and with no warning at all I had an unexplainable urge to do something I had never done before. I weighed my options and since I don't have money for an Alaskan cruise, nor the desire for basket weaving, the next most logical choice was to start my own blog. So here I am. My aim, of course, is to keep my expectations of myself low and thereby ensure that I will disappoint myself with much less frequency. So my goals are as follows: I would like to post at least one other blog before giving up on the endeavor altogether. This sounds easy enough and it might be if I were not technologically impaired (or in PC terms: A PERSON with technological impairments). The point is I often get lost just maneuvering my own e-mail account so I am officially in over my head.

Here is my current (albeit primitive) understanding of the purpose(s) of a blog and the reasons I believe I am up for the task. The first is to "journal" personal thoughts, ideas, and inner desires and then publish these personal discoveries in a public fashion. Since I am given to self-deprecation, and thrive on open ridicule and/or absolute humiliation I thought "hey, why not make my private world public?"

The second reason I have discovered for blogging is to share one's opinion on politics, religion, world events, etc., with people who could (often) care less what you think. At this I will be awesome! I have an opinion on just about everything and I am one of the only people who cares to hear it most of the time (which in the past has led to a lot of talking to myself...but now I can blog to myself!)

Besides, as a homeschooling mom of three children I get tired of laying around all day and watching the soaps so this will be a pleasant diversion.

The truth is that I am on a journey and I don't want it to fly by without taking notice of the landmarks along the way, that is why I want to blog. I am a fellow sojourner, living life, reveling in the truth that I have been purchased and provided for by an all-powerful God, by the mighty work done through His Son on the cross. I'm discovering the depths of His infinite grace and long for His likeness. I am still falling, but now I am falling forward.