After writing here for a week, I’m starting to realize why people do this thing they call “blog.” For some reason, I never thought of it the way I do now. I suppose it’s like Nascar. I didn’t think it was all that great until I watched, listened and tried it myself. Once I made the effort, I was able to grasp the enthusiasm as my own and started adjusting my schedule around “the race.”

Anyway, here’s what I’ve realized. This, a blog, is the very essence that the show Cheers was built on. This is where I can go that everybody knows my name and if you don’t like what I have to say, it’s okay. Why is that a good thing? Sometimes you just need a place to talk about nothing, go as deep or as shallow as you’d like and not be concerned about your presentation. This, my friends, is my work in progress and I’m finding a little more freedom in it than I thought I would. Now my only problem is, it seems that I could write forever.

This weekend is our churches men’s retreat. We call them Encouters for more obvious reasons. By the way, 212 men going after God for 48 hours. Seriously! Don’t you think that God has big plans for a bunch of hungry men? I do. — So, in preparation for this event, I felt like I needed to fast for my guys. I don’t know why or what for, but I have high expectations and hopes that each of them will experience something they never have before. That kind of encounter with God doesn’t come casually…only by sacrifice, obedience and humility before Him. In thinking about how long to fast, I asked the Lord to reveal an amount of time. 1, 2, or even 3 days, I didn’t care, I just wanted it to be His time. While driving to work today, I was listening to some passages in 1 Kings 19 (there’s that wonderful Bible on CD workin’ it for me again), and there was a part in there about “a day of fasting.” I guess I wasn’t quite paying attention until I stepped out of my truck and it hit me, I am to have my own “day of fasting.” So Friday is a big day…big expectations…big hopes and large victories. I’m looking forward to the weekend.

By the way, when God says that reading the Word will renew your mind, He really isn’t kidding around with that. It seems that for the past week, all I’ve done is played catchup on my Bible reading and as a result, I’m seeing things differently, my perspective is changing and my passion is rising.

Random thought of the day: I’m only 29. I wonder what God has in store for my 30’s?