Lets Stir the Pot

For starters I will describe why I desire to blog. I think now that I have started a new chapter in life that I can really get to the bare bones of things. I want to collect my thoughts and share them with others and the idea isn't entirely mine as I owe my friend Rosey all reason a credit for my starting this new blog. I did livejournal for a while and now I decided to stop that. I guess my reasons might have been for the very purpose of not spending hours reading or surfing the web. So that didn't work out in the long run, as you see my new blog here. I'm not intelligent and I'm maybe witty some of the time, but that is not at all the point. I desire to be true, as truth has been a theme in my life up to this point and I know it won't end. I have or believe I have found the Truth, Jesus Christ and Him Crucified. He is the reason for being and all being. I can further define Him according to the truth of Him contained in His Church. So that said the Church or more pointedly the Roman Catholic Church becomes my very large entity containing the heavens and beyond, universes and beyond. Frankly its bigger than the world as our good friend GK Chesterton puts it. Being Catholic makes everything come alive and the walls are thrown down.

Certainly we find sin and death in the world, but that is because of the choice we all make, between love in the objective, beautiful all-encompassing sense, and sin the rejection of goodness for falsehood and evil. Sin is always the unloving action, or that which severs the ties of goodness. I guess I'm not here even to defend my faith as this is for my own purposes as I begin my life towards the priesthood or at least my vocation. I've been Catholic for three years and I've learned much, but I've scratched the surface. I want and desire God. My need, my unquenchable need for righteousness is just beginning. This need as we'll call it has just begun and progress is liken to that of the stone age even before they found fire. I'm learning that Sainthood is something real and to be sought after. Only through God his life/divinity that we receive at the most holy sacrament is our way to righteousness and union with God. We must run the race and finish as Paul writes to us as he sets the example of true piety perfected in Christs undying love.

There are so many examples(Saints) of who God wants us to be, yet of our own flavor and color as we the unrepeatable people dance or slog across this earth. Life is good, if we just let God make it good. Christ in union with the Spirit takes us by the hand, guides our minds to higher things if we are open to His love. I guess even that is saying too much or too little, because God tends to have a hand in opening even our closed doors, sometimes breaking them down with some of the wall to go with it. Why not? We are His and He likes to stir the pot.

Let the love and Joy of God be with you all,
Michael