First Post

I’m not sure this is a good idea. Me…blogging. I only recently even figured out what blogging is. I have seen blogs before when I’ve done a search for something and had one come up on google. Typically they seem to contain helpful information to my search. I’ve looked at our pastor’s blog and seen how other people comment. But I had no idea this blogging was something regular people did.

A friend sent me an email with a link to another friend’s blog to look at a comment about a book we’d been reading. Again, this was something I’d seen before when looking for reviews of this particular book. I had no idea someone I knew was doing this kind of thing. And it got me curious. The blog had links to other blogs and before I knew it I’d spent a ridiculous amount of time bouncing around and reading. I’m a reality TV addict and it was a little like that for me. Looking into your lives, what you think about, who you’re connected too, what’s happening in your world. Maybe it lacked some of the nail-biting suspense and competitive fervor. Maybe it wasn’t sexy or surprising. But it was definitely funny and much more real. Like my new friend Ashley says at the top of her blog, it’s like having those adult conversations I miss during the day because I’m raising two dynamic little girls.

It wasn’t long after discovering these windows into your lives that someone asked, “Do you blog?” I definitely wanted in on the “conversation”. There’s just one little problem. 1 Timothy 1:15,16. Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners – of whom I am the worst. But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his unlimited patience as an example of those who would believe on him and receive eternal life. So that’s me. It’s one of the first verses I ever memorized on my own time because it resonated so much with me. Hopefully I’m someone you can relate to. I hope you can handle the sarcasm, lack of good grammar and punctuation, blunt thoughts and opinions, screw ups, bad habits and such. And if you should comment that I’m wrong, rude, blunt, weird, uncouth, unrefined…you might be right. See 1 Timothy 1:15,16.