the First

I’ve decided to take up blogging. I’ve done it before in preparation for and in duration of the trip I took to India, but this blogspot is intended for something a little different. This is not my personal online journal, though I do plan to share personal experiences. It is not a way for people to check up on me. If you want to know how I’m doing, you’d better ask. It’s a collection of thoughts and essays that I sometimes write (mostly to organize my own ideas) and can be read as a periodical. I have decided to call it Chimerical Corporeality because it describes the place in which I live. I dream of flying but for gravity. I feel part of something much larger although I am stuck in my own skin. I imagine boundlessly, yet actualize limitedly. 

I once told someone that if not for Jesus Christ I would be nothing more than a frustrated idealist. And I think this is what will come across most clearly in my writing, and throughout my general existence. When I am within the hope He offers, I thrive. Apart from Him I shrivel and die. I can be neither visionary nor practical without Him. To some His name is meaningless, perhaps something people tack on to things in order to sound true to religious convictions. But for me He someone I cannot leave out if I tried, and would never want to anyway. In Him that which is chimerical is corporeal.