California January

The idea is to start blogging here on a regular basis. My wife and I created this blog soon after settling into this new house but we never really got into a blogging routine.

As much as I think it's silly that people use January 1st as a day to start new habits (or make resolutions) I'm glad that it is a tradition. Sometimes people just need to wake up. January 1st seems to be a good day for that.

More than anything else it shows that habits are based on decisions. We decide whether or not we'll exercise or study more or be nice. We decide to pray more or serve more or celebrate more. We decide to make those decisions on New Year's Day.

Decide to make these decisions everyday. Don't wait for January to pick you up out of a rut.

Worlds

Joel brought this verse up at youth group last week, making the point that there are things beyond our world that are just as real - more real - as our tangible, material existence. I don't believe in Narnia or Asgard or Kyrria, but I know there is a world outside of ours, encompassing it completely. I believe in a God who created everything and who has a will for my life, for me to live and to love Him. And that's just as real (again, more real) as the world I work in, go to church in, make friends in and even the private world of my mind. That's important. All things created by Him and for him, visible and invisible, all very real.

I'm writing while I'm tired, and that always means loose ends. 

It's 11:11. If I ever was whisked away to Narnia, it would probably be at that time. Probably not, now that I'm expecting it. He's not a tame lion.