Who Am I?

I suppose it should be an easy question to answer.  You could rattle off facts like date of birth, hometown, general ethnic makeup, and age.  I have those things I could list, but they are not who I am.  The real question is why should you care what my blog has to say?

Statistically, I am an American, I'm in my 20s, generally from the Midwest, and my ethnic background is a relatively unknown collection of white Europeans.  I like to make videos, write, read, sleep, and watch movies.  I also am a Christian.  Before you stop reading, I say that because I have decided that the way to live this life is to believe that Jesus is the one who has saved my eternal soul from eternal punishment (what some call Hell).  This doesn't, however, mean that my life is easy.  That I have taken the magic pill that makes all the world better and am not here to tell you that following Jesus makes your life free of stress and worry.  It's still there, the stress and worry.  For me, it has meant that I do have a certain different feeling within me.  Even when life is hard, even when life is really great, I have a certain feeling inside of me that there is a reason to keep on living.  It is like an extra support structure when everything else fails.  The external circumstances remain, but it is this indescribable thing inside my intellect, my heart, my being that makes it all worth continuing on and a peace that no matter what happens, I can count on knowing that my eternal soul will spend eternity at peace.  At the risk of sounding preachy, I will tell you that there is one verse that calms my heart.  Knowing that in some day, hopefully not too far in the future "HE will wipe every tear from their eyes.  There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away." (Revelation 21:4)  That is what keeps me going.  That is who I am.