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"I am merely a man", that is the title of this blog. I name it that because I am merely a man who is seeking to understand even a fingertip's worth of the nature of God and who He is. I do not know people who blog, in fact only one so far, but I do this in order that I can look back at all the thoughts I have decided to write down over what will then be my past. It will be used as an encouragement to myself (and hopefully others eventually) to know the growth that I have made in certain areas of life.

I have been reading Jesus for President by Shane Claiborne with the hope of understanding a perspective that I thought was totally foreign to me. In fact, I felt coming into the book that there was a level of ignorance that his position sold to people. I was wrong, and I admit that it was I who was ignorant, and you could even say arrogance was guiding my ignorance. I thought that this book would be some childish attempt at saying "peace is great". I have been humbled by Shane's honest attempt in this book to push forward one of the most difficult challenges in my philosophical understanding of life. I am not done with the book yet, so I refrain for now to tell you what those challenges are and how I have faced them. The point of this blog is to reflect on the reality that progress is happening in my life right now. I feel though that yes this topic ultimately deals with God, but I feel it to be more of a philosophical issue with me. I feel that right now spiritual non-growth is occurring. I feel I need a great awakening. I feel this land needs a great awakening. I feel we need to be the hands and feet of our Lord Jesus Christ and pray continually that God would declare that this land would awakened out of the slumber of what this godless culture has made us fallen asleep to. I need the Lord. His love, grace, mercy, compassion, and goodness is all that I need. O the day when I can finally live my faith to the fullest and let those attributes of God flow through my own life.

Goodnight and good luck.......