Thanks for coming by! My name is David Pierce, and this is the beginning of a project that’s incredibly important to me.

I want this site to be, more than anything, a personal journal. I’ve kept a journal for a long time, and it’s been incredibly useful and cathartic for me. I highly recommend everyone do it – my journal entries are, more often than not, a few sentences or just a single word; when I go back to them, it’s fantastic to be brought back to that moment.

My journal has been great for me, but I have a hunch I’m not the only person dealing with some of the things going on in my life. That’s what I hope for this site – that my dealing with things will, in some way I really don’t understand, help other people.

I’m going to try and be as real as possible – telling stories, sharing feelings, and the like. There’s a careful balance to be struck here between being candid and being overly-revealing, and I’m sure I’ll fail horribly at treading it. So, in advance, my bad.

I can’t promise a posting schedule, or even a topic – all I know is that issues of God, faith, and Christianity are the things that most often find their way into my journal. For instance, my last entry was about why there’s a stigma against Christians swearing. Who decided that a given word was worse than others, and that somehow, when I stub my toe, “shit!” is an inappropriate thing to yell?

I see the world differently from a lot of people I know, but I don’t think I’m the only one. If you feel the way I do, I hope you join me on this ride. If you think I’m wrong, tell me! Let’s fight about it.

I think we all benefit from being open, candid, and real with one another. What I’m good at and proud of is only a small part of who I am, and I want to practice sharing more of the rest.

There’s lots more to come on this site – I’ve got some big plans. This is definitely more for me than for you, but I hope and believe that sharing our stories is what really matters, and benefits us all when we do.