“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.”

— Matthew 7:7-8 (NIV)

I’ve never shared much on this blog about how I came to be a follower of Christ. Lately I’ve wondered if perhaps it’s time to elucidate a bit on how I arrived at that, now nearly thirteen years ago. Which in looking back, really does seem like the starting point of not just a phase in my life, but the beginning of true life itself. Perhaps you’ve heard the saying “Don’t forget in the darkness what you’ve learned in the light.” In retrospect there has been more darkness than light in my own time on Earth and considerably greater periods in the valley than on ...