a blog to outline my hopes and expectations:
(and fears).
I need to learn more about God and the Bible.
I know there is no way to know God, per se. But I wish to know.. more of him. I guess.
So, I want to really get legit and read through a couple of translations of the Bible simultaneously.
I want to do this in a specific manner. Namely, in silence.
I could write an entire blog about silence, but I don't think I will. I'll just briefly cover that here.
Silence is Golden. I wish I could come up with words like that. A large part of my entire life is spent in silence, I am quiet. I actually got somewhat physically ill because of having to speak so much during student teaching. But I got over it.
When you just take the time to shut the hell up, and listen to what is going on. (What people are saying, what is happening around you), you are able to actually see a lot more.
I feel like God is more present in my life when I am quiet. It is like we have another sense, or another eye that can only be opened/realized during silence.
(in a nutshell)
So I want to travel. I want to go somewhere quite far away. And I want to be silent. And I want to study the Bible. I am thinking France. Or New Zealand. Or somewhere in South America. Spend like a month or two over a summer (because I won't be teaching or in grad school), and just listen.. essentially.
I felt like a blog was the best place for me to outline this a little bit permanently.
Yeah!
