The Heart of Flesh

Do you have to be a hipster to blog?  I don't know.  I can honestly say that I never expected to start a blog of my own.  I always thought that was the domain of girls and wierd hipster people sitting smugly in their coffee shops.  But my dirty little secret is that for a few years now, I have secretly creeped on tons of blogs.  In fact, if you and I are friends on Facebook and you have a blog, chances are that I've creeped on your blog hard.  Why?  Because I love to hear the random ramblings of people trying to figure life out and it turns out that ordinary everyday people sometimes have really insightful and encouraging things to say.

Now, am I claiming that I have anything insightful or encouraging to share?  Not really.  I just decided on a whim to start a blog because I want to have an outlet for my random thoughts that people probably really don't have the patientce to sit down and listen to face to face.  Do I expect anyone to read this?  Sadly no.  In fact, if even 10 people read this on a regular basis then I would consider it a phenominal success.  That being said, this is as much for my own enjoyment as it is for anyone who happens to stumble across it.

I'm making it a goal to post a few things a week.  Only time will tell if I can live up to this lofty goal.  This is my last full semester of college (I still have summer classes to take but I don't consider that a "real" semester) and I want to try something new to contrast the fact that my college career is old and swiftly coming to an end. 

I don't want to make my first post too long, but I will at least mention the reason for the title before I call it a night.  The title A Heart of Flesh comes from an amazing verse in the Bible: Ezekiel 36:25-27 which says:

"I will sprinkle clean water on you,, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols.  I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh and I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws."

I chose this because I want this project to reflect God moving in my life because I believe that ultimately my life is not my own but that it belongs completely to Jesus.  Anyway that's enough for an intro so PEACE OUT!!