Intro

Greetings

This is to be a blog where I post my thoughts on life, whether it be politics (occasionally), entertainment (when I have the stomach), morality (most of the time), religion and anything else I feel like. After all, it is my blog and you don't have to read it if you don't want to. As for me, I am married with three children and am an officer in the US Air Force. Anything else that is relevant will be revealed (or not) in due time.

In this first post, I thought I would just make a comment on the title. It is from Tolkien's classic Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. The Captains of the West are marching to the gates of Mordor in a hopeless bid to draw the Eye of Sauron away from the quest of Frodo and Sam to destroy the One Ring. As they approach, some of the men crumble in fear and are unable to continue. Aragorn has pity on them and sends them on a less taxing quest to attack and hold the island of Cair Andros.

"Then some being shamed by his mercy overcame their fear and went on, and the others took new hope, hearing of a manful deed within their measure that they could turn to, and they departed ."

This passage has moved me every time I have read it, I think because I have long felt that God had a definite plan for my life, and I have felt inadequate to that call. I relate wholehartedly to those who trembled in fear and were unable to continue. I think that passages like this are what separate great literature from merely popular (or simply old) writings. They reach into our very souls and spur us onward and upward to greater things than we have yet dared to try. I know in my heart that I will have my own manful deeds to attempt, and I pray that I will have the strength to face them...and ultimately emerge victorious.