Me

I am a memory keeper of my life.  I document through pics and journaling, in scrapbooks as well as in social media.  I am a wife of 25 years, married to my high school sweetheart, and we have two grown kids, ages 23 and 21.  I have been blessed with an incredible extended family and I love capturing our time together.

I am just an ordinary girl, trying to live out this life.  I work with my husband in fire protection after being a teacher for 19 years.   It was this career change 7 years ago that prompted the idea of this Blog.  Well, not a blog necessarily, but the idea of spreading the news about what was happening to me.  Although my attendance at church has been . . . well embarrassingly terrible, I started to invest in my personal relationship with the Lord, reading Devotions and faithbased books.  And the more I delved into this genre, the more tuned in I was to following Him.

I am a follower of Jesus Christ.  I accepted Jesus as my savior when I was five years old, but hadn’t really accepted many of the responsibilities that had come along with it.  My Christian life comprised of my praying to give thanks or to ask for help.  But as I have gotten older, I find myself listening to Him, more than talking.  This life we are living, I have learned and accepted, is meant to be lived for Him and I want to share what I am learning.

This Blog

This Blog is a labor of love.  I am the first to admit, I do not know what to expect from this part of my journey.  I have always loved the idea of writing a book, and as I began journaling I started to consider the idea of writing a devotional.  What is holding me back?  I am under the assumption that the author would have to be an expert on the subject, and make no mistake about this, I am no expert on studying the Bible.  Heck, that’s why I read the books I do! Besides, I am not a fan of rereading and editing my work.

So what’s the point? I came across a great quote by C.S, Lewis.  “I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind.  If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it.  We do not write in order to be understood, we write in order to understand.” As I read my devotions or books, or listen to music, or just reflect on an experience, I like to sort it out in writing.    It is merely an attempt for me to learn something.  Quite honestly, I write for myself, not for a reader.  So why the blog, for others to have access to? The only answer I have, God wants me to.  I don’t know why.  Maybe it is because he wants me to learn this technology (which has me very frustrated by the way), or maybe he wants me to be real and vulnerable.  Maybe he is going to use me as a tool to say something that someone needs to hear.  I have no idea.  The point is, I am just a girl doing what her father told her to do.

What to Expect

I am expecting to treat this blog as I do my journal.  In which case, expect me to be honest, real, and vulnerable.  Expect typos and errors. Expect thoughts in progress, and possibly with no resolution.  Expect this to be an ongoing journey.  Expect to read some scripture since that is what I am usually reflecting on.  My goal is to submit myself to God and trust that He has a plan for this part of my journey.  I hope I can be a tool for Him and that as I leave this world into the next, he looks at me and says, “well done.”