Hey all you loyal blog readers. I imagine there are fewer of you now than there were well over a year ago when I last posted. If you’ve kept checking here regularly then either you’re a habitual blog checker who likes reading stale blogs OR you had more faith in me that I’d start-up again than I did.

In any case, I do plan to start up again with more fervor than ever before with a slightly different bent than the war supporting, dilbert posting craziness that inhabited this space originally. Here’s why and what’s to come: In the past few months I finally heeded God’s long encouragement/nag to find myself a mentor to disciple me; in particular an older gentleman and fellow SPU Centurion alum who’s business card had been burning a hole in my wallet for about 7 months. Once I finally said, “Okay, God. I’ll call him” God took it from there. We’ve since had a few meals together and several hours-long conversations about how to live a life “abiding” in Christ. I put that in quotes for emphasis and let me tell ya, it has rocked my world. The amount of knowledge and sage wisdom my mentor has to share with me blows my mind. I’ve described our meetings like trying to drink from a garden hose as a kid. As hard as you try to gulp down all that life giving goodness there’s inevitably more coming out of that hose than you can swallow and it splashes out of your mouth. It has given me much to ponder, digest and share with friends. That’s where Flyboy Files comes in: It is going to be a space where I take these things, wrestle with them in writing and attempt to share them with you, my readers. Please, I want you all to feel free to dialog with me or with each other about this stuff. If you agree, disagree or have other thoughts I want to hear about it. It is all part of the learning process.

So to lead this off, I have an absurdly quick bit about the roles of the members of the Holy Trinity that was mentioned during our lunch last week and has stuck with me. It has helped me finally make some sense of the roles each plays:

- The Father thinks the thought or words.
- The Son speaks it
- The Spirit enables us to carry it out

This helps make sense of what I think I remember my SPU U-Foundations 2000 (or “Uf-Den” as my prof said it) prof, Rob Wall saying. The Father is the God-Head and is the locus of thought, words and action. The Son, who inhabited our world in flesh form speaks the words into the world and calls us to action. The Holy Spirit enables us to carry these out by touching our spirits–stirring, comforting, convicting, etc.

Wow.