Hi.  My name is Gene.  I am a 47-year-old husband and father of a 4-year-old daughter.  For some time, I’ve wanted a platform to share my general and theological thoughts about various topics of the day.  While many enjoy sharing their thoughts on Facebook and other social media, I’ve not been as comfortable with doing that directly on such sites only because I enjoy learning about others without discussing topics that may be controversial or creating tension on a platform designed for fun and learning about others.  If I want to discuss issues, I would rather reserve another “room” for those thoughts without sparring directly on a popular social forum.  However, by no means does that mean that I don’t have any thoughts or opinions, because I do!  I have always been interested in the issues of the day.  I have always enjoyed discussing politics and theology.  I have taken an active interest in both politics and religion as far back as my pre-teen years.  I was one of those not so normal kids who liked discussing issues, watching the evening national news and learning about religious beliefs.  In fact, I spent over 4 years in seminary after starting my initial career in accounting, earning a Masters of Theology.  Given that November is National Adoption Month, the fact that I am both adopted child and an adoptive parent of four years, and the recent revelation of certain facts about both my birth and adoptive families, I’ve been inspired to write my thoughts in this blog as a spring-board for sharing my thoughts publicly.  It’s my hope that these thoughts might challenge, inspire or bless anyone who reads them, particularly any thoughts I have about my genetic family, my adoptive earthly family and my adoptive eternal family.  It’s also my hope that anyone who ever reads anything I write about in this blog would be led to be adopted into this Eternal family, the only true Forever Family.