Starting with something...

So, first things first, I guess I'm now officially a blogger. Why, you may ask?? I'm not real sure to tell you the truth. I've thought about starting one a few times in the past but have never fully gone through with the idea. It will be interesting to see how often I "blog." Hopefully I'll be a little bit better about this than I am with reading books - or a lot of things really - I start full force and then don't seem to see it through. That's probably not the greatest trait that I have, in fact, it's probably one of my greater flaws, the inability to finish something - forget about finishing strong, I just need to work at finishing all together. If you ever find yourself reading one of my blogs, you'll learn how my mind works and that I will jump from thought to thought and before you know you'll be wondering how I got to whatever specific place you may find yourself. I'm a person who has a lot to say but somehow from point A (my brain) to point B (my mouth) there are a lot of turns, u-turns, and various other unnecessary routes taken to get to where I'm trying to go. A lot of what I write probably won't make sense, then again, there may be on occasion where something I write actually makes sense or strikes a chord. This whole concept could be a disaster because I'm one of the worst story tellers known to man. My wife tells me it's because I feel the need to give every little detail in the story, even the stuff that isn't extremely relevant. In my mind, I see the story as being no good if you don't know how it came to be. So I'm probably at the point of "how did i get here?" I was simply trying to state why I'm starting to blog and just a few sentences later I'm telling you about how I'm an awful story teller...Random may not be the best term for how my mind operates, but I think it's pretty close. In the past, I've thought about starting a blog where I simply talk about soccer (something i love), music (something else I love), and other random things, but I figured that I'd just start one and can cover whatever I feel like - I mean isn't that really what blogging is all about? So, in closing here are a few things you'll come to know (some random, others not so much): 1- My wife is my best friend in the world and I love her more than anyone could ever possibly know; 2- I am a sports fanatic but if I could only watch 2 sporting events for the rest of my life it would be College Basketball (I'm a die hard Tar Heel fan) and Professional Soccer (the World Cup is the greatest sporting event in the world); 3-I know ENTIRELY too much about Saved By The Bell (which will get me absolutely nowhere in life); 4- last, but most certainly not least, I'm striving daily to become more like Jesus and live in light of His great commandment which you can find in Matthew 22:37-39. "Jesus replied, Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself." Maybe that's not the most random of posts, but it's a start and you have to start somewhere.