The Beginning

On Easter I decided to take the NCC challenge and read through the bible in a "year". Easter 2010 to Easter 2011 I will have read through the entire bible, that is the plan at least. While reading through the bible different people from NCC will blog daily about the passages for the day. While reading through the bible during my first week and reading through the blog posts I thought to myself "I should really start a blog about what I get from the reading," because I felt like God was revealing things to me that needed to be written down, thus this blog was born. So I was ready to start a blog but I didn’t have a name for it, and I’m not the most creative person around. I asked a co-worker and he suggested "larrykudlow'spenpa," that wasn't going to happen (I happened to have sent Larry Kudlow an email that day). So the search was still on for the name of this blog.

As I was reading Joshua last night I thought about something we had done in my small group a couple years ago. We were asked to draw what our walk with God had been like up until that point. It could literally be anything, one person drew an anchor going into a ocean filled with sharks, someone drew a rainbow, you get the point. It may be the economist in me, but I drew a graph. It looked something like this (a kindergarten version of what I drew). The picture is not loading or is not even giving me the option to load it, so I shall describe. It was a slanted line up, a plateau, and then another slanted line up (thats as much detail as my patience will allow).

But then as I was reading last night I realized my spiritual graph looks more like the housing bubble the US has recently experienced, in other words a spiritual bubble. It looked a little more like this (again a kindergarten version of the drawing). Again, the picture isnt loading so maybe one day you will get to see my drawing of a housing bubble.

For those of you who dont know what the housing bubble looks like, it consisted of rapid growth followed by a steep downfall and is now finally recovery. While I have had many “spiritual bubbles” in my life I don’t think none can compare to the bubble that burst in the fall of 2008, coincidently that is around the same time the US housing bubble started to collapse (or maybe not so coincidently- God?). Anyways, like the US housing market is beginning to recover so is my walk with God. I’m not saying these spiritual bubbles are a good thing, but they happen and I definitely learn from each and everyone of them. Like Pastor Mark has said many times, sometimes God has to bring you down to life you back up. So this blog is mainly my avenue for blogging about my journey through life on my own, through the bible, through my first real job, and my way of sharing what God is teaching me.

A little bit about me first, and then what led to the collapse and the current recovery. I am from California, never really lived outside the state, and I recently moved out to DC for a job, which I love and has been a huge blessing, but I originally had a hard time being in DC it is definitely growing on me and Im learning to love it day by day. I went to school not too far from home, a quick 7 hr drive, and now I am across the country (a short 5 day drive) away from 90% of my family and friends, and I am truly on my own healthcare and all. While I wasn’t ok with this at first I see more and more how much of a blessing in disguise this move has been. God has brought me to a great city, brought me into an amazing church with great people and is starting to show me more and more about myself and how much I really need Him.

So this is the beginning, hopefully it continues for longer than a couple weeks but with me you just never know. We are about to go into catacombs worship service, so until next time I hope this will suffice for a first blog entry. All I have to say is catacombs=amazing

-S