Getting started as a blogger is hard. I read several blogs on a regular basis and I really enjoy them. I admire the women who take the time to put their lives into words and share their dreams, challenges and victories with the rest of us. Now I admire them even more that I'm trying to begin my own blog. I suppose the best place to start is the present. So here I go...
Life right now is pretty normal for me. By normal, I mean we just moved again! We've moved a lot in the last 10 years...5 times to be exact. I guess that's why I say life is normal right now. Believe it or not, when Richard and I moved into our home on the farm in 1981 (which was our 4th move in 6 years of marriage), I thought we'd live there until we died. Obviously, that didn't happen because we are both very much alive and our aching bodies are proof! I wish I had counted all the boxes I've packed and unpacked during the last 10 years...and the 'stuff ' we keep accumulating! Where does all that 'stuff' come from? I promise you, we purged at every move...I'm an avid purger. I clean our closets every year and pack up or give away the items we don't use. But the stuff just keeps multiplying. We have been in our new house for almost 4 weeks now and there are still 6 mystery boxes in the garage that I'm afraid to open. I don't know if I even want to open them because then, I'll have to find a place to put their contents and I really like everything just the way it is.
Kind of reminds me of my own heart. I know I have some 'unpacked boxes' in the dark corners that I need to open. I know there are some things in those boxes that need to be brought into the light of day and put in their place...or disposed of at the foot of the cross. So I pray:
'Create in me a clean heart, oh God; and renew a right spirit within me." Psalm 51:10
