Back on Track

Well, this blog has officially been abandoned for 7 months, but I think it's time to start blogging about my faith again. You may be a regular blog reader on my other blog and wonder why I am keeping a separate blog about my faith. Part of the reason is for me to document my spiritual journey & also as an outlet to share my faith. I personally believe that faith is very personal, but never private. God didn't intend for me to keep it under a bush (those pre-school songs come in handy!), but it's also incredibly intimate and close to my heart.

You can re-visit some of my early blog goals, that never quite materialized in the puny 5 posts I managed before becoming too busy with a trip to South America and studying for my engineering license exam.

With the start of the school year, I am motivated to re-commit to being deliberate about my faith and devoted to spending the necessary time grow spiritually. I've again volunteered to teach a pre-school class on Sunday mornings. I have a group of 4 year olds for an hour each Sunday, and I look forward to sharing the lessons I learn with them. I had taught Sunday school for 2 years, and had taken a 2 year break. I feel it's a really important way to minister to the families in our church. The parents couldn't attend worship or their small group without hundreds of volunteers teaching their kids.

I've also signed up for a short 6-week class on Wednesday nights. It starts this week, and we are studying how to be a God empowered wife. Last fall, I made it about half-way through a series on spiritual warfare that was both very interesting and very dull at the same time. I'm hoping this short series will hold my attention, and I might sign up for a series the second half depending on my work schedule.

Finally, H & I are going to start attending our small group classes again on Sunday morning. We've found various reasons not to go for the past 6 months. Usually it was chores that needed to be done or errands to be ran or the fact that we'd miss the next week's class anyway. I really want to connect to other young couples in our church & be part of a church family. I was part of an awesome singles group, so I really miss that dynamic of church.

I'll be back soon this time- I promise!

Welcome to My Reflections

WELCOME & thanks for joining me on my Reflections of the Good News!

I started this blog as a place to share the lessons that God is teaching me through my church, my small group, the Bible and life. I am hoping that having a dedicated place for me to post my thoughts and meditations will push me to dig a little deeper in my spiritual life and meditate a little bit longer about the messages God is sharing with me.

I hope that some of you from my regular blog will stick around and feel free to join me with your own reflections. If you just happen to stumble upon this blog some other way, I hope you find something of spiritual value. I honestly don't think I will be able to commit to devoting a lot of time to this blog right now. Hopefully after my big test in April, I will be able to set up a regular schedule and be more consistent with my reflections.

I will set out some early goals for this blog by mentioning what I envision. Mostly this blog will be for myself- to help me grow and study the Bible. I hope to post mini-reviews of the sermon each week, so that I can take notes and truly spend time reflecting on the great message that I hear every week. I'd like to share particularly meaningful songs that I hear on the radio and love to sing at the top of my lungs. Given the tremendous amount of reading I've done in the past few years, and the hope to do more reading in the future, I plan on reviewing and sharing books that I found very inspiring or encouraging to my Christian walk.

I also hope to be able to use this blog as a place to document my progress that I am making in my faith walk- to share where I am struggling, to reflect on when I am disappointed and to celebrate when I overcome great struggles. Much like the history I've blogged about, I'd like to share the history of my spiritual walk. I envision this blog as a place where I can personally reflect, dream, question, celebrate, mourn and be real about the inner-workings of my soul and mind. I really would encourage everybody who is reading this to leave feedback about your own faith walk and what you would like to see me discuss on this blog.

Things to blog about: sermons, music, books, other faith blogs, missions, Jesus, New Testament, Old Testament, End Times, evangelism, finances, devotions, prayer, marriage, service, fellowship, small group, current events, salvation, obedience, prophesy, apologetics, heaven, hell, death, baptism and many more. Feel free to leave a comment with any issues you'd like to see me blog about.

Welcome to the journey and God Bless!