“The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had
never seen a key: and the key itself a strange thing if you had never
seen a lock. Your soul has a curious shape because it is a hollow made
to fit a particular swelling in the infinite contours of the divine
substance, or a key to unlock one of the doors in the house with many
mansions.
Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and
you alone, because you were made for it -- made for it stitch by stitch
as a glove is made for a hand.”
-C.S. Lewis
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Monday, October 1, 2012
Faith Stranger Than Fiction
Hi.
This is my new blog and sort of experiment.
It is not the prettiest or the shiniest, sorry I don't have the same budget as Joel Osteen and can't afford a two hundred foot gold replica of the world in the background.
But it is going to be an experiment writing about faith, the bizarreness of life and how I somehow got caught in the middle.
And the scariest part to me is I am not going to be hiding behind pseudonyms or screen names.
The best way to explain this blog is to explain a bit about me:
I am Matt.
Pleasure to meet you all.
I am a twenty-six year old graduate student studying for my masters of religion ( my undergrad work was two B.A.'s in Humanities and Religion with an emphasis in pastoral ministries) while I am not currently working at a church I refer to myself as a Freelance Minister because of knowing so many people who have no church home and just the fact I meet so many people who either think God hates them becomes of the church or hate the church.
For those familiar with the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator I am an INFJ.
Here is some reading material: http://www.personalitypage.com/INFJ.html
If I had to guess, the past twenty-six years of my life of bad health, uncertainty, wandering around "aimlessly" are leading me in a direction that I am starting to see a bit more clearly with each step.
I love writing.
I love helping people.
I love listening.
I love teaching.
I love tabletop RPGS .
I love Doctor Who, fantasy and sci-fi in general.
I love console/PC RPGs.
Yes, I was a geek before it bizarrely become 'cool'.
My plans are to finish my masters by the spring, begin working on a phd (involving philosophy, Christianity, the history of religion and trying to convince people that being idiots is not what Jesus intended for us), to begin teaching and hopefully have made some major life decisions about where I will live, whom I marry and what exactly the airspeed velocity of a coconut laden swallow is,
I have no plans or desire to be a best selling author or somehow make money off of blogging but instead I want to find a place where I can use the gifts I have.
Gifts I'm still not entirely certain of but that are there, somewhere inside of me.
Eventually I am going to have a central hub for all this writing but until then my other projects can be found at:
www.lamecreation.com
nintene.blogspot.com
http://lordsquishy.tumblr.com/
As an FYI some of the content of those websites are PG-13 material at times.
Once again welcome.
I cannot promise much will become of this but 'he who dares wins' or at least falls face first in humiliation and gets to pick himself up and keep trying.
Thanks in advance for reading.
-Matt
This is my new blog and sort of experiment.
It is not the prettiest or the shiniest, sorry I don't have the same budget as Joel Osteen and can't afford a two hundred foot gold replica of the world in the background.
But it is going to be an experiment writing about faith, the bizarreness of life and how I somehow got caught in the middle.
And the scariest part to me is I am not going to be hiding behind pseudonyms or screen names.
The best way to explain this blog is to explain a bit about me:
I am Matt.
Pleasure to meet you all.
I am a twenty-six year old graduate student studying for my masters of religion ( my undergrad work was two B.A.'s in Humanities and Religion with an emphasis in pastoral ministries) while I am not currently working at a church I refer to myself as a Freelance Minister because of knowing so many people who have no church home and just the fact I meet so many people who either think God hates them becomes of the church or hate the church.
For those familiar with the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator I am an INFJ.
Here is some reading material: http://www.personalitypage.com/INFJ.html
If I had to guess, the past twenty-six years of my life of bad health, uncertainty, wandering around "aimlessly" are leading me in a direction that I am starting to see a bit more clearly with each step.
I love writing.
I love helping people.
I love listening.
I love teaching.
I love tabletop RPGS .
I love Doctor Who, fantasy and sci-fi in general.
I love console/PC RPGs.
Yes, I was a geek before it bizarrely become 'cool'.
My plans are to finish my masters by the spring, begin working on a phd (involving philosophy, Christianity, the history of religion and trying to convince people that being idiots is not what Jesus intended for us), to begin teaching and hopefully have made some major life decisions about where I will live, whom I marry and what exactly the airspeed velocity of a coconut laden swallow is,
I have no plans or desire to be a best selling author or somehow make money off of blogging but instead I want to find a place where I can use the gifts I have.
Gifts I'm still not entirely certain of but that are there, somewhere inside of me.
Eventually I am going to have a central hub for all this writing but until then my other projects can be found at:
www.lamecreation.com
nintene.blogspot.com
http://lordsquishy.tumblr.com/
As an FYI some of the content of those websites are PG-13 material at times.
Once again welcome.
I cannot promise much will become of this but 'he who dares wins' or at least falls face first in humiliation and gets to pick himself up and keep trying.
Thanks in advance for reading.
-Matt
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