January 3rd

Blessing: 1. a favor or gift bestowed by God. This this is the key of my writings on this blog. To explore, seek out, dissern, and realize the blessing given to me by God, and to rejoice, exault, and praise Him for them. But by blessing I do not just mean such things as "thank you that I lived through today", though it is only by Gods good grace and mercy that any of us survive at all. No, I want to really search each day to find something that God has place for me, a spectacular sunset, certaim words of encouragement, an unexpected gift of whatever be it hug or a tangeble thing, and even the trials and tribulations by which I learn the lessons of life.

Now I am a 18 year old boy, not a great theologian, not an amazing writer of the blog world, and not someone who can be called an athority on any subject. Young and imature, willing to learn, capable of mistakes, and a blessed person is wqhat I am. So do not be suprised if some of my posts contain something odd, question me about it if you like and forgive my awful spelling.

I would like to begin with something that I have noticed before and showed up again today on a long bus ride home from a bball game. The blessing of a good book with a message that reached me on several levels. It is called "Just Do Something" by Kevin DeYoung, and deals with the will of God. I opened it several weeks ago and reached the end of chapter two, and it was off to an inauspicious start for me. Just seeming like more of the same that I had heard most of my life. But after this book was rerecommended to me I took it on the trip to get it over with. Right from the start of chartper three it gripped me and changed my view. A truely great book for those who are "unsure" like myself. Thank you God fro the book and wisdom that it carries.