Get the facts....then decide for yourself.

This was imprinted on a series of cassette tapes I heard back in the early 90s. It was one of those write-down-on-an-index-card, "words of wisdom" that has become part of my life thinking. Echoing a friend of a friend's slapstick comments to "get to know"-- it's verbiage is now entrenched, and thus seemed to be a good title for a blog. Isn't this at the heart of what blogging is about anyway, "getting to know"?

Even in these our times of "information overloard", it can still be hard to "get to know". Just look at how many diverging views there are in the things that really matter. Then you take a look in the mirror of our own fallen nature and conclude: if we can't even trust our own ability at times to remain objective in the things that really matter to ourselves, then how about when dealing with the so-called "facts" or opinions that are presented before us by others?

Bottom line, life's decisions are about trust; trusting in the word of another. Who do I trust? I mean, really? Whose word do you trust...for the important stuff? In this valley of tears and contradictions, there's only one Word that I think can stand. And fortunately for us, that Word became flesh. And even better, we still have access to this Word in more ways than we might realize.

Getting to know involves others, thus the 2 in the get2know. The 2 stands for all those others on the journey who help us to become, as a contemporary "magi /wise man" Matthew Kelly states, "the best version of ourselves".

In a world which often looks out for # 1, I hope I can help be a part of a growing group of "number 2s" who are willing to share some of the wisdom and "info" that comes our way, and thus help others to strive for the only goal that "eternally matters." Thus, I can think of no better fitting article to start than one that comments on both "2" and "eternity", The Tale of 2 Churches.

(The first official blog---written on the day when Neil Armstrong said those famous words, "One small step for man, one big step for mankind." In my case, dealing with technological stuff, "One small step for the Lord, one big step for Shawn" :-D