So, here goes.

I've discovered social networking isn't for me, but I've often thought I'd enjoy a plain blog: no bells and whistles, with this-that-and the other to keep up with. Just a place to share my thoughts and if I'm lucky, to have some conversations too. But I've always put off starting a blog on the grounds I wouldn't keep up with it. However, the sermon in church yesterday(7/12/09) was - in part - about fulfilling the purpose God has for our lives. And I was convicted that avoiding writing a blog was avoiding the purpose I feel God has for my life - to write. Now, mind you, I'm not saying my writing is good, great, wonderful, profound, or anything like that. But I'm always having ideas and writing partial scribbles on scraps of paper. Without a venue to share it, my writing has been incomplete. It's possible, of course, no one will read this. And likely no one will care what or if I write. Perhaps, too, my first thoughts were correct and I will not keep up with it well. However, it feels like a way to be faithful to God's purpose in my life. So - for better or worse - here goes.