Blogging.
My first blog post. Well, I have finally started blogging. Its going to be a little while until I get used to this. It will definently be change, sharing each week about me and my thoughts.
How did I come to start blogging. Well, there are many things I would like to share about me and my life. But before I elaborate on that, I would like to talk about who I am.
My name is JRM (appreviated for now) and I am currently a student studying Mechanical Engineering. I have a great passion for cars, God, and drawing. I attended College for Creative Studies majoring in Transportation Design and spent 1.5 years learning there. I had to switch majors for a couple of reasons, one, CCS being a private college has a very high tuition rate, and two, I love to design but also focus on how it works. I hope to apply both these two degree majors into one and work in the automotive industry.
I am a Christian. I started repenting in the summer of 2005 and was baptized in 2006. I have had a lot of experiences. God has been faithful and gave me the grace to repent. I have always known God was real. I was born in a Christian household to a wonderful family. As I became a teenager, I began to learn more and more about God through sunday school. To me then, all those bible stories seemed just like stories, but I knew one thing, God was real. As I continued to High School, once summer came, I would spend some time with my Grandpa and Grandma, but the summer of '05 became a faith builder. I have always felt a need to repent and I told God that if He would show me the right time to do so, I would do it. In retrospec, I see now that the prompting alone was evidence enough to begin my repentence. But I was young then. One day, before I went to sleep in that summer, I felt a slight prompting to read the bible. I had just finished reading a novel. I didn't know why I did it, only it felt "good" to do so. I had told God earlier that if he would show me the word 'Repent' in the bible, I would repent. And so I opened the bible to Ezekiel chapter 14. and as I read I came to verse 6:
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
As usual, Satan tried desperatly to prevent me of doing so by telling me that I was being deceived in turning to God. For 45 minutes I constantly heard Satan's lies. I didn't know what to do. What if he was right. Then I heard a small voice say, "Why not just do it", and at that point it became quiet and I know now that was Jesus Christ my Savior showing me the way in a world of darkness. God has been faithful to me and at times that if I was God, I would have cast me aside, but God held on, giving me many chances and for that I thank You Lord, for loving me always.
That was a bit long, but I wanted to share my testimony. God is my life.
And I hope to share my experiences with God on this blog, but as a good friend encouraged me, I wanted to use this blog to share about the love I have for cars. This is something I enjoy doing and I believe God can reveal life lessons through this simple hobby. God has given my many talents and cars are one of them. I collect cars. I used to collect 1:18 scale but those were pricy and took up space. So I moved on to 1:64 scale. I would like to share my collection and the various projects I take up.
I collect many brands, but I stick to a couple basic rules.
One - I go after real model cars. Hotwheels and Matchbox make real-model cars and their own designs and, I will admit, I do have a couple, and I mean a couple, of hot wheels desigend cars, for the most part, I go after real-make and model cars.
Two - I hate when a company diecasts a different scale. Yes, not all 1:64 scale cars are 1:64. And I try to stay close to that scale. But if the car is tempting enough I may overlook this rule, but its unlikely.
And so ends my first post. This is a little about me and my hobby. Thanks be to God for my love of cars and I hope that He may be praised and glorified through this blog.
JRM
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