:: Walk By Faith ::

:: Sunday, December 01, 2002 ::

For those of you who don't know me (and I'd say it's pretty safe to say most of you don't), let me get the introductions out of the way first. My name is Melissa, and at this moment I'm 29 years old. I've lived most of my life in a small town on the coast of California, halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, except for a brief stint in the Sacramento area and two years in Phoenix, Arizona. I work as the receptionist for a local private university. I'm an only child of parents who divorced when I was 20. I was married at the age of 19, then divorced at the age of 22 (no kids). I am currently single.



This is turning out to be a resume, but I'm going to be talking about my life, and I wanted everyone to have a good working knowledge of items and situations I'm going to be referring to as this blog evolves.



I'm a good student, currently in 6 units per 8-wk semester. School has mostly come easy for me, since I learned to read at the age of 3. Since then, I've been reading everything I can get my hands on, but my favorite authors are Katherine Kurtz (fantasy) and Emily Dickinson (poetry). I've been told I'm a talented vocalist (soprano), and I've been trained musically since I was 7. I like to sketch, but my biggest hobby is writing fiction. My dream is to one day be published--that is, somewhere besides my webpage.



Anyway, to the point of this blog. I've already got a general blog on my site, Unfinished Metropolis, where I rant and spew about anime and such, but this is going to be a little different. This blog is going to be about my journey of faith, a journey back to the things that seemed so simple as a kid, but that have gotten a lot different since I've grown up and know more about the world and its people. Things are happening in my life that I want to preserve, and I want to be able to look back on these events and see how far I've come on my journey.



I feel a little strange, maybe a little duplicitous--that is, 'being in both places at once'--about having a second blog just for discussing my faith. It's like the other one's for the wayward me, the part of my life that I insist on keeping to myself and not relinquishing control on, and this one is for the me that I'm trying to be, the me I know I should be, the "clean" me--the me that doesn't gossip or swear or write explicit stories, the me that tithes before even thinking about spending money at the comic shop or at the anime store. Like I said, the me I should be, not the me that I am.



I'm not saying I have to be doom and gloom, never allowed to have anything resembling fun. I'm not saying I have to swear off everything above a PG rating. I'm not saying I have to throw away my TV set or stop wearing makeup. What I am saying is that I need to be more aware of the fact that I am different from the rest of the world. I am now set apart, a new creation. What I am saying is that I need to start walking by faith.


:: Melissa (& Billy) 10:47 PM [+] ::
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