An Introduction

So this here is the first of hopefully many blogs here at Teach Me Your Ways, and I thought I would use it as an introduction to me, what I hope the site to be, and why I am doing it.

To start, my name is Gene Coatney, although I am also known by my nickname Geno. My wife and closest friend, Dawn, and I have been together for more than eighteen years now, and we have five beautiful children that always keep us on our toes. The activities that I most enjoy are hiking, foraging, reading, writing, cooking, and just plain relaxing. I had thought to include a kind of history of how we got to where we are spiritually, but it is complicated enough that I think I will do posts now and then that are a study of how we got here. There will most likely be a lot of them. Suffice it to say it has been a long road (our own fault), and it will be a good thing for me to have it all written out.

My goal for this site is to get out all my thoughts on spirituality, God, Jesus, the Bible, and all related issues. I also hope to use it to show where I am at, such as where I am in my walk with Christ, recent things that might have happened that have relevance to this, and also what I happen to be in the process of learning through books, classes or sermons.

Why am I doing this when I already have enough trouble making myself write for my other blog? I went into a bit of depth on this on the Mountain Life site, (here is a link Changes ), mostly I feel an intense need to get these things written out. I know that I will benefit from writing them as I generally process things better when I take the time to do it. It is also nice to have the record to look back upon, and perhaps my children will think so as well one day. My prayer is that this could also be helpful to people, reading about someone who has went through the same issues, has the same question, being a comfort or blessing. Maybe you will even find something to poke fun at. Regardless your reason for being here, please feel welcome to leave a comment or question and I will try to reply as soon as possible.

God Bless,

Geno