What am I doing on WordPress?

Through the years, I’ve tried blogging on everything from BlogSpot to MySpace. I’ve had blogs on topics ranging from camping trips and outdoor experiences to short reflections on faith to even a daily devotional. So what on earth brought me to WordPress, and what do I hope to accomplish here?

I’ve discovered over the years that one of my favorite ways to connect with God has been to take the Bible and meditate on it, soaking myself in a story until I can almost smell what the characters would smell, see what they would see, and taste what they would taste. Then I rewrite it in my own words. It’s been a great way for me to connect with the meaning behind many of the stories in the Bible and also to explain just what’s going on in my own heart.

So I’ve decided to devote a blog here on WordPress for just such postings.

I titled this blog “Echoings” because an echo starts with a sound, the original, most powerful, most clear, “true” sound. That sound goes out from the source, bouncing off of rocks, cliffs, trees, satellite dishes… The echo is just the resulting reflection of that original sound, a copy of it. But, like all copies, it’s slightly different, changed a bit in some way. These “echoings” will start with the truth of the Bible and bounce off of my experiences to bring you a copy, but a slightly different copy with slightly different nuances.

I hope you’ll enjoy these rewritings of biblical stories, but don’t expect them to be completely true. Don’t base your life or understanding of the world on them. (That’s what the Bible’s for!) But use them to open your mind to other ways of looking at things, to a broader understanding of the Bible. Use them to bring out certain truths. Use them to help you apply the 2- to 4-thousand year-old stories to your own life here in the twenty-first century.

So… I hope you enjoy these small “echoings” of mine.

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