Catching up.

Wow! It's been a while since I posted on here... So, I guess I should catch up to where I'm at currently. I took a job at a new company in August. It's been really great. I've been able to expand my skills as an analyst and gain some new insights. At the same time, I began applying to seminaries and starting the candidacy process as well. All that means is that starting in August, I'll go back to being a student again. Oooof... Don't think I'm ready for that. It also means Tiff and I will be boxing up our life and headed up north. Not sure if it will be Chicago or Minneapolis yet, but one thing's for sure, it's going to be COLD!!! Definitely not ready for that either. 

This is an extremely exciting time for us, but also incredibly scary. It's unnerving to completely change courses in life, but if what you are pursuing is your passion, how can you justify not devoting your entire being to it? This is where it becomes difficult to rationally explain the journey I'm entering into. The world of religion and theology is not something that fits well into our "boxes." It's in our nature to build structures around our ideas so that they make sense to us. This is why many of our ideas end up as institutions. Science, Religion, Philosophy...all started out as ideas, and now reside in structures with sets of rules, strict order, and hierarchies.

To me, that is our fatal flaw. We fail to see our world as a fluid motion and interaction of ideas, and instead see only imposing structures used to exercise control over our lives. I want to change that. I want to invite people to experience Christianity. The path that I'm starting on is not one that I can define easily, but I can tell you about it. I can relate my experiences. With that said, I would invite you to pursue your passion. Find what feeds you, and devote your life to it. It's a very fulfilling and rewarding way of living, and you just might find out some things about yourself.