Welcome

Welcome to my world.

This blog will be an attempt to, through my own experience, give back to others, and help them become just a wee bit happier and live life with more meaning. You see, I am on a quest for meaning, and I suspect others are too. I’ve always been on a quest it turns out, I just didn’t know where that quest was heading.

I’m a deeply spiritual person, always have been. Yet, at the various times I’ve explored formally beginning training for the ministry, something has always pulled me back. Whether it was the knowledge that I couldn’t handle or didn’t agree with all of the dogma that I would have to learn, or simply the daunting task of being a man of the cloth and all that entails, I couldn’t make the leap.

But, I continued to search. I’m also a searcher by nature you see. I’ve been searching for the answers to life’s most complex questions for the better part of my time here on Earth. And, no, I don’t have the answers currently, but nevertheless, I remain undeterred in my quest for higher knowledge. But, I digress.

I’ve made the discovery that if there isn’t a ministry that I feel completely called to study on a formal basis, then I’ll just have to move forward with my own. Now I know my quest is to begin my own ministry, my own special brand of insight into life’s most complex issues.

So, I now knight myself a minister, the head minister of my own ministry. This my friends is The Ministry of the Mundane.

Mundane you say? Who the heck wants to read about the mundane in our world, you ask? Why, when my entire day is filled with nothing but the mundane would I ever wish to read about more of it?

Good questions all gentle reader. My answer, while not immediately satisfying to you, is that God and the real essence of spirituality is actually found in the everyday mundane circumstances and events of our lives, and not outside of it. It is in the mundane that we find meaning, that we find substance, that we find, well, God.

If you will follow along with me my friend(s), I promise to explore ways that will help us all see God in the mundane. Hopefully, by so seeing Him there, and the beauty that He weaves into our lives on a daily basis, our lives can start to take on more meaning.

And He is most definitely there. This morning, for example, I was having a major dose of the Monday-blahs. I was pretty darn low, failing to see the meaning of my job and the endless hours of routine tasks that I faced. As I pulled into town, however, almost as if somebody was listening to my innermost dialogue, a song came on the radio that seemed as if it was timed for me at precisely that moment. It was a song about keeping on in the face of adversity, never quitting, always trying to find that elusive dream. The song, I’m reasonably sure wasn’t written from God’s point of view, at least intentionally, but doggone it, it was no coincidence that I heard it at that precise time. It was a beautiful moment, and I wept at the sheer joy of it. 4 minutes prior to that, I felt alone. After that song, I felt loved.

It’s these moments, these day to day joys that on the surface seem to be nothing more than coincidences or random occurings, that provide the meaning in our lives if we just listen to them, if we just see and hear the messages being sent to us. He’s everywhere folks, every single place we could possibly imagine, He’s there. And, He wants to dialogue with us, He’s longing for us to hear Him.

Now, no worries my friends if you are reading this, while this is indeed my Ministry, I guess making me the head Minister, I am not here to preach to you. Oh, certainly, I’ll get passionate at times, trying to get a point across. But, I’m not here to tell you, and never will, how to live your life. For that, there’s plenty of material, and not all of it good. I’m simply here to share with you where and how I see God, what I think He’s saying to me, perhaps to all of us, and by so doing, maybe cause you to see your life differently, and with more meaning.

So, once again, welcome to The Ministry of the Mundane. I promise you, it will be a worthwhile trip. We’ll laugh together, cry a bit, and share some new memories and stories. All the while, we’ll explore this great big beautiful world, and find out together the meaning that is all around us, in the mundane, everyday details of our lives.

Thanks so much for reading.

-The Minister