First Post

I didn't want to get a xanga or myspace account to post my thoughts, and this site just kind of jumped out at me. I don't know a whole lot about blogs, but I do enjoy reading them and keeping up with people in my life that are important to me and what I do.
So my mission statement for this blog will to be as personal and yet as distant as I can be. Even though I'm a pretty public person, there are a lot of things I hold back, just because i'm supposed to. Maybe soon I'll even put this site out there for others to read. Right now, I'll just be content on knowing I can write in it or read it whenever I feel like it.

And that's just the juxtaposition I find my self in. I know tons of people. Yet tons of people don't know me. And they don't want to know me...or anybody for that matter. The world has changed us. Made us less personal. Everything is e-this or e-that and so unsympathetic to others' wants, needs, even dreams.

So onto the personal/not so personal stuff I referred to earlier...
I'm preaching this Sunday. Yet another day that I try and discover if God has gifted me to pastor, or to be a Youth Pastor for another few years. I know I'm running out of time to decide...or rather I haven't been listening. I'm comfortable. Not something ministers should allow themselves to get. In reality, we should be able to move to Africa in a moments notice if that's what God wants.
And I want that. But where God has carved this niche out for me...is that what He wants?

I know people know about me...but do they know me?