This humble servant greets you

Hello out there to everyone in Internet land! My name is Dirk Tapert, and if you are wondering how exactly I am a servant in this modern day and age let me tell you: I am a servant to Christ.
All my life I was raised a Christian to believe in and serve Christ humbly with all of my mind, body, and soul. Jesus died for me and for my sins and for everyone's sins, and if that isn't enough to be someone's servant I don't know what is! I grew up in a small town in Arkansas where everyone was nice to eachother, we never drank or smoked or did any drugs, I was an only child. I had a happy childhood with lots of great friends and a great family and I owe most if not all of that to good Christian values and to always being faithful to Jesus Christ!

I am 27 years old now and unfortunately not living in the south anymore and let me tell you something: it's a culture shock still everyday! I live in New York (not NYC city though!) near Syracuse and I work in a small Christian bookstore. Boy is it cold up here! I love where I work and my boss is a nice man (my uncle knew him and he said he was looking for another employee right when I was looking for a job!) and our customers also are very nice usually but sometimes people can be very rude up here. It's unfortunate in this modern world how Jesus gets forgotten so much.

Which brings me to the purpose of this web blog I'm writing. I'm pretty new to this Internet stuff, but I'm visiting my uncle in Pennsylvania right now and he was telling me how hundreds of people are already spreading the word of God with the Internet with blogs, and I figured that since I want to be a writer I should start a blog too and start spreading the word! I know I'm not the absolute best, but I do know a thing or two about writing and I think with my Christian outlook on life I can write a pretty interesting and informative blog and maybe "bridge the adversity" of the times we live in to make the world a little bit better, so I hope you all enjoy it!

-Dirk