a letter to my readers

Dear friends, some of whom I know and some I don’t-

I haven’t been blogging much lately, have I?  I miss it.  I miss analyzing the silly parts of my day and sharing them with you.  I enjoy making the day-to-dayness of it all more fun, because it gives me a good perspective on my life as I’m answering my kids’ questions and washing their clothes and making our beds.  I know why I’ve slowed down on this bloggy-fun: I’ve changed.  God has transformed me and that is just about all that’s on my mind anymore.

I was blessed by God to have been raised by parents who love Him, themselves having been raised by parents who love Him, but as has been verbalized to me recently, there are no grandchildren in Christ.  So while I always knew about God I had to form my own relationship with Him.  Looking back over my life, during my youth when I was living in sin yet crying out to Him, I can see Him there, watching and moving in my life.  Over the past five years or so it has really started to snowball, and over the past two years especially my passion for Him has grown exponentially.  Ask and ye shall receive!  I prayed He give me a longing for His wisdom and He gave it.  Boy did He.  Now I love exploring His Word, discovering the different facets of His character that add up to a loving and unchangeable and forever God.  We are so lucky He treasures us!

I’ve journaled off and on since high school, but with Him on my mind all the time I now journal so that I can get out all the thoughts in my head.  The journaling exploded into talking about it all the time with my husband (an aside: I am daily grateful that our sweet Lord gave me my husband.  Hubby is wicked smart.  He has read the Bible in its entirety and has been able to keep that wisdom in his steel-trap of a mind, so when I throw out questions and thoughts to him, he sharpens me with wisdom from the Bible.  I’m totally embarrassing him right now, but it’s all true) and with my girlfriends, women the Lord put in my life as a specific answer to prayer.  But all this journaling and talking with Hubby and friends is not enough.  These questions and revelations are bursting out of me and I have to share them with you.  Right now there is nowhere else for them to go.

I understand that some of you won’t be interested in the ramblings of a woman on this path.  For a long time I hesitated in sharing because I didn’t want to bore you.  But I hope that you’ll continue to read my blog, if only so the Lord can prick your heart with questions that you’ll have to discover for yourself.  Let Him speak to you!  He is watching and waiting with anticipation to pour out His love and blessings on you.

I’ll still talk about my husband and my children.  Other than the Lord, those four are my treasures who give me my joy.  It’s just that the funny stuff of our days will be interspersed with new epiphanies about God.

Stay with me, friends.  I am thankful for all of you who take time out of your day to read about me.

with humble love,

erin