Am I a book?

Have you ever felt like you are in a constant race? Trying so hard to pull ahead, but to only fall farther and farther behind. That is my life. I am a Christian. I have a deep sincere love for Jesus Christ. So, that means my life should magically be perfect… Right? Wrong! Now people watch me, analyze me, scrutinize my actions and speech. It makes me sad that Christians are so ruthlessly targeted for signs of hypocrisy. That said, we do it to ourselves!

If you are looking for an answer to properly handle a situation, or someone to tell you how easy and wonderful life should be because God is now on your side… Please stop reading now. This is going to be all about how hard this life is, and how easy it is to mess up and give someone the wrong impression of what being a Christian is about. My hope and prayer is that you or someone you know will learn from my mistakes. I plan to be very honest about my shortcomings and mistakes. I feel that if more people were brutally honest about how hard it really is to lead by example that we (Christians) would not get such a bad rap. I am not looking for sympathy or someone to tell me that these things get easier. I am simply looking to make people aware that I am not perfect and, by no means, do I claim to be. I am a sinner that is saved by grace! This is not a life of perfection and happy-go-lucky harp playing in a cloud. This is a life of service to an almighty, all powerful, merciful God that has saved ME. Not because I deserve it, not because I worked my way to it, not because I am any better than anyone else. He did it because he LOVES me, and just like any father he has to forgive me daily.



Join me in a journey through the struggles of an everyday Christian life. Walk with me as I discover the truth that I may be the only Bible some people ever read, and that is why I MUST strive to be a good example.  I will stumble, I will fall short, I will do and say things that I will have to ask for forgiveness for.  In the end I will ask for that forgiveness and I will make things right as the Lord reveals them to me.  I want everyone to know I am not perfect nor will I ever claim to be, but if I am the only Bible you read I want you to see that though I make mistakes, I try to the best of my human ability, to make them right and live to glorify my awesome Father in Heaven!

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.  Ephesians 2:8-9