Confessions of a Broken Down Man - My First Blog

Hm...I've never blogged before, much less really followed up on other people's blogs. I always tell myself I'm too busy for things like this, but the reality is that I've just been too lazy...or spending too much time on Facebook. So I guess this is yet another distraction to keep me away from things that may be more important, but I also think this can be something that will help me to figure myself out a little more. And keep others updated on my life. But I guess I don't need to justify myself to you, so I won't go into all the other details.

Anyway, I chose this as the title of my blog - Confessions of a Broken Down Man - as a means to remind myself what not to become. One of my favorite music groups is Waterdeep. They are truly incredible and have some mind-blowing lyrics, and the title of one of their songs is "Confessions of a Broken Down Man." In the song there's this dude: he gets caught up with his job and his desire for acceptance and ends up making choices he wished he hadn't, and he even comes back from a business trip having forgotten his son's name.

Now, that's not exactly the boat I'm in, but I'm in a place in life I'm not used to. I'm living in a huge city that never sleeps, I have a full-time job with no breaks in sight (unlike last year when I knew I'd be back working at summer camp before too long), and it seems there is always something to do. So hopefully this blog will help me to keep myself grounded. I'm hoping to share things I'm learning from the scriptures, from God speaking to me, from my various travels around Asia, and the lessons that life, by nature, teaches me. I don't want to become a broken down man who has to shamefully report his confessions; rather, I want to be a man who is able to confess the commonplace and the fantastic from my every day life so that I may be continually reminded of my purpose and my place in this world.

Let the adventures begin.