a body and inhabiting this bloodstained world.
In this blog, I am real. As real as I can be. As real as my inner deceptions allow. Here is where I wade through my own personal mire of uncertainty and deceit, in search of grains of truth. Here, the mask comes off, and the hideousness of my true visage is shown. Here, I must learn that my condition is no worse than that of anyone else, because we are all fallen.
DISCLAIMER: All posts to come are likely to be a jumbled mess of unintelligible thoughts and flawed theology. Bear with me, imagined readers. I do hope that these things will eventually become more coherent as my faith matures and my writing skills improve.
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ReplyDeletehaving read this and your disclaimer in the right-hand sidebar, i've decided to write you a prescription.
ReplyDeletego peruse the blogs of 24 other people (Google acquired Blogspot some time ago and implemented a handy "next blog" button; utilize this if you must), and then find a few dozen papers written by college freshmen and correct them for technical, grammatical, logical, and even aesthetic flaws.
after you have done that, come back and be honest with yourself about your blog *with the same attitude and perspective you used to evaluate those other blogs and papers.*
then rewrite your disclaimer and compare the new to the old.
Huh. I can't argue with that. The condition I have is one of being my own harshest critic and therefore never meeting my own standards.
Deletestriving ever closer to one's standards is how all great human things are accomplished.
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