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Welcome and thanks for visiting my life's web! Please pull up a chair and let's
network our webs together in order to grow them in God's universe.
Who am I?
My name is Joseph (aka Joe and/or Joey by friends and family). I use Joseph here because that's my given name. I'm a man of God, in the sense that I always try to be on the righteous path. Of course, I'm not perfect. I do fail, but for the most part I live with my conscience in focus and strive towards perfection. I classify myself as a Christian and a Theistic Evolutionist. Things I like to do: talk to God and learn from Him, achieve personal growth, homebrew, investing, cooking, loving, researching on the internet, camping and career. I'm a bit boring to some people, heh. I don't watch a lot of TV or movies. When I do, it's either the history, discovery, national geographic channels or cnbc. I'm not a big fan of sitcoms, but I do stop channel surfing on family guy, everybody loves raymond, simpsons, and I hate to say it, south park. I change the channel on south park most of the time though when it gets into some raunchy stuff. Movies I like... hmmm, I haven't watched one in a while. The last couple I watched were The Secret and What the Bleep Do We Know. Books on my bookshelf that I have read, not necessarily in their entirety: Choice Theory, the Bible, Jesus Did It Anyway, The Passion of Jesus Christ, Designing Great Beers, Real/Mad Money, Healing the Shame that Binds You, and a few other investing, self awareness, religious and homebrewing books. I'm not much into story telling, fiction, etc. Oh, homebrewing may sound like it contradicts some of my beliefs, but I don't drink to get drunk, I drink socially and to enjoy the flavor. My favorite brew is a pale ale hopped with cascade hops. IPAs are my favs too. My favorite bottled beers are Two Hearted Ale from Bells Brewery in Kzoo, MI and Goose Island's IPA from Chicago, IL (which I just cracked opened).
Why this blog? What is it about?
Good question! I purchased this domain quite a while ago and have held onto it. I've always wondered what to do with the site. I first started posting links to serious news articles..like global warming, peak oil, dumb things our elected officials do, etc. I began to notice how I was spreading negativity and I thought that I should use the domain in a positive manner. Seeing that the largest joy in my life is when I'm helpful to someone in need, I decided to blog about some things that can be helpful and positive in nature. I've done a lot of in depth self analyzing and have discovered quite a few things that have contributed to a better understanding of my life. Maybe many of these things are already known by quite a few people? If that's the case, I hope to receive some feeback and indepth discussions that can contribute to my own and other people's growth. If that's not the case, I am hopeful that something in my blog can assist someone's life. My blog doesn't have any rules outside of respecting one another. The goal is to help one another and I'd prefer that negativity is kept at bay, but I'm sure it will crop up here and there. My blogs main topics are on God, self awareness/self-help and/or my Savior Jesus Christ. When it comes to other people's view of a higher power, I agree with Mother Theresa that we should help a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Buddisht to become a better Buddhist and a Christian to become a better Christian. We're all in His universe together. In my humble opinion, we should act appropriately with our conscience at all times, versus allowing emotions to cloud our righteous thoughts. Forgiveness, compassion and love are also things we should focus on when a brother is in trouble (versus getting sucked into the negativity)...but these are topics that I'll leave to blogging.
What's next?
Who knows. My life is in the hands of God and I have faith that wherever I end up next is where He would like me to be. I try my best to not worry because it does nothing but distract and bring upon negative environments. I have witnessed too many times in life how negativity and distractions end in stress, anxiety, depression, and so on. Then from there, we end up taking medication or we find an addiction to take our minds off of our woes. It all snowballs from there, unless we're able to do some of the things that I mention in my blog's postings. Ahh, that just gave me the next topic for my blog. Addiction. Praise the Lord for this wisdom.
God Bless and I hope that our life's webs get joined. I'd like to say a quick prayer for any and all readers: God, I pray that you allow all readers to get the things out of this blog that will help them in a positive manner. Please engulf all readers in your armor and deflect away all that should not be accepted into their souls. Thank you. Praise the Lord.
