From the Beginning

I am starting a new job this fall. I will be teaching Catholic Theology to Juniors and Seniors at Regis Catholic High School in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. I will also be involved with their Campus Ministry program. So I have sat around my house for the past week and slowly built a website that I hope will draw the teens in to the program and maybe even teach them a thing or two. And the more that I have worked on this website, the more I have looked at other websites for help. And most of the websites had one big thing in common: they had a blog! Apparently in order to be successful at ministry it is necessary to have a blog so that your students can be privy to your thoughts, emotions, and insights as often as you wish to post them. Ipso facto, I have started a blog. Well, I guess another blog. I had one when I was studying in Austria and travelling around Europe too but I posted on it like 12 times and gave up. So hopefully this one goes better. This whole idea is still really new to me so who knows how often I will actually update it. Plus, I am not the most creative person in the world so that makes it a little hard to blog because half of the time I really have nothing to say.

I am going to try and make this blog personal but also informative. I hope that my experiences and the lessons that I learn from them will be mostly universal and will apply to many people out there, but who knows I could be too unique for my own good (I mean, my mom did always tell me that I was extra special... and just because my brain was deprived of oxygen for a little bit while I was being born doesn't make me any different.) Many of my posts will be religious in nature since I am a devote Catholic, but I also think that many of them will be secular in nature. Just because I am passionately Catholic does not meant that I do not live in this world. I am sure that I will encounter situations in which, no matter how hard I try, I just won't be able to see God. But, and this is a very important point, that does not mean that I do not believe Him to be there. It just means that I cannot see Him at that point in time. I love the Lord and I intend to spend my life worshipping Him, but that does not mean that I know exactly what He is doing at all times. That would be impossible for me to know. What I do know is this: that Jesus Christ died for my sins and that He is inviting me to new life with Him. He gave me a way to experience this new life with Him while I am still on this earth: they are called the Sacraments, especially the Sacrament of Holy Communion. He has provided me with incredible blessings in the form of a loving family, a great education, a beautiful fiancee, and countless more things. He has also allowed me to experience trials in which He has revealed Himself to me in new ways and helped me to love Him more and more. Each breath that I take is a merciful gift from Him to me; He holds me in existence from moment to moment and there is nothing more that I could ask for!

I have so much more to say! But these things will have to wait until future blog posts so that I have stuff to blog about!

Peace and Blessings! God love you!