I've finally created a blog....something I've wanted to do for a long time, but have not taken the time to actually start one. It took me actually going to a teacher technology camp today to start this...no distractions or excuses. I've been so inspired the past few years by some friends who have shared their hearts, souls, and daily life (challenges and all) through their own blogs. My teacher friend Katie has a wonderful blog. She has a little girl named McKenna who has Charge Syndrome. This is something I had never heard of until I met her about 4 years ago. McKenna is an amazing little girl and brings smiles to all who meet her. God also blessed Katie with a little girl named Cami who is incredibly cute and makes me laugh every time I see her. The link to her blog is on the right.
Another friend of mine who is truly an inspiration and encouragement to is my friend Crystal. She is a Pastor's wife and mother who lives in Louisville. She began a blog a few years ago to keep people informed when her brother, and friend of mine, was battling cancer. It always amazed me as she wrote her thoughts, prayers, and struggles as she watched someone she loved get so sick and fight for his life. The true inspiration was the raw emotion and honesty she put out there when her brother died and her journey to understand what God was doing through the whole thing. I saw myself in so many of her posts as I re-lived my own struggles and my mom suffered from Parkinson's and went home to heaven in 2004. She continues to blog and shares her beautiful heart, about daily life raising children and all that God is teaching her. Even though she is miles away, I still feel like I can have a conversation with her kind of like what we would do when we lived close in Dayton.
I do not know if any of my ramblings or thoughts that I will share on this will matter or change anyone's life, but that isn't the purpose. It is an outlet for me as I live my life and try to love God,my husband, my daughter, my family, friends, church, the kids I teach everyday, and anyone else God brings in my path. As my former Pastor, David Schooler, use to say every Sunday...."The Journey Continues".
