Welcome to my Blog

I am new to blogging.

When I was young, technology fascinated me and I eagerly embraced it.  The older I get, the more it seems that much of our progress just complicates our lives, or distracts us and wastes our precious time.  I am not against it, but am becoming slower and pickier about what I adopt into my life.  I have never tweeted or twittered or whatever you call it.  I can barely keep up with emails and rarely check Facebook anymore.  Some days I wonder whether a cell phone is a blessing or a curse.  (I remember standing on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean with my good friend "Blonde Dog" Johnson on a Harley trip when his cell phone rang for the 300th time interrupting his vacation with work once again.  As he hung up, I could tell it took all his restraint not to just throw the dang thing as far as he could into the Pacific.)

So a blog has not had much appeal.  However, in a General Conference address a few years back we were encouraged to use the internet to share the gospel.  As I have thought about this recently, it seems that a blog might be a good way to facilitate gospel discussion and study amongst our family and friends.  So I'm going to try this for awhile.  This won't be an online journal, although I may occasionally share a story or situation from my life.  I don't want this blog to be about me.  Rather, I'd like it to be a place to share thoughts, insights, doctrine and to facilitate our further study and growing understanding of the gospel.  It may also be an appropriate place to share testimony from time to time.

You are welcome to join.  Please feel free to agree or disagree with me.  Post a response if you wish.  My disclaimer is that the thoughts posted hereon will be my opinions and/or current thinking on a topic.  Feel free to invite others to participate as well if you wish.  If you would like to submit something for me to post, you can reach me via email at coryjensen@me.com.

I am very excited about studying the Book of Mormon this year.   Most of the posts this year will focus there.  With that introduction, let's begin...

P.S.  Dad & Jess -- please don't look to closely at my grammar, punctuation, etc.  I don't have your talents and abilities at writing.