THE BLOG

When The Sum of the Matter began, we were in the process of deconstructing our Christian faith and exploring the ancient text of the Hebrew bible to consider whether or not the words found therein are true. As you will see from our earlier content, we tried and the insight we gained was that if you look to the Hebrew roots, the story is quite a bit different than what you may have been told and if we don't have the originals, how can we be certain that everything isn't just man made with a human purpose and intention behind it?  

We desired to continue that pursuit but the frustration level was high, very high! We finally are willing to admit that everything is subjective, everything is situational and that maybe the only real objective moral truth goes something along the lines of “don't do to others that which you don't want done to you”.. emphasis on the DON’T. We humbly admit that we can’t know all things AND will continue to question everything.  It’s an interesting place to find ones self…. If the here and now is all there really is and we have the freedom to decide how we live it, then what do we really want to do with our one wild and precious life?  We certainly don’t want to be controlled and manipulated anymore.  We don't want to escape this life, in hopes that the next will be better, we want to focus more on the joys of today.

Our journey aims to keep things plain and simple.  We are not scholars and don't claim to be, in fact we are only high school educated and self-taught thinkers and studiers.  We are also not necessarily "authors" either.  We are trying the best we can to express our thoughts and opinions but find it is not always easy to put them into words.  We have come to the current conclusion that the more you think you know, the more you realize that you don't know anything at all.  We never thought we would find ourselves here, questioning our worldview and deconstructing everything we thought we knew.  The thoughts we share are not written in stone and our understanding may change at any time. We can't guarantee where this journey will take us but if you find yourself there too, we hope you will join us as we seek to be balanced, present and magical!