Welcome to Nathan Sheets' blog. Please scroll down for the most recent entries.

Nathan Sheets is a regular guy. He's pro-life, conservative and trying to figure out what he wants to do with the rest of his life. He has a growing interest in dogs, essential oils and lolzmacros.

Nathan was launched into the pro-life movement by accident when he made a LiveJournal one day with his friend Beth. He chose the screen name "godisprolife". Imagine his surprise when people suddenly started asking him questions! He embarked on a failed attempt to create a pro-life website but has been blogging pro-life issues since then: 7 years ago!

Nathan's conservatism is much newer. Formerly the only pro-life Democrat this side of the Rockies, Nathan's political and social conversion occurred after his first year in college. After Nathan returned from pretty-liberal Switzerland to attend a very-liberal University in his hometown of Portland, Oregon, Nathan did research on several issues including gun rights, affirmative action, gay rights, teachers unions, socialism and a plethora of others. With most of these Nathan had liberal views, but he has since changed.

Pro-choicers and liberals will be especailly interested to know that Nathan does indeed have friends--even liberal friends! Indeed, this being Oregon, the vast majority of Nathan's friends and acquaintances would be liberal pro-choicers! Nathan's spiritual life is quite different than it was when he began blogging, and so his screen name has been changed to natewillsheets.

Nathan enjoys casual blogging, mostly about pro-life issues and his interests. His favorite blogs include conservative blogs, racial relations blogs and interior design blogs. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon. He loves mustard. A lot.

You may contact Nathan at nathan@nathansheets.com or IM him at this page, if he is online.

You all may notice that my blog keeps changing designs. Please bear with me. I am trying to find a style that works not only with my blog but with my friends page needs:)

I know that I haven't written much in the way of pro-life posts recently. This is because I'm working on a bigger article, and frankly there's only so much I can take at once. I hope the commentary and posts about my life are sufficient for the time being:) 

Inspired by other bloggers and LJ friends, I've decided to write a New Years Post.

Obviously my ever-going goal is to become more and more holy. I don't mean a generic "get closer to God" resolution—I literally mean I want to become more and more holy. I want to get rid of the worldly actions in my life, but even more than that: worldly ways of thinking. What goes on in our minds and hearts are often much worse (and much different) than what we do in our actions.

I still have such a long way to go in my "quest" to be holy, but I will give the Lord Jesus the credit for where I am at now. He's brought me much farther along this year, including but not limited to giving me new hope of change, healing me from things that happened in the past and revealing new wounds that need to be healed.

I have a greater hope now more than ever of getting married, and the Lord is helping me to realize that I don't have to get married while I am in my early '20s. I can wait until I'm 24-27 like most people. That's been kind of hard for some reason. I am seeing that before I can love my wife as the Messiah loves the Church, I must, in fact, know how much the Messiah loves me. A daunting task from the looks of it, but not impossible.

If there could be a trait that I wish to exhibit more this year, it would be compassionate love. To love people in the practical ways that the Messiah did, and to act on that love. It is very hard to do loving acts without a loving heart. Indeed, doing such actions while your heart is not in it just makes your heart harder. I am full of prejudice, bias, class-snobbery and a plethora of other, wicked things. I want to be cleaned out of all of that.

Jill Stanek posted a verse that she wants to focus on for the year and invited us to do it was well, so I thought I'd do it. Mine is Ephesians 5:1 (and really the whole chapter):

"Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God."

I will add that to my sidebar sometime today.

Top Blogs
This year was my first year of really reaching out of LiveJournal and reading the (mostly political and pro-life) blogs. Here are my top 5 for the year.

5) Michelle Malkin: Michelle Malkin is a true conservative, which is why I like to read her blog. She is especially good at following the stories regarding illegal immigration.

4) American Thinker: I just started reading American Thinker about a month ago regularly, but I enjoy it very much. It's not a blog in the strict sense of the word (though they do actually have one), but rather a collection of guest articles every day. * Expect a guest article sometime in the next month from your favorite pro-lifer:) *

3) Jivin J: JivinJ is great at following the stories regarding embryonic stem-cell research. He and his wife just had a baby! Congratulations!

2) Julia Gorin: Julia's blog is oft mentioned here, and for good reason. She's a pro-life Jew, which (of course!) first got my attention. She blogs mostly on politics and the Kosovo situation, something that virtually no American knows anything about. I would definitely suggest that people start reading her blog.

1) Jill Stanek: I have known about Jill for a while and would, from time to time, catch her blog entries as they popped up in ProLifeBlogs. But it wasn't until I stopped by her blog and really started reading that I realized what an amazing blogger she is. She has done an extensive job on reporting many events, especially the Planned Parenthood situation in Aurora, Illinois. God has used her blog to reach many, many people. She is also a must-add for any pro-life person on my friends-list—her entries would interest you even if you are not a fanatic like me.

Also, my resolution this year is to do extensive research for a book. This book has been on my heart for a while now, but I really want to crack down this year and get the bulk of the research done.

I will not be blogging until Monday! Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I find that giving thanks to God is much better than focusing on what's wrong in our lives. Because of His provision, we have no reason to complain!

Colossians 3:15
Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.