The Orthodox Faith.

Here I am back from a long hiatus. I'll admit that this blog started out highly experimental and mostly sarcastic. But my distaste for sarcasm is growing. I am now taking it semi-seriously, however, and might continue to become more serious from here on out.

A little history. There is the usual blah-blah about the need to journal starting from when our grade school teachers forced this task upon us. Most recently I've been keeping a journal on my eMac at home which I might some day soon transfer to this blogspot. "Golightly" itself was originally a joke and cover up for my true self. And what a joke! for don't I long to be my true self? No, but lately I've attempted to be something else, something that falls more in line with this rat-race called Chicagoland.

Look at my profile: everything is true, except one thing: my name. But I liked that piece of pure fabrication so much that I decided to keep it.

Now, what about the title? Victoria, if you are reading this right now, thank you. I appreciate her unabashed proclamation that she's an Orthodox Christian. So why do I hold back? Because all that defined me until I was 24 and a half was derived from and summarized in one word: Evangelicalism.

My wife put it beautifully: she said something like, "I've got a lot of evangelized skeletons in my closet." And I would desire to exorcise them. But is this the best idea? Whatever the case may be, I am a Christian, though I don't know if I live up to that title meaning "little Christ," and I am Orthodox, though I have long way to go because worship and believe rightly.

More later on the Orthodox faith.