Beginning

I've procrastinated long enough starting this blog (mostly by wasting time on an endless rat's nest of self-hosting optimization – which is more fun than writing, right?)

However, as I get ready to depart Meta next week I've been afforded the tremendous opportunity to sabbatical before I start my next role at the end of the summer – I would be be extremely disappointed with myself if I spent all of that time fiddling with server configs instead of actually cultivating a writing practice – so I bit the bullet and paid for a ghost droplet so that I'm not tempted by further finagling :)

My hope is to use this space to shape my thoughts around my own testimony and how God has transformed my life. I attended a sermon once of a late-in-life convert to Christianity who expressed her deep frustration that she had no visibility into why some people seemed so joyful and peaceful and put together. It was only after she met Christ later on that she realized these people were Christians – but they weren't "out" with their faith and hadn't shared the Good News with her (God, of course, wasn't waylaid but her path to faith could've been easier if He had been glorified more visibly in her colleagues' lives).

C.S. Lewis puts it more poetically – "woe to you if you do not evangelize". Relatedly – "I have come to the conviction that if you cannot translate your thoughts into uneducated language, then your thoughts were confused. Power to translate is the test of having really understood one’s own meaning."

My hope is that this blog would accomplish both – as a trickle (that will God-willing become a flood) of evangelization and as a way to translate and understand my own thoughts around why I believe what I believe and how God has changed my life.