Why Blog?

I'm obviously not good at blogs. I honestly don't even know why I started this. I made two entries my freshmen year in college. One my sophomore. Then deleted them and made the blog about my mission trip to Zambia. It was the easiest way to share the information and pictures. But I don't know if people even read it, or if they are now. I even have the link in my email. Do I post more and tell more people about it, or just drop it? But what do I post? What is public enough to share but personal enough that people will want to read? Then there's also finding the time to blog. I just caught up my journal writing from the last 6 weeks. I obviously summarized and skipped things if I wrote about a 6 week time span in one afternoon.

So, those of you out there who are actually reading this, what do you want to hear about? I don't do much outside of work and my work is not something I can talk about here. What makes this different from facebook where I post that I am going north for the weekend and can't find someone to go with me? Is this where I post my reflection of going north? I can already guess that I'll have a praise that I made it safely driving up from midnight to 6am Saturday morning! My plan while I'm home is to decorate my high school teacher's classroom for her birthday. I've decorated it almost ever year (I missed one) since she was my teacher my freshman year in high school. Even when I was away at college, I got other people to decorate it. But she's retiring this year, so I'm going all out like we did the first year. We just need an air compressor...

So was that something worth blogging about? What about reflections from messages from GYC last year that I just finished transcribing? Side note-Justin McNeilus is really hard to transcribe. But here are three statements that caught my attention. All from Charissa Fong's Saturday morning devotional. I guess I was really paying attention while typing that one.

• The first statement is, "The Holy Spirit is impressing upon your heart …and you’re thinking 'I can’t do it.' You’re right, you can’t, and He never said you could, because He can, and He always said He would." She said it so firm and clear."You’re right, you can’t, and He never said you could, because He can, and He always said He would." In the time of trails, you've heard "If God's called you to it, He will get you through it." But that also applies to the things God calls us to do with and in our lives. If He asks you to preach a sermon and you're afraid of public speaking, He will give you the words to say, you just have to step out in faith to receive the blessing. If He calls you into a profession you don't feel qualified to practice, don't worry, He's overqualified! And the best person to train you.
• The second one: "Just think of snowflakes. Snowflakes are really fragile. But, if you put them all together, they stop traffic." Yes, one person can make a difference, but even when a crowd does something, it started with the idea of one. That person needs assistance to stop people in their place, just like a pile of snow. Her context was "friends, if we would just obey God, and obey Him together, I believe that we will shake the world." Being from Michigan, we should understand the snowflake analogy.
• The third one was just the simple statement, "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

As I'm writing this, I'm listening to the song "Your Grace Still Amazes Me." It seems like I've heard this recently but I don't remember where. This is the phrase that just caught my attention, "It’s deeper it’s wider, it’s stronger, it’s higher. It’s deeper it’s wider, it’s stronger, it’s higher, than anything my eyes can see." Are we paying attention to the ways God is showing us His grace? Do we thank Him for it? Do we realize our need for it?

Okay, that's my blog entry. See you in six weeks!