Welcome to my blog, LionSlayer.  This is my first blogging effort; I hope you like it.

You may find the name intriguing -- I found its source intriguing.  It comes from a talk I heard a few months ago given by a really inspiring young D.C. preacher.  He spoke of a rather obscure biblical character -- Benaiah, the heart of whose story is told in just a few verses starting at II Samuel 23:20.  Benaiah was one of King David's top soldiers, although Samuel makes a point of reporting that he just missed the cut of the top three that became known as David's Mighty Men.  But this Benaiah was a bold character nonetheless -- he was the chief bodyguard to David, a giant slayer like David himself, and an improvising martial artist worthy of today's action flicks.  Benaiah's marquee deed is the source of this blog name -- Samuel relates that among these other things, Benaiah once followed a lion down a slippery, snowy slope into a pit, confronted it there, and killed it.

Usually we don't think about chasing a lion, particularly into a snowy pit.  Usually we think of the lion chasing us.  But this young preacher's challenge to the men he spoke to that day was, what will you do with your life?  Will the lion chase you?  Or will you, like Benaiah, chase the lion?  The choice is up to us.

I hope to post my thoughts here on my profession, the business world I serve in this profession, and life in general.  Your comments are most welcome as well.  I hope that as this blog develops, it will remain true to its name, and that we can chase that lion together.

 

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