And so it begins...

I've found that several of the people that I admire in life keep journals. The idea of journaling has always appealed to me, but aside from a couple of minor stints the past 37 years, I've never made it a discipline. With the advent of blogs now, I'm finding it so much easier and fun to compose and present my thoughts. This is my second blog, having started one several months ago to chronicle my activities as an actor in Seattle. If you are interested, check it out at www.henry-mark.blogspot.com

For this particular blog, I'd like to use it as an avenue to journal my musings and quiet times before God. I love and follow Jesus Christ and acknowledge Him as my Lord and Savior. I believe that He is part of the Divine Trinity: God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit. I believe God sent Jesus to become a man, to live a perfect and sinless life, and to die on the Cross and be raised three days later in order to pay the penalty for, and establish victory over sin. Romans 6:23 states, "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord". We all are guilty of sin in our lives, but Christ's sacrifice restores our relationship with God now and for eternity if we lay claim to His gift in our lives by accepting Him as Lord and Savior.

And so it begins. I will regularly post thoughts, prayers and conversations with God as we go along. I have been a Christian for 24 years, so I already have a level of intimacy established with God, but I strive to deepen that relationship even more so. I invite you to track with me on this journey, and though it is a personal one, I am open to comments and dialogue. Just know that my thoughts aren't meant to reflect a particular religious denomination or speak for Christendom as a whole. They are the reflections of one man who strives to be humble before his Creator, someone who strives to be "a man after God's own heart", and who is thankful that after struggling the past couple of years is back at a place where he wants to BE still before God. And so thankful that God in His utmost love and patience, allows me to STILL be before Him.

"Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth" - Psalm 46:10