Here I am...

Well, I am new to this whole blogging thing. So here goes. I guess I'll start with a little bit of background information to let y'all know who I am. I'm a 26 year old single mother with a beautiful 7 1/2 year old daughter. I attend Western Michigan University and have one year before I graduate with a double major in Comparative Religion and Latin (ya, I said Latin, how nerdy, huh?). After that, God willing, I will be attending Calvin Theological Seminary to work on my Master's and hopefully doctorate in Theological Studies, with aspirations of one day becoming a college professor and doing research and writing. My main areas of research interest are the early Christian church from Paul through the twelfth century when Pope Urban officially made the call for the first crusade in 1095, and looking at the progression of the idea of faith over works that Paul proclaimed in the New Testament, to the extreme requirement of works as necessary for salvation that Urban declared in his papal addresses.

Now that all that boring stuff has been covered, let us get on to the more interesting stuff. I enjoy reading, writing, and arithmetic. Well maybe not the last part. I collect books, especially ones older than 90 years, with a special interest in late nineteenth and early twentieth century poetry and philosophical thought, especially the poetry of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the ramblings of Albert Einstein. I also have a rather hefty record collection, at last count numbering somewhere in the 130's.


I also love to crochet, scrapbook, play cards, especially poker and canasta, and I like to cook. I also have a great fascination with an excellent source of reading material. It is published once a week, usually on Sundays, and can be purchased at any local store. I, of course, am referring to the Funny Pages, the comics. Many a bathroom break is spent pouring over these periodicals, with much attention paid to the Garfield segment. Man I love that cat.

I also have a very deep love for our Lord Jesus Christ, and hope to spend my life serving God, and glorifying Him with all my actions, thoughts, and my life. I am a member of a United Methodist Church, a rather conservative one, mind you, and am quite unhappy and disturbed by the path that the UMC is taking down a very liberal road. I have studied the life and intentions of John Wesley rather intently, and much prefer the call to returning to the Scriptures that he implored. Until that day returns to the UMC, I suppose I will just have to prayfully express my concern and at times disgust with some of the practices and developing beliefs of a growing portion of Methodists, as well as Christians in general.

Well, there is me in a nut shell. Looking back, I see that I wrote quite alot. I promise that further blogs will not be as serious and stuffy sounding. But I can't guarantee that they won't be thought provoking and sometimes just plain weird, but that's me.

Later!!!