The Journey

Several of you have sent me e-mails commenting on some of my articles. I really appreciate the encouragement and insight. I want to say thanks! After all, it is that time of the year. I also want to re-emphasize the intent of my blog writing. I am writing from my experiences over the last 35 years including the present so that you might have the opportunity to glean some things from my journey that may help you on yours. I made plenty of mistakes through the years and so I had a lot of things that needed correcting along the way but I now understand that the process of correction is how we gain wisdom in our decision making. Life is a whole bunch of sowing and reaping.

I am not writing to convince you of anything but rather to share what I have experienced and how I have come to my own conclusions. We all look at life through our own lens and yet many of us read books and watch movies to gain knowledge and inspiration. We can relate to a good book and be touched deeply by the right movie. You can set the book down when you are finished and walk away from the movie when it is over and hopefully you have added a little more enjoyment to your life as well as a little more insight. That's what this blog is all about. It's just a place to hang out once in awhile.

I have to remind myself from time to time that someone gave me the privilege to have this journey. I didn't plan for my life. It was given to me by the creator of life. I know that most of you that read this blog already acknowledge God as that creator. I am chief among you, as Paul would say, to outwardly profess what I believe and yet that belief does not always appear evident in the way that I live. I have wandered through life at times as if God never existed and I have reaped from that kind of life accordingly. Life is moving way too fast and the speed of it can prove to be dangerous if we choose to live it without Him. When someone says that life is too short they have really said a mouthful and that statement rings true to all of us sooner or later.

We are all writing our own history. The pages in our book are our own. We may still have time to edit some of the typos and mistakes out of our manuscript and so we should give attention to those things while we can. Our lives are like a novel or a movie that communicate something to the world around us. What are we communicating? There were a lot of years that I communicated absolutely nothing of any value because I wasn't a man of convictions. I have finally come to some peace over many of the things that I have struggled with over the years and I can honestly say that real peace is much better than I thought it to be. Thank you for allowing me to enter your world with my thoughts. I consider it a privilege.

Here we go Steelers!

Sorry, I just couldn't resist.
It felt like a black and gold moment.

Davey Buhl