Gone Fishin'

Blogging has become quite a thing. Some of us have our favorite blogs that we visit daily and as a reader, you think "I can totally do this" and then reality hits. That's where I find myself right now but that's alright because I said I'd share my journey so here it is. I'm so torn about what to write perhaps because I have so much running through my head. I'm thinking about my readers, my audience, my message, my last post and how long that was. I know you all were thinking the same. I'll just write and see where it goes.  I want to write about the moment I got saved and decided to walk with the Lord but something precedes that, well, a lot does but I'll share some. It all started with prayer. When I was a kid, in middle school, I had a black and white composition notebook which can now be found in my mom's basement closet in New Jersey. Maybe. She has threatened to throw all of my books away to which I say, "One day I'll have...

This is not as easy as I thought and I consider myself a writer. Perhaps because there is a form of anonymity when writing fiction, short stories, and screenplays. I am able to hide behind a pseudonym, a character, a story. However, this blog didn't come about because I want to be hidden, it came about because I've been hidden and hiding too long. Let me explain. The name behind the blog "Gone Fishin'" came about because I realized that although I may tweet about Jesus, although I may be a part of a certain fellowship, although one might find me at a church event twice or even three times a week, I realized that I wasn't really sharing all that God was and is doing in my life. I realized that I wasn't sharing my struggles, I wasn't sharing my blessings, I wasn't sharing how I was following Christ on a day to day basis even when that meant putting down my own desire and dream to be a successful working actor. I wasn't really sharing the good ne...