Happy New Years

Greetings one and all and Happy New Years!

My name is John, and I'd like to welcome you on a journey with me through this upcoming year. There will me laughter, tears, poems and song (okay, more poems than songs because those are rare).

Some may be asking about the title of this blog and here's where I came up with it. For Christmas my parents gave me an audio book called In a Pit with a Lion on a Snow Day by Mark Batterson. I'm only on chapter six right now but it's been such a wonderful book with some common sense that isn't all that common in American Christianity as of late. I've realized that I need to be more courageous and that I need to step up and start chasing the lions that come up in my life in order to give God the glory he deserves.

Since I've graduated from college and moved down here, my spiritual walk with God has improved but I know there is much more that I can be doing. I want to run, not walk. So, to start things off, I decided to start this blog as a way to help me keep track of my progress in my spiritual walk and life. I ask that you'll walk with me to help me stay on track with your prayers and the occasion bonk to the head with a couch cushion (or pillow if you'd prefer that, most do).  The next thing I've decided to do is take a week and a half to two week fast. This is for several reasons: 1. To help myself get closer to Christ. 2. A goal of mine is to reach 160 lbs and I'm currently 16 lbs over that. This will be started on Monday.

In a show called Fullmetal Alchemist, there's a mantra of in order to train the mind you must also train the body. How true that statement is, but I've felt it also applies spiritually, for as our bodies are but temples, so we must keep them in order. It just makes sense.

I hope that in one way or another, you may find this log an encouragement to your life. Let us go out in search for lions.

~ John