About Basik Being...

This is a non comprehensive guide to myself and some of the things that this be held in this space. I guess to define things, I'm a person whose been gripped by the Gospel and who daily strives to become more like the One who he follows (sometimes this is more prevalent than other times). However it is this faith, Christianity, that shapes who I am and my worldview. At times in the past I have seen it as a liability or some sort of sacred disease to be hidden from some and lived out with others. However, when life is truly lived, beliefs and worldviews, let alone life-transforming forces like that of the Christian faith can no longer be compartmentalized. Even today, the first day of a new year, a day that finds me closer to thirty than twenty nine, a day that has begun like any other, my faith is shaping me (and I haven't even had breakfast yet).

So other than a Christian (or Christ-follower for the cool kids), I'm a husband and father. My wife's patience is a testimony to the success of or marriage. She married a dreamer and I know there are days where she just chooses to laugh at some of the things I come up with, which is probably the best thing to do with someone like me (think Ulysses Everett McGill, GOB, and a very small touch of Bono, just not nearly as cool, musical or Irish, but with the mindset to change the world). Needless to say, the marriage thing is fun and enlightening...as is fatherhood.

As a dad, I'm constantly learning about God through my relationship with my son, who inscidently is hilarious and at 20 months, loves to play cars, play the piano, play drums on anything and at times pretend he's asleep until he gets tickled and ends up laughing hysterically.

What else can I say? According to Marcus Buckingham's Strengthsfinder, I'm a futurist, activator, belief, positivity and significance. In relation to the DISC test, I'm a DIC (which my brother-in-law frequently reminds me about). I love entrepenural ventures, I've got my own, and in the fall I'll be with a group of people starting a new church in the Chicago suburbs.

Hopefully this will be the place I can write about a lot of this stuff and other things that affect me and those around me. I promise this won't be a place where I rant and rave, you and I both don't need that sort of thing.

Have a transforming New Year.