Sanford’s confession

It seems that these stories come one right after another. South Carolina’s governor Mark Sanford announced yesterday that he has been involved in an extramarital affair for over the past year. In the wake of his selfish weakness is a career in question, a state and a staff in disbelieve, and a shattered marriage and family. He spent seven minutes of a nine minute news conference apologizing to to all the people that will be directly affected. There will be untold thousands that are indirectly affected by this one man who was not strong enough to  maintain a sacred vow and commitment.

Let’s play the multiplication game for a minute, Mark Sanford is just the latest public figure to live over the line. Between politicians, pastors and other prominent men we get a news jolt like this on a very regular basis. For every high profile man that wimps out on their wife and family…how many thousands of men’s stories do not make the nightly news? How many walking wounded do we have from this devastating scud missile.

“The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men“— Martin Luther King, Jr. 

When will men, stop living these lies?

So…this is my first post. I am clearly new to this and have various things running through my head as to the purpose and what it is I want to accomplish here. I hope for this to be a place to express what is important to me and and a place to put ideas and ideals in front of others. 

You will find entries about Christ and how to clarify what it means for me to follow Him. You will find entries about my family, my work, what I enjoy doing when I am not at “work”. My wish is that  I will not focus on those activities alone but on the relationships within those activities.

We live in a world that is changing at breakneck speed and it is difficult to decide what to hold on to and what to let go. My hope is that those that stumble on to this place may pause for just a second to consider what is posted here and how that might change or challenge the way they love God and love others.