An Introduction

So, clearly, I am starting a blog. Why? For a few reasons. 
1. Great procrastination tool! Who doesn't love guilt-free procrastination?
2. I realized I need to be more creative. I see people who are creative with music, art, etc., and I realized I'm not being very creative.
3. Writing is fun. It's fun to have something to say and find the best possible way to say it. I love the ways words bounce, slide, crash, clang, jerk, dance.
4. I do have a journal that's private, but it's good for me to write somewhat personal things that other people can see. It's good to get used to telling deeper truths in public. 
I'm entitling this "Unlost Wanderings." Why? I feel like a wanderer. I have never lived in any place for more than three years. If you ask me where I'm from, I'll either say "Lee's Summit" and grumble to myself that isn't quite right, or truthfully say, "I don't feel like I'm from anywhere."
I also feel like a wanderer spiritually. I'm moving towards something, the way my friends Jim, Amanda, Alicia and I walked on the trails at Thousand Hills. The trails definitely lead somewhere. But you don't know exactly where. You have a map, but the map isn't always right. Yet I'm not lost. Lost is if you're in the middle of the woods with nobody to hear you shouting. I have friends to listen to me, to ask me if I'm okay and hang onto me when I feel myself drifting away. And I have my God, the only one who was there from the very beginning, in every place I ever lived, the only Friend who never forgot to write back. Lost is hell, literally and figuratively. Hell is wherever you ask to be really and truly left alone and get your wish. I am not lost. God reversed my lostness and set me on a wandering path. That's salvation. I just don't know quite where I'm going yet.