I know that, if you have visited this site, you are interested in me, for whatever reason. I would like to express my surprise and my honor that I have gained your attention. In this first post, I will detail my plans for this blog, its final cause, if you follow Aristotle.
God has blessed me with an era of easy communication. I can type anything here, post it, and publish it to the world where nearly anyone can read it. This places a great deal of responsibility upon me. I may be held accountable in the future for anything I publish here. Therefore, if you, the reader, find that I have attacked anyone verbally on this blog, or that I have spoken anything unappropiate, I invite your criticism, indeed, I implore it. A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.
I intend this blog to publish my thoughts to the world. I intend to demonstrate through it that good is more exciting than evil, that love transcends death, and that Jesus Christ is, was, and forever shall be the true Son of God, conqueror of death, and good shepherd. I intend to inspire wonder in the souls of others, and to bless them with what little truths I have come to possess. If you plan to reverse or to fight my ends, you declare yourself my enemy. I will not attack you with this blog. If you choose to comment and attack me, the responsibility will fall upon you. Nevertheless, I invite those who disagree with me to an open forum of argument. This blog aims to serve God, but if you convince me that God does not exist, then the blog's final cause has disappeared, and I will destroy it. This blog holds no permanence, unless I will it. I may destroy it if you destroy my faith, but I warn you, I am stubborn, and God has blessed me. Only the greatest of battles may remove my faith from me, and the Lord will defend me if you attack.
Lord, I pray that You might bless the endeavors of this weblog. Use it to demonstrate Your Truth to the world, and use my life to demonstrate Your Love. I am Your servant. Be it done to me according to Your will.
Reader, thank you for the complement of listening to a fellow soul. Each soul possesses infinite value. As C.S. Lewis said, you have never met a mere mortal. Each person shall one day become so divine that a man would be tempted to worship him, or so debased as to haunt the deepest nightmares of the insane asylum. Your act of ecstacy in looking into the life of another may carry eternal significance. I pray that this blog will change you for the better, and that yours may do the same for me.
Keep writing. I enjoy the experience.
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