The first blog post has to do the job of kicking off the entire blog. So, I’ve been thinking for a while… how will I intro my blog? A blog with no one specific theme, but that instead covers many topics…

Well, this blogs opens with love.

God’s love.

In recent months I cant help but feel that I have been filled with the love of God – a love that by its nature cant help but overflow out of even incredibly broken vessels, such as I.

Right now this love is overflowing out of me in the form of a pursuit that I have been on. A hunt really. A pursuit to understand romance. To figure out how to love my wife with great excellence. You see, I have been married for 10 years (exactly 10 years and 9 days). And in May of 2018, Jesus asked me to go on this pursuit.

It didn’t take weeks to figure out the exact goal that Jesus had in mind. In fact the very day (or the day after, I cant remember) that he asked me to go on this journey, he told me exactly what the goal was:

To win her heart.

The other thing that happened the same day is I said yes.

For some reason, I didn’t stop to count up the cost, or figure out what I myself wanted, or if this fits in with my goals, or if I was ready. I just said yes. I had a blazing peace in my heart.

A contentment with and trust in the one who was inviting me, that was bigger than any unanswered questions about the journey ahead.

Now here I am 1 year and 3 months later, and with an ongoing but more robust hunger than I had before to win her heart. My commitment to this pursuit cant help but strengthen, when I have learned as much as I believe that I have in these 15 months .

Yet, the further I go on this pursuit to win her heart, the more I don’t want to stop. I don’t want to even talk about stopping this pursuit until I can confidently say that she feels more than deeply loved. Why should the goal of marriage be anything less? Surely, I want no other PHD than a doctorate in Char, my beloved.

I am so blessed that my first blog is on this topic. I am positive there will be many more. I’ll end with a thought that motivates, intrigues, inspires and blesses me greatly:

Like a star-shaped peg fits exclusively into a star-shaped hole, so too a mans sincere and valiant effort at love fits perfectly into and satisfies a woman’s heart.