1st Post, 3rd Blog

Hey everyone!

So I am attempting my 3rd start at a blog.

1st one failed because jumped in on the blogging bubble 3 years ago and didn't know how to, much less have anything to write about. 2 posts in 6 months.

2nd didn't fail per se, but it was started to "lead others to Christ". So, I hit a road block. I had 3 posts in 1 year but those posts were of my old Christian walk. One where I blindly followed the blind person in front of me.

So here is the 3rd one, inspired by my wife, an avid blogger. Yep, my WIFE!!! She is such an inspiration to me in the blogging world. I love her a lot and something she said 1-2 months ago go me thinking.

I went on and on about how I was fixing my current vehicle (1998 VW Golf with the blazing fast 2.ssssllllooooww 4 cylinder and a 5 speed manual transmission. BOO YAH!) and how it related to my walk with God. She got tired of it and told me to find some other car nut to explain this to as it was over her head. My lovely bride is a artsy person, no sense of mechanics of the iron and aluminum sort. Sorry hun! LOL!

Well, in my small town, there are not too many Christian car nuts, let alone ones who loved diesels or V-Dubs. Ugh! Frustration abounded.

Now, I don't have too much money to play with. Most go to bills and general living. So I have nothing to really do in the evenings (being I live in an apartment. No outside work to do nor can I really touch the inside...) but either 1) Sit and veg in front of the TV (only what we have on DVD, no cable or rabbit ears) or 2) sit and read. I love reading and expanding my thinking. So when I find car forums to my liking, I read, read, read, read, learn, post, read, read, wash, rinse, repeat, etc.

To give myself something else to do, I am on the giant gossip (car meets)  network known as Facebook. I really don't do much on there but catch up with friends and see who broke up with who, who deleted who, etc. Occasionally, I hit some gold mines.

Like a friend who ran away from an oppressive household. Through her, I found some interesting blogs that helped jump start my home-schooled, ever active, always thinking (maybe a earthly wave length either...), and ever questioning mind. I read a book called "No More Christian Nice Guy". That helped to plant a mustard seed. From that mustard seed is growing a plant of a renewing of my mind. But it needed water and minerals to grow healthy. Here comes blogs like The Commandments of Men and Incongruous Circumspection. Yowza!

From those little bits, followed by reading some sad blogs (known to the car world people as either ricers or the fast and the furious. Hatin' the impostors, love the movie.), I have decided to take what I already know, have been taught, have been told, experienced, gone through trial-and-error, plain flat out dumb stuff, and try to blog that journey.

Is this blog gonna be consistently posted? Maybe. It will be honest though.

To those who want to read up-lifting blogs, read my brides blog, Dramatic Elegance