new year | new blog | new love | new challenge

Well I mostly have failed at this blogging stuff, mostly because architecture causes my life to border on a level of insanity due to busyness. I also never feel like I have anything worth writing about. That last fact may not change, but I thought I would try something new for the new year.

What brought me to this conclusion might be epically cheesy, but I think it would be amazing if it worked out. I sat down with my family the other night and watched "Julie & Julia," which if you haven't seen it, is about a woman who decides to cook all of Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" recipes in one year. It intrigued me to write a blog about a challenge like that, which I know is not a new idea. When thinking about what I could possibly write about, many ideas came to (and left) my mind. I could write about my random happenings, as I have done .. and failed to do; I could challenge myself to do a drawing study every day, but the time consumed by that, though awesome, would be detrimental; I could write about food .. or design or architecture.. or something.. but I am not nearly an expert in any field, so I felt them all less than desirable.

After thinking for quite some time, I found that some sort of faith/Bible related thing could work. possibly... Any other subject I would write about might be interesting, but would probably not make a lasting impact, not in the way that impacting my faith, my core, would. I have always wanted to read through the Bible in a year.. but I never accomplished it. I have always been too busy, or too tired, or too separated from my Bible to keep on track. So thinking of blogging about reading the Bible in a year seems unrealistic, and in fact it might be. But whatever reading and writing I do complete, the outcome has to be positive. When did reading about God and thinking about God and writing about God ever hurt? I've been longing to have some excuse to fall madly back in love with my Savior, and now I think I may have found a challenge to do just that, by reading his Word: his love letter to the world.

Now, I really have no expertise in the Bible. Yes, I've been a follow of Christ for a while, but loads of technical Biblical knowledge is something I would not dream of pretending I had. I'm imagining this writing is going to be a bit rough, and I'm sure I will come to wrong conclusions... but my only goal with this challenge to myself is to go on an adventure and hopefully become more in love with my God, Savior, and very best Friend.