An Introduction

Ever since I saw the movie Julie & Julia, I’ve thought I would like to start a blog, but I couldn’t just write a blog for the sake of doing it—I had to have something to say. Lately, I have found that I had things to say, so I started writing them down each day. After gathering a few of these, I realized I had the starting content for a blog. Things never seem to happen in the order or timing I think they should, but I have found it to be true that “as a man thinks in his heart, so is he”…so here I am with the start of a blog.

I have been a wife for 27 years to the father of our five children. We have also added a son-in-law this year, and another son-in-law-to-be is in the group. I have taught school a little, worked a bunch in retail selling pretty girlie things and baby stuff and done a lot of singing, but mostly I have cared for our family and our home. I love nature and the One who created it. I have been a voracious reader since I was 14, and over the years, there have been many books that I thought that I would write.

I have concluded that the journey of life is rich, and worthy of consideration, of thought, of pondering, of prayer. These musings I write are snapshots of where I am at this point in my life. I don’t think I have life all figured out for me, and I certainly don’t think you have to agree with me. So, if anything I write helps you at all, or resonates with your perspective, then Yahoo! But if you read something you don’t like or cannot relate to, then just roll over it and leave it with me. I will probably change my mind in another ten years, or you may as well.

I have realized that I can only live my life according to the revelation that I have at any one moment. I can’t go back and live yesterday with what I know now. I can’t go forward and say that I will do things a certain way because of how I think today. And I certainly can’t think that I know what you should do because I have life figured out. My loving, merciful, creative and personal God relates to me intimately and uniquely, as He does with each one with whom He is in relationship. It’s quite like a marriage.

Our marriage is dynamic (continuously changing, vigorous, intense) and intimate (we share life on the deepest level), so as “I” write, you are truly hearing my thoughts intricately entwined with those of my heavenly and earthly husbands. I talk over and prayer over everything you will read, so all my postulations are born from a life woven with the threads of my Tim and my Jesus. Now you know that when you see the pronoun “I”, you should insert “we”.

Now you have a glimpse of where I am coming from (I do hate to end a sentence with a dangling participle, but sometimes it makes more sense than “from whence I come”). I am only writing about my experiences and observations and thoughts, not making any statements of doctrine or judgment for you. And all that I am is infused with the life of my Lovers, Tim and Jesus. If you care to continue reading with that understanding, then I look forward to a lovely blog (albeit an odd word) relationship with you.