{"id":27,"date":"2016-01-04T07:32:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T12:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danihenderson.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2016-01-04T07:44:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T12:44:07","slug":"welcome-to-my-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danihenderson.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to My Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings to all my friends out there! This New Year, I resolved to get my blog off the ground for real, and I wanted to start with a little about me, just the major details.<\/p>\n<p>Above all, I&#8217;m a Christian (a follower of Christ) which is the reason I started\u00a0this blog. One of the areas I struggle with most is communicating verbally with others, especially about my faith, as it can be a quite controversial topic in some circles, and I&#8217;m non-confrontational to the extreme. Fortunately, God has gifted\u00a0me with the ability to express myself through writing what I lack in speaking skills, and it&#8217;s recently become clear to me that I can&#8217;t hoard that gift or let it wither away in the busyness and exhaustion of life.<\/p>\n<p>This blog isn&#8217;t about politics or my opinions or about proving anyone right or wrong. It seems that there are plenty of people out there on the internet better&#8211;or louder&#8211;at arguing than me. Nor do I consider myself uniquely insightful, that I would try to use some irrefutable logic to bring you over to my point of view. I won&#8217;t tell you that my life is great and you should all be like me&#8211;I believe that I&#8217;m a sinner like everyone else, and I&#8217;m not here to pretend I&#8217;ve got it together. This blog strives to be thoroughly testimonial: showing what Jesus has done and is doing in my life, how He has saved me and is daily sanctifying me.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me to my next bullet points about me.\u00a0At the time of this entry, I&#8217;m 27 years old, I&#8217;ve been married to AJ since June 7, 2008, and we have one son, 15-month-old Declan.<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.danihenderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/henderson-xmas-2015.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"49\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.danihenderson.com\/?attachment_id=49\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.danihenderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/henderson-xmas-2015.jpg?fit=3958%2C2827&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3958,2827\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;AJ Henderson&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark III&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1450553914&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;2015 All Rights Reserved&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;75&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;5000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"henderson xmas 2015\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.danihenderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/henderson-xmas-2015.jpg?fit=474%2C338&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.danihenderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/henderson-xmas-2015.jpg?resize=300%2C214&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"henderson xmas 2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.danihenderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/henderson-xmas-2015.jpg?resize=300%2C214&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.danihenderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/henderson-xmas-2015.jpg?resize=768%2C549&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.danihenderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/henderson-xmas-2015.jpg?resize=1024%2C731&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.danihenderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/henderson-xmas-2015.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.danihenderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/henderson-xmas-2015.jpg?w=1422&amp;ssl=1 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I work full time overnights at Albany Medical Center hospital in the clinical chemistry lab. Before I was a mom, I enjoyed Tae Kwon Do and online gaming (mostly\u00a0World of Warcraft), but recently most of my &#8220;free time&#8221; is spent sleeping, changing diapers, and watching my toddler undo any work I try to do around the house. I&#8217;ve dabbled with trying to write a few novels over the years, but\u00a0haven&#8217;t finished any yet. I&#8217;ve battled with depression and anxiety for much of my life, especially social anxiety, as I alluded to before, which makes me shy and extremely introverted, but once I&#8217;m really comfortable with you, I can be one the the goofiest\u00a0people you will ever meet.<\/p>\n<p>But anyway, that&#8217;s enough about me to get you started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings to all my friends out there! This New Year, I resolved to get my blog off the ground for real, and I wanted to start with a little about me, just the major details. Above all, I&#8217;m a Christian (a follower of Christ) which is the reason I started\u00a0this blog. 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