Prologue: We don't have to be just sheep!

In The Tempest, Shakespeare wrote "What is past, is prologue". This is an indirect insight that reflects human's linear perspective of past, present and a possible future. Irresistibly, the present slips from our grasp into an unreachable past, constantly propelling us to a future that is pregnant with all kinds of possibilities.

Last year, I celebrated a landmark birthday that was much to my surprise bigger and well-orchestrated than anything I had in mind. Perhaps due to maturing years, I tend to be more reflective these days. I have tried to be a good Christian for most of my adult life. However, a good prologue would not be complete without a glimpse of the backdrop that has led me to this slipping present.

I grew up in a fervent Christian home - both my late parents were very active in the church. My father was made a deacon during my childhood and was very much involved in church administration. My mother was a strong member of the church choir and the select off-shoot that became a recording choral group. As a result, I have always known about God throughout my growing years but it was not until the time I was becoming an adult that I started to have a personal relationship with God. It was simply an unexpected development in different perspectives.

These days, I am a husband to my lovely wife, Funke and we are truly blessed with 2 wonderful daughters. In recent years, my periods of meditation on a not infrequent basis would pull me towards the following thoughts -

• What do I believe?
• Why do I believe them?
• Of what consequences are those things that I believe?

Throughout my adult life, I have found God to be like an infinite set of layered mysteries. The more I delve into knowing God, the more that remains to know. No matter how many layers I pull back, there are still countless more underneath!

The question now is "why am I writing a blog?".

Quite simply, a continuous rumbling of my thoughts and processes over the years have led into this decision. The purposes are to inform, share my insights, elicit some feedback and to be educated.

This is a prologue introducing you to my blog, of which, there will be various themes according to the curiosities that God has blessed me with. There will be themes along the line of theology, economic, current affairs, politics, financial matters and my favourite - jideizm, but not limited to them.

I am reminded of a cartoon called 'The Far Side' that I read many years ago. It was that of a sheep among the herd, standing on its hind legs, screaming at the top of its voice, saying -

"Wait! Wait! Listen to me.....we don't HAVE to be just sheep!"
 

When possible, I have always sought to think differently, learn differently, understand differently, all in a pursuit to gain a deeper and better understanding.

Those rumblings that I mentioned before are pulling me in a direction....to do differently.

Welcome to my blog.