I have begun to take this blog in a new direction. Mostly because it didn't have much direction. My vision for this blog is for it to be a place for me to post my thoughts and musings on life, the world, culture, and whatever else inspires me and I desire to share.
I chose the pseudonym, "Catholic Raconteur" because when I stop to think about it that is, as many people would describe, what I am, and simultaneously, who I strive to be.
A lot of things in the world inspire, entertain, and otherwise fascinate me. I am a passionate person and a pretty excitable little guy. In all innocence when these things happen, I get really excited and cannot wait to share this with other people. I have such a strong desire to share my joys and excitements with others so that they may too share in that experience to some degree. I am what you might call and extreme extrovert. I process my thoughts and feelings with other people and love having conversations. This leads to what I can't seem to stop doing, and that is telling stories. So this blog really is an outlet for that.
I believe that there is great power in stories. I believe that everyone has a story that they want to tell, and sharing stories is quite probably my favorite thing to do. Stories are ultimately what drive much of our culture. Artists for centuries have used music, movies, poetry, art, to express not only emotions, but to tell stories. This brings me to the prime example: Christ himself taught in parables, which are stories. We are able to communicate lessons and ideas in profound ways through stories and the beautiful thing, in my experience, is that each time a story is told, each different hearer takes away something unique to them.
So often, when trying to get to know someone we ask, 'What is your story?' All of life so many times is viewed as a story; we study history as a story. God is the author of the story and we all have our own role to play in the story. Until we see the whole story unfold at the end of days, we all journey through life trying to live our own stories, seeing where they overlap or join with others, and trying to figure out how it all fits together.
So in this chapter of my own life, I am hoping to share a bit of my story, and other stories that inspire, excite, or otherwise bring me joy so that they might inform and influence your own story for the better.
