Blog 2.0

I miss blogging.

About three years ago I started a blog for myself.  Why?  To remember.  I don't know about you, but I forget really easy.  God teaches me something profound, I feel inspired, and I charge forward with confidence!... Only to lose my steam, get caught in the ordinariness of life, and forget what God has done in me.

So I started a blog, so I'd remember God's goodness to me.

Then I stopped.  I got a full-time job and took classes part-time.  And it seemed very hard to fit blogging time in there.  I haven't touched that blog for two years.

So here I am, starting Blog 2.0.  Why?  Well, I have time again.  And I want to keep reminders of God's goodness in front of me.  But that's not the biggest reason.

No, this is why I'm starting up a blog again: I realized I lost my voice.  No, not literally.  But I forgot what it feels like to express myself. And that's an awful place to be.


You know what happens to water when it stops flowing?  It gets stagnant, stale.  I don't want that to happen to me.  So consider this blog an outlet for my soul.  It's more for me than anyone else.  Because I need to be reminded that I have God-given passions, that he gave me a voice.


My prayer is that this blog is rejuvenating for me, and will bless others in the process as well.

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