Joseph
Who am I?
My name is Joseph (aka Joe and/or Joey by friends and family). I use Joseph here because that's my given name. I'm a man of God, in the sense that I always try to be on the righteous path. Of course, I'm not perfect. I do fail, but for the most part I live with my conscience in focus and strive towards perfection. I classify myself as a Christian and a Theistic Evolutionist. Things I like to do: talk to God and learn from Him, achieve personal growth, homebrew, investing, cooking, loving, researching on the internet, camping and career. I'm a bit boring to some people, heh. I don't watch a lot of TV or movies. When I do, it's either the history, discovery, national geographic channels or cnbc. I'm not a big fan of sitcoms, but I do stop channel surfing on family guy, everybody loves raymond, simpsons, and I hate to say it, south park. I change the channel on south park most of the time though when it gets into some raunchy stuff. Movies I like... hmmm, I haven't watched one in a while. The last couple I watched were The Secret and What the Bleep Do We Know. Books on my bookshelf that I have read, not necessarily in their entirety: Choice Theory, the Bible, Jesus Did It Anyway, The Passion of Jesus Christ, Designing Great Beers, Real/Mad Money, Healing the Shame that Binds You, and a few other investing, self awareness, religious and homebrewing books. I'm not much into story telling, fiction, etc. Oh, homebrewing may sound like it contradicts some of my beliefs, but I don't drink to get drunk, I drink socially and to enjoy the flavor. My favorite brew is a pale ale hopped with cascade hops. IPAs are my favs too. My favorite bottled beers are Two Hearted Ale from Bells Brewery in Kzoo, MI and Goose Island's IPA from Chicago, IL (which I just cracked opened).
Why this blog? What is it about?
Good question! I purchased this domain quite a while ago and have held onto it. I've always wondered what to do with the site. I first started posting links to serious news articles..like global warming, peak oil, dumb things our elected officials do, etc. I began to notice how I was spreading negativity and I thought that I should use the domain in a positive manner. Seeing that the largest joy in my life is when I'm helpful to someone in need, I decided to blog about some things that can be helpful and positive in nature. I've done a lot of in depth self analyzing and have discovered quite a few things that have contributed to a better understanding of my life. Maybe many of these things are already known by quite a few people? If that's the case, I hope to receive some feeback and indepth discussions that can contribute to my own and other people's growth. If that's not the case, I am hopeful that something in my blog can assist someone's life. My blog doesn't have any rules outside of respecting one another. The goal is to help one another and I'd prefer that negativity is kept at bay, but I'm sure it will crop up here and there. My blogs main topics are on God, self awareness/self-help and/or my Savior Jesus Christ. When it comes to other people's view of a higher power, I agree with Mother Theresa that we should help a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Buddisht to become a better Buddhist and a Christian to become a better Christian. We're all in His universe together. In my humble opinion, we should act appropriately with our conscience at all times, versus allowing emotions to cloud our righteous thoughts. Forgiveness, compassion and love are also things we should focus on when a brother is in trouble (versus getting sucked into the negativity)...but these are topics that I'll leave to blogging.
What's next?
Who knows. My life is in the hands of God and I have faith that wherever I end up next is where He would like me to be. I try my best to not worry because it does nothing but distract and bring upon negative environments. I have witnessed too many times in life how negativity and distractions end in stress, anxiety, depression, and so on. Then from there, we end up taking medication or we find an addiction to take our minds off of our woes. It all snowballs from there, unless we're able to do some of the things that I mention in my blog's postings. Ahh, that just gave me the next topic for my blog. Addiction. Praise the Lord for this wisdom.
God Bless and I hope that our life's webs get joined. I'd like to say a quick prayer for any and all readers: God, I pray that you allow all readers to get the things out of this blog that will help them in a positive manner. Please engulf all readers in your armor and deflect away all that should not be accepted into their souls. Thank you. Praise the Lord.
Joseph
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