inception

All right! After a little advice from a friend and a trial run, I think this blog might actually get started. Good stuff.

I've been reading C.S.Lewis, mainly because I like how he thinks about things. In the last chapter of The Weight of Glory he says, "We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers. We approve of an income tax in principle. We make our returns truthfully. But we dread a rise in the tax. We are very careful to pay no more than is necessary. And we hope-we very ardently hope-that after we have paid it there will still be enough left to live on.... Let us make up our minds to it; there will be nothing "of our own" left over to live on, no "ordinary" life.... For He claims all, because He is love and must bless. He cannot bless us unless He has us. When we try to keep within us an area that is our own, we try to keep an area of death. Therefore, in love, He claims all."
This next year, I think, will be a steady exercise of making up my mind that I will have nothing of my own left over to live on and will instead, like Paul, "do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it."

And so this blog will be me asking you to pray - that God would make Himself known by my "all" in Mexico City. As I write my thoughts, tell stories, show pictures and share feelings, my goal is that you will better be able to pray for my team, our friends, and the spiritual battle we will be fighting.

Gig'em,
John