'Onward and Upward'

For the longest time I've been saying "onward and upward" as a source of encouragement.  I've always thought of it as something that a character from C.S. Lewis' Chronicles Of Narnia had said.  At one point I could have sworn it was from 'The Last Battle' - I wasn't able to find it there, when I Googled it, online posts told me it was from 'A Horse and His Boy'; however, I was still unable to find it. So there goes the compelling beginning of this blog.

I guess it's fitting that my blog starts off this way - it wont be profound, it might not reveal any new truths.  The name of my blog isn't even original - when I looked up 'Onward and Upward', I found several other blogs with the same title - from christian people none-the-less, probably spouting their own opinions on how the Christian life should be led.  So if you read this, I apologize but I'd also like to thank you (for your patience).

What does one write about in a blog?  I don't want it to be a journal, that would be too personal.  I don't want it to be an instruction manual, that would be too boring (and I'm not qualified to instruct on hardly anything).  I don't want it to be political commentary, there are enough talking heads out there already.  I don't want it to be pointless either.  I'll be honest with you - the reason why I'm writing this is because I'm obsessed with who I am, deep down I feel like other people should know who I am.  It's a fairly shallow desire, but it's the truth.  I think that's what I want from my blog - to discover the truth, or at the very least, the reasoning behind what I consider to be the truth.  This means that I'll explore what I think about, it'll help me navigate why I think about something and perhaps allow you (the reader) to see how I arrive to my conclusions and maybe you can even provide your own ideas at the bottom.

Again, in my search for the quote 'Onward and Upward,' I came across this closing statement from an address Abraham Lincoln made to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, I think it's fitting for this blog as well as for life in general:
 

"It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! -- how consoling in the depths of affliction! "And this, too, shall pass away." And yet let us hope it is not quite true. Let us hope, rather, that by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social, and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away."

So the question I pose to myself for this blog is the same as the one I pose for my life - where do I go from here?  Onward and upward I suppose.