The Chronicles of Gray Matter

Hello! Hi! G’day! Hola! Bonjour! My name is Matthew Gray. I am currently an Ensign in the US Navy and in training to be a Naval Aviator. I currently reside in Pensacola, Florida. At the moment, I am doing Introductory Flight Screening (IFS) at Destin Airport. IFS is one of the prerequisite for starting Aviation Preflight Indoctrination (API). In IFS I am sent to a civilian flight school to complete the ground course for a civilian private pilots license and log 25 hours of flight time in a civilian aircraft. I graduated from Purdue University in May of 2007 with a Bachelor’s of Science in Aerospace Engineering. At the moment I am applying to begin work on my Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering hopefully starting this coming term (Spring 2008).I decided to start my own blog out of the desire to start a journal about my life and specifically what God is teaching me and what I am learning about myself. I have never tried to keep a journal in my life unless you count those times that were required by school work. The problem I have with journaling on paper is that I hate to write things out by hand and when I am done writing them out when I go back to reread them I will not be able to because of my horrible penmanship. The purpose of my blog will be used to discuss a variety of things mainly what God is teaching me in my life and my thoughts on spiritual matters. This blog will also be used to keep people informed of what is going on in my life and other random things such as thoughts on books I am reading, songs that make me think and my thoughts on the songs, and movie, video game and TV reviews.

As I start my blog I am laying down a few ground rules:

1) I will attempt to be completely honest with you on what is going on in my life and especially in regards to what God is teaching me and in return I hope if you leave comments you will be honest to yourself on your comments.

2) This blog will be as G-rated as possible and will honor all ideas and opinions. I am willing to hear your side of an issue but there will be times in which we have to agree to disagree.

3) My views in no way shape or form are representative of either the views of the US Navy or my church or Officer Christian Fellowship (OCF).

Again, I welcome you to my blog and hope it will be as beneficial to you in your life as it will be to me.