There is a season for everything under the sun and now it is the season of this day where I begin a blog. It seems like it has been forever since I posted anything, but the date on my last post assures me that life has just been that hectic in the last few days. It has in fact only been three days.
Three full days. Amazingly, productively, beautifully full days. I cannot remember last time I had such a good three days. Granted, all the productivity I'm managing as of late is often interrupted by long stretches of time spent in my car driving to the "other side of the world." My affectionate term for my new home. I suppose that's what I get for living in DeKalb and going to church in South Barrington.
But can I take a moment to tell you how much I love being involved at Willow again? It is fantastic! What I've realized in the last few weeks is that it's not even really being at the church that has been a good thing. It is much more about having a chance to belong to a smaller community within the church - know by most as a small group. I forgot what I was missing. I love my small group. And I'm only just getting to know everyone. We do so much together. And while that currently means some serious time and financial sacrifices on my part, I have found every one of those sacrifices to be more than worth doing.
What's more, is that as much as I enjoy my small group and the studies and activities that we do, I find that enjoyment comes second to the fact that I'm falling more in love with my God. I have been reading the Word with increasing regularity and watching how that impact my days. It's nothing short of amazing. I recently purchased a cute new Bible. (I say cute because it's small, really for no other reason is it cute.) I decided to get the New Living Translation. I have been using NIV for a really long time, and this one just makes the words flow so much better. I'm reading in Joshua right now and enjoying learning more about his life. It's also neat, I'm finding, to compare different versions and see how the different ones express the same verse. At church, The Message is used often and I used to be annoyed by that - I felt it made the Bible too simple. Now, I like it. I don't think I'd use The Message for my own study purposes, but I like it. Right. I said that. Okay, I think it's time to end this blog. I've pretty much run out of things to say and am repeating myself.
Back in college, in 2004 when blogging was hardly even a thing yet, I was here. Blogging before blogging meant anything to anyone. You can look in the archives for my past writings, but it was much more like a journal in the past. When we started fundraising, I messed around with the idea of launching something new for this new phase of our journey but actually hated that idea. I am a sum of all of my life and so much of it is here already. So I'm keeping it here. At least for now.
My main focus these days is blogging about our newest journey into the bizarre and wonderful world of gestational surrogacy. Posts dated 2013 and forward will trend heavily toward that journey. I don't promise everything I write will be about though. There might be other things that sneak in occasionally.
Please come along our journey with us. As the saying goes, "The more, the merrier!"
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