what the heck is 'chasingdoxology' about?

so i am embarking on a pilgrimage...and thinking about life and faith and where that quest has brought me and what i hope the most.

i am thinking about the relentless pursuit of what is truer.

i am going to bring some friends with me who are intoxicated with grace. i have one friend in particular who will join me because i have asked him, and there will be others.

i was remembering a line from a movie about traveling at mach two with your hair on fire.

i am dreaming about tomorrow.

i am currently diving into galatians, an adventure where giants like martin luther seemed to live and breathe and find so much meaning. luther's hair was on fire.

i have no idea where this journey will lead to or how long it will last, but will be blogging while on the run.

i am a little mesmerized by the experience of doxology and wondering if in the end it will be all that matters...and if it matters then could it matter now on the pathway staying close to Jesus.

i wonder if doxology is something like the trees clapping their hands, job covering his mouth, isaiah coming undone, the heavens declaring, mary treasuring in her heart, a man saying i believe help my unbelief, a woman who touches the hem of a garment, paul kneeling before the Father, and john who shares that when he saw him, he fell at his feet though dead.

i would not pretend to know everything, but what i have discovered so far is that if there is a bottom line it probably has to do with doxology...a doxology born of things like trusting, hoping, and the faith to go like abraham even if we don't know where. Sometimes these choices are the only things we can do when we attempt believing, and pack only the most essential things for a journey.

as i have been reading galatians i keep thinking about grace, identity, and community. the apostle paul radically fights for the most essential things and they speak of a new life, a new way, a new quest with others.

adventure...discovery...risk...tenacity...and wonder.

i want to be on fire.

i prefer to be boldy modest with this blog. there is something to be said for humility, passion, and orthodoxy in contrast to how self-preoccupied, arrogant, and absolutely correct we think we are in life or cyber-life.

i just read that they dropped their nets and followed him. they followed before they knew all the answers, before they had it all together, before they could reasonably confess or explain, they dropped something and followed before they had a clue. this seemed okay to Jesus when following was just important as other things like believing and repenting.

i may, on the way to somewhere, admit that it may be enough to know this Jesus, and i keep thinking the more i know Jesus the more it will all be about doxology.