A New Direction

Today I strike out on a new frontier in search of the God I never found. Much like the Israelites of the Old Testament I have been a slave. A slave to myself. For years I have set about building a world unto myself, making bricks from mud and straw, drying them in the sun and stacking them in the hot desert sand. I have been both Jew and Egyptian brutalizing my thoughts into a system of ideas all for the sake of worshiping the Pharaoh within me. The wilderness of the Bible awaits me. I hope to leave this city of sand I have built up around myself for the wilderness wanderings of a pilgrim in search of the land God has set aside for his people. I leave with nothing but a promise and the hope of future encounters. Each day for one year I am going to reflect on a particular passage in the text. A text I have only known through the ready-made meaning of the Church. This is not a systematic reading through the bible in a year program rather it is duty in the service of revelation. So I hope you will check in on me from time to time. Comment on my journey or the text that was read for that day but always keeping in mind these are not points among a larger systematic theology I am trying to articulate and defend rather points on a journey to nowhere and everywhere at the same time.